The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-10
AZ Ordinance,

An ordinance to grant certain rights and privii-
eyes TO the Western Excelsior Gas Company and to
| regulate the same within the city of Manitowoc.
SECTION l. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Board
OF Aldermen of the city of Manitowoc, that the West
ern Excelsior Gas Company, their assigns and sue
cessors hereby granted the exclusive right and
franchise to manufacture, sell, and supply gas for
purpose OF light, TO the citizens and inhabitants
/ city and county of Manitowoc State of WISCONSIN
according to its present prescribed limits, future
extensions, for aud during the term of twenty -Ve
! years from the date hereof.
Sec ?. That said Western Excelsior Gas Company
is to have the right and privilege to lay mains and
pipes for conducting said Gas, either or both
sides of any of the streets alleys of said city
any OF the public squares thereof, provided that in
no case, the lay ing OF said mains and pipes interfere
with, or obsruc any of the sewers cutters afore
said.
SEC. B. That said Western Excelsior Gas Company
is to locate, erect and stablish suitable and appro
pirate buildings and appurtenances for the
facture and furnishing illuminating Gas, within tne
year from the date the passage hereof and lay
not less than mile of main pipes within the
principal streets of said city, including the business
part thereof. And said Gas Company shall, at any
tilne and from time to time, upon the written APP
pcafion OF the owners or occupants of ten buildings,
who Shall set forth the application their desire
TO use Gas, and who shall be situated upon any
street or avenue, all of which buildings shall be with
IN SIX shnndred feet of any main pipe, within six
mouths after such application shall be made them
extend, or lay down pipes, and supply such APP
pcants with Cas- upon the same terms and conditions
above set forth.
SEC. 4. That if the said Board of Aldermen shall
dt any tiIIt, 10 erect AT point or points
near WINCH or to light any street, avenue, alley,
IN which said Company has main pipes then said
company SHALL for q fair compensation paid by said
Council lay down, in reasonable time the necessary
mann pipes and fixtures, ordered by the Council.
anu the lamps thus erected shall be supplied with
gas by The company, upon the terms prescribed in
the preceding sections, and the said lamps shall be
SUBJECT to the same regulations other public gas
lamps and the pipes thus laid down. the expense
OF the city, shall not directly indirectly, be used
Tor furnishing gas to citizens. Nor shall other gas
pipes be laid down within that portion of the street
or alley occupied by the main pipes Of the city, until
the amount expended By the city for laying down
the same shall have been refunded to the city by the
company aforesaid.
SEC. D. That in consideration of the privileges
granted to the company aforesaid, they shall in
case charge to exceed four dollars per thousand cubic
feet of gas.
SEC 6. The lamp-posts, lamp-meters and burners
are to be furnished and kept in repair at the expense
OF the city, unless otherwise arranged with the said
gas company
SEC. 7. That the Excelsior Gas Company shall be
liable for any expense or damages caused arising
from making bitches trenches for laying pipes in
the public Streets and shall in all hold the city
and the Mayor and Aldermen other officers of the
city, harmless from any damages arising from the
use OF SAID gas company in the construction of said
works.
Sec. s. That all rights and privileges hereby grant
their assigns shall be forfeited on failure by them
TO place i'll operation the said works within year
from the date of the passage hereof.
SEC. J. This ordinance shall be in force from and
after its passage and publication.
Adopted August 3lst, A. D. 1874.
Attest A D. JONES Mayor
f. W. BoRcHERDT, City Clerk.