JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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hereby repealed, and the; fol lowing enacted in lieu

thereof, so as to road as follows :

3. The object, or purposes for. which incorporation

is sought, the time of its existence not to exceed

Not to exceed.

forty years, and the articles, conditions and provi-

sions under which the incorporation is formed; pro-

vided, that the limitation as to the duration of exist-

ance of corporations. formed under this act shall not

apply to gaslight companies.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That section ninety- three,

of chapter four hundred and seventy-one of the acts

Repealed and
re-enacted.

passed by the General Assembly of Maryland at

January session, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,

entitled " an act to repeal article twenty-six of the

Code of Public General Laws," and to enact a substi-

tute therefor, and to repeal section twenty-two of

article sixteen, section ninety-nine to one hundred

and three of the same article, and sections thirty-

three to forty-three of article eighty-eight of the

Code of Public General Laws, be an.d the same is

hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as fol-

lows:

93. That any Gaslight Corporation, formed under

this act, shall have full power to manufacture and

sell, and to furnish such quantities of gas as may be

Full power.

required in any city, town or county of this State,

in which or adjoining which the same may be lo-

cated, for lighting the streets, roads, and public and

private buildings, and for other purposes; and such

corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to

lay conductors or pipes, for the transmission of gas,

in any city, town or county, under the streets,

squares, lanes, alleys, and roads thereof, paved or

unpaved, and to connect the same with any manu-

factory, public or private building, lamp or other

structure or object, and with the place of supply,

subject however, to any law or ordinance that may

Subject to.

be passed by the municipal authorities of the city

or town, or the county commissioners having juris-

diction for the filling up and re-paving any street.

square lane or alley or road under which the said

pipes may be laid.