The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-30

N.on Nhicu ~ III words and figures as
follows:
STATE OF VERMONT
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF
THE STATE OF VERMONT
In the Matter of the Application of The
connecticut River Power Company of
New Hampshire for Leave to
Amend It's Charter.
To the Public Service Commission OF
the State of Vermont comes the Con.
nectlcut River Power Company of New
Hampsehire, consolidated New Hamp-
shlre and Vermont corporation, being
chartered In Vermont by Act No. POI of
lhe Acts of 1902, as amended by Act No.
2O9 OF the Acts of 1904, and bv Act No.
$40 OF the Acts of 1906, and being char
tered in New Hampshire by CHAPTER No.
300 of the Acts of 1903, as amended by
Chapter No. PA of the Acts of 1907. and
Chapter 1926 of the Acts of 1909, and re-
spectfully represents:
L
That your petitioner is operating as a
public utility within the State of Yer
mont, maintaining and operating high
tension lines for the transmission of
hydro-electrie energy.
3
That Section / of Act No. 200 of the
Acts of the Vermont Legislature of 1904
in part reads as follows:
The meadows of the Brattleboro Re-
treat shall not be flooded until board of
three sanitary engineers to be appointed
on application of the said Connecticut
River Power Company or the trustees of
SAID Retreat, by two judges of the SUI
preme Court of Vermont, shall have in
spected all the premises, the proposed
dam or dams the Connecticut and West
Rivers IN relation thereto, heard evidence
concerning the same, and have determined
what is necessary to be done in order to
fully protect the healthfulness of said
Retreat and its inmates; and whatever
shall be determined by said engineers as
necessary to be done to fully protect the
sanitary conditions of said Retreat and
to fully protect the healthfulness of the
inmates thereof, shall all be done and
completed to the approval of said engi
neers before any water shall be flowed
on to said meadows by said proposed dam
or dams. And all the expenses thereof
including the cost of any dykes, dams
and excavations required, and of main
tanning the same, the taking care of the
sewage. the removal or change of water
pipes, and the charges and expenses of
said engineers, shall be borne by said
Connecticut River Power Company"
3
That such portion of Section | of Act
No. 209 of the Acts of the Vermont Leg
islature of 1904, was embodied and made
part of the charter of your petitioner
at the instigation and request of the trus
tees of the Brattleboro Retreat as a pro-
lection to the property of the Brattle-
boro Retreat.
That for a number of wears vour nett
tioner and the Trustees of the Brattle
boro Retreat have endeavored to deter
mine upon some fair basis by which GER
tain meadows of the Brattleboro Retreat
might be flowed by this petitioner. and
have sought to determine the DAMAGE
which might accrue to the Retreat there
by, and to determine upon means for a
fair compensation for the same.
s.
That your petitioner and the Trustees
of the Brattleboro Retreat have agreed
upon all matters mentioned in the fore
going paragraph, and said agreement
FULLY protects the healthfulness of said
Retreat and its inmates.
t.
That at the annual meeting of the
stockholders of your petitioner duly
called and held May 3, 1910. and at an adj
Journed meeting thereof duly held June
3, 1919, at which said adjourned meeting
more than two thirds of the preferred
stockholders of your petitioner were
present or represented, and more than
two-thirds of the common shareholders of
your petitioner were present or repre-
sented, 1t was unanimously voted, sub
Ject to the approval of the proper officers
OF the State of Vermont, to amend the
charter OF your petitioner by striking
theretrom that portion of Section | of
Act No. 2OO of the Acts of the Vermont
Legislature of 1904 which is stated above
in paragraph ?.
Your petitioner AYERS that the amend
ment hereinafter prayed for will promote
the general good of the State.
WHEREFORE your petitioner prays
That permission may be granted it to
amend its charter by striking out that
part OF Section ! of Act No 200 of the
Acts OF the Vermont Legislature of 1904,
as appears in paragraph above
And your petitioner further prays for
such other relief as to the Commission
may seem meet and Just.
Dated at Brattleboro, Vermont July
80, 1919.
THE CONNECTICUT RIVER POWER
COMPANY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
By c. A. Harris, President.
Harold f. Whitney, Clerk.
Notice is hereby given that the Public
Service Commission will hold public
hearing upon said petition at the Office of