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FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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furnish such quantities of electric light and electric power,
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as may be required or desired, at any point in said county
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and to contract for and furnish electric lights for lighting
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the streets, wards, public or private buildings in said
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county, and of any city or town therein, and for motive
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power and other purposes, and said corporation is hereby
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authorized and empowered to lay purchase construct or
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build lines and conductors and conduits, under along upon
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or over the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, roads or ways
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whatsoever in said county or any city or town therein, and
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over under and along any private property in said county,
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the consent of the owner or owners thereof being first had and
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obtained, and to connect the same with any manufactory,
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public or private building, lamp or other structure or object,
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car or conveyance, and in general to manufacture, sell
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furnish or supply, electric light and electric power or stored
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electricity, and electrical machinery and supplies for any
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and all purposes that may be desired or required, and
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to use the necessary means to accomplish the purposes of
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this incorporation, and said company shall also have power
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if in the opinion of the directors or a majority of them at
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any time it may be deemed wise to establish and operate
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throughout the said county, lines of electric railway, with
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single or double tracks and necessary turnouts and sidings,
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and said corporation is also empowered, to use auy of the
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streets roads alleys and highways of the said county for the
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Power to
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purposes of any such lines of electric railway, and said
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operate
lines of
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company is also empowered to purchase, lease, rent or
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electric
railway.
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erect at such place or places in said county as from time to
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time may be deemed desirable by the directors of said
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company, for the time being all such buildings, works, manu-
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factories, railways, lines, tracks, conduits and shops and
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improvements, as may be useful to said corporation provided
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however that in the use of the streets, lanes, roads and high-
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of said county or of any city or town therein said corpora-
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tion shall be subject to any law or ordinance, that may be
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passed by said municipal authorities of said town or city
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or the county commissioners of said county, for the filling
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up repairing or restoring, such streets roads or highways
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to their normal condition and provided further that in case
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the said company shall not be able to agree with the owner
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of any land over of upon which it may be necessary to lay
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tracks, and over under or upon which it may be necessary
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to lay tracks, and over under or upon which it may be neces-
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sary to establish conductors conduits or lines for the pur-
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poses of any such line or lines of electric railway and in
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case the owner or owners as aforesaid or any of them shall
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be feme covert under age non compos mentis or under any
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