ART. 23] TELEGRAPH—TURNPIKE COMPANIES. 25

in this State or any other State, or may lease, sell or convey its
property, rights, privileges and franchises or any interest therein
or any part thereof to any telegraph company organized under
or created by the laws of this or any other State, and may acquire
by lease, purchase or conveyance the property, rights, privileges
and franchises or any interest therein or any part thereof of any
telegraph company organized under and created by the laws of
this or any other State upon such terms and conditions as may
be agreed upon between the respective companies, or by purchase
at any sale of the property and franchises of any such corpora-
tion heretofore incorporated or hereafter to be incorporated
under the terms of a mortgage or deed of trust heretofore made,
or hereafter to be made, conveying the property and franchises
of any such company, or under decree of any court, or under an
execution issued against the property of said company; and said
purchasing company shall have and possess all the rights, fran-
chises and privileges heretofore enjoyed by the company whose
property is so acquired, whether the same were acquired under
grant from any State, municipality, or other corporation; or
may consolidate with any other telegraph company or corporation
of this or any other State, under such name and with such cap-
ital stock, and upon such terms as may be agreed upon between
such companies or corporations; and whenever such consolida-
tion as aforesaid is made, a certificate of the same and of the
particulars thereof shall be executed and acknowledged by the
president or other principal officers of said corporations so con-
solidating, which said certificate shall be recorded in the clerk's
office of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, if the principal
office of the 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 principal office of said con-
solidated company in this State is located, and when said consoli-
dated company is formed it shall be subject to the provisions of
this article as far as the same are applicable.

Turnpike, Plank Road and Passenger Railway Companies.

1000, ch. 649.

244-1. No turnpike company or other road company in this
State shall charge any toll for the travel of any bicycle, tricycle
or other vehicle with rubber tires propelled by human muscles.