The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-19

Be enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia,
That Cenee H. Clark Peyton L Terry, Henry S. Trout,
Frederic ktmball John H. Dingee, Joseph Doran, and
Joseph Martini and their associates and such other per-
may hereafter be, associated with them
be, andey are hereby, constituted body corporate by
the ne and style of the Roanoke Gas and Water
Compa
said company shall have the DO wer and authority
to SUPP light and water to the public In the city of Roa
noke hnoke county, Virginia, and to such prsons part
nershpr corporations residing doing business therein
and a en thereto may desire the same at such prices
as maze agreed upon.
Amor that purpose the said company may manufac.
ture Initiating gas may provide, purchase erect and
naint all works necessary manufacture or produce
Hight any way; to and to introduce and
suppligh and water into the city of Roanoke and Its
neghrhood may provide purchase and and nain-
tain dings plants reservoirs cserns pipes and con-
Quits I'D other Devices for the pon conveyance and
distrton OF light and water may acquire, lay out and
mp1o lands In the vicinity ofheir main works. and NAV
dispoo he same In lots otherwise and may borrow
moness1e lis bonds and the same and Its other
obgaon by deeds of trust mortgage upon the prop
erty ht privileges and franchises of the said
may a1ue, purchase otherwise, the capital stock
of ote JOINT sock companies and hold and vote the same
8. The 11nnum capital stock of I'D company shall be
FIVE hmdrd tousand dollars with the power increase
the ttV million dollars divided Into shares of one
hundfed dola; each
d. The sidompany may hold real estate not to exceed
at ary one An one thousand for the purposes of
the said compy. and may improve aud dispose of the
as the BIRD of directors may determine
S. The placat which the principal office of the said
company Is tor kept and Its chief business conducted Is
the city of RoOke, Roanoke county, Virginia.
6. The offs of the company shall be board of not
less than hvetrectors, and such other officers as the
board of direcs may appoint.
7. The offs who at present acting as such under
and by rtuethe charter heretofore granted to the said
company by fudge of he corporation court for the citv
of Roanoke gu1a, shall continue as such officers until
their successare duly qualified in accorja nee with the
bylaws of saompany.
8. The char of Incorporation granted to the incorpo.
aters here1nre named by the judge of the corporation
court at the term Of said court eighteen hundred and
eighty nine awhch charter ICED In the Office of
the secretary the commonwealth at Richmond V}r-
ginia, on June tWenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and
eghty-nine, all of the rights, privileges franchises
and under and bv virtue of said charter
and also undnd by virtue of any contract ntracs
any ordne ordinances of the city of Roanoke or
otherwise, asreby made valid and confirmed and the
her vested IN the corporation created by this
act, which tclared to be the to the rights
prle eges aranchises of the said corporation chartered
as aforesaid.
9. The saompany is also hereby authorized and en-
powered to alre by condemnation proceedings lands or
springs, sources of water supply needed for the
purposes oil company In where the said company
and those eed to said laud springs other sources
OF water SUI cannot agree upon the of purchase
And wheredt shall be necessary for the said company
to condemnpery, it shall proceed In accordance with
section ten dred and seventy four and the following
sections OF Code OF eighteen hundred and eghtyseven
before the ct OF the county corporation In which said
land, or heeafer part thereof where such springs or
other sorot water supply may be situated and the pro-
ceed1ngs 81 In all respects conform the provisions
OF the Cod reference to the condemnation of land for
the beneHomPanes incorporated for works of internal
1mproveme
All IS due or to become due to the commonwealth
by this cany shall be paid in lawful money of the
United St, and net In coupons
IS. Thft shall be In force from its passage
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