The Newtown bee., 1906-01-26


 more than seven directors, a majority of whom shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, and they shall elect one of their number to be presi- dent of the board, who shall also be president of the company. Said direc- tors shall have power to make and prescribe such rules and regulations as they shall deem needful and proper, touching the sale, disposition, and management of the water, property, estate, and effects of said company, not provided for by the bylaws of said company and not contrary to law. authorized and empowered to open the ground in any streets, lanes, avenues, highways, and public grounds for the purpose of laying down and sinking, or for repairing such pipes or conduitS as may be necessary for conducting water to and distributing the same within the town and borough of NewtOwn and vicinity, and said company may, for the purpose aforesaid, carry and conduct any aqueduct or other works, by them to be made or constructed. under or over any water-courSe, street, road, railway or other way, or public grounds; provided, they put such wa ter-course, road, highway, railway, or OOAVA WoyS CD oHOVu1Ay 0o pUSolOlC, LII as good condition as before laying or constructing said aqueduct or other works, and subject to the approval of the selectmen of the town of New town; and provided, that any work done on any railroad shall be done un- der the supervision and direction of the company owning or operating such railroad. =assz...
 Section 6. Said company is hereby authQrized and empowered, under the provisions of this charter, to con- struct, build, repair and maintain such reservoir or reservoirs, aqueduct water from any river, stream, brook, pond or lake, or from such other source as such company may desire, for the purpose of carrying out the pro- visions of this act.
 Section '. Said corporation shall pay all damages that shall be sustain ed by any person or persons, or cOrpor- atiOn, in their property or estate, by the taking of any real estate or ease ment, or by taking the water from any river, stream, brook, ponds or lakes, or from any other source, or by construct ing or laying any pipes, aqueducts, or pose of this act, which damages, un- less agreed upon by the parties, shall be assessed by committee, to be ap- pointed by the superior court for Fair field county. upon application made to said court by said corporation, or by any person or corporation sustaining such damages, which application shall be accompanied by summons served upon the owner of the property as in case of civil process before the court.
 Section g.. The committee appoint ed by said court shall consist of three disinterested persons, who, after being shall hear the parties, view the prop erty in question, assess just damages, if any, to the respective owners or par ties interested in the premises or property so damaged or required and proposed to be taken for the purposes of this act. as the case may be, and re- port their dOings to the court, and such report may be rejected in the dis erection of the court.
 Section g. Said court may make any order necessary for the protection tiOns interested in said property, or sustaining such damages, but said property shall not be taken or inter- fered with by said corporation, until the amount of said judgement shall be paid to the person to whom it is due, or deposited for his use with the treas urer of Fairfield county.
 Section 10. The occupant of any house, tenement, or building, who shall take the water of said company, shall be liable for the price of the rent company intrusted with the superin- tendence of the works may at all reas- enable times enter the premises so supplied, to examine the pipes and fixtures, and prevent unnecessary waste.
 Section Il. Said company may bor- row money from time to time, to such an amount and upon such terms as the stockholders, at special meeting or meetings called for that purpose may determine to be for the best interests of the company, and may secure the repayment of the same by issuing gages of it's franchise and property. Said mortgages when recorded in the land records of the town of NeWtOwn shall be valid lien or liens upon said franchise and property, but the amount of such bonds shall at no time exceed 75 per centum of the actual amount paid in, in cash, to the capital stock of said company.
 1 Approved, May IS, 1893.
 At the last session or the LeRlSla-
 ture the charter was renewed and the names of Carlos D. Warner and John
 J. Northrop were substituted for D.
 w. Nissan and William H. Glover, deceased.
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