EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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That the Cecil Farmers' Telephone Company of Cecil
county, Maryland, a corporation created under the general
laws of this State, the certificate of incorporation which is
recorded among the charter records of Cecil county, in Liber
J. T. G. No. 1, folio 163, etc., and the Cecil Farmers' Tele-
phone Company of Cecil county, incorporated by the General
Assembly in Chapter 205 of the Acts of 1904, be and the
same are hereby consolidated and merged into one company
or corporation, and that the capital stock of said company
shall be thirty thousand dollars, divided into twelve hundred
shares of twenty-five dollars each, with the privilege to increase
the capital stock to sixty thousand dollars should two-thirds
of the stockholders approve said increase.

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

Approved April 5, 1906.

CHAPTER 792.
AN ACT to prohibit the pollution of streams of water in
Garrett County.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

CHAP. 791

Consolidation
of telephone
companies.

land, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons,
firm or corporation to pollute any stream or streams of water
in Garrett county, by putting or throwing sawdust, shavings,
lime, poison, acids or any other substance whatever that
may be injurious to or destructive of fish life into said stream
or streams, or shall negligently put, throw, allow or permit
any of said deleterious substances to be and remain near
to or in such close proximity to any of said streams that in
case of high water or freshets, said substances would wash
or be carried into said streams.

SEC. 2. Any person or persons, firm or corporation violat-

Unlawful to
pollute any
stream with
sawdust, etc.

ing the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before a justice of
the peace or the Circuit Court of Garrett county shall be
fined not less than twenty-five dollars or more than fifty
dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail or Maryland
house of correction for not less than two months, or both
fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court; and
if any one shall be charged or prosecuted for allowing or

Penalty.