Exhibit 24
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BALTIMORE GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY

POWER OF ATTORNEY


	KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned 
directors and officers of Baltimore Gas and Electric Company 
hereby constitute and appoint C. H. Poindexter, E. A. Crooke and 
C. W. Shivery and each of them their true and lawful attorneys 
and agents to do any and all acts and things and to execute, in 
their name any and all instruments which said attorneys and 
agents, or any of them, may deem necessary or advisable to enable 
said corporation to comply with the Securities Act of 1933, as 
amended, and any rules, regulations and requirements of the 
Securities and Exchange Commission in respect thereof in 
connection with the registration under said Act of not exceeding 
$200,000,000 principal amount of Medium-Term Notes, Series E of 
said Company, maturing not more than thirty years after the date 
as of which they are issued, all as authorized by Resolutions 
adopted by the Board of Directors of Baltimore Gas and Electric 
Company at a meeting held December 20, 1996, including 
specifically, but without limiting the generality of the 
foregoing, power and authority to sign the names of the 
undersigned directors and officers in the capacities indicated 
below, to any registration statements to be filed with the 
Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said Medium-Term 
Notes, Series E, to any and all amendments to any registration 
statement in respect to said Medium-Term Notes, Series E, or to 
any instruments or documents filed as part of or in connection 
with said registration statement or amendments to such documents; 
and each of the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that 
said attorneys and agents, or any of them, shall do or cause to 
be done by virtue hereof.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has subscribed, 
or caused to be subscribed, these presents this 20th day of 
December, 1996.

	Signature


Principal Executive Officer	          /s/ C. H. Poindexter
    and Director                    ----------------------                     
                                       C. H. Poindexter
                             	Chairman of the Board and Director



Principal Financial and                /s/ C. W. Shivery
Accounting Officer	                 -----------------------
                                        C. W. Shivery
                                       	Vice President



                                                				Exhibit 24
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								                                           	Power of Attorney
                                            								in connection with
                                           									the registering of
                                            								not exceeding $200
                                            								million of Medium-
                                           									Term Notes, Series E
		






Directors


       /s/ Dan A. Colussy              /s/ Michael D. Sullivan

       /s/ Freeman A. Hrabowski        /s/ George L. Russell, Jr.

       /s/ George V. McGowan           /s/ Jerome W. Geckle

       /s/ Beverly Byron               /s/ J. Owen Cole

       /s/ E. A. Crooke

       /s/ Nancy Lampton

       /s/ James R. Curtiss





Dated:  December 20, 1996