Exhibit B.43.1

                                   STATE OF CONNECTICUT

                            OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE STATE


   I, the Connecticut Secretary of the State, and keeper of the seal thereof,
and of the original record of the Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly
of said State, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that I have compared the annexed copy of AN
ACT CONCERNING THE MOHAWK GAS COMPANY with the original record of the same now
remaining in this office, and have found said copy to be a correct and complete
transcript thereof.

   And I further Certify, that said original is a public record of the State of
Connecticut, now remaining in this office.



                                        In Testimony Whereof, I have
                                        hereunto set my hand and affixed the
                                        Great Seal of the State of Connecticut,
                                        at Hartford, this 19th
                                        day of March, 2001.


                                            /S/ Susan Bysiewicz

                                            Secretary of the State











                                [House Bill No. 728.]

                         AN ACT INCORPORATING THE MOHAWK GAS
                                      COMPANY.
                                      [218.]
   Section 1. Olcott D. Smith, Allan K. Smith and Cyril Coleman,
and such other persons as may be associated with them, their
successors and assigns, are constituted a body politic and
corporate by the name of The Mohawk Gas Company, to be located
in the town of Hartford, with power under that name to exercise,
in addition to all other powers herein specifically granted, all
the powers and privileges granted by the general statutes to gas
companies and to corporations organized under the general statutes and the
power to manufacture, sell, furnish, transmit, distribute and
deliver natural, manufactured and mixed gas in the manner and
subject to the limitations hereinafter stated.

   Sec. 2. Said corporation is vested with the power,
subject to the limitations hereinafter stated: (a) To build,
acquire by lease, purchase or otherwise, own and operate one or
more pipelines and related facilities, including compressors,
pumping stations, tanks, storage facilities, mains, appliances
and other pertinent equipment for the gathering, mixing,
transmission and distribution of natural, manufactured and mixed
gas and the by-products thereof; (b) to buy, manufacture, produce, sell,
furnish, transport, store, distribute, dispose of and
otherwise deal in natural, manufactured and mixed gas and the
by-products thereof; provided, within the franchise area of any
person, firm, corporation or municipality which is chartered or
authorized by the state of Connecticut to transmit or sell gas
within said franchise area, this corporation shall not exercise
the authority granted by this section to sell natural,
manufactured or mixed gas to any person, firm, corporation or
municipality except a person, firm, corporation or municipality
authorized to transmit or sell gas within such franchise area, unless
such sale is consented to by such person, firm, corporation or municipality
so authorized to transmit or sell gas within such franchise area; (c) to
install, operate and maintain, subject to any requisite approval of public
authority, pipelines, mains and related appliances necessary for
the transmission, storage and distribution of gas, either overhead or
underground, over or under streams, and in, over, under
and upon the public highways, streets, avenues and public parks
or grounds in any town, city and borough within this state; (d) to
acquire by merger consolidation, lease, purchase or otherwise, upon
such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon, and in the manner and
subject to the terms and conditions provided by the general statutes,
in the case of the merger or consolidation or other acquisition,
of corporations organized under the general statutes, and to hold, own,
use, exercise, enjoy and dispose of the whole or any part of the
gas property, rights, privileges, properties, securities, contracts,
powers and franchises now or hereafter owned or possessed by any gas
company chartered by the general assembly of the state of Connecticut
for the purchase, manufacture, production, transmission, distribution and sale
of natural, manufactured and mixed gas and matters incidental thereto.


   SEC. 3. Said corporation shall only exercise any right, power or
franchise acquired by it to lay or maintain mains and pipes in or
across the streets and highways of any town or city or to make any
excavations in such streets or highways upon obtaining the
necessary consent of the town or city council or other
governmental body having jurisdiction.

   SEC. 4. Said corporation shall have a capital stock of fifty thousand
dollars divided into such classes of shares either with or without par
value as may be determined by the stockholders. Said corporation is authorized
to increase, reduce or alter its capital stock from time to time to
any amount in the manner provided in the general statutes pertaining
to increases, reductions or alterations of capital stock by specially
chartered corporations or corporations organized under the general law, and
to issue, subject to approval of the public utilities commission, additional
shares of capital stock to any amount with or without par value and
with such preferences, voting powers, restrictions and qualifications, if any,
as shall be determined in the vote authorizing such issue, provided no
shares having a par value shall be issued for less than par in cash or in
property at the actual value thereof. Said corporation is authorized to
issue, subject to the approval of the public utilities commission, bonds,
debentures and other certificates of indebtedness to any amount and may
secure the same by mortgage or other lien on all or part of its property
and franchises.

   SEC. 5. The government and direction of the affairs of said corporation
shall be vested in a board of directors, of not less than three in number,
who shall be chosen by the stockholders in the manner provided in the by-laws
of said corporation.

   SEC. 6. The principal office of the corporation shall be in the town
of Hartford or at such other place as may, from time to time, be fixed by
the by-laws of the corporation, provided, whenever it is voted to change
the location of the principal office, notice therof shall be filed in
the office of the secretary of the state.

   SEC. 7. Any corporation authorized
to engage in or to carry on the business of manufacturing,
selling or distributing natural, manufactured or mixed gas, or the
by-products thereof, shall be authorized to consolidate or merge with said
corporation and to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the whole or any
part of its rights, privileges, franchises, properties, securities
and assets to said corporation.

   SEC. 8. Said corporation, as a public service corporation,
shall be subject to control and regulation by the public utilities
commission under the provisions of the general statutes to the same
extent as a gas company as defined in section 5390 of the general
statutes, as amended.

Approved May 26, 1955.