Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-11-08
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BELLOWS FALLS NOV. s, 1872.
An Act.
EsrABLIsHINe A WATER DEPARTMENT OF
THE BELLOWS FALLS VILLAGE
CORPORATION.


THE BELLOWS FALLS VILLAGE
CORPORATION.
1t is hereby enacted by the General AS
sembly of the State of Vermont.
Sec. /. The Bellows Falls village cor
poration shall have power to organize
and establish water department, in or
der to supply said village with water for
domestic and other purposes, and may
purchase and hold, all necessary, real
and personal estate for that purpose, and
may issue their corporation bonds, to Sc
cure any present or future Indebtedness,
for the establishing and operating their
water works. They are authorized to
contract with the Bellows Falls water
company for the purchase of their prop
erty and privileges, upon such terms as
may be agreed upon, and all contracts
heretofore made, and concluded with said
water company, are hereby ratified and
confirmed. The said corporation may
issue their corporation bonds to said wa
ter company, for the purchase of their
property and make the same negotiable,
and may secure the said bonds by mort
gage, or otherwise, and it is provided,
that upon the completion of said pur-
chase, all enactments and laws then in
force, especially relating to said Bellows
Falls water company, Except the enact
ment relating to the right to put in Gas
works, which is reserved to said Bellows
Falls water company shall enure to the
benefit Of the Bellows Falls village cor
poration and remain operative and valid
and all actions. suits and recoveries there
on may be instituted. and had in the
name of said corporation.
Sec. 2. And it is further enacted, to
aid in the support Of the water depart
ment Of said corporation, and to issue
the annual interest on the water bonds
of said corporation, and TO provide for
their final payment, that said corpora
ton shall establish rates of annual rents
to be charged and paid at such times
and in such manner, as may be determi-
ned by said corporation for the supply
of water to the inhabitants of said vii.
lage, and may from time to time, alter,
modify amend, increase or dimish such
rates and extend them to any description
of property or use, as the said corpora
ton, may deem proper.
Sec 3. Such rates or rents as shall be
established upon lots or buildings, facto-
ries, furnaces, steam engines, stores, shops
stables and other property, shall be col
lected from the owner of the property so
supplied, unless otherwise provided in the
lease Of the water, and such rents or
rates shall be in the nature of tax, and
be lien and charge upon such build
ings, lots and other property so supplied
and may be collected in the same man
mer, as any corporation tax.
Sec. 4. The water rates, or rents may
be ordered to be paid in advance, and
all necessary provisions and orders may
be made by the corporation relating to
the supply, or stoppage of water as they
may deem necessary to insure such ad-
vance payments.
Sec. 5. Said corporation at its next ar.
nual meeting, shall elect by ballot three
commissioners who shall constitute a
board Of water commissioners, and said
commissioners so next elected, shall hold
their office as follows:
The first commissioner chosen shall
hold his office three years, the second
commissioner two years, and the third
commissioner, one year, and at every sui
sequent annual meeting the corporation
shall elect one water commissioner, tc
the vacancy occasioned, by the then ex
piring term, who shall hold his Office
three years from his election, and unit
his successor shall be chosen, as above
provided and in the case of the deceast
removal or resignation of one or more
of said commissioners, the vacancy OF
vacancies may be filled at any specia
meeting of the corporation. duly warned
and holden for that purpose.
See. 6. The water commissioners un
der the direction of the corporation shall
have supervision of the water depart
ment of the corporation shall make anc
establish all necessary rules and regula
tions for the government and operation
of the water works, and may draw or
ders upon the treasury for the necessary
expenses of the same; may appoint ,
superintendent and remove the same a
pleasure; may establish rates for the us'
of the water, and provide for the collec
ton of the same, and generally to tax,
charge of the water department, subjec
to the control of the corporation. Ii
case of the purchase of the property o
the Bellows Falls water company, by sale
corporation, the rents and receipts for tn,
nae of the water drawn from Minard,