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five dollars and fifty cents per month, and one dollar per month
for every additional mile distant from said exchange; pro-
vided, that the individual, company or corporation desiring to
use such telephone and lines shall agree to contract for the
use of such telephone and lines for a period of not less than
six months.

1892, ch. 387 1896, ch. 139, sec. 232 B.

334. Where any two cities, towns or villages in the State of
Maryland are connected by wire, operated, managed, con-
trolled or owned by any individual, company or corporation,
the price for the use of any telephone for the purpose of con-
versation between such cities, towns or villages, shall, for each
five minutes or fraction of five minutes of such use, not exceed
the amount hereby fixed, that is to say: where the distance
does not exceed ten miles, fifteen cents; where the distance is
more than ten miles and not more than thirty miles, twenty-
five cents; where the distance is more than . thirty miles and
not more than fifty miles, one cent a mile; where the distance
is more than fifty miles, fifty cents; and one-half a cent for
each mile in excess of fifty miles.

1892, ch. 387, sec. 232 C.

335. The word "telephone" wherever used in sections 333
to 338, shall be construed to include, and consist of a receiver,
a transmitter, a magnetto or call-bell, or cell battery, a back-
board, a battery box and all necessary appliances now and
hereafter in use for and constituting a telephone equipment as
now or heretofore rented by telephone companies to their
patrons and subscribers.

Ibid. sec. 232 D.

336. Every telephone company with wires wholly or partly
within this State and engaged in a general telephone business
shall, within the local limits of such telephone company's bus-
in ess, supply all applicants for telephone connections and
facilities with such connections and facilities, without discrimi-
nation or partiality; provided such applicant comply or offer
to comply with all reasonable regulations of the company;
and no such company shall impose any conditions or restrict-
ions upon any such applicant that are not imposed impartially
upon all persons or companies in like situation, nor shall such
companies discriminate against any individual or company
engaged in any lawful business, or between individuals or
companies engaged in the same business, by requiring, as a