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GAS COMPANIES.

458. No gas companies shall be formed in Baltimore City,
Baltimore County or in Anne Arundel County, except in the
City of Annapolis.

459. No gas companies chartered in any other counties of
the State shall have the right to lay mains or sell gas in Balti-
more City, Baltimore County or Anne Arundel County.

460. All charters for gas companies which have been
granted or issued under the Code of Public General Laws, or
any other law, in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, or Anne
Arundel County, are repealed, annulled and made void, except
in cases where the companies incorporated by any of such
charters have erected works 'and commenced the manufac-
ture of gas.

461. No corporation or person shall charge for illuminat-
ing gas in Baltimore City a sum to exceed one dollar and
twenty-five cents per thousand cubic feet.

462. The illuminating gas furnished by any such corpora-
tion or person shall have an illuminating power not less than
twenty sperm candles of six to the pound, and burning at the
rate of one hundred and twenty grains of spermaceti per hour,
tested at a distance of not less than one mile from the place of
manufacture by a burner consuming five cubic feet of gas per
hour, and shall, as regards purity, comply with the standard
now or hereafter established by law.

HARBOR, DOCKS AND WHARVES.

Harbor.

463. No wharf shall be run out, made, altered, enlarged or
extended so as to divert the course of the channel, obstruct the
harbor or basin, or to the injury of the same; and no person
shall make, alter or extend any wharf without laying before
the Harbor Board a plan of said wharf, and obtaining the con-
sent of the said Harbor Board.
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