The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-10
POWER co MP ANY
CHARTER AND ITS
AMENDMENTS
Changes Made in Bill Now
Before the Legislature
TO MEET OBJECTIONS
Bill Has Been Re- Drawn in Sections
to Meet the Wishes OF Directly
Interested Persons

Below is printed the bill for the
charter of the proposed southern
Vermont Power company with the
amendments that have been made to
abe original bill. The amendments
are printed in black-face type.
II is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Sec. /. Emory S. Harris, William
III, Bradford, Irving f. Gibson, JACOB
l. Stakeholder anGEGward Holden OF
Bennington, Vermont, James x. Bat
shelder. William l. Jones and irving
n. Grout of Arlington, Vermont, I. j.
Mallory of Woodford, Vermont and f. \
NJ. Shaw of Providence. Rhode Island,
together with such persons as shaii
hereafter become stockholders, are
hereby incorporated under the name
of The Southern Vermont Light and
Power company and by that name
they and their successors may have
perpetual succession, may sue ana
be sued, and may have
common seal and alter the same, and
shall have all the rights and Priv
Ieges incident to corporation
Sec. 2. The said corporation
shall have the power and authority,
subject to the limitations herelnaf-
ter appearing to acquire, purchase,
lease and hold land and other real
estate, water rights, riparian rights
and the right of diverting the waters
of water-courses, to build and main
tain dams for the storage and diver
sion of water and the purposes here
in enumerated, upon the streams and
rivers in the towns of Woodford, Ben
nington, Stamford, Glastonbury, and
Sunderland in the county of Benning-
ton, and to acquire, purchase ana
hold any and all ponds upon any OF
the aforesaid streams or at the
sources of the same, and to raise the
level and increase the area and vol
ame thereof, to take and divert the
waters of said streams for the pur-
poses herein enumerated and SUD
iect to the restrictions herein enum-
Grated. to construct and maintain all
necessary wing walls, retaining walls,
syphon lines, canals, fumes and
fame lines, tunnels, penstocks, gates
transmission lines, power houses and
stations. sub-stations and all neces-
sary appurtenances and apparatus, all
for the purpose of generating, utiliz-
ting, developing. using, applying
and selling power, electrical or other
wise and electricity and electric en-
ergy for lighting, heating, municipal,
domestic or manufacturing purposes
or any other purpose whatsoever, TO
buy electricity or to sell the same, to
buy the property of other corpora
tions and persons engaged in similar
business, to issue notes and bonds and
to mortgage any or all of its property,
rights and franchises to secure The
same, to enter into and to execute
contracts and agreements in relation
10 the objects of the corporation and
10 enforce the same. Said corpora
ton shall have the right, for the pur-
pose of distributing and delivering
electricity and electric energy for the
purposes herein described, to con-
struct and maintain transmission
lines. conduits and lines of poles and
wires in, upon, above and under the
streets and highways of the town and
villages of the state under such regu-
lations as are provided under TIL
general laws of the state,or as may
be legally imposed within the iimita-
lions of the provisions Of their re-
spectiVe charters by the municipal
corporations affected with the right
Of appeal to the public service COM
mission and with the right Of review
by the Supreme court on the question
Of the legality or reasonsbleness OF
such regulation, and may buy and
cell all articles necessary for carry
ing on the business authorized by
this act
Sec. g. Said corporation shall not
extend or construct the transmission
lines or conduits OF other agencies
for distributing its products under,
along, across or above the streets or
highways of any town, city or iBcor-
porated village unless it shall first
sle with the selectmen Of the town or
aldermen Of the city or trustees of
the village a written notice Of its
intention so to do. which notice shall
snumerate the streets or highways
wherein the same are to be located
and the manner OF construction there
Of; whereupon said selectmen. alder
men or trustees. as the case may be,
shall fix a time within ten days OF
the receipt Of said notice and place
within said town, city or village
when and where the subject matter
~ said notice will be considered and
nall cause a copy Of the notice SO
Sled by said corporation to be pub.
hshed In a newspaper circulating in
said town, city or village and in add
Hon a notice stating the time and
place when and where the same viii