§ 1. Grant of franchise.

Trans Louisiana Gas Company, Inc., hereinafter designated as the company (a Louisiana corporation, domiciled and doing business in the State of Louisiana), its successors and assigns, be and the said company is hereby granted the right, privilege and franchise of constructing, maintaining and operating a gas utility system for the transmission, distribution and sale of natural gas in, through, across and beyond the City of Carencro, Louisiana, as same may now or hereafter lawfully exist, including the right to construct, maintain and operate a system of pipes, pipelines, gas mains, laterals, conduits, feeders, regulators, meters, fixtures, connections and attachments and other desirable instrumentalities and appurtenances in, over, under and through any of the streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, bridges, public grounds and public places of said municipality in connection with the transmission, distribution and sale of gas.