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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

rates for such transportation of passengers and freight on

said railway, and any of the branches or laterals thereof,

as the board of directors may from time to time determine;

and said corporation shall also have the power and right to

acquire, hold and manage and dispose of any real or personal

property essential, necessary or relevant to the uses and pur-

To buy, de-

poses aforesaid, and also to acquire any real estate adjacent

velop and sell

to such line of railway, or any lateral or branch thereof, and

property.

to develop and sell said property ; and the said corporation shall

also have the power to manufacture, furnish, sell and use

electricity, electric power and light in the different towns

and villages along said route or territory in Wicomico County,

and to contract for and furnish electric lights for lighting

the streets, roads, public or private buildings in the different

towns and villages along said route or territory in said county

within fifteen miles of said railroad, and for motive power

and other purposes ; and said corporation is hereby authorized

and empowered to lay, erect, construct, build or purchase

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

along, under and upon the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, roads

or ways whatsoever in said county, or any city or town therein

within fifteen miles of said railroad; provided, permission

Proviso.

be first obtained from the Board of County Commissioners,

and if in any town, then the permission of the Town Com-

missioners, when such exist, but the consent of the owner

or owners of such property shall be first had and obtained,

unless the same shall be condemned according to law, and

shall have power to connect the same with any manufactory,

public or private building, or other structure or object, car

or conveyance, and in general to manufacture, sell, furnish and

supply electric light and electric power or stored electricity

or electric machinery and supplies for any and all purposes that

may be desired or required within the limits aforesaid; and

the said corporation shall also have the power to erect, con-

struct, build and maintain such bridge or bridges over any

river or streams of water in said limits, as the directors of

said corporation may deem necessary for the uses and purposes

of said railway, and to use the necessary means to accom-

plish all the purposes of said corporation; provided, permis-

Permission to

sion is first granted by the Board of County Commissioners

be granted.

of said county to use the roads, streets or other public property

proposed to be taken, and by the Town Commissioners in the

various incorporated towns, and by the City Council and

Mayor of the City of Salisbury, in said county.