Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-09
LIGHT IND HEAT.
The Bill Increasing the Powers o the st.
Paul Gas Company as Amended and Re-
ported to the House Yesterday.

Paul Gas Company as Amended and Re-
ported to the House Yesterday.
The Ramsey county delegation in the
House yesterday reported the bill con-
ferring certain privileges upon the ST.
Paul Gas Light company with certain ma
terial amendments, and recommended it
for passage 1t was thereupon placed
on file for third reading. The bill as
amended reads as follows;
An act to amend the charter of the st. Paul
Gas Light Company.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Minnesota:
Section 1. That section one OF the charter
of the st. Paul Gas Light company be, and the
following: Said company shall also have full
power and authority, in the lighting of said
city, or OF the streets, avenues. lanes, alleys or
pu bile squares thereof, or. of any buildings or
othe property, public or private, in said city,
to use, employ and furnish the ''electric light"
so called, or electricity in any suitable and
proper form, and TO use and run wires in and
through the said streets, avenues, lanes, alleys
and public squares, for the purpose of conduct
ing electricity as may be necessary for such
lighting, or to adopt and employ any other
proper means for SO conducting electricity or
for furnishing such light to any inhabitants of
said city to the extent hereinafter provided,
and said company shall also have full power
and authority, by the use of its surplus heat,
or otherwise, to furnish and supply steam
power or steam heating, or both, to or for any
mandatory, building, machinery or structure
in said city, in such manner and upon such terms
as may be agreed upon by said company with
the persons or corporations owning, occupy
ing or using such mandatory, building, ma
chinery or structure, or to or for whom such
heat or power shall be furnished; and for the
purpose of conducting and supplying such
steam heat or steam power to any such manu-
factory, building, machinery or structure, the
company may use the streets, avenues, lanes,
alleys and other public places in said city, I'M
der such reasonable regulations as may be
prescribed by the common council of said city,
or as may be agreed upon between said city
and the company, not Inconsistent
with the provisions of this act.
Provided however, that the use by said COM
pany of electric light or electricity and the
right to use the same shall not be exclusive,
but the said common council of said city may
use or authorize others to use said electric
light, or electricity in lighting said city, its
streets, lanes, or other property, public or pri-
vate; and no such poles, wires or structures
by said st. Paul Gas company shall be con-
structed or maintained without leave from
said common council, who may order the re-
mOyal of the same in case such poles, wires,
or structures shall be so placed as to interfere
with the free use,of said light by said city or
its grantees; and 10 heating pipes or apparatus
shall be placed in any of the streets of said
city without the consent of said common
council, and such right to lay such pi pes or
apparatus shall not be exclusive or so laid or
maintained as to interfere with the right of
said common council to lay or authorize the
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city or its grantees, and in all cases the said
gas company shall place the streets or other
public grounds where such pipes shall be laid
in good condition after the same are so laid as
may by required by the common council of
said city.
Sea-. That section Of chapter 81 of the
special laws of this State, passed in the year
1866, the same being an amendment to section
IS of the charter of the st. Paul Gas Light
company, be amended by inserting, after the
words ''and furnishing working capital for
said company" and before the words ''they
NAV issue and sell the bonds of the company"
the following words, viz: sfrom time to time,
or of discharging any debts or liabilities
which has heretofore incurred, or may here
after incur in the prosecution or conduct of
its business, or in the administration Of its
affairs"
See 8. That section II of said charter be
amended by inserting after the words, ''the
lighting of said city with gas" and before the
words sin such manner as may be agreed
upon,' the following words: COR with cleo
tricity, or relating to steam heating or steam
power in the manner in this act provided"
Sec. 4. That section of said charter, as
amended by said chapter 81 of the special laws
of this State, passed in the year 1866, be fur
Their amended by striking therefrom the words
''three directors, being stockholders" and in
sorting therein in lieu of such words the fol-
lowing: "a board Of directors consisting of
three persons, Ill Of whom shall be stock
holders, Out the stockholders, by the vote of
a majority in interest, may increase the men,
bers of such board to any number not exceed
ing nine.'O
Sec 5. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.