ART. 23.] GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANIES. 591

for the transmission of gas, in any city, town or county, under
the streets, squares, lanes, alleys and roads thereof, paved or
unpaved, and to connect the same with any manufactory, public
or private building, lamp or other structure or object, 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 and repaving any street, square, lane, or alley or road,
under which the said pipes may be laid.

1888, art. 23, sec. 111. 1890, ch. 588 1894, ch. 308.

143. 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 restor-
ing such streets or roads 'to their normal condition; and pro-
vided further, in the construction, maintenance, removal and
repair of all such lines and appliances in Washington county,
the same shall be done under such regulations as the mayor
and city council of Hagerstown, or the county commissioners
of said county, haying jurisdiction, shall prescribe; but noth-
ing in this article shall authorize the incorporation of electric
light companies for the purpose of carrying on business or
conducting operations in Baltimore city.

Electric Light Co. v. Frederick City, 84 Md. 607. Edison Co. v Hooper,
85 Md. 112, 113. Mealey v. Hagerstown, 92 Md. 745.

Insurance Companies.

Ibid, sec 112 1866, ch. 471, sec 96.

144. The capital stock of any insurance company incorpor-
ated under this article shall not exceed the sum of two millions