The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-10-01
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
An Ordinance in relation to the keo-
kuk Gas Light and Coke Company.

An Ordinance in relation to the Keo-
kuk Gas Light and Coke Company.
Be it Ordained by tte Csty C6tnc qf s CITY Of Keok9
SECTION /. That all the rights privileges Restrictions
and obi cations extended to- and imposed upon the kt
okua Gas Lgh, and Coke Company ut this tine by Or
dinances Nos 6s, 70 aud l5I hereby granted and
tended to taid Keokuk Gas Light and Coke Company.
for the OF twenty years FROM the first day oIuy,
1865, together with the following additional provisiQ us
aud restrictions viz That the price OF gas hereafter r
nished by said company to private individual oons
mtr hereby fixed at, and shall not exceed four dot
lars and ffty cents per thousand cubic feet provided
however, that said company shall have one
Thousand private individual consumers, the said city
shall have the right of reducing the price OF Gas to pf
yate or individual consumers 10 any less than
four dollars AMI twenty 1--we cents per thousand cubi
feet and said company shall have two thous-
private consumers said Council shall have the same
right to Teuce the prce not leas than tour dollars
per thousand
SEC . Be 1t further ordained th,t the City Of L Keo-
kuk at he end Of twenty years from the date aforesaid
shall ltye Tie right by giving said company twelve
months notice. Of purchasing all the property rights
privileges Of said Gas Light and Coke Company, at
fair yauation TO he ascerained by two dsnterested
sons one to bs selected by the city and by said
company and the persons selected shall have the
right of choosng an umpire IL in the
city shall not make said purchase at the time Aforesaid
ii shall have such tight at the end OF each succeeding
years thereafter; and the said Gas Company sha
continue to possess and enjoy all the aforesaid rights and
privileges subject to the same conditions shd restrict
aforesaid until such purchase shall haye been msde
sEd B. BE further ordained that the qnahy oi Gas
furnished y said company, shall all times be equal TO
the average standard required ofoher companies on the
Upper Mississippi River; and said city is hereby autior
appoint an Inspector, who sha,l he man Ct
learning and of science, who shall lie authorized 10 test
the quality of the Cas- and also the correctntss Of the
furnished by said company, whenever called
any person persons feeling th smscves aggrieved
SRo.4 Be it further ordained, that on the reverse
side tbe foot Of each ard every Bill presented by
said Keeknk Gas Light and Coke Company, to each aud
Of Gas there all bs printed full direc
tnns for reading and ascsrtaning the state of the
tiers used by said company, at any given time.
SEC g. BE it further ordained, that said H. pk Gas
Light and Coke Company, shall dispose Of apd sell,
application, any private individual consumer Of
Gas the meter placed the premises Of said contner,
Sina cost TO said compan y; provided however,
that sad company iall at all times have tho right Of
testin the Of seh meters aud II found 10 he
incorrect, of excluding the from
g. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full
force the President Of the Keosuk Gas Light
and Coke Company shall have notified tie Mayor q the
city keoknk said Comp any has accepted the pro-
yis.jus Of the same.