EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 317

SEC. 112A. In addition to the power conferred upon the Com-
missioners of Church Hill by laws heretofore passed, the Com-
missioners of Church Hill shall have full power to contract with
any firm, corporation, individual, or group of individuals for
such period of time as the Commissioners of Church Hill may
by ordinance provide, for the introduction in the town of Church
Hill of gas pipes, electric wires or conduits, water pipes, mains,
pumping stations and reservoirs, for the use of the said corpora-
tion its streets and alleys, and for the use of the residents of
said town of Church Hill, and by ordinance to grant franchises
to any such firms, corporations, individuals or groups of indi-
viduals to lay gas pipes, conduits, erect electric power poles,
string wire, lay water pipes or mains, erect pumping stations
and reservoirs for the purpose of supplying said municipal cor-
poration or the residents of the town of Church Hill gas or,
electricity and water; and the ordinances or contracts granting
such franchise or franchises shall specifically set out the nature,
right and character of same, and no power or right not ex-
pressed in the franchise or grant shall pass thereunder.

SEC. 112B. That the Commissioners of Church Hill shall
have full power to regulate the erection, installation and use
of gas pipes, electric wires, conduits, electric power poles,
water pipes and mains, pumping stations and reservoirs of
water within the limits of the town of Church Hill; and no
firm, corporation, individual or group of individuals shall use
any street, lane, alley or thoroughfare or public land of said
town for any gas pipes, electric wires or conduits, electric power
poles or lines, water pipes, mains, or reservoirs without the
consent of the Commissioners of Church Hill first had and ob-
tained by ordinance for that purpose passed and approved, and
any electric wires, gas pipes, conduits, electric lines, and poles,
water mains or pipes, pumping stations and reservoirs hereafter
placed upon, in or under any of the streets, lanes, alleys, thor-
oughfares or public land of said town without the consent of the
Commissioners of Church Hill shall be deemed a nuisance.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts
of laws, either local or general, inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed, and that this Act shall take effect from the first day
of June, Nineteen Hundred and Eighteen.

Approved April 10th, 1918.