Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-06-09
PUBLIC LOCAL Law.
Southern Maryland Telephone
Company.
CHAPTER asa.

An AIT TO incorporate the Southern
Maryland Telephone Company
section i. Be il enacted By the General
Assembly Of Maryland, That John n
Bailenger, j. Francis Coad, Georiye NJ
Thomas, Zachariah X. Morgan and 4.
johnson Canter, their successors and ns-
signs, are hereby created and CONSTITUTED
a body corporate under the name IL the
Southern Maryland Telephone COMPANY.
and by that name shall have PERPETUAL
succession, and shall be capable to sue
and be sued, complain and defend In anv
Court Of Law or Equity, 20 make and
use common seal and Co alter the same
at pleasure, to receive and make deals
and contracts; to acquire by purchase or
In any other manner not Inconsistent
with law, and deal with any property.
real, personal or mixed, which may Be
necessary or proper to enable said cor
poration TO carry out it's operations and
fulfill the purposes named In this Act and
generally to do every other Act and thing
not Inconsistent with law, which may be
necessary or proper to promote the OBJ
iccfs, designs and purposes for which this
corporation is formed.
Section 2. And be it enacted, That the
capital stock of said body corporates shall
consist OF i've hundred shares Of the mar
value OF ten dollars each, and when the par
value OF any share shall have been fully
paid, the holders thereofshall not be in any
way liable to the creditors of the eorpo-
ration, and said body corporate shall
have the right To increase itscapitalstock
from time to time, by a vote of the stock
holders ut a special meeting or meetings
20 be called and held for that purpose @
any sum not exceeding twenty Thousand
| dollars.
Section 3. And be it enacted. That the
/ aidbody corporate shall have the right To
SastaIl, maintain and operate telephones.
plants and exchanges, to build. con-
struct, equip, lease, own, acquire and CD
eratetelephonel lines from Leonardtown Co
Charlotte Hall in st. Mary's county and
in and through theState Of Maryland. and
| elsewhere, and tn engage generally i'm the
telephone business and in all the branches
| OF the same and in the business of trans
| hitting and communicating or of pro-
yidirg for the transmission or communi-
eating messages, news, information and
intelligence 0f all kinds from place to
place by means Of electric currents or ef-
iects through wires or by wireless means
| or systems or by any other unbound meth
DDS al telephone communication with or
without wires and to build, install, lease.
| acquire, hold, dispose Of and operate all
the electric and telephone plant or plants
or other machinery, equipment, appara-
tus and appnrtenance necessary, useful
and proper for the conduct of such bust
ness and branches of business as afcre-
| said.
Section 4. And be il enacted, That the
| said body corporate shall have the right
| Tor the purpose of it's business as afOre-
said, to transmit or to provide for the
| transmission Of its electrical currents or
effects, either above or below ground from
| LeOnardtown to Charlotte Hall in st.
Mary's County and throughout theState
oil Maryland and elsewhere, and for said
purposes to- erect poles and string wires
and To construct and operate above
ground, telephone systems, with all the
usual appurtenances or without wires or
by other improved means with whatever
form or equipment may he necessary or
suitable; to cross nayigable rivers or 9th
er streams by sunken cables or overhead
construction, provided that navigation
is not thereby interferred with, and fur.
Their when necessary or desirable, the said
corporation shall have the right to lay
down and maintain an underground tel
Il
conduits, ducts and mechanical and elec
trieal devices, appliances and appurten.
ces appertaining thereunto and necessa-
ry, useful and proper for the carrying ON
and operation of the business of said cor.
poration as aforesaid; provided, further
that before using the public or county
roads the assent of such use by the Board
| oil County Commissioners must be first
L "a nd nh fusV nd
| that before using any of the lanes, alleys
and streets of any Incorporated town or
municipality, the assent of the authori.
ties of said town or municipality must
be first had and obtained.
Section ). And be it enacted, That the
said body corporate snail have and en-
JOY all the general powers, provisions,
rights and privileges and be subject to the
general regulations contained In Article
23 of the Code of Public General Laws of
| Maryland and the supplements and
amendments thereto, the said Article being
the Article providing for the formation.
powers and regulations of corporations,
so Tar as the same may not be ineonsis-
tent or in conflict with the special or
general regulations of provisions, pow
ers, right and advantages conferred or
intended To be conferred by this Act and
that said corporation shall especially
have the powers to acquire land or rights
and easements therein, or thereon by pur-
chase or by condemnation under the reg
ulatiOns and provisions set forth i'm said
Article % of the Code of Public General
Laws and the amendments or supple
ments thereto.
Section q. And be it enacted, That the
said body corporate shall have the power
to borrow money i'm such sums as NAV
be necessary or proper to enable it to
carry out Incorporate purposes and to is
sac its bonds or other obligations for the
money SO borrowed and to secure pay
ment of the same by mortgage or mort
cages or by deed or deeds of trust of any
part or all of its corporate property and
franchises and that the said corporation
duly Incorporated shall have the right to
evy and collect, tolls, rents or charges
or tie contract for the same, for the use of
It's said lines, exchanges, apparatus, ser
vice and facilities and for the transmits
sion OF messages, intelligence or informa-
ton whether with or without wires or
by other means or systems as Aforesaid
Section Z. And be it enacted, That the
said body corporate shall have the right
and power at any time to unite or con-
solidate with any other telephone CON-
pany or companies, which may be ineor-
poratcd for the purposes set forth in this
Act or which may be authorized TO exer-
else the powers conferred on the corpora
ton hereby Incorporated, whether such
company or companies shall have been
or shall be hereafter incorporat-