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General
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way, telegraph line, telephone line, electric light or power
lines, electric subways or gas or water conduits or pipe lines
without the consent of the Mayor and Council, and subject
to such franchise tax and regulations as they may by ordi-
nance prescribe; and provided, further, that neither the
Mayor nor any member of the Council shall during his
term of office be employed by the corporation in any other
than his official capacity, for compensation. Nor shall
either or any of them furnish any labor or material to the
corporation. It shall also be the duty of the Mayor and
Council to provide by ordinance for the organizing and
maintaining of a fire department; provided, further, that in
the event that a majority of the voters shall determine in
favor of the purchase, construction or establishing of water
works to supply the said town with water, then the said
Mayor and Council, before undertaking to establish or con-
struct any such water works, shall offer to purchase and
agree to purchase, the water works and appurtenances of the
Easton Water Company of Talbot county, provided the
said Easton Water Company of Talbot county will agree
to sell to the said Mayor and Council the water works
and appurtenances of the Easton Water Company at a
price which will give to the several stockholders of the Easton
Water Company of Talbot county the cost price of their
respective holding of stock, said stockholders to be the stock-
holders of record on the first day of January, 1906, and said
cost price of said stock to said stockholders to be ascertained
by a commission to be composed of five members, and that
Joseph H. White, Alexander Fountain, Martin M. Higgins,
Alexis G. Pascault and Joseph B. Harrington shall be the
said commissioners; and in event of the death or resignation
of either of said commissioners, or their refusal to act, the
vacancy shall be filled, if of the first or second named by
the Easton Water Company, and if of the third or fourth
named by the Mayor and Council of Easton, and if of the
fifth by the State Senator of Talbot county, and that said
board shall have full power to examine the books and papers
of the said Easton Water Company of Talbot county, and
to examine the several stockholders on oath as to the cost
price of said stock to said stockholders; provided, however,
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