The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-15

duits or subways provided or authorized
by the city, and if the same are owned by
the city it shall have the right to charge
said grantee and receive from it a rea-
sonable rental and compensation, to be
fixed and prescribed by the common
council, for the use thereof, upon provid-
ing reasonable space therein for the same
and said grantee shall promptly obey and
execute within ninety days, all orders and
directions in that behalf given by the
common council of the city.
City to Control the Price.
Sec. a. The common council of the
authority. Independent of whether or not
the present provisions of the city char
ter in that behalf are continued in force
during the life of this franchise. to regu-
late and control the maximum prices to
be charged by said grantee for furnish
ing gas hereunder to the city and its in
habitants, provided only that the prices SO
fixed shall be fair and reasonable.
If said grantee ever disputes the fair
ness or reasonableness of any such max
imum prices hereafter fixed and prescrib-
ed by the common council of the city.
and shall carry such question for litiga-
ton into any court of competent jurisdic-
ton, then and in that event, if such
court shall decide that the maximum
mon council are not fair and reasonable,
said court shall at the same time, and up
on the evidence adduced upon the trial
Of such question, decide, fix and deter
reasonable, and whether the same be
greater or less than those fixed by the
common council, such prices so fixed and
determined by the court shall bind said
grantee and limit the prices to be
charged by it for furnishing gas, until the
common council of the city shall again
take further action in the matter; pro-
vided said court shall not fix such max
imum price in excess of 81 per thousand
cubic feet of gas actually furnished, and
no power shall exist to authorize said
grantee to charge or receive any sum in
excess OF net price at the rate of 81
per thousand cubic feet, except only as
provided in section eight (8) of this ordi-
nance in relation to penalties for over due
bills, and the minimum charge of % cents
per month; and provided further that in
case said grantee shall ever oppose any
maximum rates fixed by the common
council of the city, by litigation as afore-
said, 1t shall be bound nevertheless by
such rates fixed by the common council,
until final decision of the court there
on, and even if greater or different
maximum price is finally. fixed by the
hereof, said grantee shall not by reason
thereof have any additional claim against
said city or any inhabitant thereof, OH
account of gas furnished in the meantime.
Extension of Service Called For.
Sec. Is. That AS a condition to the
taking effect of this ordinance, said gran
tee shall and will, within one year after
the passage and approval thereof, extend
its mains, by the most convenient routes,
to those portions of the city known as St.
Anthony Park and Manchester Park, and
shall furnish the necessary gas and shall
give reasonable service to the inhabited
portions of these districts, and to that
end, within said time, shall lay its mains
in, and furnish service to the residents
upon, the following streets between the
points named, that is to say:
On University avenue, from Cleveland
avenue to Cromwell street.
On Raymond avenue, from University
avenue to Marvel street.
On Bayless avenue, from Eustis street
to the right of way of the Great Northern
railway company.
On Cromwell avenue, from University
avenue to Marvel street
On Raymond avenue, from the Great
Northern railway tracks to Langford ave-
nue..
On Scudder avenue, from Blake avenue
to Langford avenue.
On Blake avenue, from Langford Park
Place West to Langford avenue
On Langford avenue, from Knapp street
to the county road.
On Commonwealth avenue, from Cor
don avenue to Cleveland avenue.
On Carter avenue from Gordon avenue
to Cleveland avenue.
On the county road from Com
monwealth avenue to Pierce avenue.
On Knapp street, from Langford ave-
nue. to Raymond avenue.
On Summit avenue from Smelling ave-
nue. to Cambridge avenue.
On Manchester avenue, from Summit
avenue to Princeton avenue.
On Cambridge avenue, from Summit
avenue to Amherst street.
One Princeton avenue, from Manchester
avenue to Baldwin street.
On Smelling avenue, from Summit ave-
nue. to Lincoln avenue.
Sec. 16. That in addition to the extern
sions above required. said grantee shall
also, from time to time after Jan. 1, 1907,
extend its mains in and along any street
or portion of a street in said city and
furnish n nf DQC RI hQ
residents thereon, within three months
after the delivery to it of petition of
residents thereon, requesting such extern
sion and agreeing to become regular Gus
toners and consumers of gas along the
line thereof, provided that the number of
such petitioners shall be sufficient in the
toner for every one hundred and fifty
feet of such proposed extension or extern
sions, of main pipes, exclusive of street
crossings and provided further that said
grantee shall not be required to lay any
mains provided for in this section or in the
next succeeding section of this ordinance
during the months of December, January,
February or March in any year, and such
months shall not be counted a part of the
time limit fixed for making extensions
required by said two sections hereof.
May Order 10 Miles of Extensions Year.
Sec. II. That the common council of
said city. in addition to the extensions
hereinbefore provided for, shall have the
, ISL, 1--WE dlIo autnoflly TO order and
require SAID grantee to extend its mains
and furnish and supply gas and service to
said city and the residents thereof upon
and along any and all streets or parts of
streets in the city. or to and throughout
any and all of the parks and public
grounds of the city, provided that not
more than ten miles of main pipes shall
be so ordered and required to be laid by
SAD grantee in any one calendar year, but
II the grantee does not lay such extensions
the same year they are ordered, such de-
lay shall not entitle it to any reduction on
tensions which may be ordered by the
common council the next or following
The common council of the city shall
also have the right to order and Teonira
the erection and maintenance, by the
grantee. of such additional iron lamp