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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

conditions as may be agreed upon between the respective
companies, or by purchase at any sale of the property and
franchises of any such corporation heretofore incorporated or
hereafter to be incorporated under the terms of a mortgage or
deed of trust heretofore made, or hereafter to be made, con-
veying the property and franchises of any such company, or
under decree of any court, or under an execution issued
against the property of said company; and said purchasing
company shall have and possess all the rights, franchises
and privileges heretofore enjoyed by the company whose prop-
erty is so acquired, whether the same were acquired under

May consoli-
date with
other lines,

grant from any State, municipality, or other corporation; or
may consolidate with any other telegraph company or cor-
poration of this or any other State, under such name and
with such capital stock, and upon such terms as may be agreed
upon between such companies or corporations; and whenever
such consolidation as aforesaid is made, a certificate of the
same and of the particulars thereof shall be executed and
acknowledged by the president or other principal officers of
said corporations so consolidating, which said certificate shall
be recorded in the clerk's office of the Superior Court of Bal-
timore City, if the principal office of the said consolidated
corporation in this State is located in Baltimore City, or in
the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for that county in
which the principal office of said consolidated company in
this State is located, and when said consolidated company is
formed it shall be subject to the provisions of this Article as
far as the same are applicable.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1900.
CHAPTER 268.

Ellicott City,
Maryland.
Public
building.

AN ACT to give the consent of the State to the purchase of a
lot or lots of ground in Ellicott City, Howard County,
Maryland, by the United States of America, for the purpose
of erecting thereon a public building, and to cede to the
United States of America jurisdiction over the same.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, There is now pending in the Congress of the
United States of America a bill to appropriate a sum of money
to purchase a lot of ground and the erection thereon of a
public building in Laurel, Maryland; and