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the size of, repairing", maintaining, operating and removing pipe lines
and appurtenances thereto for the transmission and supplying of natural
gas, artificial gas, or a mixture of natural and artificial gases; provided,
however, that nothing contained in this section is intended or shall be
taken or construed as relieving any such corporation from the provisions of
Chapter 180 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1010.
known as the Public Service Commission Law, or any amendment thereto.

Public Service Commission.

346.

This section referred to in holding that Northern Central Railway Company
might Issue securities with approval of Interstate Commerce Commission, as.
authorized by sec. 20A of Transportation Act. 1920, without securing approval
of Public Service Commission of Maryland. Public Serv. Commn. v. N. C. Rwy.
Co., 146 Md. 583.

The commission has no jurisdiction to authorize sale by municipality of prop-
erty dedicated to public use; powers conferred upon the commission are of a
regulatory nature and do not include either granting or withdrawal of franchise.
Worcester v. Hancock, 151 Md. 678.

This section et seq.. look to same end as art. 56, sec. 258, et seq. Rutledge
Assn. v. Baughman, 153 Md. 301.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 347. 1914, ch. 445, sec. 1 1/2.

347. ¹ The term "common carrier, " when used in this sub-title, shall like-
wise include all automobile transportation companies, and all persons and
associations of persons, whether incorporated or not, operating automobiles
or motor cars, or motor vehicles, for public use in the conveyance of per-
sons or property within this State; and every municipal corporation of this
State engaged in the business of manufacturing and supplying or of sup-
plying gas or electricity for other than municipal purposes shall be included
within the terms "Gas Corporation" and "Electrical Corporation, " as
defined in the next preceding section of this sub-title, and shall be subject
as other gas and electrical corporations are to the provisions of this sub-
title.

Subsequent to decision in Hagerstown v. Littleton, 143 Md. 595, P. S. C. re-
fused Hagerstown authority to issue bonds for construction of electric light
plant. Necessity of applying to P. S. C. for authority to issue bonds for such
construction, notwithstanding amendment of this section and sec. 390 by act
1924, ch. 48, and passage of act 1924, ch. 380, authorizing issue of bonds. Classi-
fication of cities for purpose of legislation. See notes to art. 3, sec. 33, of Consti-
tution. Injunction. Littleton v. Hagerstown. 150 Md. 166 (cf. dissenting opin-
ion). But see Public Serv. Commn. v. Byron, 153 Md. 483, and notes to sec. 408.
See notes to sec. 379.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 348. 1916, ch. 272, sec. 1%. 1929, ch. 482.

348. The term Common Carrier when used in this sub-title shall like-
wise include all bridges now or hereafter erected by any corporation author-
ized to charge and collect toll from persons using the same as foot passen-
gers and for vehicular traffic of every kind.

¹ The act of 1924, ch. 48, having been declared unconstitutional in Littleton v.
Hagerstown, 150 Md. 163—see also P. S. C. v. Byron, 153 Md. 484—this section is
codified as it stood prior to the act of 1924.