. EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 108.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section

2 and Section 12 of the Acts of the General Assembly of

Maryland 1902, Chapter 357, entitled "An Act to incorpor-

ate the Kent and Cecil Light, Power and Railway Company."

SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That Section 2 and Section 12 of Chapter 357 of the

Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1902, entitled

"An Act to incorporate the Kent and Cecil Light, Power and

Railway Company," be and the same are hereby repealed and

re-enacted, with amendment, so as to read as follows :

2. That the object and purpose of this company shall be

Providing im-

to provide improved communication from that part of Kent

proved com-

County, Maryland, bordering on the Chesapeake Bay, by or

munication
by way of

elsewhere by the way of Chestertown, Kent County, Mary-

railway.

land, and to continue through Kent County to Cecil County,

Maryland, and through Cecil County to the Delaware line,

or also through Cecil County to the Pennsylvania line or some

point on the Susquehanna river.

T2. That said company is authorized and empowered to

Establishing

manufacture, furnish, sell and use steam, electricity, electric.

lines of elec-

power and lights in Kent and Cecil Counties of this State, and

tric railways.

to manufacture, sell or otherwise deal in electricity and elec-

trical machinery and supplies, and to use all necessary means

to effect the objects of this incorporation; to establish lines

of electric railway conductors and conduits in Kent and Cecil

Counties, and to use therefor any of the public roads, streets,

alleys or highways in Kent and Cecil Counties ; provided, the

consent of the proper authorities having jurisdiction over said

public roads, streets, alleys or highways may first be obtained ;

and for the purpose of obtaining rights of way, where said

company cannot agree with the owner, or where the owner

is femme covert, under age, non compos mentis, or under any

other legal disability, said company may proceed to condemn

Condemning
and acquiring

and acquire the use thereof in the manner provided in Article

use of land

23 of the Code of Public Laws; and said company is further

for same.

authorized to construct, lay, erect and operate in Kent and

Cecil Counties lines of wire, tubes, poles, conduits and other

appliances necessary to supply, use and furnish electricity.

electrical currents and power for all commercial purposes ;

and to charge and collect such rents, rates and charges for

the use thereof as may be agreed upon ; and is authorized to