ART. 23.] TURNPIKE, PLANK ROAD, PASSENGER RAILWAY. 375

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 conviction before any
court, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall suffer
imprisonment in the jail in the county or city where such con-
viction shall be had, for a term of not more than three months, or
shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, in the discretion
of the court.

1868, ch. 471, sec. 136.

231. 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 ond 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.

1884, ch. 360.

232. The provisions of the preceding sections, from 222 to 231,
both inclusive, 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.

Ches. & Pot Tel. Co v. B. & O. Tel. Co , 66 Md. 410.

Turnpike, Plank Read and Passenger Railway Companies;

1868, ch. 471, sec. 107. 1882, ch. 456.

233. Corporations for making turnpikes, or plank roads, or
passenger railways outside of the limits of the city of Baltimore,
may be formed as hereinbefore provided; no such passenger rail-
way to exceed twelve miles in length; and such turnpikes, plank
roads, or passenger railways may be constructed on the bed of
any county road or on part of the bed thereof, the consent of the
county commissioners of the county in which said road may lie,
having been first given in writing and recorded among the pro-
ceedings of said county commissioners, and also recorded in the