340 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

artificial or manufactured, and wheresoever and howsoever
derived or obtained) for light, heat, fuel or power, or for any
public use whatsoever.

The term "Electrical Corporation," when used in this Act,
includes every corporation, company, association, joint stock
company or association, partnership and person, their lessees,
trustees or receivers, appointed by any Court whatsoever
(other than a railroad or a street railroad corporation generat
ing electricity for its own use solely and exclusively) owning,
operating, managing or controlling any plant or property, in-
cluding any water plant, or water property, or water falls, or
dam, or water power station, for generating and-distributing
or generating and selling for distributon, or selling or dis-
tributing electricity for light, heat or power, or for the trans-
mission of electric current for such purposes, or for any public
use whatsoever.

The term "Gas Plant," when used in this Chapter, includes
boilers, water gas sets, retorts, condensers, scrubbers, purifiers,
holders, mains, pipes, services, pipe galleries, meters, buildings,
real estate, easements, lamps, materials, apparatus, devices
and property of every kind operated, controlled, owned, used
or to be used for or in connection with, or to facilitate the
manufacture, distribution, sale or furnishing of gas (natural
or manufactured) for light, heat or power.

The term "Electric Plant," when used in this Chapter, in-
cludes (1) engines, boilers, dynamos, generators, storage bat-
teries, converters, motors, transformers, cables, wires, services,
poles, lamps, meters, real estate, easements, materials, appa-
ratus, devices and property of every kind operated, controlled,
owned, used, or to be used, for or in connection with, or to
facilitate the generation, transmission, distribution, sale or
furnishing of electricity for light, heat or power; and (2) any
conduits, ducts or other devices, materials, apparatus or prop-
erty for containing, holding or carrying electrical conductors
used or to be used, wholly or in part, for the transmission of
electricity for light, heat or power.

The term "Transportation of Property or Freight," when
used in this Act, includes any service in connection with the
receiving, delivering, elevation, transfer in transit, ventilation,
refrigeration, icing, storage and handling of the property or
freight transported.

The term "Telephone Company," when used in this Act, in-
cludes every corporation, company, association, joint stock
company or association, partnership and person, their lessees,
trustees or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever, own-
ing, operating, managing or controlling any plant, wires, poles