4260 ARTICLE 18.

Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, any land or
interest therein, any pole line, with its equipment or wires, switches, lamps,
etc., already erected for electric light purposes in the town of Queenstown
aforesaid, or in Queen Anne's County beyond the limits of said town,
which may be needed for the construction, operation and maintenance of
said plant and the sale and transmission of electrical energy or current.

1920, ch. 83, sec. 4.

347. The Town Commissioners of Queenstown shall have full power
and authority to furnish and supply the citizens, inhabitants and corpora-
tions of said town and of the vicinity of the said town within the limits
of Queen Anne's County aforesaid in its discretion, with electric power
and energy for all purposes; to sell electric power and current and to
provide for its transmission to points of consumption in said town or in
Queen Anne's County aforesaid beyond the limits of said town; to fix
and establish and from time to time change schedules of rates and charges
for said electric power and energy; to make from time to time rules and
regulations in regard to the collection of said rates, the furnishing and
supplying or discontinuing of any electric service to the consumer thereof
or the use thereof by consumers including all connections made with build-
ings of consumers; but no service of electric power shall continue to be
furnished to any consumer if such consumer shall be in arrears for ten
days on account of electric service furnished by said corporation.

1920, ch. 83, sec. 8.

348. The Treasurer of the Board of Commissioners of said corpora-
tion, or an agent of said treasurer acceptable to the remaining members
of said board, shall perform the duties of collecting the sum or sums of
money due by consumers for electric service according to the regulations
of said corporation, and all sums so collected shall be kept separate from
the other funds of said corporation, and as collected shall be deposited by
said treasurer in bank in the name of "The Town Commissioners of
Queenstown, Electric Plant Rate Fund," and shall be withdrawn only by
checks signed by the said treasurer, and counter-signed by at least one
other commissioner of said corporation. All sums of money collected
from the consumers for electric service shall be first applied to the pay-
ment of all expenses of running and maintaining said plant, repairing the
same, and to the cost of extending and enlarging the same from time to
time to meet the requirements of demands for electric service. The sums
of money remaining and actually in hand on the first day of July of
each year, after allowance for expenditures mentioned above in this sec-
tion, shall be applied by said corporation to the payment of the interest
on said bonds* as same shall fall due. All money received from con-
sumers for services as aforesaid shall be applied as directed by this section
and to no other purpose whatsoever. The Town Commissioners of Queens-

*Secs. 5-7, ch. 83, 1920, authorized $7,000 of bonds tor constructing light plant.
Sec. 9 authorized special tax to pay interest on and to redeem said bonds.