1408 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

purchase, acquire, hold, own and develop real estate, water
rights (excepting the water rights of the Susquehanna river in
Harford County) and rights of way, and to locate, acquire,
construct, equip, maintain and operate such suitable plant or
plants as may be required, and to increase and enlarge the
same as may be necessary, and to build, construct, maintain
and operate various dams on Deer Creek, a stream in Harford
County, for the purpose of generating such power as may be
necessary for the operating and maintaining or running such
plant or plants as aforesaid for the generating of electric
current; and to locate, acquire, construct, equip, maintain and
operate, by the most practicable routes, to be determined by
the board of directors of said company, lines for the trans-
mission of power by wires on poles or underground or by
cables, or any or all other convenient appliances for power
transmission, to any and all points in the State of Maryland,
and to furnish such quantities of electric light, electric heat
and electric power as may be desired or required at any point
in said State; and to contract for and furnish electricity for
lighting streets, roads, public highways and public or private
buildings in said State and for motive power and other pur-
poses; and said corporation is hereby authorized and empow-
ered, by and with the consent of the authorities of any city
or county in said State, to lay, purchase, construct or build
Kries, conductors, conduits and erect poles and string wires
along, upon, under or over the public highways, roadways and
streets, wheresoever located in such town, city or county; and
may acquire, own and hold all lands and properties necessary
for uses, business and purposes of said company.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That said company is authorized
and empowered to furnish electricity to any person, persons,
firm or corporation for heating, lighting, motive or agricultural
purposes; and said corporation shall also have the power and
right to acquire, hold, manage, sell, grant, assign, develop,
convey or otherwise dispose of and deal in real estate and per-
sonal property of any description whatsoever.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That said company may enter
upon, grade, occupy and use any public road, street, bridge or
highway in said State, or any village or incorporated town or
city therein, for the purposes aforesaid, so, however, as not to
prevent the free and convenient travel over such public road,
street, bridge or highway by any citizen, having first obtained
the consent of the County Commissioners of the several counties
of this State or of the authorities of such incorporated town
or city, as the case may be, and the said company is hereby
authorized and empowered to acquire such rights of way for
the use of lands as it may find needful or convenient and