EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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and operate telephone lines from Leonardtown to Charlotte

Hall, in St. Mary's County, and in and through the State of

Maryland and elsewhere, and to engage generally in the tele-

phone business and in all the branches of the same, and in the

business of transmitting and communicating or of providing for

the transmission or communicating of messages, news, informa-

tion and intelligence of all kinds from place to place by means

of electric currents or effects through wires or by wireless

means or systems, or by any other unfound methods of tele-

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phonic communication, with or without wires, and to build,

granted.

install, lease, acquire, hold, dispose of and operate all electric

and telephonic plant or plants or other machinery, equipment,

apparatus and appurtenances necessary, useful and proper

for the conduct of such business and branches of business

as aforesaid.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said body corporate shall

have the right, for the purpose of its business as aforesaid, to

transmit or to provide for the transmission of its electrical

Pertaining to

currents or effects, either above or below ground, from Leon-

transmission
of electrical

ardtown to Charlotte Hall, in St. Mary's County, and through-

currents.

out the State of Maryland and elsewhere, and for said purposes

to erect poles and string wires and to construct and operate

above ground telephone systems, with all the usual appur-

tenances, or without wires or by other improved means, with

whatever form of equipment may be necessary or suitable;

to cross navigable rivers or other streams by sunken cables

or overhead construction, provided that navigation is not

thereby interfered with ; and further, when necessary or desir-

able, the said corporation shall have the right to lay down

and maintain an underground telephone system, with all the

necessary conduits, ducts and mechanical and electrical devices,

appliances and appurtenances appertaining thereunto and ne-

cessary, useful and proper for the carrying on and operation

of the business of said corporation as aforesaid; provided,

further, that before using the public or county roads the assent

of such use by the Board of County Commissioners must be

first had and obtained ; and provided, further, that before using

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any of the lanes, alleys and streets of any incorporated town

or municipality the assent of the authorities of said town

or municipality must be first had and obtained.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said body corporate shall

have and enjoy all the general powers, provisions, rights and

Rights and

privileges, and be subject to the general regulations contained

privileges.

in Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-