The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-10-17

An Ordinance In relation TO tho X z o
kuK Gas Light md Coke Company

b Il Ordained " lie CITY Council IF he cHy q
heohuk:
SECTION j. That all the rights, privileges re-
s,rietons and obligations extended to, and i'm
posed upon the keokuk Gas Light and Coke
Company at this time, by Ordinances Nos 6s, -
and | 81, are hereby granted and extended to said
keokuk Gas Light and Coke Company, for the
term of twenty years from the first day Of July,
1868, together with tho following additional pro-
visions aud restrictions, viz That the price of
gas hereafter furnished by said company to pri-
vate or individual consumers is hereby fixed at,
and shall not exceed four dollars and fifty cents
per thousand cubic feet provided heweyer, that
as soon said company shall have five hundred
private or individual consumers, the said city
shall have the right Of reducing the price of gas
to private or individual consumers to any sum not
less than four dollars and twenty five cents per
thousand cubic feet; and 80 soon said company
snall have one thousand private consumers, said
Council shall have the same right to reduce the
price to not less than four dollars per thousand.
SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, that the city
of keokuk, at the end Of twenty years from the
date aforesaid, shall have the right, by giving
said company twelve months notice, of purchasing
all the property, rights and privileges of said Gas
Light and Coke Company, at fair valuation, to
be ascertained by two disinterested persons, one
to be selected by the city, and one by said
pany and the ersons so selected shall have the
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case the city shall not make said purchase at the
time aforesaid, it shall have such right at the end
of each succeeding fve years thereafter, and the
said Gas Company shall continue to possess and
enjoy all the aforesaid rights and privileges. sub
iect to the came conditions and restrictions atore
said, until such purchase shall have heen made.
SEc3. Be it further ordained that the quality
of Gas furnished by said company, shall at all
times be equal TO the average standard required of
other companies on the Upper Mississippi River:
and said city i, hereby authorized TO appoint an
Inspector. who shall be man Of learning and of
science, who shall be authorized to test the quality
Of the as aud also the correctness of the meters
| furnished by said company. whenever called on
by any person persons, feeling themselves as-
grieved.
SEc4. Be It further ordained, that on the re-
verse side. at the foot, of each and every Bill
presented tv said keokuk Gas Light and Coke
Company. 10 each and every consumer Of Gas,
there shall be printed full directions for reading
and ascertaining the state Of the meters used by
| said company, at any given time.
SEC. s. Be it further ordained, that said keo-
kuk Gas Light and Coke Company, shall dispose
os, and sell, application, TO any private in
| dividuai consumer Of Gas, the meter placed on
the premises of said consumer at its original cost
| to said company: provided, however, that said
company shall at ali times have the right Of test
ing the correctness Of such meters. and il found to
be incorrect, Of excluding the same from use; and
| it shall Ge obligatory upon said Gas Company, al
all times to furnish and supply, each and every
person who mny apply for it gas n all streets
or blocks where the supply rpes have been laid
along said street block: they paying for the ga
| furnished them.
SEC. 6. This Ordinance shall tax effect and bs
in full force. so soon the President of the keo'
| kuk Gas Light and Coke Company shall have 10
/ tilted the Mayor of the city Of keokuk that sait
Company has accepted the Provisions Of tn
same.
Passed Oct. 1sth 1868.
/ tAttest] L. WEEchsAS, Eiera
JoHs A. McDoNELL, Mayor