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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 200.

AN ACT to authorize the mayor and city council of Balti-

more to provide conduits, and to require all telegraph,

telephone, electric light or other wires to be removed

from the streets, lanes and alleys of said city, and placed

in said conduits, and prescribe rentals for the use thereof,

and to authorize the appointment of an electrical com-

mission of said city.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, provided however, that nothing contained in

To provide
conduits

this act shall be deemed or taken to modify or change in

under the
streets of

any manner the provisions of ordinance number (41) forty-

Baltimore

one, of the mayor and city council of Baltimore approved

May 9th, 1889, or the rights and privileges granted thereby

to the companies therein named or either of them. That the

mayor and city council of Baltimore be and they are hereby

authorized to provide a series of conduits under the streets,

lanes and alleys of said city, or any part or parts thereof,

for the use of telephone, telegraph, electric light and other

wires, either by constructing said conduits themselves, or

by authorizing their construction by any person or corpo-

ration, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, and to pro-

vide for the appointment of an electrical commission with

such powers and duties as the said mayor and city council

may deem necessary or appropriate for carrying out the

purposes of this act ; and to require all such wires, or any

part or parts thereof, and the poles carrying the same, to

be removed from the surface of the streets, lanes and alleys

of said city, or auy part or parts thereof, and to require

such wires to be placed in such conduits, all under such

penalty as they may prescribe ; and to prescribe and

Rentals.

establish reasonable rentals to be paid by any company or

person using any of said conduits, by whomsoever the same

may be constructed, for the use thereof, and to provide for

the collection of such rentals in addition to the ordinary

processes by such summary methods as they may deem

Effective.

appropriate.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 30th, 1892.