EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 458.

AN ACT to amend the charter of The Baltimore County

Water and Electric Company of Baltimore County by in-

creasing its powers, giving it perpetual existence and ex-

tending its electric business to Howard County.

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

land, That The Baltimore County Water and Electric Com-

Baltimore

pany of Baltimore County, the certificate of incorporation of

County Water
and Electric

which is recorded among the Charter Records of Baltimore

Company.

County in Charter Records Liber L. M. B., No. 3, folio 559,

etc., shall, in addition to the powers it now has, have perpetual

succession and all the rights and privileges conferred upon

corporations incorporated under Article 23 of the Code of

Public General Laws of the State of Maryland of 1888, and all

the amendments and supplements thereto.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said The Baltimore

County Water and Electric Company of Baltimore County

shall have the power to extend its electric business to Howard

County, and to supply, at such prices as may be agreed upon

tend its busi-

between said corporation and its customers, electric current for

ness to How-
ard County.

lighting, heating, power and other purposes, to any and all

parts of Howard County, and for that purpose full power,

authority and right are hereby given to erect or cause to be

erected such poles and pole lines and string such wires and

cables, lay or cause to be laid such conduits over, across, along,

under and in the pavements, streets, avenues, lanes, alleys,

roads, ways, by-ways and thoroughfares, whether paved or

unpaved, of Howard County, and to set up such connections

as may be necessary and proper to supply such electricity to

any customer that may desire the same, and that said cor-

poration shall also have full power and right at all times after

said poles, pole lines, wires, cables, conduits, connections, appa-

ratus and appliances are placed or constructed, as aforesaid,

to renew, remove or replace the same or any of them at any

time or times ; provided, however, that none of the powers and

privileges conferred by this Act shall be operative until the

municipal authorities of any city or town in Howard County

or the County Commissioners of Howard County having juris-

diction shall first by ordinance or resolution permit the com-

pany aforesaid to exercise the powers and privileges herein

conferred, and under such provisions and restrictions con-

tained in such ordinance or resolution; and provided further,