CORPORATIONS 933

or property for compensation, being mainly upon, along, above or below
any street, avenue, road, highway, bridge or public place within the cor-
porate limits of the city of Baltimore or any other city or town containing
a population of not less than two thousand persons, within the State of
Maryland, and including all switches, spurs, tracks, right of trackage,
subways, tunnels, stations, terminals and terminal facilities of every kind,
used, operated, controlled or owned by or in connection with any such
street railroad; but the said term "street railroad," when used in this
sub-title, shall not include a railroad constituting or used as part of a trunk
line railroad system.

The term "railroad corporation," when used in this sub-title, includes
every corporation, company, association, joint stock company or associa-
tion, partnership and person, their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed
by any court whatsoever, owning, operating, managing or controlling any
railroad or any cars or other equipment used thereon, or in connection
therewith.

The term "street railroad corporation," when used in this sub-title,'
includes every corporation, company, association, joint stock company
or association, partnership and person, their lessees, trustees or receivers,
appointed by any court whatsoever, holding, operating, managing or con-
trolling any street railroad or any cars or other equipment used thereon or
in connection therewith.

The term "common carrier," when used in this sub-title, includes all
railroad corporations, street railroad corporations, express companies, car
companies, sleeping car companies, freight companies, freight line com-
panies, steamboat, power boat and vessel-boat and ferry companies, canal
companies, and all persons and associations of persons, whether incor-
porated or not, operating such agencies for public use in the conveyance
of persons or property within this State, by land or by water, or both.

The term "gas corporation," when used in this sub-title, includes every
corporation, company, association, joint stock company or association,
partnership and person, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by
any court whatsoever, owning, operating, managing or controlling any
plant or property for manufacturing and distributing and selling for dis-
tribution or selling or distributing illuminating gas (natural or artificial
or manufactured, and wheresoever and howsoever derived or obtained) for
light, heat, fuel or power, or for any public use whatsoever.

The term "electrical corporation," when used in this sub-title, includes
every corporation, company, association, joint stock company or associa-
tion, partnership and person, their lessees, trustees or receivers, appointed
by any court whatsoever (other than a railroad or a street railroad cor-
poration generating electricity for its own use solely and exclusively)
owning, operating, managing or controlling any plant or property, includ-
ing any water plant, or water property, or water falls, or dam, or water
power station, for generating and distributing or generating and selling
for distribution, or selling or distributing electricity for light, heat or
power, or for the transmission of electric current for such purposes, or for
any public use whatsoever.

The term "gas plant," when used in this sub-title, includes boilers, water
gas sets, retorts, condensers, scrubbers, purifiers, holders, mains, pipes,
services, pipe galleries, meters, buildings, real estate, easements, lamps,
materials, apparatus, devices and property of every kind operated, con-
trolled, owned, used or to be used for or in connection with, or to facilitate