1901_public laws_450_12
CHAPTER 449 An act to incorporate the  Montane Road and Power Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That said company for the purpose of transferring such power as it may generate from point to point, shall have the right to erect poles, and run wires either in the air or under the ground as it may elect: Provided, they shall pay to the owners of the land over which said lines are run, such damage as said owners may sustain therefrom, said damages, if they can not be agreed upon, to be determined in like manner as is               hereinbefore provided for ascertaining damages caused by the construction of the roads mentioned herein.