19(1)Upon application in the manner prescribed by this Act, and upon the publication once a week for four consecutive weeks in a daily newspaper published in the city, town or county within which the works of the company are to be conducted or carried on, and if no daily newspaper is published therein, then in any newspaper having general circulation therein, for the grant of letters patent for the incorporation of a company with the rights, franchises and privileges in and by this section authorized to be granted, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, if the same appears to be proper, necessary and incident to the purposes and objects for which the proposed company is to be incorporated, and upon such conditions as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may prescribe, authorize and empower the company, in and by its letters patent, to enter from time to time upon any public streets, roads, squares, open plots of ground or highways in any city or county in the Province, and break up and open such public roads, streets, squares, plots of ground or highways, or any part thereof, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining poles and posts, and stringing and maintaining wires for telegraph, telephone or electric light purposes, and for renewing and repairing the same, and for the placing and maintaining under ground, along or across such public streets, roads, squares, plots of ground or highways, streets, mains, pipes or conduits for the conveying of sewerage, water, steam or gas for motive power or for sanitary, heating or lighting purposes, and for renewing and repairing the same.