604 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

tlon with section 397. Oonsol. Gas Co. v. Bsiltimore County, 98 Md. 694
(decided In 1904).

For the regulations concerning gas and electric light companies prescribed
in the act creating the public service commission, see sec. 443, et seq.

1904, art. 23, sec. 143. 1888, art. 23, sec. 11L 1890, ch. 588. 1894, ch. 308.

1910, ch. 55 (p. 72).

150. Any electric light or power company formed under this article
shall have full power to manufacture, sell and furnish such quantities
of electric light or electric power as may be required or desired in any
city, town or county of this State, in which or adjoining which the
same may be located, for lighting the streets, roads, public or private
buildings, or for motive power or other purposes, and such corporation
is hereby authorized and empowered to lay, construct or build lines or
conductors under? along, upon or over the streets, squares, lanes, alleys
and roads, paved or unpaved, and connect the same with any manu-
factory, public or private building, lamps or other structure or object,
and with the place of supply, after first securing the proper assent of
the municipal authorities of said city or town, or of the county com-
missionerg 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 authori-
ties of the city or town, or of the county commissioners, having juris-
diction, for the filling up or restoring such streets or roads to their
former condition.

Where a special act of the legislature authorises a corporation to transact
any business in which electricity is used, and confers upon it in Baltimore
city all the rights and privileges mentioned in this section, the successor of
such corporation is empowered to conduct an electric light business in Balti-
more city, the city having given Its assent to the use of its streets. Brown v.
Md. Telephone Co., 101 Md. 577. Cf. Edison Co. v. Hooper, 85 Md, 112.

This section referred to in deciding that an electric light company was not
a "manufacturing industry" within the meaning of a tax exemption ordi-
nance. History of this section. Frederick Elec. Light Co. v. Frederick City,
84 Md. 607.

Cited but not construed in Mealey v. Hagerstown, 92 Md. 745.

1906, ch. 167.

151. Whenever any two or more corporations of this State are
engaged in furnishing to the public light by the same or different pro-
cesses in the same town or city, and the holders of a majority of stock
therein shall believe that such corporations c£:n furnish a cheaper and
better service by co-operation for that purpose, and shall authorize the
exercise of the powers herein given, such corporations, in addition to
the right to consolidate, as provided in article 23. section 45, of the
code of public general laws of this State,* are hereby empowered to
secure such joint operation by one of said corporations becoming the
lessee of the property and franchises of the others, or the owner of stock
therein.

*The reference here is to the code of 1904. The insertion of section 29 of the
annotated code in place of section 45 would seem to be proper, but in view of
some doubt as to the property of the change, the wording of the act of 1906 is
retained.