674 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

be recorded in the clerk's office of the superior court of Balti-
more city, if the principal office of the said consolidated cor-
poration 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 consolidated company in this State
is located, and when said consolidated company is formed it
shall be subject to the provisions of this article as far as the
some are applicable.

1888, art. 23, sec. 228. 1868. ch. 471, sec 133.

328. Persons, associations or corporations, owning any
telegraph line doing business within the State, shall receive
despatches from and for other telegraph lines, associations and
companies, and from and for any individual, and shall trans-
mit such despatches in the manner established by the rules
and regulations of such telegraph lines, and in the order in
which they are received, with impartiality and good faith,
under the penalty of one hundred dollars for every neglect or
refusal so to do, to be recovered, with costs of suit, in the
name and for the benefit of the person or persons sending
or desiring to send such despatch; provided, however, that
arrangements may be made with the proprietors or publishers
of newspapers for transmission of intelligence of general and
public interest, for the purpose of publication out of its order.
Birney v. N. Y. & W Tel. Co., 18 Md. 341. U. S. Tel. Co. v. Gildersleeve,
29 Md. 232. Ches, and Pot. Tel. Co. v. B. & O Tel. Co., 66 Md. 409.

Ibid. sec. 229. 1868, ch. 471, sec 134.

329. Any person who shall unlawfully and intentionally
injure, molest or destroy any of said lines, posts, piers or
abutments, or the materials or property connected with the
working of any telegraph lines, shall, on conviction thereof,
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine
not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the
county or city jail not exceeding one year, or both, at the dis-
cretion of the court before which the conviction shall be had.

Ibid. sec. 230. 1868, ch. 471. sec. 135.

330. Any person connected with any such corporation in
this State, either as clerk, operator messenger, or in any other
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