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LAW'S OF MARYLAND.

its capital stock from time to time by a vote of the stock-
holders at a special meeting, or meetings, to be called and held
for that purpose, to any sum or sums not exceeding two
million dollars.

Power to
operate
telephone and
telegraph
plants, con-
struct, lease,
etc., in Balto
City, and
State of Md.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said body corporate
shall have the right to install, maintain and operate telephone
land telegraph plants and exchanges; to build, construct,
equip, lease, own, acquire and operate telephone and tele-
graph lines in and through the City of Baltimore, and in and
through the State of Maryland and elsewhere, and to engage
generally in the telephone and telegraph business, and in all
of the branches of each of the same, and in the business of
transmitting and communicating, or of providing for the
transmission or communication of messages, news, informa-
tion and intelligence of all kinds, from place to place, by
means or electric currents or effects through wires or by wire-
less means or systems, or by any other improved methods of
electric, telephonic or telegraphic communication, with or
without wires, and to build, install, lease, acquire, hold, dis-
pose of and operate all the electric, telegraphic and telephonic
plant or plants or other machinery, equipment, apparatus and
appurtenances necessary, of useful and proper, for the conduct
of such business and branches of business as aforesaid.

Location
of electrical
currents.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said body corporate
shall have the right, for the purpose of its business as afore-
said, to transmit or to provide for the transmission of its elec-
trical currents or effects, either above or below ground, through-
out the State of Maryland, the City of Baltimore and else-
where, and for said purposes to erect poles and string wires And
to construct and operate above ground, telegraph and telephone
systems, with all the usual appurtenances, or without wires

May erect
poles, etc.

or by other improved means, with whatever form of equip-
ment may be necessary or suitable, to cross navigable rivers
or other streams by sunken cables or overhead construction ;
provided, that navigation is not thereby interferred with; and
further, where necessary or desirable, the said corporation
shall have the right to lay down and maintain an underground
electric, telephone and telegraph system, with all the neces-
sary sub-ways, conduits, ducts and mechanical and electrical
devices, appliances and appurtenances appertaining thereunto,
and necessary, useful and proper, for the carrying on and
operation of the business of said corporation as aforesaid,
both in the City of Baltimore, and throughout the State of
Maryland and elsewhere; provided, however, that all sub-