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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

For what.

SEC. 24, Class 11 A. For the transaction of
any business in which electricity over or
through wires, may be applied to any useful
purpose.

Amended.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
said act of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
chapter four hundred and seventy-one, be and
the same is hereby amended by adding thereto
an additional section to follow section one
hundred and seventy-five, and to be designated
as section one hundred and seventy-five A.

SEC. 175 A. Any of the corporations formed
under class eleven of section twenty-four of
the act of which this act is amendatory, or
under class eleven A, of section twenty-four
of the act of which this act is amendatory, as
said section and class may have been or may
be hereafter amended, shall have the powers
which are conferred upon telegraph companies
incorporated under said act of which this act
is amendatory by the one hundred and twenty-
ninth section of said last mentioned act, and

Powers.

may construct and lay any part of its said
line or lines under ground on any route on
which it is authorized to construct such lines,
in whole or in part, above ground, and may
acquire by condemnation any easements or
interests in land which may be necessary to
give effect to the purposes for which such cor-
poration was formed, in the manner set forth
in sections one hundred and seventy to one
hundred and seventy-five, both sections in-
cluded, of the said act of which this act is
amendatory.

SEC. 175 B. Provided, however, that all cor-
porations incorporated, or to be incorporated
by virtue of said section twenty-four, class

Proviso.

eleven, or by virtue of said section twenty-
four, class eleven A, except such corporations
as are now in practical operation and have
laid or constructed their lines, or any part
thereof in the city of Baltimore, shall, before