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The Company also believes, based on the advice of counsel, that this right is not limited to streets in which pipes or mains were laid prior to 1911 but extends at least to all streets in the said municipalities as they existed at the date of repeal of the constitutional provision in 1911 and probably also extends to territory incorporated into each respective city after such repeal, although this latter question remains somewhat in doubt in the absence of a final decision of the courts thereon. 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