1186                      LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 473

izing condemnation by corporations engaged in the business
of transmitting or supplying gas.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 337A of Article 23 of Bagby's Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland (1929 Supplement), title
"Corporations, " sub-title "Condemnation of Property by Cor-
porations, " be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments, so as to read as follows:

337A. Any corporation of this or any other State, which
is now or may hereafter be engaged in the business of trans-
mitting or supplying natural gas, artificial gas, or a mixture
of natural and artificial gases, may acquire by condemnation,
in the manner provided in Article 33A, rights of way or ease-
ments necessary for the purpose of laying, constructing, chang-
ing the size of, repairing, maintaining, operating and remov-
ing pipe lines and appurtenances thereto for the transmission
and supplying of natural gas, artificial gas, or a mixture of
natural and artificial gases; provided, however, that nothing
contained in this section is intended or shall be taken or con-
strued as relieving any such corporation from the provisions
of Chapter 180 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land of 1910, known as the Public Service Commission Law,
or any amendment thereto; and. provided further that nothing
contained in this section is intended, or shall be taken or con-
strued, to confer the right of condemnation upon any corpo-
ration, domestic or foreign, which is not engaged, or to become
engaged, in the business of transmitting such gas or gases
directly to local consumers in this State along its proposed
rights of way, and is not offering to contract with such local
consumers to supply them directly with such gas or gases, upon
terms and conditions subject to the approval of the Public
Service Commission of Maryland, and which said corporation
shall not have certified to the State Tax Commission the name
and address of an agent of such corporation, resident in this
State, service of process upon whom shall bind the corporation
until the appointment of a substitute duly certified to the State
Tax Commission; but nothing contained in this proviso shall
be taken or construed to affect the right of any corporation
which is now transmitting such gas or gases for public use
through one or more pipe lines in this State, to condemn as
aforesaid for public use necessary rights of way or easements
for such pipe line or pipe lines now in use or appurtenances