| 1818.
CHAP. 167. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
agents, superintendants, clerks or officers; to make such contracts,
purchases or agreements, of all such matters and things, in behalf
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 town of
Williamsport, with 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 writing, under the hands 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. of 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. |
Corporation may
purchase real
estate, &c. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said corporation
may purchase
and hold, in fee simple or otherwise, all such land and real
estates suitable for the erection of the necessary works, and that
may be necessary in whole or 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
Williamsport, 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 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. |
To establish reservoirs
and public
fountains, and
grant privileges of
using water. |
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 |
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