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thereafter, be received from the company without costs, by the said owner
or owners, or his, her or their legal representative or representatives.
See notes to sec. 293.

An. Code, sec. 362. 1904, sec. 327. 1888, sec. 227. 1900, ch. 267.

298. Any such corporation formed as aforesaid may, with the consent
of the majority of the owners of the capital stock of such corporations, given
in general meeting, extend their lines of telegraph into any other State, or
may construct branch lines in this State or any other State, or may lease,
sell or convey its property, rights, privileges and franchises or any interest
therein or any part thereof to any telegraph company organized under or
created by the laws of this or any other State, and may acquire by lease,
purchase or conveyance the property, rights, privileges and franchises or
any interest therein or any part thereof of any telegraph company organ-
ized under and created by the laws of this or any other State upon such
terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between the respective com-
panies, or by purchase at any sale of the property and franchises of any
such corporation heretofore incorporated or hereafter to be incorporated
under the terms of a mortgage or deed of trust heretofore made, or here-
after to be made, conveying the property and franchises of any such com-
pany, or under decree of any court, or under an execution issued against
the property of said company; and said purchasing company shall have and
possess all the rights, franchises and privileges heretofore enjoyed by the
company whose property is so acquired, whether the same were acquired
under grant from any State, municipality or other corporation; or may
consolidate with any other telegraph company or corporation of this or any
other State, under such name and with such capital stock, and upon such
terms as may be agreed upon between such companies or corporations; and
whenever such consolidation as aforesaid is made, a certificate of the same
and of the particulars thereof shall be executed and acknowledged by the
president or other principal officers of said corporations so consolidating,
which said certificate shall be recorded in the clerk's office of the superior
court of Baltimore city, if the principal office of the said consolidated cor-
poration in this State is located in Baltimore city, or in the office of the
clerk of the circuit court for that county in which the principal office of said
consolidated company in this State is located, and when said consolidated
company is formed it shall be subject to the provisions of this article as far
as the same are applicable.
See secs. 33 and 401.

An. Code, sec. 363. 1904, sec. 328. 1888, sec. 228. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 133.

299. Persons, associations or corporations, owning any telegraph line
doing business within the State, shall receive despatches from and for other
telegraph lines, associations and companies, and from and for any indi-
vidual, and shall transmit such despatches in the manner established by the
rules and regulations of such telegraph lines, and in the order in which
they are received, with impartiality and good faith, under the penalty of
one hundred dollars for every neglect or refusal so to do, to be recovered,
with costs of suit, in the name and for the benefit of the person or persons