1082

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

property, and said corporation shall also have the power to

manufacture, furnish, use and sell electricity, electric power and

light in Queen Anne's County, and to contract for and furnish

Manufacture,
use and sell

electric light for lighting the streets, roads, bridges, public or

electricity.

private buildings in said county, or within twenty miles of

the county line of said county, for motive power and other pur-

poses, and said company is hereby authorized and empowered

to install, maintain, lay, erect, construct, build, lease, acquire

and operate lines of wire, tubes, poles, conductors and conduits

along, under or upon the roads, waters, bridges, ways, streets,

lanes, alleys or squares whatsoever in said county or any town

Entering high-
ways.

or village therein, also any bridges and causeways connect-

ing between Queen Anne's County and adjoining counties

thereto in this State, and to establish connections by telephone

or telegraph between offices, dwellings and public places within

the county and in the territory adjacent thereto, and to operate

exchanges and offices therefor, and to connect with any other

lines of telephone or telegraph doing business within the State,

and to any points the said corporation may select, and to estab-

To do a gen-
eral telegraph
and telephone

lish offices for receiving and sending telegraph or telephone
communication of messages, news, information and intelli-

business.

gence of all kinds from place to place by means of electric

currents or effects through wires, by wireless means or sys-

tem, or by any other improved method of electric telegraph or

telephonic communication with or without wires.

Affairs to be
managed by

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all interest and affairs of

board of di-

said company shall be controlled and managed by the persons

rectors.

particularly mentioned in the first section of this Act, or such

of them as shall accept such duty or office as the board of

directors of the said company for and during the first year after

the passage of this Act, and until their successors as such board

shall have been duly elected and qualified, pursuant to the by-

laws and regulations which shall be established by such board,

and the said interest and affairs shall be managed and con-

trolled by a board of seven directors, stockholders in said cor-

poration, elected by the majority of all the votes of the stock-

holders, each share of stock so represented being entitled to

one vote, and such board of directors, as aforesaid, shall elect

from among their number a president, vice-president, secretary

and treasurer; the board of directors from time to time may

To enact by-

and shall make, enact, alter and re-enact any and all lawful by-

laws, rules,
etc.

laws, rules and regulations touching the organization of said

company, and the mode constituting all the affairs of said cor-

poration, and shall have full power in law and equity to en-

force the same.