Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-26
An Ordinance,

Giving the Consent OF the CITY OF Ma
rietta. Ohio, and Its City Council,
That the Central District and Print
ing Telegraph Company, its Success
sors and Assigns, may construct, and
may forever maintain underground
wires and pipes or conduits, and 9TH
er fixtures for containing, protecting
and operating such wires In the
streets and public ways of said City.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the
City Council of the City of Marietta,
Ohio: that the consent of the City of
Marietta, Ohio, and of the City Coun-
ell of said City, be, and it hereby Is CIV
en- that The Central District and
Printing Telegraph Company, a comp
any organized under the laws of the
state of Pennsylvania, and owning and
operating a telephone exchange in
said City of Marietta, may construct,
and may forever maintain, under
ground wires and pipes, or condults,
and other fixtures for containing, pro-
tecting and operating such wires in
the streets and public ways of said
C.ty.
Section g. That said consent of said
City and its CTty Council Is given upon
tie following terms, which said comp
any shall bind itself, its succe essors and
assigns, to perform by its acceptance
of this ordinance, towit
That the digging of trenches, filling
of same, and replacing of pavement by
SAID Company, its successors and as
signs, under said consent, shall be
so conducted as to not unnecessarily
interfere with the flow of water in any
drain or gutter, or the passing or re-
passing of persons, teams and vehicles
upon the public ways of said City,
and it shall be done under the direc-
tion and to the approval OF the City
Council, and in such manner as not
to iniure or interfere with sewers, gas
pipes, water pipes, or other public util-
tiles that may be lawfully in the
streets, alleys, avenues and public
ways of said City at the time such
Itrenches are dug; that said Company,
its successors and assigns, are requir-
ed to replace all portions of streets, al
leys avenues and other public ways
in said City that it or they may disturb
in good substantial and workmanlike
manner, and the portions of said
streets, alleys, avenues and other pub
lie ways so displaced shall be restored
TO as good condition as that in which
they were prior to such disturbance,
and shall be maintained in such con-
dition by said Company, its successors
and assigns, for the period of one year
from such disturbance, except as the
same are affected by public use and by
disturbance by other persons; that If
said Company, its successors and as
Signs, shall neglect or fail to restore
such portions of said Streets alleys,
avenues and other public ways in said
City, or to maintain them, as herein
before provided, after ten days written
notice gwen by the City Council to the
Manager or President or Superlntend-
ent of the telephone exchange in said
City, CT said Company, its successors
or assigns, the City Council may do
such work and collect the expense
therof from said Company its success
sors and assigns; that said Company,
as successors and assigns, shall save
the City of Marietta harmless from
any and all damages which may arise
or grow out of, or be caused by. any
thing done by said Company, its sue
cessors and assigns, under said con-
sent; that all distributing poles erect
ed by said Company, its successors
or assigns, for carrying said under
ground wires to telephones situated in
a City block which contains public
alley running lengthwise entirely
! thorough said block shall be placed in
such alley, or near the mouth thereof
or in some other alley in said block
and when underground wires have
been carried into any such block all
poles heretofore erected by said comp
any in a street abuting on such block
and in that half of the street immedla-
tely abutting on said block, shall be
removed within sixty days after said
underground wires are in operation
} and shall not be replaced, except tha
, sand Company shall not be required II
remove, and said Company, its success
sors and assigns, Shall always havt
the right to keep, erect and maintain
such poles in the immediate vicinity
! of the telephone exchange as are re
: qu.red to carry wires to and from such
exchange; all distributing poles shal
be of a neat and symmetrical pattern
and kept painted
: Section g. That as to that portion
, of the streets of said City hereinafte
named the consent contained in Sec
tion / Of this ordinance must be acte'
upon by said Company, its successor
or assigns, within one year after tn
taxing elIGCL OF lHlS OTulnduCe, dh'
said Company, its successors and as
signs, are required to occupy tLat par
of the length of said portions of SAT-
, streets, which it or they wish to occu
\ py within one year from the taking ef
r feet of rs ordinance, and the right
of said Company, its successors an
assigns, under Section / OF this ordin
. ance, as to that part of the length o
said portions of said streets which
and they shall fail to occupy prior t
said period of one year shall cease an
determine at the expiratlonof said per
iod the portions of said streets o
E SAID city W4iich must ne occupied with
in ore year from the taking effect o
this ordinance, as aforesaid, are as fol
. lows to-wit Greene street, fror
Fourth street to Front street, From
- street from Greene street to Punar
I street, Putnam street, from From
street to Fourth street, and Secon
, street from Putnam street TO Green
!, street.
Section H. The consent given i
Sec. on / of this ordinance shall nc
be acted upon, and no action shall b
taken under it, by said Company, 1t
successors or assigns, until said Com
pany shall have, by an instrument I
: wrldng, duly executed and filed wit
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