The Butler weekly times., 1890-12-31

the Judgment Of the city council the demand
shaiI require 1t, Ard said grantees. their suc-
cessors or assigns, hereby agree 70 furnish TO
said city one additional double nozzle fire nv
draBt Tor each and every five hundred ,.JslE
feet. or major part thereof OF 1ve hundred
(JJuI feet OF n:ains. ordered laid down. al
annual rental OF iorty-d'e 81 81. dollars
Tn" use OF al said hydranis for fire purposes
and flushing cutters and sewers is 20 be under
the control OF said city or such officers or
agent as IL may direct and the city OF Butler
hereby makes il a misdemeanor for any per
son or persons not authorized. 10 close. or in
any way interfere with said hyirants
SECTIOS ) In consideration of the water
supply hereby secured To the aid ctv OF But
Ter and its inhabitants. and as al iaducement
to sad grantees. or their successors or assigns.
TO accept the provisions OF this orGiiu snce
contract and enter uuon the construction of
said watsr-works the sAi1 city OF Butler hereby
agrees TO. and dos. rent from said Srantecs.
during the full term OF this ordnance. s-venty
five l15I hyirants, located upon the five ~
miles of mains az hereinbetOre provided Tor
the purpose aforesaid: and the cLy Of Butler
does hereby agree and bind itself to pay to the
said 2raatees for the uze OF said seventy five
~ hy drants. the sam Of four thousand 81
uuJI collars per annuIn payable semi annual
y on the first days of January and July OF
eacn year during the continuance Of this ordi-
nance ANY money due the grantees arising
out Of the pIoviri0l Of this ordinance unpait
Tor ,ty days after the same becomes due and
payable. shall lear six fG per cent inte. est
thereafter until paid
SECTION t. The grantees shall provide ami
maintain an electric fire alarm or ia telephone
= stem connecting the water company Office
with the pump house. at all times accessible
10 he city FIRE department or marshal. 80 that
an alarm of fire MAJ be communicated TO the
engineer IN charge ofthc machinery. Who shall
upon receiving saih alarm. and es speedily
possible, set the pumping machinery into op-
Grafton, to more fully insure the efficiency OF
the fire pressure, as hereinbefOre provided
and when said fire pressure is not needed said
fire department or city marshal shall at once
notify said engineer ut the pump house
SkCTIoS The city shall have the free
OF water for city Offices occupied for city pur-
poses, and for the public school buildings and
churches in ead city, for flushing cutters and
sewers, four drinking fountains for man and
beast: said drinking fountains to be erected
and maintained at the cost OF the gran ees.
with water troughs or basins OF suftceLt size
to accommodate the public; the n6e of water
for all purposes, not TO exceed an average of
seven thou and = ,OG0j gallons per day For
any excess of this quantity the seld city agrees
to pay rates for the same herein provided
The water furnished the city, as aforesaid
shall not be used sahitually by any citizen OF
the city OF Butler, thereby depriyipg the gran
tees Of revenue, and when hnshiue gutter or
sewers there shall be at all time attached to
the hose 4 one inch nozzle through which the
water must be discharged and the eI gineer at
the pump house shall have been previously no
tihei This section is not to be construed
requiring grantees to lay additional pipe or
furnish any fixtures for the above use eN-
cepl trOughs and basins aforesaid
SECIIuN >. Nlthin thirty days after the day
on which this ordinance takes effect the said
thereof in the Office OF the city clerk
SECTION . The sai,. waterwOrks are to be
completed on or before sept. LIST. l>.l. Then
thereafter for the full term of this or,iiaa &c
except purchased by the city) SAID grantees
shall continue and furnish without default.
constant and uninterrupted supply OF water
As herein set forth: falling to do 50, the said
city may take possession temporarily. of said
works, machinery and appurtenances, and op-
Grated the same until assured that the works
will be efficiently operated by said grantees
The cost of thus operating said works by said
city shall he ct the expense of said grantees.
and any such expense may be deducted from
the next pa, ment of iIydranJ rental.
SECTION 10. When this system of water
works Is completed said grantees or their sue
cessOrs or gns shall notify the city council
OF said city of Butler 20 that effect, and submit
the works TO such a test as will show the Gu
pacity OF the system To he sufficient to throw
four (i) simultaneous streams through fifty
(50) feet of two and one half - l-2) inch hose
and o4e % inch nozzle from four - different
hydrants at one time stream not less than
eighty - feet high. Upon the satisfactory
performance of this test said city council shall
formally accept said system according to the
terms of this ordinance
SECTION. H. lhe city shall have the option
TO purchase the said works and appurtenances
con neciet Herewith at the expiration of ten
tlOl years after Sept. lst. 1891, and at the en-
piratiOn OF each succeeding five years thereaf-
ter, by giving notice, in writing to said gran
tees at least three months previous TO eNpira-
tion of Its date for purchase, and by paving
therefor the fair ana equitable value of said
works, which value shall be determined first
| by agreement between said city and said gran
| tees and in case they cannot agree. then by
| and they fail to agree. then by the circuit
court OF Bates county in the manner Drescrib-
| ed by law. and upon such purchase and the
payment thereof. the said grania6s- Sbau de-