PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 827

branches and extensions aforesaid of said company may cross,
intersect or extend over. And the said company, hereby incor-
porated, shall have power to purchase, lease, charter, construct,
build, equip, hold, maintain and operate launches, scows, rafts,
ferry boats and steamers and other vessels and craft of every
character or description, propelled by steam, sails, gasoline,
electricity or other motive power whatsoever, from the point
or points aforesaid on the Chesapeake Bay in the counties of
Harford, Baltimore and Anne Arundel, across said Chesapeake
Bay, to the point or points aforesaid in Kent county on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland, for the purpose of carrying, con-
veying and transporting the passengers, freight, cars and other
property as aforesaid of said company, and shall have power
to engage in the business of ferrying passengers, parcels, pack-
ages, live stock and freight of every description or character
in the boats, launches, scows, rafts and vessels aforesaid, and
to charge therefor at reasonable rates, and for the purposes of
its business, -said company may purchase and hold real and
personal property of every sort and description and convey and
dispose of the same, or may lease, rent, purchase, construct,
maintain and operate piers, wharves, warehouses, stations,
waiting rooms or other personal property which may be law-
fully used in the management of a general ferry transporta-
tion and transfer business, both as to passengers and freight
of every description, and may acquire land, earth, gravel, stone,
water rights and other property and materials and privileges,
and rights necessary to the construction of said wharves, piers
or warehouses and necessary to the exercise of any or all of
the powers herein granted to the said company by agreement
with the owner or owners thereof, or by condemnation, as here-
in provided; and the said company is hereby authorized to
borrow money on its property and franchises by notes, mort-
gages or by any other way which, in the judgment of the direc-
tors, may be right and proper, and the said company may
also issue bonds and secure the same by a mortgage or mort-
gages on its property; all subject, however, to the Public Ser-
vice Commission Law of Maryland and the powers and duties
of the Public Service Commission thereunder, as hereinafter
more particularly set forth.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted; That nothing in this act
contained shall be taken or construed to exempt or release the
corporation hereby incorporated from the terms and provisions
of the Public Service Commission Law of Maryland, being
Chapter 180 of the Acts of 1910, or from the powers and duties
of the Public Service Commission under and by virtue of said