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and service, expressed in such contract, as such person, firm or
corporation may need, at such rates, and upon such terms and
conditions as may be agreed upon between the parties to such
contract, and be expressed therein, but shall not otherwise be
entitled thereto; and every form of such special contract, made
for any year, shall constitute and be a form of contract for
like special telephone equipment and service, into which every
other person, firm or corporation in like situation with the
person, firm or corporation so contracting and desiring a like
special form, description and amount of telephone equipment
and service, shall have a right to enter, in such year, with the
party so contracting for such telephone equipment and service;
the special contract mentioned in this section shall be entered
into before such equipment and service are supplied; provided,
however, that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to
impair the obligation of the individual, company or corporation
owning, controlling, managing or operating a telephone line or
telephone lines, within the limits of this State, to furnish, in
accordance with the requirements of sections 232 A, 232 B, 232 C,
232 B and 232 E, and at the rates of charge mentioned in said sec-
tions 232 A and 232s, telephone equipment and service of the
kind and description which is now furnished by the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Company of Baltimore city, at the rate
of charge mentioned in said sections 232 A and 232 B; and the
said company, as a condition precedent to the exercise of any of
the powers conferred by this section, shall forthwith file in the
office of the clerk of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, to be by
said clerk annexed to the original section filed in his office, a full
and adequate description in detail, and certified by the Governor
of this State to be a full and adequate description of the equip-
ment now used by said company in furnishing the service men-
tioned in this proviso, which description or a copy thereof duly
certified by said clerk shall be taken as a true description of said
equipment in all proceedings, whether civil or criminal, which may
hereafter be taken to enforce the requirements of this proviso or
of the sections of this article therein mentioned, and the said
equipment shall always include and secure for each subscriber a
separate wire; and if any individual, company or corporation
owning, controlling, managing or operating a telephone line or