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Power of committee to lay or carry wires, pipes, drains, or sewers through private land subject to payment or compensation for damage sustained provided that no nuisance is created. - The committee may carry any cable, wire, pipe, drain, sewer or channel of any kind, for the purpose of establishing telephonic or other similar communication or of carrying out and establishing or maintaining any system of lighting, drainage or sewerage, through, across, under or over any road, street, or place laid out as or intended for a road or street, and after giving reasonable notice in writing to the owner or occupier, into, through, across, under, over or up the side of any land or building whatsoever situate within the limits of the municipality, and, for the purpose of the introduction, distribution of outfall of water or for the re- moval or outfall of sewerage without such limits, and may at all times do all acts and things which may be necessary or expedient for repairing or maintaining any such ca- ble, wire, pipe, drain, sewer, or channel, as the case may be, in an effective state for the purpose for which the same may be used or intended to be used. Provided that no nuisance more than is necessary caused by the proper exe- cution of the work is created by any such operation ; and Provided further that reasonable compensation shall be paid to the owner oc- cupier for any damage at the time retained by him and directly occa- sioned by the carrying of any such operations. Section 133