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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
general meeting, to be called for that purpose by any ten or more
stockholders, provided that there be present at such meeting stockholders
holding one thousand shares, or their proxies, and that four
weeks previous notice be given in two news-papers printed in the
city of Baltimore of such meeting, and of the alteration or repeal
intended to be proposed thereat. |
1808.
CHAP. 79. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president
and directors
shall have power to appoint, and remove at their pleasure, all
clerks, superintendents, agents or other officers, necessary for carrying
on the business of the said company; to dispose of its funds
or property, in the manner herein after directed, and to fix any
pay out of the funds of the said company, the compensation of
all such agents, superintendents, 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 whatever,
as they shall judge necessary for completing, in an effectual and
proper manner, the introduction, distribution and supply of water,
tot he city of Baltimore, 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 the 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 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
ten thousand dollars, but not the persons or separate property of
themselves, or any of the stockholders. |
May appoint and
remove clerks, or
other officers, &c. |
8. 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 adjudge proper, and for that
purpose may direct from the usual course, at such place or places
as they shall think fit, the stream called Jones's Falls, or any other
stream or streams which they may think suitable for the purpose,
or any part or parts thereof, on the said corporation's first obtaining
the consent of all persons having any right or interest in
the stream or streams 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 and lay conduits or tunnels 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 city of Baltimore, for the purpose of conveying and
distributing the sid water, and the said conduits or tunnels from
time to time to renew and repair, and for such purposes to dig,
break up and open, at their own expense, all or any part of such
highway, streets, lanes and alleys, and of the middle or side pavements
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, streets, lanes and alleys, |
Corporation may
hold lands, &c.
and direct from
the usual course
Jone's Falls, &c. |
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