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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, April 3Oth, A. D. 1895, at l O'Clock in
the afternoon to transact the following business:
1st. To hear and take action upon the report of
the Trustees of the village of their dOings under
a resolution passed at the las. annual meeting Of
said village directing them to ascertain the cost
of the village water rkS, the amount Of its rev.
enues and the amount of its operating expenses.
also the price at which the Bennington Water
Company will sell the village water works to the
vi luge of Bennington.
md To see If the village will vote to purchase
the corr crate property and all the rights and
priv leges Of the Bennington Water COMPANY at
a price which may be mutually agreed upon he
tween the corporation of the Bennington Water
Company and said Village of Bennington or at
such price as shall be determined by three com
miSsiOners TO be appointed by the County Court
for the County If Bennington upon application of
either party aud notice to the other p rSuant TO
Section 10 of the Charter of the bennington Wa
ter Co being Section IL of Act No. IT. entitled
An Act to incorporate the b nnington Water
Company" of the Session Laws of the General
Assembly of the State OF Vermont approved NO
YemD 23d 1856
3D. To see if the Village will vote to authorize
and direct its Trustees 10 draw orders upon the
Treasurer of the Village or to borrow money up-
on Trustees orders or ra Sc tax upon the Grand
List of the Village Or in any other manner pro-
vide for the payment of the purchase price of
said corporate property, rights and privileges of
the said Remington Water Company when the
price shall have been mutually agreed upon or
otherwise determined as provided by Section II
of the Charter of the Bennington Wafer Com
pany.
4th. To see if the Village will vote to authorize
o. 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 dete mine the price or mpen
ltion that shall be paid by said village to the
Bennington Water Company for the purchase of
its corporate property. tights and privileges, also
to see If the Village will vote to authorize one 81
more of the legal voters of the village to take all
proper aud necessary stems. means and meas.
ures TO ! ,secue such apple lh N, to effec. and
to properly cOnduc the inves igatonS before said
commissioners on b. halfOf ne village, t. secure
and protect the best in eres IS of the vllag IN de
termining the price which shall pali Oy the
village for the corporate property, rights and
pri ileg, of the Bennington Water Company in
accordance with the letter and spi it of said Sec
ton Is Of the Oh irter of the Bennington Water
Company, and to designate the person or per
som upon whom the Village will confer the pow
ers and authority herein and hereby cOntem
plated.
9Th. To take any and ali other and further &C
tion which the Village NAV deem necessary OF
expedient to effect the purchase by the Village Of
the corporate property, rights and privileges Of
the Bennington Wafer Company at price and
upon terms most advantageous to the Village, OF
TO secure to the inhabitants of the Village the use
of the water of the Bennington Water Company
at reasonable rates and under reasonable rules
and regulations according to the letter and splrl
of the Charter of said Company.
9Th. To transact any and all other proper busi
ness found necessary when met.
Bennington, April 18th, 1895.
j, ii. KELSO, Clerk.
IIARTIN(, President.