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condition for furnishing such facilities that they shall not be
used in the business of the applicant, or otherwise, for any
lawful purpose.
1892, ch. 387, sec. 232 E.

337. Any owner, operator, agent or other person who shall
collect or receive for the rental or use of any such telephone
and line, any sum in excess of the ratio fixed by sections 333
and 334 shall upon conviction be fined not less than one
hundred dollars for each offense.

1894, ch. 207, sec. 232 F.

338. But any person, firm or corporation may contract
in writing or partly in print and partly in writing, and not
otherwise, with any individual, company or corporation now or
hereafter owning, controlling, managing or operating any tele-
phone line or lines within the limits of this State, for such
special form, description and amount of telephone equipment
and service, expressed in such contract, as such person, firm
or corporation may need, at such rates, and upon such terms
and conditions as may be agreed Upon between the parties to
such contract, and be expressed therein, but shall not other-
wise be entitled thereto; and every form of such special con-
tract, made for any year, shall constitute and be a form of
contract for like special telephone equipment and service, into
which every other person, firm or corporation in like situation
with the person, firm or corporation so contracting and desir-
ing a like special form, description and amount of telephone
equipment and service shall have a right to enter, in such
year, with the party so contracting for such telephone equip-
ment and service; the special contract mentioned in this
section shall be entered into before such equipment and service
are supplied; provided, however, that nothing in this section
shall be so construed as to impair the obligation of the indi-
vidual, company or corporation owning, controlling, managing
or operating a telephone line or telephone lines within the
limits of this State to furnish, in accordance with the require-
ments of sections 333-337, and at the rates of charge men-
tioned in said sections 333 and 334, telephone equipment and
service of the kind and description which is now furnished by
the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Balti-
more city, at the rate of charge mentioned in said sections 333
and 334; and the said company, as a condition precedent to
the exercise of any of the powers conferred by this section, shall