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discriminate against any individual or company engaged in any lawful
business, or between individuals or companies engaged in the same
business, by requiring, as a condition for furnishing such facilities
that they shall not be used in the business of the applicant, or otherwise,
for any lawful purpose.

This section referred to In construing section 405—see notes thereto. Web-
ster v. Susquehanna Pole Line Co., 112 Md. 427.
See sec. 454, and notes to sec. 368.

1904, art. 23, sec. 337. 1892, ch. 387, sec. 232 E.

372. Any owner, operator, agent or other person who shall collect
or receive for the rental or use of any such telephone and line any
sum in excess of the ratio fixed by sections 368 and 369 shall upon
conviction be fined not less than one hundred dollars for each offense.
See note to sec. 368.

Ibid. sec. 338. 1S94, ch. 207, sec. 232 F.

373. But any person, firm or corporation may contract in writing
or partly in print and partly in writing, and not otherwise, with any
individual, company or corporation now or hereafter owning, controll-
ing, managing or operating any telephone line or lines within the limits
of this State, for such special form, description and amount of telephone
equipment and service, expressed in such contract, as such person, firm
or corporation may need, at such rates, and upon such terms and condi-
tions as may be agreed upon between the parties to such contract, and
be expressed therein, but shall not otherwise be entitled thereto; and
every form of such special contract, made for any year, shall constitute
and be a form of contract for like special telephone equipment and
service, into which every other person, firm or corporation in like
situation with the person, firm or corporation so contracting and desir-
ing a like special form, description and amount of telephone equipment
and service shall have a right to enter, in such year, with the party so
contracting for such telephone equipment and service; the special con-
tract mentioned in this section shall be entered into before such equip-
ment and service are supplied; provided, however, that nothing in
this section shall be so construed as to impair the obligation of the
individual, company or corporation owning, controlling, managing or
operating a telephone line or telephone lines within the limits of this
State to furnish, in accordance with the requirements of sections 368-
372, and at the rates of charge mentioned in said sections 368 and 369,
telephone equipment and service of the kind and description which is
now furnished by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
of Baltimore city, at the rate of charge mentioned in said sections
368 and 369; and the said company, as a condition precedent to the
exercise of any of the powers conferred by this section, shall forthwith
file in the office of the clerk of the court of appeals of Maryland, to
be by said clerk annexed to the original section filed in his office, a full
and adequate description in detail, and certified by the governor of