780. ARTICLE 23.

conferring such power on the other or others, authorizing such entry and
access by one or more of their number, or by a deputy therein duly named
and authorized, then in such cases entry may be permitted in accordance
with the provisions of such written lease or authority.
As to safe deposit companies, see also sec. 137, et seq.

1924, ch. 379.

292. Any Safe Deposit Company engaged in the business of renting
out locked boxes or safes for storage or safe-keeping of securities and valu-
ables in a vault in its building, or under its .control, within this State, or
other corporation or individual engaged in such business, may in any lease
or contract governing or regulating the use of any such box or safe to or by
any customer or customers, limit its liability as such lessor or bailee in all
or any of the following respects:

1. Limit its total liability for any loss by negligence to such maximum
amount as may be so stipulated, not less however than five hundred times
the annual rental of such box or safe.

2. Stipulate that it shall in no event be liable for loss of money, jewelry
or such other articles as may be so excepted against in such lease or contract.

3. Stipulate that evidence tending to prove that securities, money, valu-
ables or other articles were left in any such box or safe upon the last entry
by such customer or his authorized agent, and that the same or any part
thereof were found missing upon subsequent entry, shall not be sufficient
to raise a presumption that the same were lost by any negligence or wrong-
doing for which such lessor is responsible, or put upon the lessor the burden
of proof that such alleged loss was not the fault of the lessor.

Telegraph and Telephone Companies.

An. Code, sec. 357. 1904, sec. 322. 1888, sec. 222. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 127.

293. Corporations for owning, leasing, constructing or operating a
line or lines of telegraph through this State or from or to any point or.
points within this State, or upon the boundaries thereof, may be formed as
hereinbefore provided.

If this and the four following sections, contain any provision authorizing con-
struction of telegraph lines on and over property before paying compensation there-
for, owners of property being left to seek compensation in action at law for damages,
such provision is in conflict with art. 3, sec. 40 of the state Constitution. American
Telephone Co. v. Pearce, 71 Md. 547.

Injunction at the instance of a minority stockholder prohibiting a telegraph
company chartered by a special act from re-incorporating under general law, held
to have been properly refused. Such re-incorporation held not to effect a radical
and fundamental change in objects and purposes for which company was originally
formed. Sprigg v. Western Telegraph Co., 46 Md. 74.

For the regulations concerning telephone and telegraph companies prescribed
in the act creating the public service commission, see sec. 399, et seq.

As to telephone companies, see sec. 303.

For a definition of the word " telephone," see sec. 306.

As to the license required to be taken out by telegraph companies, see art. 56,
sec. 159, et seq.

As to injury to telegraphs and divulging the contents of messages, see art. 27,
sec. 488 and 489.