FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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after the date of said grant, not to exceed forty years, the said
mayor and councilmen shall have the right and power to pur-
chase said water supply system, lands, buildings, mains, pipes,
machinery, tools, connections, valves, hydrants, water rights
and other rights or property belonging to or used in connection
with said water system, the method of fixing the purchase
price therefor to be fixed in the said grant of franchises, and
all rights and franchises so granted to be at an end and to
determine immediately upon the completion of said purchase;
and said franchise may include the right upon the part of the
grantees thereof, their heirs, successors and assigns, to contract
with the takers of said water for the rents or charges for the
use of said water, and for reasonable and proper regulations
for its use; and making said grant, said mayor and councilmen
may provide for such other and further reasonable and proper
regulations as to the exercise of said powers, rights and fran-
chise, as they may see fit to prescribe in said grant.

Grant to con-
tain provi-
sion for
purchase.

SEC. 43. And be it enacted, That said mayor and council-
men are further authorized and empowered to contract with
the grantees of said franchise, their successors, heirs or assigns,
for such number of public fire hydrants as they may deem
necessary for the proper protection of public and private
property from loss by fire, upon such terms as may be agreed
upon between said mayor and councilmen and said grantees,
their successors, heirs or assigns, and for such length of time as
may be so agreed upon, up to the time of the purchase of said
plant by said town.

Contract
for fire
hydrants.

SEC. 44. And said mayor and councilmen are hereby au-
thorized and empowered- to levy and collect a special tax on
the assessable property of said town sufficient to pay said
grantees of said franchise, their successors, heirs or assigns,
such sum or sums as they may contract to pay for public tire
hydrants under the provisions of the preceding section, and
the said taxes so levied shall be a lien upon property, and shall
be collected in the same manner as are the taxes for the
general purposes of said town.

To levy tax to
pay for fire
hydrants.

SEC. 45. And if said mayor and councilmen shall exercise
the power in sections forty-two, forty-three and forty-four
herebefore granted them, to grant the owners of a private
system of water supply exclusive rights in said town, as there-
in provided, then from and after the grant of said exclusive
rights and franchises, down to the time of the termination of

City not to
build system.