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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

suitable to operate an electric railway, and to run thereon

cars and carriages drawn or propelled by electric or other

motive power, from some point at or near the mouth of the

Patuxent river, Calvert County, as may be determined by .

the directors, and running thence through or near the towns

of Port Republic, Prince Frederick, Huntingtown, Sunder-

land, Mount Harmony, to some point on the Chesapeake

Beach Railway Company at or near Owings Station, in Cal-

vert County, with such laterals and branches in Calvert County

as said company may deem advantageous to haul passengers,

parcels, packages and freight over said railroad, and to charge

therefor such rates as compensation as the directors from time

to time may determine to acquire, hold, manage or dispose

of any personal or real property, essential or relevant to the

To acquire

use aforesaid, and also to acquire any land adjacent to such

land.

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

improve, hold and sell the same, to manufacture, sell and

furnish such quantities of electric light and electric power as

may be required or desired at any point in said county, and

to contract for and furnish electric lights for lighting the

streets, roads, public or private buildings in said county, and

of any city or town therein, and for motive power and other

purposes, to lay, construct or build lines and conductors and

conduits under, along, upon and over the streets, squares,

lanes, alleys, roads or ways whatsoever in said county

or in any town therein. The consent of the County Com-

missioners in said county and the consent of the proper

authorities of the municipal corporation through which it

may run first being had and obtained, and under, along, upon

and over any private property in said county, the consent

of the owner or owners thereof first being had and obtained,

and to connect the same with any manufactory, public or

private building, lamp 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

May sell elec-
tricity.

and electrical machinery and supplies for any and all pur-

poses that may be desired or required, and to use the neces-

sary means to accomplish the purpose of this incorporation

to acquire any land, earth, gravel, stone or other material

required for any of the purposes of the company aforesaid,

by agreement with the owner or owners thereof, and in case

they do not agree, or if the owner or owners or any of

them be a femme covert, an infant, or non compos mentis,

or out of the county, when such land or material may be

needed, the said company may proceed to condemn and ac-