CORPORATIONS 917

An. Code, 1924, sec. 301. 1912, sec. 365. 1904, sec. 330. 1888, sec. 230. 1868, ch. 471,

sec. 135.

302. Any person connected with any such corporation in this State,
either as clerk, operator, messenger, or in any other capacity, who shall
wilfully divulge the contents or the nature of the contents of any private
communication entrusted to him for transmission or delivery, or who shall
wilfully refuse or neglect to transmit or deliver the same shall, on convic-
tion before any court, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall suffer
imprisonment in the jail in the county or city where such conviction shall
be had, for a term of not more than three months, or shall be fined not ex-
ceeding five hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 302. 1912, sec. 366. 1904, sec. 331. 1888, sec. 231. 1868, ch. 471,

sec. 136.

303. If the wires or cords of any telegraph line be located or stretched,
or extended from one post or pole to another in such manner as to prevent
the owner of any timber growing along the line of such telegraph corpora-
tion from cutting and felling the same, and the owner thereof in cutting or
felling such timber shall injure the wires, cords or posts of such telegraph
line, he shall not be liable to an action for damages, unless it shall appear
that in such cutting and felling, or in having the same cut or felled, the said
owner wilfully and. intentionally injured such wires, cords and posts.

See notes to sec. 294.

An. Code, 1924, see. 303. 1912, sec. 367. 1904, sec. 332. 1888, sec. 232. 1884, ch. 360.

304. The provisions of the preceding sections, 294 to 303, both in-
clusive, in relation to telegraph companies, shall likewise apply to and have
full force and effect in respect to telephone companies created under the
provisions of this article.

A telegraph company organized prior to the act of 1884, ch. 360, was, and is, fully
authorized to do a telephone business, and is subject to the provisions of the general
incorporation laws applying to telegraph companies. Chesapeake, etc., Telephone Co.
v. Baltimore, etc., Telegraph Co., 66 Md. 410.

See notes to secs. 294 and 295.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 304. 1912, sec. 368. 1904, sec. 333. 1892, ch. 387, sec. 232A.

305. No individual company or corporation, now or hereafter owning,
controlling, managing or operating any telephone line or lines within the
limits of any city, town or village in the State of Maryland, shall charge,
collect or receive, as rental for the use at any and all hours of the day and
night, of such telephone and lines connecting with a central exchange, or
point of communication through which conversation may be held, over all
other lines connecting with such exchange, or point of communication, in
such city or town, any sum exceeding six dollars and fifty cents per month,
when one telephone only is rented by one individual, company or corpora-
tion, located within a radius of two miles from the central exchange, and
one dollar additional per month for every additional mile distant from
said exchange; where two or more telephones are rented by the same indi-
vidual, company or corporation, located within a radius of two miles from
the central exchange, the rental per month for each telephone so rented
shall not exceed five dollars and fifty cents per month, and one dollar per
month for every additional mile distant from said exchange; provided, that
the individual, company or corporation desiring to use such telephone