| 1815.
CHAP. 90. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
thereto respectively; and to lease, sell, convey, transfer and bind,
by their contracts, deeds and writing, under the hand of the president
and the 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. |
Lands, &c. which
corporation may
hold. |
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 hands 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
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
Emmitsburgh, and to lay a pipe or pipes in such highway, or in
any of the said streets, lanes or alleys, for the purposes of conveying
and distributing the said water, and the said pipes from
time to time 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 footways, as shall from time to
time, and at any time, be so dug, opened or taken up. |
Reservoirs and
public 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 hold to
them, their successors and grantees, as their sole and exclusive
property. |
Penalty for damaging
works, &c. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
or persons shall
wilfully do, or cause to be done, any act whatsoever whereby the
said works, or any pipe, conduit, canal, water course, mound,
plug, cock, reservoir, dyke or engine, machine or structure, or
any matter or thing appertaining to the same, shall be stopped,
obstructed, impaired, weakened or injured, or wilfully pollute the |
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