The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-09-08
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
ORDINANCE NO. rs.
AN ORDINANCE relating to supplying the
Town of Bel Air with Electric Light, by the
Hughes and Rigby Engineering Co., their

Hughes and Rigby Engineering Co., their
successors and assigns.
SECTION /. Be enacted aud ordained by
the Town commissioners OF tn" town of Bel
Air, that when the Hughes and ltigby EugI-
nCcring Company, limited, their successors
and assigns, shall create and erect an Electric
Light Plant within or near the limits of said
town for furnishing the town with Electricity
for lighting the streets, and other public and
private uses for the citizens of said town as
hereinafter provided for, that then, and in that
event the Town Commissioners of Bel Air
shall and VIII pay, annually, to the said The
Hughes and Highly Engineering Company,
Limited, their successors and assigns, the sum
of Sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents,
tSlG-25,) for each incandcsccnt ligh: of Fifty
nominal candle power, and the sum of Sixty
dollars for each arc-light of 200 nominal
candle power, subject TO the provisions of this
ordinance.
SEC. .. And be it further enacted and or
daned, That in the laying of wires necessary
for said plant, due regard shall be had for the
safety OF persons and property and that the
Insulation, lightning arreStcrS and other safe
ty appliances used i'll the exercise of the privi-
lcgcs herein granted, shall be sufficient in
number and OF such character and design, rs
Will secure the maximum degree of safety,
which the present state of the art in electric
lighting has been demonstrated to be neces-
Sary, that no wire shall be conducted through
any woodwork or about any building in said
town, on or near any metallic or other conduc-
tor i'll contact with any such woodwork or
conductor without ample Insulation, i'll addition
to the usual covering of said wire that no pant
of the primary conductor outside of the CEN
trail station shall be placed nearer to the
ground than twenty feet; that no loose or I'M
used wire shall be permitted to remain in con-
tact with what is known as live wires that all
the electrical appliances placed on or near the
streets OF said town or on or near public
private property shall be kept in good and
sufficient state of repair with IL view to the
safety of life and property; that the poles on
which the wires are to be erected shall be reu-
sonaby straight, chestnut cedar, not less
than thirty feet long and to be set five feet i'll
the ground, properly tumped and guyed.
tod md mr.
dained, That the said The Hughes and Rgby
Engineering Company, Limited, its successors
and assigns shall begin to furnish light for
said town on or before the first day of January,
eighteen hundred and ninety-four and CON
tinue the same for the period of five years, for
the purpose of illuminating the streets of Bel
Air with Electric Lights of fifty candle power
each, and shall at their own cost furnish all
poles, wires, lamps, shades retectors and other
materials and appliances necessary for the
erection, maintenance, repair and successful
operation OF said lights, and all labor for the
same, and keep all of said lights in successful
operation during the said term of Five years,
under the supervision of the Town Commits.
sioners OF said town; to light said lights thirty
minutes after sunset and to keep the same
lighted continuously until an hour before SUM-
rise upon each and every night during the pc
rod above specified and to place said lights at
such placesin said town, at such heights from
the ground and i'll such positions as shall be re-
quired by the Town Commissioners, mot eX-
cecding thirty feet from the street unless by
SPECIAL agreement,) except for arc-lights, which
said lights shall not be lighted or burned ac-
cording IT, the contract within specified, fine
equal to double the cost of such light, if burn
ing, shall be imposed to be RENTED in the dis
erection of the Town Commissioners.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted and Or
dained, That the said Town Commissioners
shall have the right Mt any time during said
term, to increase or decrease the number of
electric lights used for lighting the streets of
said town, with IL pro rata increase or decrease
of the cost of lighting, but at no time shall the
number of lights be less than forty, and the
price thereof more than sixteen dollars and
twenty-five cents per light, oftifty candle pow
er, per annum, for each incandescent, and $50
per annum for each arc-light, and the said
Town Commissioners shall have the right to
extend the time of the existence of this agree
ment to Il period of five additional years upon
the terms, prices and conditions herein speci-
fled, by giving notice i'll writing of their inten-
ton so to do on or before the first day of July,
1895 the payments for said lights to be made
upon the Tenth of each month for the previous
| months services, provided the same has been
| in conformity with the contract; all additional
| lights arc TO be erected in accordance with the
| terms of this agreement, to be paid for pro
| rata, commencing at the time of using the
same; that unless The Hughes and Rigby En-
gineering Company, Limited, their successors
and assigns, shall begin to furnish light on or
before the first day of January, 1894, that
terms or conditions of this Ordinance, and if,
after beginning to furnish light, as aforesaid,
there shall, ut any time during the existence
of the time contracted for be II failure to fur
nish light for IL continuous period of thirty
days, then, in that event, this ordinance shall
be null and void and all rights obtained here
under be forfeited; provided, nevertheless,
that none of the failures above mentioned
| shall be caused by any act, neglect or default
of the said The Town Commissioners of Bel
Air.
SEC s. And be it further enacted and or
dained, That in consideration of the proper full
fillment of the conditions afOrestated, that the
Hughes and Rigby Engineering Company, Lin
tied, their successors and assigns, be and they
are hereby $50 far as the said Town Commits
to do, and so long as said conditions are faith
fully fulfilled, granted the power to erect and
maintain in the streets, lanes and alleys of Bel
Air, poles and wires for supplying electric
light and power for public and private use
therein provided, however, that i'll the con-
struction, maintenance, removal or repair
thereof, the same shall be under the control
and subject to the direction of the Town Com
missioners of the said town.
SEC. g.; And be it further enacted and or
dained, That the Hughes and Rigby Engineer
ing Company, Limited, their successors and
assigns, shall and will, ut all times, indemnify,
protect and save harmless, the said town OF
Bel Air, from any and all actions, suits, DAM
ages, costs and expense arising from the delay,
negligence OF unskiltulness in performing the
conditions of this ordinance on the part of the
said The Hughes and Rigby Engineering Com
pany, Limited, their successors and assigns, or
their servants, agents or employees, or arising
from any injury or in jurieS which may hap
pen to any person or persons from any of the
appliances or from the electric currents to be
furnished for said electric lights or power by
the said party OF the first part pursuant to this
agreement, or arising from the infringements
of patent, or patents, upon any of the mater
ials or appliances used in the erection CT MAIN
tenance of said electric lights in said town.
SEC. Z. And this Ordinance, when the terms
thereof shall have been accepted by the SAID
The Hughes and Rgby Engineering Company,
Limited, their successors and assigns, shall be
taken and considered as Il contract between
the said Company, their successors and as
signs, and the town of Bel Air, for said number
of lights of such character as may be needed,
as herein specified, by said Town, for the full
period of Five years from the day said lights
are ready for service, and ut the prices herein
named; said contract to be subject to all the
stipulations and provisions of this ordinance.
SEC. s. And be it further enacted and Or
dained that this ordinance shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved September LIST. 1898.
FRANK L. GORRELL Chairman.
Attest:
GEORGE w. CARVER Sec'Y