The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-05-07
Common Council.
COMMON COUNCIL ROOM

COMMON COUNCIL ROOM,
Owosso, Mich, April 30, 1897
Especial meeting OF Common Council. Mayor
Edwin A. Gould presiding.
Aldermen present at rollfan: Perrlgo', Whey
Copas, Dewey, Zimmerman, Shaw, JORDAN
Watson, Walsh.
The mayor read the following cali:
Owosso, April 30, 0I.
To the City Clerk, City Attorney and aldermen
OF the city OF Owosso:
You are hereby notified that there Will be q
city AT 2 80 o'clock Friday evening, April 80, wa,
10 confirm bonds; also To act on The telephone
ordinance. Yours respectfully,
Mayor.
Aid. Dewey presented following ordinance; II
was moved and supported that 1T be read the
third time in full and placed upon It's passage
and passed; ayes ., nays o:
AN ORDINANCE.
Granting to the new State Telephone Com
pany, OF Michigan, its successors and assigns,
permission ana authority to CONSTRUCT, operate
and maintain lines OF telephone ana electrIc
wire with the necessary appurtenances anu W
operate "a telephone exchange In the city oi
Owosso.
IL is hereby ordained by the city of Owosso-
Section l. Permission and authority Is mere
by granted to the new State Telephone Com
pany to construct, operate and MAINTAIN lines
of telephone and electric wire with tne neces
sary posts, poles, equipments ana appursen'
anceS, and 10 make house and building connec
lions, and from time TO time repair, replace, en-
large and extend the same upon. along and In
streets, alleys and public places IN the Guy Oh
Owosso, 10 carry on the business OF telephonlng
and renting electric telephones ana OF operat'
ing the telephone in the city OF Owosso.
sec. :. The posts, poles and masts when may
be erected under the permission hereby given,
shall be erected under the supervision OF the
superintendent OF public works and at such
places as he shall designate, unless otherwise
ordered by the common council, and the said
posts shall be reasonably straight and shall be
shaved and planed so as not TO be unslghtly anu
in the paved streets shall be placed between the
curb and sidewalk and near the curb ana on
streets and alleys not paved shall be placed
upon such lines as may be established by the
superintendent OF public works. In all Sucn
cases said poles, masJs and wires shall be so
placed as not to unnecessarily annoy or inter
fere with owners or occupants OF buildings or
other telephone, telegraph or electric light wire
in the city and the wires strung on such tele'
phone poles shah be of such height as shall be
designated by the superintendent OF public
works.
Sec. B. During the construction of that por'
tion OF the plant which is to be erected in,
along or over the highways, avenues, streets,
lanes or alleys in the said city OF OwoSSo, SAID
The New State Telephone Company shall leave
all highways, avenues, streets, lanes and alleys
upon which they may enter for the purposes
herein authorized, In as good u condition as
they were at The time of said entry. Said com
pany shall also take all needful and necessary
precaution to prevent accident or injury to any
one during the construction OF their said lines,
and shall not have poles delivered or laid upon
any of the streets, lanes, alleys or highways,
faster than Is necessary to a proper and eX'
peditious completion of their plant.
Sec. 4. The said The New State Telephone
Company shall begin the construction of the
said plant on or before ninety days from the
time that this ordinance is adopted, and shall
be completed on or before the first day of Sep.
tember, A. D., 1897, and unless so commenced
and completed within the above limited time,
the rights granted by this ordinance shall be
considered forfeited.
Sec. 8. Said grantee shall within sixty days
from the passage OF this ordnance by the com
mon council and its approval by the mayor, file
with the city clerk notice of acceptance of this
ordinance. Failure to do 80 shall be considered
us a forfeiture of all rights granted by this or
dlnaIce.
Sec. q. The city OF Owosso shall have the
right to use any or all poles erected by the said
The New State Telephone Company within the
cooperate limits OF the city for s~tringing fire
alarm wires or other wires, the property of said
city, except electric light wires 10 be laid under
the supervision OF the board of public works
and the said company.
Sec. z. The rate for telephone service shall
not exceed twenty four dollars per year for