The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-05-04

subtitle Telegraph Companies" as the
same was amended by the Act of eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-two, Chapter
3S7, regulating the rental and use of tel
ephones in the cities, towns and villages
in the State of Maryland, be, and the
same is hereby, amended, by adding to
said Article as so amended by said Act
of eighteen hundred and ninety-two,
Chapter 3S7, two additional sections, to
come in after Section 232 f, of said
amended Article, and to be designated
as ''232 F and 232 g." which said addi-
tional sections shall read as follows:
232 f. But any person, firm or cor
poration may contract in writing, or
partly in print and partly in writing,
and not otherwise, with any individual,
company or corporation, now or here
after, owning, controlling, managing or
operating any telephone line or lines
within the limits of this State for such
special form, description and amount of
telephone equipment and service, ex-
pressed in such contract, as such person,
firm or corporation may need, at such
rates, and upon such terms and condi-
tons as may be agreed upon between
the parties to such contract, and be eX-
pressed therein, but shall not otherwise
be entitled thereto, and every form of
such special contract, made for any
year, shall constitute and be a form of
contract for like special telephone equip
ment and service into which every other
person, firm or corporation in like sit
uation with the person, firm or corpor-
alton so contracting, and desiring like
special form, description and amount
of telephone equipment and service
shall have right to enter, in such year,
with the party so contracting for such
telephone equipment and service; the
special contract mentioned in this sec
ton shall be entered into before such
equipment and service are supplied.
Provided, however, that nothing in this
section shall be so construed as to i'm
pair the obligation of the individual,
company or corporation owning, con-
trolling, managing or operating a tele-
phone line or telephone lines, within
the limits of this State, to furnish in &C
cordance with the requirements of sec
tions 232 A, 232 B, 232 G, 232 D, and
232 E, of the Code of Public General
Laws (Article twenty-three), title "Cor-
subtitle Telegraph Com
panies," as enacted by the Act of As
sembly of eighteen hundred and ninety
two, chapter three hundred and eighty
seven, and at the rates of charge men
toned in said sections 232 A, and 232 B,
telephone equipment and service
of the kind and description which
is now furnished by the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone Com
pany of Baltimore City at the rate of
charge mentioned in said sections 232A,
and 232B, and the said company as a
precedent to the exercise of
any of the powers conferred by this Act
shall forthwith file in the Office of the
Clerk of the Court of Appeals of Mary
land, to be by said Clerk annexed to
the original of this Act filed in
his office a full and adequate de-
scription in detail, and certified by
the Governor of this State to
be full and adequate description, of
the equipment now used by said COM
pany in furnishing the service men
toned in this proviso, which description
or copy thereof duly certified by said
clerk shall be taken as a true descrip-
ton of said equipment in all proceed
ings, whether civil or criminal, which
may hereafter be taken to enforce the
of this proviso or of the
sections of article % therein mentioned,
and the said equipment snail always in
clude and secure for each subscriber a
wire; and if any individual,
or corporation owning, con-
trolling or managing or operating a tele-
phone line or lines within the limits of
this State, shall, at any time hereafter,
neglect or refuse to furnish the equip
ment and service mentioned in this pro-
viso to any person or corporation en-
titled thereto under the terms of the sec
tons of article % enumerated
in said proviso, the said in
company or corporation so
refusing or neglecting, and the officers
and agents of any such company or cor
poration, and the agents of every such
individual, shall be liable to Indictment
therefor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined for each offence not less
than fifty dollars, nor more than two
hundred dollars in the discretion of the
court; and provided also, that any per-
son entitled to telephone service under
the provisions of the said sections 2S2 A
to 232 F, both inclusive, but no other
person shall have the right and privi-
lege to use, without extra charge, any
other telephone equipment with the
consent of the subscriber to the last
mentioned equipment, and any in
dividual, company, or corporation, or
the officers and agents of any such
or corporation. and The agents
of every such individual refusing or
neglecting to allow such right or privi-
lege, shall be liable to Indictment, and
upon conviction thereof shall be fined