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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 406.

or sell electric power, light and heat, or either of them,
or other power of any other description or character, to
any railroad company owned, controlled or acquired by this
company or any other railroad company, or to any manufac-
turing concern, either private or public, with the right and
power to erect a bridge over the said Monocacy river, for the
use of the public and for railroad purposes, with right to
charge aud collect toll for the use thereof, and to lease or sell
the right of way over or on the bridge to private individuals
or corporations, or to sell or lease or consolidate the said bridge,
dam, powers and water right, or either of them, and to con-
tract for, to own and construct roads, railroads, buildings or
highways, including turnpikes, either in the name of this said
corporation or other corporations or individuals, and in its own

May
construct
and build
pole lines,
conductors
aud conduits

manner to charge and collect tolls for the use of the same ;
and said corporation is hereby authorized to lay, purchase
and construct, string or build pole lines, conductors and con-
duits under, along or upon or over the streets, squares, lanes,
alleys, roads or highways whatsoever in any city, town or
village in Frederick county ; provided, the consent is obtained
of the Mayor and Common Council of such towns, city or
village, and said corporation shall have the right to string
wire and erect pole lines, conductors and conduits under,
along, upon or over the roadways or highways in Frederick
county, so as to furnish electric current or power of any char-
acter to any point of Frederick county, and to connect with
any manufacturing, private or public buildings, lamps or other
structure or object, car or conveyance, ami in general to manu-
facturing, sell, furnish and supply electric light and electric
or other power or heat, or stored electricity, and electrical
machinery, supplies for any and all purposes that may be
desired or required, and to use the necessary means to accom-
plish the purposes of said corporation.

Capital stock

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock shall
consist of ten thousand dollars, divided into four hundred
shares of the par value of twenty-five dollars each, and which
capital stock may be increased from time to time to tive hun-
dred thousand dollars by a majority vote of the stockholders,
at a special meeting or meetings to be called for that purpose;
and the incorporators, or a majority of them named in this
Act, shall have power to open books for subscription at such
times and place as they may deem expedient, aud that when
three hundred or more, shares of said stock shall have been sub-
scribed, said incorporators, or a majority of them, shall call a
general meeting of the subscribers at such time aud place as
they may appoint, after having given ten days' public notice of