The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-16
NOTICE
OF PETITION TO THE GENERAL AS
SEMBLY FOR THE ALTERATION OF


NOTICE
OF PETITION TO THE GENERAL AS
SEMBLY FOR THE ALTERATION OF
THE CHARTER OF THE CITY Or
NEW HAVEN.
WHEREAS, By an order approved by the
Mayor of the City Of New Haven on Febru-
airy 18th, 1902, the Court of Common Coun-
Gil of said City enacted the following:
"OrGeTed, That the City of New Haven
accepts the form of the Continuing Contract
between the City of New Haven and The
New Haven Water Company, as submitted
and recommended by the Joint Special Com
mittee on the proposed Water Contracts;
and that His Honor, the Mayor of the City,
be and he is hereby authorized, In behalf OF 4
the City of New Haven, to enter into and
sign the proposed contract with The New
Haven Water Company, so approved z
Ordered, That the Corporation Counsel
of the City of New Haven be and he is here
by directed to unite with The New Haven
Water Company in securing the passage Of
an act in the next General Assembly Of the
State of Connecticut. in accordance with
the terms of said Continuing Contract
AND WHEREAS, On or about said day
said contract was duly executed by the City
of New, Haven and The New Haven Water
Company, and
WHEREAS, By paragraph Is of said con-
tract is was provided as follows:
Said City and said Company will unite
in an application to the General Assembly,
at it's next session, for the passage of an
act making the terms of this contract OBJ
ligatory upon both parties as though speci-
ficaly authorized in their respective char
ters," s8$&
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to
said orders petition will be presented to
the General Assembly of the State of Con-
necticut at its session to be held at Hart
ford on the Wednesday following the first
Monday of January 1903, for the alteration
of the Charter of the City of New Haven,
in SO far as the existing charter provisions
of said City do not give to it the power and
impose upon it the duties expressed in said
contract, reference to which contract is
hereby expressly made; particularly to au-
thorize said City to provide water for fire
protection in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Wards; to adopt and enforce
reasonable rules and regulations to prevent
unreasonable and excessive use and waste
Of water by its agents and officials; to de-
termine at any time whether the rates to
| be charged for water to private consumers
shall be unreasonable and to agree with
said Company concerning such rates; to
purchase all the property, assets and fran
| lust compensation therefor at the time and
! in the manner more particularly set forth
| in said contract; to apply to and appear be-
| fore the courts Of the State or any other
proper tribunal for the purposes and in the
| manner more particularly set forth in said
| contract; to save said Company harmless
| from certain taxes as set forth In said con-
tract; and generally to do any and all the
| other acts and things provided in said con-
| tract which acts and things 1t is not now
authorized by law to do.
| New Haven, Connecticut, December 10th,
| 1902 LEONARD, NJ. DAGGETT
Corporation Counsel of the City Of New Ha-
| ven. DIG 1t