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SPECIAL VILLAGE MEETING.

The legal voters of the village of Bennington
are hereby notified and warned TO meet at Free
Library Hall in said village of Bennington on
Tuesday July 9th, A. D., 1895. at one o'clock in
the afternoon, to transact the following business:
LIST. To hear the report of the board of water
cnmmss oners appointed by the village, April
Both, 1895. and to take any proper action thereon
end To see if the village will vote to purchase
the corporate property, franchise and all the
rights and privileges of the Bennington Water
Company, at a price which may be mutually
agreed upon between such corporation The Ben
ningtOn Wafer Company, and the said village of
BennnGton; and in case said corporation CThe
Benningt N Water Company, and said village of
Bennington are unable to agree as to price, then
at such price and compensation to be paid to The
Bennington Water Company as shall b. determ-
ined by three commissioners to be appointed by
the County Court for the county Of Bennington,
upon application of either party, and notice to
the other, whose award when accepted by the
court, shall be binding upon said parties, pursu-
ant to Section ID of the Charter of the Bennington
Water Company, being Section 10 of Act Num-
Der l72 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the
General Assembly of the State of Vermont, at
the Ninth Biennial Session thereof in the year
1856, entitled IAN Act to incorporate the Ben
23rd 1886.
3rd. To receive and take action upon any and
all information, suggestions and proposals which
shall be given aud made in such meeting, or
shall have heretofore been given and made, to the
village of Bennington by the Bennington Water
Company designed or tending to enable the vii
lage of Pennington and the Bennington Water
Company to mutually agree between them upon
the price which the village shall pay for the cor
pOrate property, franchise rights and privileges
of the Bennington Water Company and to con
duct on behalf of the village any and all negOtia-
tiOns in which the Bennington Water Company
will participate, for the purpose of effecting
mutual agreement between the parties upon the
price which the village shall pay for the corporate
property, franchise, rights and privileges OF the
Bennington Water Company pursuant to said Sec
ton 10 of the Charter of the Bennington Water
Company.
4th To see if the village will vote to authorize
one or more OF the legal voters therein to agree
with The Bennington Water Company upon the
price which the village of Bennington shall pay
for the corporate property, franchise and all the
rights and privileges of The bennington Water
Company, and to if the village will vote to fix
any limitations, and il what within which
such authority may be exercised; and to see if
the village will vote to take any other steps,
means and measures, and if so what, to mutually
agree with The Bennington Water Company upon
price which the village shall pay for said cor
pOrate property franchise, rights and privileges,
pursuant to said Section 10 of the Charter of The
Bennington Water Company.
9Th. To see if the village will vote to authorize
one or more of the legal voters therein to make
application to the County Court, within and for
the County of Bennington, for the appointment
of commissioners to determine the price or COM
pensation that shall be paid by said village to The
Bennington Water Company for the purchase of
its corporate property, franchise, rights and priv
ileges, in case the said Bennington Water Com
to agree to such price; also to if the village
will vote to authorize and direct one or more of
the legal voters therein to take any and all prop
er and necessary steps, means and measures at
the expense of the village, to prosecute such APP
plicaton to effect, and to properly conduct any
and all trials and Investigations before said COM
mssoners, on behalf of the village, to secure and
protect the best interests of the said village, in
determining the price which shall be paid by the
village for the corporate property, franchise,
rights and privileges of The bennington Water
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of said Section 10 of the Charter of the Benning-
ton Water Company, and to designate the person
or persons upon whom the the village will confer
the powers and authority herein and hereby con-
templated.
Gth To see if the village will vote to authorize
one or more of the legal voters therein to make,
execute, deliver, receive and accept, for and in
behalf of the vii age, and in its name other
wise any and all contracts, of every name and
nature, and to employ any and alp means, meas
ures and assistance whatsoever which are or may
become necessary, requisite or eXpedient to eff
feet and fully cOpsummate the purchase and legal
transfer of the property, franchise, rights and
PRIVILEGES of the Bennington Water Company
from the Bennington Water Company by and to
the village of Bennington, in accordance with the
provisions of said section - of the Charter of the
Bennington Water Company.
9TH 10 see if the village will vote to borrow
money sufficient in amount to pay for the corpo.
rate property, franchise, rights and privileges of
the Bennington Water Company and to see if the
village will vote to authorize and direct its trus-
tees and treasurer, IN It's name ana upon Its cred
it, or otherwise, to borrow money to issue
the bonds or notes of the village and fix the time
when they shall be made payable, or in any other
manner provide for the payment of the purchase
price of said corporate property franchise, rights
and privileges, when the price thereof shall have
been mutually agreed upon or otherwise deter
mined, provided by said Section 10 of the char
ter of the Bennington Water Company.
Sth To take any and all other and further ac-
ton, which the village may deem necessary or ex-
pedient to effect and fully consummate the pur-
chase, by the village, of the corporate property,
franchise, rights and privileges of the Bennington
Water Company, at price. and upon terms most
advantageous to the village, in accordance with
the letter and spirit of said Section 10 of the char
ter of the Bennington Water Company.
9th. To see if the village will vote to authorize
and empower one or more of the legal voters
therein 10 properly manage. control and extend
the corporate property, rights and privileges of
the Bennington Water Company, when said viii
lage shall become possessed thereof.
10th. To transact any and all other proper busl
ness found necessary when met.
j. H. KELSO, Clerk,
G. H. DARLING, President.
Bennington VI. June 2Sth. 1895