LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the name of said corpor-<
ation shall be, and is hereby changed from the Hampden and
Waverly Electric Light and Power company, to the Northern
Electric company.

Change ot
name.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date, of its passage.

Approved April 2d, 1896.

CHAPTER 139.

AN ACT to repeal Section 232 B of Article 23, of the Code
of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Corporations,"
sub-title "Telegraph Companies," as enacted by the Act of
1892, Chapter 387, and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments.

Effective.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 232 B of Article 23, of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, title " Corporations," sub-title
"Telegraph Companies," as enacted by the Act of 1892, chap-
ter 387, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, so
as to read as follows :

Bepeal.

232 B. 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 dis-
tance is more than fifty miles, fifty cents; and one-half a cent
for each mile in excess of fifty miles.

Charge tor
use of tele-
phones. .

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 2d, 1896.

Effective.