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CHAP. 51. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
of the said company, and of all such privileges, permissions, rights
and advantages, of every kind and nature whatsoever, as they shall
judge necessary for completing, in an effectual and proper manner,
the introduction, distribution, and supply of water, to the own of
Cumberland, without any individual, companies, firms or corporations,
and to use and dispose of any surplus water to the best interest and
advantage of the said company, and all such contracts to rescind,
alter, abridge or enlarge, with consent of the parties thereto respectively,
and to lease, sell, convey, transfer and bind, by their
contracts, deeds and writings, under the hand of the president and
seal of the company, all the property, estate, common stock,
and joint funds of the said company, subject to the ratification of
the stockholders, or a majority of them, at some general meeting,
if the value of the matter in question shall exceed five hundred dollars,
but not the persons or separate property of themselves or any
of the stockholders. |
May purchase and
hold lands, &c.
powers of corporation. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said corporation
may purchase
and hold, in fee simple or otherwise, all such lands and real
estates suitable for the erection of the necessary works, and that
may be necessary in whole or in part, for the proper accomplishment
of their undertaking, as they shall judge proper, and may
divert from the usual bed and course, for the purpose aforesaid, at
such place or places as they shall think fit, any stream or streams
which they may think suitable for the purpose, or any part or parts
thereof, they obtaining the consent of all persons having any right,
interest or property, in the stream or streams respectively, so to be
diverted in whole or in part, or in the lands through which such
stream or streams may be intended to pass after being so diverted;
and the said corporation shall have full power and authority to make
a canal and tunnel, or either of them, for the conveyance of the
said water under and along any public highway, or any street or
streets, lane or lanes, alley or alleys, of the county or town of
Cumberland, and to lay a pipe or pipes in such highway, or in any
of the said streets, lanes or alleys, for the purpose of conveying
and
distributing the said water, and the said pipes from time to time to
renew and repair, and for those purposes to dig, break up and open,
at their own expense, all or any part of such highway, or of such
streets and alleys, and of the pavements and footways thereof, leaving
at all times a sufficient passage way for carriages, horses and
foot passengers, and restoring forthwith to their former condition
all such highways, or all such of the said streets, lanes and alleys,
pavements and foot-ways, as shall from time to time, and at any
time, be so dug, opened or taken up. |
To establish reservoirs
and fountains. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said corporation
shall have
full power and authority to establish reservoirs and public fountains
in such parts of the streets and squares of the said town as
they may think proper; and to grant to all persons whomsoever,
and to all bodies politic and corporate, the privilege of using the
said water so to be introduced, in such manner, and on such terms
and conditions, and in such quantities respectively, as they shall
think fit; and the said water, so to be introduced, together with
all the reservoirs, pipes, canals and tunnels, engines, buildings,
and machines whatsoever, to be by them made and used for the purpose
of introducing, raising, and distributing the said water, to |
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