ART. 23] GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANIES. 603

would have if executed, acknowledged and recorded, as conveyances of
leal estate are by the laws of this State required to be.
See art. 16, sec. 107, and notes.

1904, art. 136. 1888, art. 23, sec. 109. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 83. 1884, ch. 22.

1898, ch. 178.

148. Any person or persons, his, her or their aiders or abettors,
who shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or remove any
tomb, monument, grave-stone, or other structure placed in any cemetery,
or any building, wall, fence, railing or other work, for the use, pro-
tection or ornament of any public or private cemetery in this State, or
shall wilfully destroy, cut, break or remove any tree, plant or shrub
within its limits, or who shall shoot or discharge any fire-arms within
said limits, or who shall be guilty of indecent or disorderly conduct
within said limits shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction or before any justice
of the peace of this State shall be punished by fine, not less than five
dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the
county jail or the Maryland house of correction for not less than thirty
days, nor more than two years, or both such fine and imprisonment in
the discretion of said justice or court, according to the gravity of the
offence. Any justice of the peace in this State, except civil justices in
the city of Baltimore, shall have jurisdiction under this section.

Qas and Electric Light Companies.

Ibid. sec. 142. 1888, art. 23, sec. 110. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 93. 1876, ch. 349.

1910, ch. 55 (p. 72).

149. Any gas light corporation formed under this article shall have
full power to manufacture artificial gas, and to sell, and to furnish
such quantities of gas, both natural and artificial, as may be required
in any city, town or county of this State, in which, or adjoining which
the same may be located, for lighting the streets, roads and public or
private buildings, or for other purposes, and such corporation is hereby
authorized and empowered to lay conductors or pipes for the trans-
mission of gas, both natural and artificial, in any city, town or county,
tinder the streets, squares, lanes, alleys and roads thereof, paved or
unpaved, and to connect the same with any manufactory, public or
private building, lamp or other structure or object, and with the place
of supply, after first securing the proper assent of the municipal author-
ities of said city or town, or of the county commissioners of said
county, under such reasonable and proper regulations and conditions
that may be prescribed by them, subject, however, also to any law or
ordinance that may be passed by the municipal authorities of the city
or town, or the county commissioner's having jurisdiction, for the filling
up and repaving of any street, lane or alley or road under which the
said pipes may be laid.

County commissioners have much greater powers over water companies
laying pipes than over gas companies, as shown by a comparison of this sec-