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the feasibility and practicability of acquisition or construc-
tion, administrative, advertising and such other expenses as
may be necessary or incident to the letting of construction con-
tracts, to the revenue financing herein authorized and to the
acquisition, construction and placing of a project in operation.

114B. (General Powers.) For the purpose of providing the
residents of the City with adequate, efficient and dependable
electric light and power service at reasonable rates, the City
is hereby authorized, enabled and empowered:

(a) To acquire by purchase or to construct, or to partly
acquire and partly construct, and to improve, repair, recon-
struct, own, operate and maintain a project, the distribution
lines of which may be constructed to any point within the
corporate limits of the City, as fixed by Section 40 of this
Article;

(b) To construct, maintain and operate any lines, pipes or
conduits, forming a part of the project, along, upon, under
and across publicly owned lands and public thoroughfares, in-
cluding without limitation, all roads, highways, streets, alleys,
bridges and causeways, after first securing the proper assent,
subject to such reasonable conditions as may be prescribed, of
the United States, the State of Maryland, the County Com-
missioners of Dorchester County or of any other political sub-
division or public body corporate or instrumentality having
jurisdiction, ownership or control of any such lands, thorough-
fares, roads, highways, streets, alleys, bridges and causeways,
and, for the purpose of any such construction, maintenance
and operation, to negotiate, contract for or acquire by pur-
chase the right to cross, use in common or abut any lands,
rights of way or easements of any public service company;

(c) To incur the cost of acquisition of, and to acquire, all
or any part of a project and to finance said cost of acquisition
by the borrowing of money on its full faith and credit, or by
the borrowing of money repayable solely from the earnings of
such project, or by a combination of both methods, all in
accordance with the provisions of this Act;

(d) To incur the cost of construction of, and to construct
or contract for the construction of, all or any part of a project
and to finance said cost of construction by the borrowing of
money repayable solely from the earnings of such project;

(e) To distribute and sell for public and private consump-
tion, within the corporate limits of the City as fixed by Sec-
tion 40 of this Article, the energy produced by a project and
to that end to fix and collect rates, fees and charges for such