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May supply
power and
light.
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tions, within the county of Washington and the city of Hagers-
town and elsewhere in the State of Maryland, and also, but sub-
ject to such regulations and conditions as they may prescribe,
within the States of West Virginia and Virginia, power in the
forms of electric current and hydraulic, pneumatic and steam
pressure, or any of the said forms, and in any or all other forms,
for use in driving machinery, and for light, heat and all other
uses to which the power so supplied can be made applicable,
and to fix, charge, collect and receive rates and tolls therefor ;
and for the purpose of enabling the company to supply power,
as aforesaid, the company is authorized and empowered to buy
or otherwise acquire, generate, develop, store, use, transmit and
distribute power of all kinds, and to locate, acquire, construct,
equip, maintain and operate, by the most practicable route, to be
determined by the board of directors of the said company, from
a point on the Potomac river, in Washington county, or other
point in the said county or the said city, selected by the board
of directors of the said company for the location of a power
plant, to such other point in the said county or in the said city
as they may select, a line for the transmission of power by
wires, on poles or underground, and by cables, pipes, tubes,
conduits and all other convenient appliances for power trans-
mission, with such branch lines in the said county and city and
elsewhere as a majority of the stockholders of the company
may locate or authorize to be located for receiving, transmitting
and distributing power; and as appurtenances to the said line
of power transmission and its branches the company may
acquire, own, hold, sell or otherwise dispose of water powers
and water privileges in the State of Maryland and elsewhere,
and may locate, acquire, construct, equip, maintain and operate
all necessary plants for generating and developing by water,
steam or any other means, and for storing, using, transmitting,
distributing, selling and delivering powers, including dams, gates,
bridges, sluices, tunnels, stations and other buildings, boilers, en-
gines, machinery, switches, lamps, motors, and all other works,
structures and appliances in the State of Maryland, West Yir-
ginia and Virginia and elsewhere, and may also acquire, own
and hold all lands necessary for the uses, business and pur-
poses of the said company; provided, that the amount of
land which the company may at any time hold within the
State of Maryland for its water powers and other works, as
well as the land flowed or submerged with the water accumu-
lated by its dams, shall not exceed three thousand (3,000) acres,
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