930 ARTICLE 23

Consolidated Gas .Company may not dispute right of .-Northern Maryland . Power
Company to continue to exercise rights of one of its constituent companies in Havre de
Grace, as conferred by this section. Provision of this section requiring assent of Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore is inclusion of local law in general law. Claim to "state-
wide franchise" under this section, denied. Kelly v. Consol. Gas, etc., Power Co., 153
Md. 528.

See notes to sec. 329.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 337A. 1927, ch. 686. 1931, ch. 473.

336. Any corporation of this or any other State, which is now or
may hereafter be engaged in the business of transmitting or supplying
natural gas, artificial gas, or a mixture of natural and artificial gases,
may acquire by condemnation, in the manner provided in Article 33A,
rights of way or easements necessary for the purpose of laying, construct-
ing, changing the size of, repairing, maintaining, operating and removing
pipe lines and appurtenances thereto f or 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 Mary-
land of 1910, known as the Public'Service Commission Law, or any amend-
ment thereto; and provided further that nothing contained in this section
is intended, or shall be taken or construed, to confer the right of condemna-
tion upon any corporation, domestic or foreign, which is not engaged or to
become engaged, in the business of transmitting such gas or gases directly
to local consumers in this State along its proposed rights of way, and is
not offering to contract with such local consumers to supply them 'directly
with such gas or gases upon terms and conditions subject to the approval
of the Public Service Commission of Maryland, and which said corpora-
tion shall not have certified to the State Tax Commission the name and
address of an agent of such corporation, resident in this State, service of
process upon whom shall bind the corporation until the appointment of a
substitute duly certified to the State Tax Commission; but nothing con-
tained in this proviso shall be taken or construed to affect the right of any
corporation which is now transmitting such gas or gases for public use
through one or more pipe lines in this State, to condemn as aforesaid for
public use necessary rights of way or easements for such pipe line or pipe
lines now in use or appurtenances thereto, or for any.incidental relocations
thereof, or for any additional pipe lines or appurtenances thereto along and
on the same routes or along and on such incidental relocations thereof, so
that the right of any such corporation to condemn for such purposes shall
be determined as if this proviso had not been enacted;

Police.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 338. 1912, sec. 406. 1904, sec. 402. 1888, sec. 288. 1880, ch. 460,

Sec. 221. 1906, ch. 769.

337. Corporations owning or using any railroad, steamboat, canal,
furnace, colliery or rolling mill in this State, may jointly or severally
apply to the governor to commission such persons as the. said corporation
or corporations may designate to act as policemen f or the protection of the
property of said corporation or corporations, and for the preservation of
peace and good order on their respective premises, railroad trains or steam-