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ments, for which he shall be entitled to demand and receive from
the person so applying the usual fees for transcribing the same,
and he shall account quarterly to the Comptroller for the deposit
fees received by him under the provisions of section 109 B, less
the costs and expenses of recording the same.

Gas and Electric Light Companies.

1890, ch. 588. 1894. ch. 308.

111. Any electric light company formed under this article
shall have full power to manufacture and sell, and furnish such
quantities of electric light or electric power as may be required
or desired in any city or town of Kent, Talbot, Somerset, Carroll,
Montgomery or Washington counties, of this State, in which or
adjoining which the same may be located, for lighting the
streets, roads, public or private buildings, or for motive power or
other purposes; and such corporation is hereby authorized and
empowered to lay, construct or build lines or conductors, under,
along, upon or over the streets, squares, lanes, alleys and roads,
paved or unpaved, and connect the same with any manufactory,
public or private buildings, lamps or other structure or objects,
and with the place of supply, subject, however, to any law or
ordinance that may be passed by the municipal authorities of the
city or town or the county commissioners having jurisdiction, for
the filling up or restoring such streets or roads to their normal
condition; and provided further, in the construction, mainte-
nance, removal and repair of all such lines and appliances in
Washington county, the same shall be done under such regula-
tions as the Mayor and City Council of Hagerstown, or the
County Commissioners of said county, having jurisdiction, shall
prescribe; but nothing in this article shall authorize the incorpo-
ration of electric light companies for the purpose of carrying on
business or conducting operations in Baltimore city.

Electric Light Co. 0. Frederick City, 84 Md. 607. Edison Co. v. Hooper,
85 Md. 112-113.

Insurance Companies.

1898, ch. 226.

114 A. Any mutual or co-operative assessment, life, accident or
health insurance company heretofore incorporated, after having
given notice once a week for six weeks of its intention to do so,
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