Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-08

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candle below fourteen which shall be found to
be the measure Of the lowest illuminating
power during the month. ,..A
The city will require that all lamp, whlc s
trast Is awarded, shall be lighted under the
contract, and as many in addition thereto u
the city may direct. either on the street. OF
parts Of streets which are now. lighted by gas,
| or upon other streets on which the party OF
nsrties supplying Gas under these specihca-
| lions may now have mains or may hereafter
Law them. And if the city shall desire 20 light
any street, or part OF street on which the
parties supplying gas una ed , shs spe Dat;
| the party or parties supplying gas under TINS
contract, and they shall fail to netify the city
within thirty days of their intention TO light
the within rss ess O os of three
months, then the city shall be at liberty %
make other arrangements for lighting sara
street. and shall not afterward be required 70
take or pay for gas IRON sara parties On sa,
which may be made with other parties.
The city of Memphis shall have the right, AZ
| any time 10 select either mode OF paying lot
the public's, but they shall give ten days no
lice 10 the parties supplying gas under this
contract. of their intention to change from
one mode to the other. before said change can
During the time the public lamps shall be
maid for by the one thousand feet of gas tur-
nIshed, the quantity shall be determined by
moi less than one meter for every twenty
lamps. and the meters shall be selected BY the
city, and shall be furnished and set at the ex-
nense Of the city: but either party shall have
Inc right 10 test the meters used, and any one
that shall be found not correct shall not De
again used until it has been made to register
correctly.
any time, to require that the public lamps
shall be lighted only rs many nights and parts
Of nights as shall be equal to twenty nights IN
the month, for any period OF time not less
than one month which the city may deena
for the same, per post, TO be paid during the
time they are so lighted, If the city shall elect
10 pay for the same per post. The nights and
parts of nights. on which the lamps need noi
he lighted shall be those which are illuminated
by tnc moon and nearest TO the full moon;
none Of the lamps to be extinguished before
the moon rises and all of them to be lighted
before it sets.
month. only the time during which the whole
of the lights are burning shall be estimated.
The amounts TO be paid by the Gas Company
10 the city for failures to comply with the re-
quirements of these specifications shall be ap;
plicable to all of the modes Of payments and
The parties supplying gas shall furnish, at
their own cost, all material and work required
BY these specifications. except such as are
herein provided TO be furnished by the city.
The lights in the public parks or squares Will
be classed with the street lamps, and lamps
located in any part Of them shall be supplied
with gas in the same manner, and under the
same conditions and price as the street lamps,
except that the Gas Company will not be re-
quired to furnish service pipe to any lamp 10,
Gated a greater distance than four hundred
feet from the curbstone Of the adjoining street
on which the Gas Company maj, have mains. ;,
The bills for each month will be presented
at the end of the month. aud will be due and
PAYABLE on the twentieth Of the following
month. =,
For the purpose of comparing the bids the
number of public lamps will be assumed to be
four hundred and fifty, and the consumption
for other purposes sixty thousand cubic feet per
month.
In the event that the party contracting TO
furnish gas 10 the city fails or refuses TO furnish
gas Of the quality specified in the contract for
the space of two months after notice from the
city of Memphis, then, and in that event, the
city shall have the right and power to declare
the contract forfeited and ended, and there
after the contract shall be OF. no further force
or effect. and the city shall have the right TO
make such other contract in reference to the
supply of gas as 1t may deem proper, and
shall have the right 10 recover such damages
MS il may sustain by any proper action at law
or in equity, and such damages shall be in adj
ditinn TO the recovery to be had on the bond
required.
But the city is not to be required to forfeit
the said csntract, but may insist on the same
and may resort 10 all proper remedies to en-
force the same specifically, or to recover dam
ages for any breach after such that may occur.
The party contracting to supply the city with
gas under these specifications shall enter into
bond, payable 70 the city of Memphis, in the
sum of $4,000, the whole to be recoverable
with not less than three good sureties, TO be
approved by the Mayor, the Presidents of the
Board of Aldermen and Common Council, and
the City Attorney, conditioned that such party
will well and truly perform each and all of
the provisions Of the contract, or in the event
Of a failure TO perform the same, will pay the
said sum of $4,000 TO the city Of Memphis as
agreed and liquidated damages for such fail
ure. and that such recovery of the said sum
shall in no way diminish the amount of dam
ages that the city may be entitled to recover Of
the party fufnishing gas for the breach Of con-
tract, or any Of its provisions.
The party who shall contract to supply the
gas and other material and work under these
specifications shall not sub-let the whole or
any part of the same without the consent Of
the city of Memphis.
The city shall have the right to designate the
number and location Of the lamps, both along
the streets and the public parks.
Tender Of the Memphis Gas Light Company to
supply the city of Memphis with gas for sun
dry periods. made in accordance with the
printed advertisement Of said city:
OFFICE OF THE MEMPHIS Gas LIGHT Co..,
MEMPHIS. Tenn, July /, 1872. !
To the Honorable the Mayor and General
Council Of the city OF Memphis:
In pursuance Of your invitation, the Mem
phis Gas Light Company respectfully submits
the following bid for supplying the city of
Memphis with Illuminating ga tor lighting the
public street lamps Of the city, its public of
fees. engine houses. station-hOuses, hospitals
and other public buildings for the period Of
ten 10l years. commencing on the 9th day of
March, 1873. and ending on the I'D day of
March, 1855, at the rate Of two dollars and
fifty cents (s2 50) per thousand feet. During
the same period the said Company will furnish
mentioned, tO-wit: Two dollars and fifty
cents (s2 so per one thousand cubic
feet with the additional and specific
charge of eighty cents $50 cents per
lamp per month, 10 cover cost OF lighting.
cleaning and repairing During the same time
the said Company will furnish gas to light the
public lamps every night in the year. as per
specification; also, light. clean and keep the
same in repair at the rate Of hfty-four dollars
go per lamp per annum; or four dollars and
Fifty cents 81 50) pc month. During the same
time the said Company will furnish gas TO light
the public lamps for twenty lZD nights Of each
and every month; will also clean. light and
keep the same in repair at the rate Of twenty
two (SZ2l per annuIn, or three dollars apd nifty
cents lS3 so per month:
land for the period Of fifteen years Q5J, be-
ginning on the oath day Of March, 1873. and
ending on the I'D day Of March, 1888, the same.
And for the period Of twenty years t20l, begin
ming a. before and ending on the I'D day Of
March, 1873 the same. And for the period Of
thirty years Ci0l, beginning as before, and end
ing on the 23d day Of March. 1908. the same
To be explicit: The said Company will furn-
ish gas for any and all tao periods at the price
first mentioned.
The said Memphis Gas Light Company de-
sires II especially understood, in advance, that
any contract il viii enter into with the city Of
Memphis shall DC mutually binding upon each.
That IS 70 say IL the said city Of Memphis
shall insert a clause giving 70 herself the priv
ilego Of declaring the contract void in case Of
non-fullflment on the part Of said Memphis
Gas Light Company: then. on the other hand,
the said Memphis Gas Light Company will re
serve the right also 10 have the same annullod
whenever said city Of Memphis shall fail or
refuse 70 comply with or carry out each aud