Chap. 0272 An Act to authorize the establishment of a public lighting plant in the town of templeton.

Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs:
Section 1. That portion of the territory of the town of Templeton which is included in the voting precincts numbered three and four as now defined upon the records of said town is hereby constituted a district for the purpose of providing said town and said district and their inhabitants with electric light and power, with all the powers and privileges and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities of towns authorized to manufacture and sell electricity for light and power, so far as the same may be applicable to said district and not incon-
sistcnt with the provisions of this act. Said district shall be known as the Baldwinville Electric Light District.
Section 2. In order to meet the expenses of establishing an electric plant as aforesaid said district may issue bonds, notes or certificates of debt, to be denominated on the face thereof, Templeton Electric Light District Loan, to an amount not exceeding five per cent, of the valuation of the estates in said district, which indebtedness shall be subject to all provisions of general law relating to similar indebtedness of towns, so far as the same arc applicable thereto and not inconsistent with this act.
Section 3. If said district shall establish a plant for the distribution of electricity without a plant for manufacturing the same it may purchase electricity from any person or corporation, or may purchase power from any person or corporation for the operation of its dynamos.
Section 4. The first meeting of the voters of said district for the purpose of taking action hereunder shall be called by the selectmen of the town of Templeton in the same manner as town meetings arc called, and if said selectmen unreasonably refuse or neglect to call such meeting any justice of the peace may call the same. All subsequent meetings of the voters of said district for any purpose connected with this act shall be called by the prudential committee hereinafter mentioned, in the same manner as town meetings are called. At all such meetings a moderator shall be chosen, who shall have the powers of a moderator at a town meeting. If at the second meeting of the voters of said district it shall be decided to accept the provisions of this act a prudential committee shall be chosen and a clerk, and thereafter-wards said committee and clerk shall be chosen annually. The prudential committee shall have the same powers and be subject to the same duties and obligations as selectmen of towns with respect to electric light plants owned and maintained by towns. The clerk shall be sworn and shall keep a record of the meetings of the district and of the prudential committee. A manager of electric light shall be appointed by the prudential committee, and shall have all the powers and shall be subject to all the duties of the officer named in section eight of chapter three hundred and seventy of the acts of the vear eighteen hundred and ninetv-one.   All said
officers shall hold their offices for one year and until others are chosen and qualified in their stead.
Section 5. Said district may adopt by-laws to define the manner of calling and conducting meetings of the voters in said district, and with respect to the maintenance, operation and business of said plant. Said district may sue and be sued in the name of its inhabitants.
Section 6. Said district shall not exercise the authority conferred in this act until after a vote that it is expedient to exercise such authority shall have been passed by the voters of said district at two district meetings, as required by section three of said chapter three hundred and seventy of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Approved April 2, 1S9S.