ART. 40. ] FORMATION, POWERS, AND REGULATION OF CORPORATIONS. 343
13(i, Any person, association, or corporation, owning any tele-
graph line doing business within the State, shall receive dispatches
from and for other telegraph lines, associations, and companies, and
from and for any individual, and shall transmit such dispatches in.
the manner established by the rules and regulations of such tele-
graph lines, and in the order in which they are received, with im-
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Id s 133
Dispatches.
18 Md 342
29 Md 232
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partiality and good faith, under the penalty of one hundred dollars
for every neglect or refusal so to do, to be recovered, with costs of
suit, in the name and for the benefit of the person or persons send-
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Penalty.
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ing or desiring to send such dispatch; provided, however, that ar-
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Proviso
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rangements may lie marie with the proprietors or publishers of news-
papers for transmission of intelligence of general and public interest,
for the purpose of publication out of its order.
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Newspapers.
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137. 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 corporation from cutting and telling the same,
and the owner thereof in cutting or felling such timber shall injure
the vines, cords, or posts of such telegraph line, he shall not be
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Id s 110
Injuring wires,
posts, etc by
cutting timber
near by.
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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.
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Action for
damages.
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FOR MANUFACTURING PURPOSES
138, Any corporation formed under this article for manufactur-
ing purposes, may change or extend its business to any other manu-
facturing business, subject to the provisions and liabilities in this
article prescribed with reference to such corporations; and when-
ever any such corporation shall desire to change or enlarge its busi-
ness, it shall take such steps and proceed in all respects as is in
sections seventy two, seventy three, seventy-six, and seventy-eight,
of this article, provided in reference to the increase or diminution
of the capital stock of corporations; and if the assent of two-thirds
of all the shares of stock in the said corporation shall be obtained
to the said proposed change in the manner set forth in the said sec-
tions of this article, then upon the making out and recording in the
manner therein directed of a certificate showing a compliance in all
of the said provisions and preliminaries, and setting forth the busi-
ness to which the business of said corporation has been changed or
enlarged, then the business which said corporation may carry on
thenceforth shall be that to which it has been thus changed or en-
larged; and the company shall be entitled to all the privileges and
provisions and be subject to all the liabilities of this article.
FOR MINING AND OTHER PURPOSES.
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Id a 137.
Power to
change or ex-
tend business.
34 Md 316,
36 Md 476.
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139- No corporation formed under this article, for any of the
purposes mentioned in classes seven, eight, nine, and ten, as herein-
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1874, c 432
Limitation of
property held
34 Md. 503
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