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This provision was an invitation to individuals and do- mestic corporations organized for the purpose to enter cities having no public works owned or controlled by the municipality, and lay pipes for the distribution of gas in the public streets, under the direction of the supperintendent of streets, and under such general regulations as the municipality might pre s�cribe for damages and indemnity for damages. The distributing mains of the Company were laid in your streets in strict compliance with this constitutional provision, and under the direction of your superintendent, and in accordance with the general regulations for damages and indemnity for damages prescribed by your honorable Board. And it has been by the supreme court of this state held that an act of the legislature requiring municipalities to sell such right or franchise to the highest bidder is unconstitutional and void, as being contrary to the right granted under this con- stitutional provision. (Persia v. Irallace, 129 Cal. 397.) October 10,. 1911, section 19, Artiole XI, was again amended to read as follows: "Any municipal corporation may establish and operate public works for supplying its inhabitants with light, water, power, heat, transportation, telephone dervice or other means of communication. Such works may be acquired by original construction or by the purchase of existing works, including their franchises, or both. Persons or corporations may establish and operate works for supplying the inhabitants with such services upon such conditions and under such regulations as the muni- cipality may prescribe under its organic law, on con- dition that the municipal government shall have the right to regulate the charges thereof. A municipal corpora- tion may furnish such services to inhabitants outside its boundaries; provided that it shall not furnish Vany ddrvice to the liahabitants of n otiha samecs�rvit$ to owning or operating works supplying 1. IL 1 Ica, into and supplying such city and its inhabitants either with gaslight, or other illuminating li`h ' , or wi th fresh water for domestic and all other purposes, upon the condition that the municipal government shall have the right to regulate the charges thereof." This provision was an invitation to individuals and do- mestic corporations organized for the purpose to enter cities having no public works owned or controlled by the municipality, and lay pipes for the distribution of gas in the public streets, under the direction of the supperintendent of streets, and under such general regulations as the municipality might pre s�cribe for damages and indemnity for damages. The distributing mains of the Company were laid in your streets in strict compliance with this constitutional provision, and under the direction of your superintendent, and in accordance with the general regulations for damages and indemnity for damages prescribed by your honorable Board. And it has been by the supreme court of this state held that an act of the legislature requiring municipalities to sell such right or franchise to the highest bidder is unconstitutional and void, as being contrary to the right granted under this con- stitutional provision. (Persia v. Irallace, 129 Cal. 397.) October 10,. 1911, section 19, Artiole XI, was again amended to read as follows: "Any municipal corporation may establish and operate public works for supplying its inhabitants with light, water, power, heat, transportation, telephone dervice or other means of communication. Such works may be acquired by original construction or by the purchase of existing works, including their franchises, or both. Persons or corporations may establish and operate works for supplying the inhabitants with such services upon such conditions and under such regulations as the muni- cipality may prescribe under its organic law, on con- dition that the municipal government shall have the right to regulate the charges thereof. A municipal corpora- tion may furnish such services to inhabitants outside its boundaries; provided that it shall not furnish Vany ddrvice to the liahabitants of n otiha samecs�rvit$ to owning or operating works supplying 1. IL 1