The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-17

subject to this act shall erect or place wires, conductors, fixtures, structures or apparatus of any kind along, on or
 under any highway or public ground,
 or change the location of the same, without the consent of the owners of the fee of the land upon which they
 are placed, except as hereinafter pro- V1ded. Any telephone company Serv- ing the general public or any company transmitting electricity to be sold to
 the public may bring its petition to the
 commissioners created by this act, set ting forth what 1t desires to do upon land within limits of any highway or Lpulblic grounds and asking for a find
 ing that public convenience and neces-
 sity, require. this to be done and for
 an appraisal of the damages thereby
 caused to any person owning an inter-
 est in said land. The commissioners
 after due hearing of all parties in in
 terest, upon such notice as they shall
 deem reasonable, may make such or
 der in the premises they shall deem
 equitable, and if they shall determine
 that public convenience and necessity
 said land within the limits of any
 highway or public ground of wires,
 conructors, fixtures. structures or ap-
 paratus of any kind, or the change of
 the location thereof, they shall so find
 in writing and shall make in writing
 an appraisal of all damages to be
 thereby caused to any persons having any interest in said land. Subject to
 the provisions of section 8, such cor
 poratfon may then proceed in accord
 ance with such finding and order of the commissioners, upon the payment
 to all parties in interest of all dam ages to them awarded by the commits SionerS.
 Section TO- The said commissioners
 shall, through their agents, inspect monthly the quality and purity of il-
 luminating gas furnished in any. city,
 borough or town by any corporation subject to this act, if requested so to do by the mayor of the city, the war
 den of the borough, or Selectmen of the town, and report the result of such
 inspection. When any gas so fur
 hiShede shall be found upon such in-
 spection to be below the standard value on the average for the quarter, make a deduction in favor of each con- sumner thereof from the price charged for gas of a legal standard, propor-
 tionate to the inferiorfty of the gas as reported by the inspector. The stand ard measure for the sale of illuminat- ing gas by meter shall be the cubic foot, containing siXty-two and three hundred and twenty-one one-thou-
 sandths pounds avoirdupois weight of distilled or rain water, weighed in air of the temperature of sfxty-two de- greeS Fahrenheit, the barometer being at -twenty-nine and, one-haf inches; and no such gas shall be merchant able unless a standard argand burner consuming five cubic feet of it an hour shall give a. light measured by the photometric apparatus in ordin- ary use, of not less than fifteen stan dard sperm candles, each consuming one hundred and twenty grains an hour.
 Section Il. It shall be the duty of the commissioners. through agents to be by them appointed, to inspect and approve the accuracy of every meter Csed by any corporation subject to this act. in the determination of the charges to be made to any person for the service rendered to him by such corporation, at the request of any such person, and at the request of any such corporation under the conditions here matter: provided. In the case of gas, such inspection shall be made for a temperature of sixty degrees F'ahren- heit and at the average pressure at which gas is supplied by the corpora ton. Every meter inspected which is found not to vary more than two per ed or marked by the inspector with some suitable device and his name and the date of the inspection
 Section 12 Any town, city or bor- ough may appropriate such sum as shall be necessary for the purchase of proper apparatus to be used by the commissioners or their agents in test ing meters used by, any corporation subject to this act in determining the amount of the charges to be made to any person for the service rendered to him. by such corporation. In such case 1t shall be the duty of any cor poration subject to this act using such meters within said town, city or bor- ough for said purpose to use only meters which have within one year been stamped by the agent of the com- misSionerS as inspected and found to vary not more than two per cent. from the standard. Any corporation sub ject to this act may furnish proper apparatus to be used by the comm1S- ,,aI, ,,%< or1 n such case as well as when such ap- paratus is furnished by the town, city or borough the commissioners shall at the request of said corporation test the meters to be used for said purpose by said corporation.
 Section 13. If any person shall be i'm jured by the failure of any corpora ton subject to this act to give proper or adequate service or perform any of the duties imposed upon it by any or the provisions of this act, such person may make complaint in writing to the commissioners. It shall thereupon be l vestigate the truth of the matters all legged in such complaint, and to recom- mend in writing to the corporation against which such complaint is made the taking of such action as in the opinion of the commissioners will prop erly remedy what they find to be just | ly complained of. If any corporation subject to this act shall not within reasonable time comply with any or the lawful recommendations of the commissioners, they may, through the bring such action or actions in the proper court or courts as may in the opinion of the attorney general be proper in order to enforce | a compliance on the part of corpora 1 tions subject to this act with all the provisions thereof.
 Section IA. In making any investiga- tion authorized by this act, the com shall have power to send | for persons and papers and to take testimony under oath, in which case any wifully false testimony. shall be perjury Whoever shall refuse with | out justifiable cause to appear and testify or to produce any papers law fully called for by the commissioners, | shall be fined not more than one thou | sand dollars. The fees of witness | summoned by the commissioners under l the provisions of this section, and the fees for summoning such witnesses