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SPECIAL VILLAGE MEETTNG.

The legal voters of the village of Bennington
are hereby notified and warned to meet TT Free
Library Hall in said village of Remington 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
cOmmiss 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 price which may be mutually
agreed upon between such corporation The Ben
nington Water Company, and the said village or
Bennington; and in case said corporation (The
Bennington 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 be determ-
ined by rhree commissioners to be appOr ted 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 II of the Charter of the Bennington
Water Company, being Section ID of Act Mum
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
1885, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Ben
ningtOn Water Company" approved November
23rd, 1876.
3rd. 10 receive and take action upon any and
all information suggestions and proposals which
shall be given and made in such meeting, or
shall have heretofore been given andmade, to the
village of Bennington 10y the Bennington Water
Company. designed or tending to enable the vii
lage of bennington 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 efecting
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 see if the village will vote to fix
any limitations, and II so 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
| pany and said village unable
to agree as to such price; also to see if the village
| will vote to authorize and direct 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 ap-
| plicatiOn to effect and to properly conduct any
and all trials and investigations before said com
missioners 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
| Company, in accordance with the letter and spirit
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
9Th. To see If the village will vote to authorize
execute. deliver, receive and accept, for and in
| behalf of the village, and in its name or other
| wise, any and all contracts, of every name and
| nature and to employ any and all means, meas
| ures and assistance whatsoever which are or may
| become necessary, requisite or eNpedient to eff
! feet and fully consummate the purchase and legal
| transfer of the property, franchise, rights ana
| 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 IL of the Charter of the
| Bennington Water Company.
| 9TH. To 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 Rad to see If the
| village will vote to authorize and direct sts trus-
tees and treasurer in its name and 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 as 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. aud upon terms most
advantageous to the village, in accordance with
the letter and spirit of said Section IS ofthe 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 to 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. II. KELSO, Clerk,
| C. H. DARLING, President.
Bennington Vt. June 2Sth. 1925