374 CORPORATIONS—TELEGRAPH. [ART. 23.

which said certificate shall be recorded in the clerk's office of the
superior court of Baltimore city, if the principal office of thet
said consolidated corporation in this State is located in Baltimore
city, or in the office of the clerk of the circuit .court for that
county in which the principai office of said consolidated company
in this State is located; and when said consolidated company is,
formed, it shall be subject to the provisions of this article, as far
as the same are applicable.

1868, ch. 471, sec. 133.

228. Persons, associations or corporations, owning any tele-
graph line doing business within the State, shall receive despatches,
from and for other telegraph lines, associations and companies,
and from and for any individual, and shall .transmit such de-
spatches in the manner establlshed by the rules and regulations
of such telegraph lines, and in the order in which they are
received, with impartiality 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 sending or desiring to send such despatch;
provided, however, that arrangements may be made with the.
proprietors or publishers of newspapers for transmission of intelli-
gence of general and public interest, for the purpose of publica-
tion out of its order.

Birney B. N. Y. & W. Tel. Co , 18 Md. 532. U. S. Tel Co. T. Gildersleve,
29 Md. 232. Ches. & Pot. Tel. Co. v. B. & O. Tel. Co., 66 Md. 409.

Ibid. sec. 134.

229. Any person who shall unlawfully and intentionally
injure, molest or destroy any of said lines, posts, piers or abut-
ments, or the materials or property connected with the working
of any telegraph lines, shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine not exceeding
five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county or city-
jail not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court
before which the conviction shall be had.

Ibid. sec. 185.

230. Any person connected with any such corporation in this;
State, either as clerk, operator, messenger, or in any other