744 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

evidence of the value of said property in proceedings had in pursuance
of this sub-title.

1910, ch. 180, sec. 31 (p. 375).

443. This sub-title shall apply to the manufacture and furnishing
of gas for light, heat or power, and the furnishing of natural gas for
light, heat or power, and the generation, furnishing and transmission of
electricity for light, heat or power.

1910, ch 180, sec, 31 1/2 (p. 375)

444. Every gas corporation and every electrical corporation shall
furnish and provide such service, instrumentalities and facilities as
shall be reasonably safe and adequate and in all respects just and
reasonable. All charges made or demanded by any such gas corporation
and electrical corporation for gas, electricity or any service rendered or
to be rendered, shall be just and reasonable and not more than allowed
by law or by order of the commission; "and all acts or parts of acts
heretofore passed and now existing, prescribing or limiting the price
at which any gas corporation or electrical corporation, or any other
corporation subject to this sub-title, may furnish, sell or dispose of its
gas or electricity or other product or utility are hereby repealed, it
being the intent of this sub-title that the powers of the commission
herein created to ascertain the price of such gas or electricity or other
product of utility as provided for herein, shall supersede all such acts
or parts of acts aforesaid." Every unjust or unreasonable charge made
or demanded for gas, electricity or any such service, or in connection
therewith, or in excess of that allowed by law or by the order of the
commission, is prohibited.

No gas corporation or electrical corporation shall directly or indi-
rectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback or other device or method,
charge, demand, collect or receive from any person or corporation a
greater or less compensation for gas or electricity, or for any service
rendered, or to be rendered, or in connection therewith, except as
authorized in this sub-title, than it charges, demands, collects or receives
from any other person or corporation for doing a like and contempo-
raneous service with respect thereto, under the same or substantially
similar circumstances or conditions.

No gas corporation or electrical corporation shall make or grant any
undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person, corpora-
tion or locality, or to any particular description of service in any respect
whatsoever, or subject any particular person, corporation or locality or
any particular description of service to any undue or unreasonable preju-
dice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever.

Nothing in this sub-title shall be taken to prohibit a gas or an elec-
trical corporation from establishing a sliding scale for the automatic
adjustment of charges for gas, electricity or any service rendered, or
to be rendered, and the dividends to be paid to stockholders of such gas
corporations or electrical corporation, provided that the sliding scale