The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-01-20

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next payment August list 1880, anc
semi-annual payments thereafter or
February LIST and August lst of each
year during the life of this contract
provided however that said city of Man.
kato shall on the first day of October
1879 make AN advance payment OF
fifteen hundred dollars to sand party Of
the first part for the purpose Of buying
a steam fire pump, which advance pay
ment shall be deducted out Of the
second years payments, as follows :
Seven hundred and fifty dollars from
the payment due February LIST 1881, and
seven hundred and fifty dollars from the
payment due August LIST 1881. The
time when the payment Of the sum of
twenty-five hundred dollars per annum
shall commence, shall be December LIST
1879 or at such earlier date as the said
parties hereto shall he ready to furnish
and use the water for the purposes here
inbefore designated.
Serenth-The said party of the second
part shall at its own expense also on or
before the first day of July, A. D. 1879,
lay IN and through the mill owned by
the Mankato Mill Company all pipes
necessary to carry this contract into
effect and make all proper couplings but
the said work shall be under the direc-
ton and supervision of the party of the
first part.
Eighth-The said city of Mankato
agrees to allow the said party of the first
part to attach the stand pipe in the mill
Of the Mankato Mill Company to the
water mains of said city.
NinM-In case of unavoidable acct
dent to any machinery of the party OF
the first part, or whenever it shall be
absolutely necessary to make repairs on
said machinery, then said party of the
first part shall not be held liable to fur.
nish such supply of water during said
period, provided that said party of the
first part shall use due diligence in max
ingall necessary repairs, provided further
that in case of delay or neglect in fur
nishing a supply OF water exceeding
forty-eight hours at any one time, then
said party of the first part shall not re-
ceive pay Tor such time of delay or neglect
exceeding forty-eight hours.
7snth-Said party of the first part
shall at all times furnish full supply
OF water for fire purposes as herein
provided on receiving actual notice Of
fire, which notice may be verbal or by
observation of party of first part or by
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1t is further agreed that this contract
shall continue in force and run for ten
years, provided that the Common Coun-
Gil of said city of Mankato may termi-
nate said contract at any time after three
years, by giving one year previous no.
tice, which notice may be given after
the expiration of two years.
1t is further agreed that whenever this
contract shall be terminated, the said
city OF Mankato shall have the right to
remove all pipe laid in or through the
Mankato Mill Company's mill or
grounds on which said mill is situate,
unless said Company shall pay to said
city of Mankato the reasonable value of
said pipe in which case said pipe shall
not be removed but shall be the proper
ty of said Mill Company.
The conditions of this contract shall
bind the heirs executors, administrators
and assigns of the party ofthe first part.
In testimony whereof said parties
have hereunto respectively set their
hands and seals the day and year first
above written.
RENSSELAER, D. HUBBARD, ISeal.]
WILLIAM PEARSON, fSeal1
GEORGE NJ. PALMER, tSeal.1
E: BRADLEY, Mayor, lSeaI.1
Executed in presence Of
P. X. JOHNSON.
WILBUR F. COFFIN.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, Ia.
County Of Blue Earth,
Be it known, that on this 22d day of
Apr. 1879 personally came before me
Rensselaer, ID. Hubbard, William
Pearson and George NJ. Palmer, and
Edwin Bradley and John E. Diamond,
the signers and sealers of the foregoing
contract, and the said Rensselaer, ID.
Hubbard, William Pearson and George
NJ. Palmer each acknowledged the same
to be his own free act and deed, and the
said Edwin Bradley acknowledged that
he executed the same as the Mayor of
said city of Mankato, and the said John
Z. Diamond acknowledged that he
executed the same as the Recorder of
said city of Mankato, and the said
Bradley as said Mayor and the said
Diamond as said Recorder acknowledge
that they executed the same and caused
the corporate seal of the said city OF
Mankato to be attached to said contract
by order of the Common Council of said
city of MankatO, and subscribed their
names thereto by the like order.
p. X. JOHNSON,
Justice of the Peace.
The Mankato Mill Company in con-
sideratlon of the benefits derived from
carrying into effect the foregoing con-
tract and in protecting our said mill
against the danger from fire and for
value received and other good and
sufficient considerations, hereby aggree
and consent to all the conditions and
obligations of said contract so far as the
same effect or in any manner relate to
our said mill or the grounds on which
the same is situate, to wit: on block
four in the said city of Mankato.
Mankato Mill Company:
r. d. HUBBARD, Pres.
G. NJ. PALMER, Sec'y.
Know all men by these presents, that
we, Rensselaer, d. Hubbard, William
Pearson and George M. Palmer, as prin-
cipals and John A. Willard, z. G.. Har.
rington, Noah Webster, Henry Hillcs-
helm and Wendell Hodapp as sureties,
are held and firmly bound unto the city
of Mankato. a duly organized and