PHILLTPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 719

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That new Sections to be known respectively as Sections
11/2, 26 1/2, 27 1/2, 33 1/2, 34 1/2 and 44 1/2, be, and the same are
hereby added to Chapter 180 of the Acts of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland of the year 1910, entitled "An Act to create
and establish a Public Service Commission, and prescribing its
powers and duties, and to provide for the regulation and control
of public service corporations and public utilities, and making
appropriations therefor;" said new Section 1 1/2 to come in
immediately after Section 1 of said Act, said new Section 26 1/2
to come in immediately after Section 26 of said Act, said new
Section 27 1/2 to come in immediately after Section 27 of said
Act, said new Section 33 1/2 to come in immediately after Section
33 of said Act, said new Section 34 1/2 to come in immediately
after Section 34 of said Act, said new Section 44 1/2 to come
in immediately after Section 44 of said Act, and said several
Sections to read respectively as follows:

SEC. 1 1/2. The term "Common Carrier," when used in this
Act, shall likewise include all automobile transportation com-
panies, and all persons and associations of persons, whether in-
corporated or not, operating automobiles or motor cars, or
motor vehicles, for public use in the conveyance of persons or
property within this State; and every municipal corporation
of this State engaged in the business of manufacturing and
supplying or of supplying gas or elecricity for other than muni-
cipal purposes shall be included within the terms '' Gas corpora-
tion" and "Electrical corporation," as defined in the next pre-
ceding Section of this Act and shall be subject as other gas and
electrical corporations are to the provisions of this Act,

SEC. 26 1/2. The provisions of the next preceding Section for-
bidding the construction by any common carrier, railroad cor-
poration, or street railroad corporation, of a railroad or street
railroad or any extension thereof, or the exercise by any such
common carrier, railroad corporation, or street railroad corpo-
ration of any franchise or right under any provision of the
railroad law or of any other law not lawfully exercised before
the passage of this Act, without the permission and approval
of the Commission first obtained, and empowering the Commis-
sion to grant such permission and approval whenever it shall
after due hearing determine that such construction or such exer-
cise of the franchise or privilege is necessary or convenient for
the public service, shall likewise apply to the abandonment or
discontinuance in whole or in part by any common carrier, rail-