Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-06-26
An Ordinance

successor to the Beverly w atef COn- |
pany consent to construct, maintain
and operate water works in the City
of Beverly, County of Burlington and
State Of New Jersey, pursuant to the
provisions Of an act Of the Legisla-
ture of New Jersey, entitled IAN. Act
for the construction, maintenance
and operation of water works for the
purpose of supplying cities, towns
and villages of this State with
water" approved April twenty-irst,
eighteen hundred and seventy-six,
and the several acts supplemental to
and amendatory thereof.
WHEREAS, by virtue of a resolu-
ton of the Common Council of the
City of Beverly, passed on the nine
teenth day of August, A. D. eighteen
hundred and eighty-six, consent was
given to the organization of the Bev-
erly Water Company, for the uses
and purposes expressed and set forth
in the certificate of incorporation of
said Beverly Water Company, which
said certificate was dated the thir-
teenth day of August, A. D. eighteen
hundred and eighty-six, and was re-
corded in the office of the Clerk of
Burlington County, at Mount Holly,
in Book B. of Corporations, folio 278,
as by reference thereto will more
fully and at large appear; said GER
tificate having been filed in the office
of the Secretary of State, at Tren-
ton, on the twenty-third day of Au-
gust, A. D. eighteen hundred and
eighty-six.
AND WHEREAS, it was provided
in said certificate of incorporation
that said Company should commence
business on the twenty-irst day of
August, A. d. eighteen hundred and
eighty-six, and continue its business
for the term of thirty years.
AND WHEREAS, said Beverly
Water Company was, on the TWEEN
ty-frst day of April, A. D. nineteen
hundred and two, by certificate of
merger and consolidation, merged
and consolidated into The Delaware
River Water Company, under and
pursuant to the provisions of am act
entitled can Act Concerning Corpor
ations (Revision of 1862, approved
April Twenty-Arst, eighteen hundred
and ninety-six, and the several sup
plementss thereto and acts amenda-
now FfHffEKEFUfE, Be it ordain-
ed and enacted by the Mayor, Clerk
and Common Council of the City of
Beverly, in Common Council assem-
bled, and it is hereby enacted by the
authority of the same:
l. That the consent and author
ity heretofore given to the said Bev-
erly Water Company, thereafter
merged into the Delaware River
Water Company, to lay its pipes
beneath the public roads, streets,
avenues, alleys and other public
places of the City of Beverly County
of Burlington, and State of New Jer-
| sey, for the purpose of furnishing |
supply of water in said City for pub
lie and domestic use; and for that
purpose to lay, re-lay, and extend /
its water pipes beneath or under any /
avenue, road, railroad, highway,
street, lane or alley in said City, or
other public place in said City; and
in like manner to extend, maintain,
operate and repair the same; and do
all and singular the things necessary
in the conduct of it's business, is
hereby extended and given to the
said The Delaware River Water
Company, it's successors and assigns,
perpetually.
2. That said Company shall as
sumo all responsibility for and pay
all damages that may occur through
the negligence Of the said Company,
or its. agents or servants, and all
public roads, streets, avenues and
alleys opened for the running of
main pipes, running of service
pipes, making connections or re-
pairs, or for the relaying of the
main pipes, shall be filled in as
speedily as said pipes are laid or re-
pairs are made, and shall be left in
as good and perfect condition as be-
fore said work was done.
8. That the said Company shall
provide all necessary barricades, red