To lease, except to parallel or competing lines, its railroad and all of its property and franchises, rights, powers, privileges, and immunities then owned or thereafter to be acquired, for a term of years, and to lease, except from parallel or competing lines, other railroads, in or out of this state for a term of years.Codes, 1892, § 3588; 1906, § 4090; Hemingway's 1917, § 6719; 1930, § 6083; 1942, § 7735.
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