The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-03-04

said company will not be required to
keep said lights burning when the
moon is shining bright, except on
cloudy nights, when SAID lights shall,
be required to burn, and when the
night is clear and becomes cloudy said
lights shall be lighted as soon as
practicable,
Where light fails to be kept burn
ing in accordance with this contract
and ordinance, except on account Of
hlndrance permitted by the city, or
during the time when the same has
been cut OIL by the company owing
to storms or fire, the company shall
be penaliZed in the amount that sad
light would have earned. Provided
said failure to burn Is noted In book
to be kept III the Mayors office by !
II. m. tho succeeding day, or as sOOn
thereafter 3s practicable on said day,
and when. such failure could by rea-
sonable diligence on the part Of the
company haye beeu avoided, u peu-
atty of fifty cents per light, not to eX-
ceed twenty-five dollars for any one
night, shall be made and fany light
or lights, not exceeding five In num-
ber, fail to burn for three consecutive
nights, owing to lack of diligence
on the part OF said company. such
dockage shall ha increased TO one dol
lar per light for each of said lights
and the certificate of the Mayor on
the aforesaid book entered by eleven
u, m. on such succeeding day, OF as
soon as practicable on said day, that
in his Judgment such tailgre qf said
lights to hurn was owing to II lack OF
diligence on the part Of said company,
shall be, and is hereby declared 10 be
such prima facle evidence as when
same is concurred in by the City
Council, Will authorize the dockage OF
the amount or amounts from the pay
mont or payments due said company
at the ond of the current month
such dockage, however, shall not.be
conclusive as to the legal rights OF said
company,
Said company agrees to furnish to
the City of GreenvIlle any additional
number of are lights that it may need
over sixty at not exceeding eighty-dye
dollars per lamp, or light, as herein
provided and agreed upon.
XII
Said company agrees TO furnish to
the City of Greenville any number of
ncandescent sixteen candle power
lamps for city purposes,at seventy-tvo
cents per month per lamp,
Nil
saia company agrees to have said
flfty-tive arc lights, and such other
additional lights as may be necessary,
IN place and in use on or before the
10th day OF NovemAer, 1891
XIV
The City OF Greeuyille, for the con-
sideratIon hereinafter set forth, agrees
TO pay to said company the sum of
ninety dollars per annum for each
electric are street light or lamp, in
monthly iustalments of seven and
5O-lOO dollars each per month up to
sixty lights, for period of ten years
from November 10, 1899; IT being un-
derstood that the City will take aud
pay for not less than tifty-hve lights
up 10 November |, 1900, and not less
than sixty thereafter
&N
As q part OF the consideration of
this ordinance and contract, and as
one OF the inducements for the CITY
Council OF Greenyille 10 enter into
same, the said Greenville Light Il Car
Company, its successors or assigns,
further agrees 10 construct, equip and
operate in first-class manner, an
electric street railway, from the inter-
section of the NazoO and Mississippi
Valley Railroad with Washington
avenue, aud theuee running aloug said
avenue westerly to its intersection
with Walnut street; thence southerly
down Walnut street to the Southern
Railway depot, as herein before pro-