Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-07-07

or such defendants interests
therein, should not be condemned
as prayed in the said petition
and that the rights and claims
of the said defendants in and to
the said property will be adjudi-
Gated and forever determined in
these proceedings in the said
Court.
Petition states that petitioner,
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line
Corporation is a Delaware corp
Grafton and hence qualified as a
foreign corporation to do bust
ness in the State of Maryland;
that under its certificate of in
corporation it is authorized to en-
gage in the business of interstate
transmission of natural and man
ufactured gas, oil, petroleum pro-
ducts or any other liquids, gases
or substances WhicS can be trans
ported by pipe line; that the Fed
eral Power Commission, an in
strumentality of the United
States of America, has issued to
it a certificate of public conven-
fence and necessity authorizing
it to construct, own, operate and
maintain for interstate transmits
sion of natural gas a second pipe
line and appurtenant facilities
generally parallel to it's existing
pipe line system extending from
Texas to New York City, where
by the petitioner is now engaged
in the transportation and sale of
natural gas in interstate COM
merce for resale for ultimate pub
lie consumption subject to juris-
diction of said Commission; that
petitioner is "natural-gaS COM
pany' within the meaning of the
Natural Gas Act, as amended:
tSat as a holder of a certificate
of public convenience and neces-
sity petitioner when it cannot &C.
quire by contract the necessary
right-of-way to construct, operate
and maintain a pipe line or pipe
lines and the necessary land or
right-of-Ways, is authorized to ex-
ercise the right of eminent do
main in the State courts.
l, That in order to carry out
the powers conferred upon it, it
is necessary for petitioner to ac-
quire a right-of-Way and ease
ment over certain lands in the
9Th (Olney) Election District of
Montgomery County, Maryland,
described in the following deeds:
(a) Deed dated January 80,
1911, and recorded among the
Land Records of Montgomery
County, Maryland, in Liber 218,
folio &c from Edward E. Welsh,
Jr. to James B. Welsh;
(b) Deed dated April p, 1916,
and recorded among the Land
Records of Montgomery County,
Maryland, in Liber 1884, folio 300,
from James w. Barnsley, ct ux.
to James B. Welsh; and
(c) Deed dated April 21, 1924,
and recorded among the Land
Records of Montgomery County,
Maryland, in Liber 352, folio 1913,
from Robert G. Hilton to James
B. Welsh;
and that the interests in said
lands of the defendants herein
named are held by them under
and by virtue of the Last Will
and Testament dated August ID,
1915, of James B. Welsh, de-
ceased, which said Last Will and
Testament is of record in the
office of the Register of Wills for
Montgomery County in Wills Lii
Der O.W.R. No. ii, Folio 81, Item
6 of which is as follows:
"6. 1 give, devise and bequeath
all of my real estate in Mont.
gomery County, in the State of
Maryland, and elsewhere to
which l may be entitled at the
time of my death, unto my wife,
Melissa E. Welsh, to be held by
her during the term of her ma
tural life; and from and after
the death of my said wife, then
to the child or children by my
said wife, then living, and to the
issue, then living, of my child or
children by my said wife, which
may be deceased, as tenants in
common, the issue of said de-
ceased children to take, per
stripes and not per capita, only
the share or respective shares
which the parent or respective
parents, if living, would have
taken"
And that said rightof-way and
easement is over that portion of
such lands which is described as
follows:
BEGINNING for the same at
a point on the 22nd and last line
of that tract of land described in
and conveyed by a deed dated
April 81 1924 and recorded
among the Land Records of
Montgomery County, in Book No.