1901_private laws_295_3
CHAPTER 294 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WESTERN CAROLINA POWER COMPANY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the said company is authorized and empowered to supply to the public, including both individuals and corporations, within the State of North Carolina, and elsewhere, power in the forms of electric current and hydraulic, pneumatic and steam pressure, or any of the said forms, and in any and all other forms, for use in driving machinery, and for light, heat, and all other uses to which the power so applied can be made applicable, and to fix charges, collect and receive payment therefor; and for the purpose of enabling the company to supply power as afore said, the company is authorized and empowered to buy or otherwise acquire, generate, develop, store, use, transmit, and distribute power of all kinds, and to locate, acquire, construct, equip, Maintain and operate from any place in the State where the said company may establish plants to any distributing points in the State where they may elect, and from the same to any other points by the most practicable routes, to be determined by the Board of Directors of the company, lines for the transmission of power by wire on poles or under ground, and by cables, pipes, tubes, conduits and all other convenient appliances for power transmission, with such connecting lines between the lines above mentioned, and also with such branch lines as the company may locate or authorize to be located, for receiving, transmitting and distributing power; and as appurtenances to the said lines of power transmission and their branches the company may acquire, own, hold, sell ore otherwise dispose of water-powers and water privileges in the State of North Carolina and elsewhere, and may locate, acquire, construct. equip, maintain and operate all necessary plants for generating and developing by water, steam or any other means, and for storing, using, transmitting, distributing, selling and delivering power, including dams, gates, bridges, tunnels, stations and other buildings, boilers, engines, machinery, switches, lamps, motors, and all other works, structures and appliances in the State of North Carolina; also, may build, own, control and operate electric railway lines, and may own, rent, lease or sell power for any other uses to which electricity, steam or water-power can be applied: Provided, that the amount of land which the company may at any time hold within Priv48 the State of North Carolina for any one water-power and other works, except the land flowed or submerged with water accumulating at any one dam, shall not exceed ten thousand acres exclusive of right of way: And provided further, that lines and appurtenances hereinbefore authorized for distributing power and light are to be constructed when on public streets or highways of any county. city or town under such reasonable regulations as the authorities respectively thereof shall upon application from the company prescribe.