Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1902-05-02
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS.
CHAPTER GA.


AN ACT TO incorporate the Mont gomery Elec-
trio Light and Railway Company of Mont
gomery County, and TO declare Its rights,
powers, privileges and franchises.
Section | Be II enacted by the General
Assembly OF Maryland, That Brainard II
Warner, Spencer q. Jones, Wilson B Tschif-
fely, Walter A. Johnston, William M. Terrell.
Boyle Stubbs, Eugene Jones and Albert
Almoney, and their associates and successors,
be and they are hereby created, cOnstitu ted
and declared 10 be body polite aud corpo-
rate under the name and style OF the Mont
gomery Electric Light and Railway Compan
OF Montgomery County, aud under such name
aud style shall have perpetual succession, and
may sue and be sued, defend and be Defend
ed at law or in equity; 10 have and use a
common seal or corporate seal, aud to alter
or remove the same at pleasure and otherwise
In all things to do, execute aud perform
whatever any corporation and body polite
or individual may or might lawfully do, ex-
ecute and perform within the scope and Tor
the object and purposes OF said corporation,
as follows, namely To construct and lay
down and operate = railway with the ueces-
sary aud proper switches, turn-ouls, and any
aud all mechanical contrivances aud devices
aud appliances suitable TO operate an electric
railway, and TO run thereon cars and CARR
ages for the carrying of passengers and
reight drawn and propelled by electricity or
any other motor power, beginning at the
railway station Of the Capital Traction Com
pany at Chevy Chase Lake, in Montgomery
county, Maryland; thence 10 the town Of
kensington, and thence TO Wheaton post
Office and thence TO the town Of Olney, In
eaid Montgomery county, and thence 10 San.
dy Spring, in said county, with such later
ais or branches within said county Of Mont
gomery as Said corporation may deem advan
taReous 10 acquire, hold or manage aud said
corporation lie hereby authorised TO change
said route or any portion thereof between lis
two terminals II IL should find the same 10 be
practicable or necessary; TO hold, manage or
dispose OF any personal or real property es-
sential or revelaut 10 the uses aforesaid and
also 10 acquire title to such adjacent line or
lines OF railway or any lateral or branch
thereof, and 10 develop, improve, hold and
sell, and they shall also have power TO manu-
facture and sell and furnish such quantities
OF electric light, gas Of any kind aud electric
power as may be required or desired Al any
point in said county, aud to contract for and
furnish electric light or gas-light or illumi-
nant oil any Kind for lighting the streets
wards, public or private buildings in said
county and any city or town therein, aud for
motive power and other purposes, aud said
corporation 10 hereby authorized aud en-
powered 10 lay, purchase aud construct or
build lines aud conductors aud erect poles.
lay conductors under, along or upon or owe
the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, roads or
ways Whatsoever In said county, or In any
city or town along said route, the consent Of
the County Commissioners Of Montgomery
county first being obtained, aud over and
along any private property, the consent OF
the owners thereof being obtained.
section 2. And be II further enacted, That
all the interest and affairs OF the said corpo-
ration shall be controlled and managed bv The
persons particularly mentioned 10 the first
section Of this Act or such Of them as shall