LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

law or in equity, and make and have a common seal, and alter
and renew the same at pleasure, and shall have, enjoy and
exercise all the rights, powers and privileges pertaining to
corporate bodies and necessary for the purposes of this act,
and may make by-laws, rules and regulations consistent with
the existing laws of the State of Maryland, for the govern-
ment of all under its authority, the management of its
estates and properties, and the due and orderly conduct of
its affairs.

SEC. 2. The said company is authorized and empowered to

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supply to the public, including both individuals and corpora-
tions, within the county of Montgomery and elsewhere in the
State of Maryland, and also, but subject to such regulations
and conditions as they may prescribe, within the State of Vir-
ginia and District of Columbia, power in the forms of electric
current and hydraulic, pneumatic and steam pressure, or any
of the said powers, and in any or all other forms, for use in
driving machinery and for light, heat and all other use 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, con-
struct, equip, maintain and operate from a point on the Poto-
mac river, in Montgomery county, by the most practicable
route, to be determined by the board of directors of the com-
pany, to such point in the said county as they may select, a
line for the transmission of power by wires, on poles or under-
ground, and by cables, pipes, tubes, conduits and all other
convenient appliances for power transmission, with such
branch lines in the said county and elsewhere, as a ma-
jority of the- stockholders of the company may locate
or authorize to be located, for receiving, transmitting and dis-
tributing power; and 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 power, including datns, gates, bridges,
sluices, tunnels, stations and other buildings, boilers, engines,
machinery, switches, lamps, motors and all other works, struc-
tures and appliances, in the State of Maryland and in the

May supply
power