Annual Report of the Board of Gas and Electric Light Commissioners of the Commonwealth of MassachusettsThe Board, 1897 |
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Amesbury amount Ampere Hour Arc lamps Balance June 30 Balance of manufacturing Balance to profit Bonds issued Boston c. p. lamps Capital stock Carbons on hand Cash on hand Chicopee Coal on hand Cottage City Discount Dividends declared Due for gas Due for light due the company Edison ELECTRIC COMPANY Electric Light Company Electric lines Electric plant Enrichers on hand Fall River feet fixtures on hand Fuel on hand Gas and Electric GAS LIGHT COMPANY Globes on hand Haverhill Incandescent lamps Income from sale Interest paid Jamaica Plain lamps on hand Leominster light and power Loss AccOUNT loss balance Machinery and manufacturing manufacturing account materials on hand Millbury Naphtha Natick nights per week North Attleborough Notes payable Number Office furniture Oil and waste Operating expenses petition profit and loss Purifying materials sale of gas sale of light Stoves on hand Sundry accounts due Thomson-Houston Unpaid bills vote Wiring
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Page cxliv - The capital stock of the company shall be one million dollars, divided into ten thousand shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each.
Page 40 - ... shares of new capital stock of the par value of $100 each; the proceeds thereof to be applied to the following purposes and to no other, to wit: The...
Page cxxxi - When any city or town shall decide as hereinbefore provided to establish a plant, and any person, firm or corporation shall at the time of the first vote required for such decision be engaged in the business of making, generating or distributing gas or electricity for sale for lighting purposes in such city or town, such city or town shall, if such person, firm or corporation shall elect to sell and shall comply with the provisions of this act, purchase of such person, firm or corporation before...
Page 50 - ... adjudicate what property, real or personal, including rights and easements, shall be sold by the one and purchased by the other, in accordance with the provisions of this act, and what the price, time and other conditions of the sale and delivery thereof shall be.
Page 23 - Rockland of 85 shares of new capital stock of the par value of $100 each, in conformity with all the requirements of law relating thereto, the proceeds of said stock to be applied to the following purposes, and to no other ; to wit : the proceeds of...
Page cxlix - Commonwealth for the period of five years next prior to the passage of this act, and who files with his application a certificate of such fact under oath, accompanied by a statement from his employer or employers verifying the same fact, shall be entitled to a license without further examination.
Page cl - Whoever intentionally violates the provisions of section one of this act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding three months.
Page 34 - ... years from the date thereof, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 6 per cent. per annum...
Page cxlviii - Upon the complaint and application of the mayor and aldermen of a city, or the selectmen of a town...
Page cxxxvii - ... duly called for the purpose, of which meetings the second shall be held at an interval of not less than two nor more than thirteen months after the first.