The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-15
MICHAEL SUBMITS
GAS FRANCHISE
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grantee is now engaged in furnishing gas
franchise granted by the legislature of the
state of Minnesota which ceases and
terminates on Jan. 1, 1907, said grantee,
on and after the first day of the month
next following the passage of this ordi-
nance, and as an inducement to the
passage and enactment thereof, shall and
will furnish gas to the inhabitants of said
city at the net price of S1.15 per ,O0O
cubic feet; and on and after Jan. /, 1905,
shall and will furnish gas to said inhabi-
tants at the net price of $110 per 600
cubic feet and on and after Jan. /, 1906.
shall and will furnish gas to said inhabi-
tants at the net price of $1-05 per 1000
cubic feet; and on Jan. l, 1907, and ever
thereafter during the life of this franchise,
said grantee shall and will furnish gas to
the habitants of said city at a net price
which shall never exceed 81 per 1000
cubic feet; provided that for the pur-
pose of insuring prompt payment of the
bills therefor, there may at all times be
added an additional 10 cents per 1000 Gu
bic feet to the current net price on fail
before the tenth day of the succeeding
month, and provided further that when
ever the amount of gas used by any con-
sumner during any month shall, at the cur
rent net price aforesaid, amount to less
than % cents, the grantee may charge
such consumer for such month a sum not
Churches and Charities Half Price.
Sec. 8. That as a further inducement to
the passage of this ordinance, from and
after the first day of January, 1904, as
well under its existing franchise as under
the one hereby granted, said grantee shall
and will at all times furnish gas to the
city to light its streets, lanes, bridges,
parks, public grounds and buildings, and
all buildings jointly owned, used or occu-
pied by the city and the county of Ram
sey, and all buildings owned or occupied
by said county, at price which shall
never exceed 81 per thousand cubic
times after Jan. l. 1907, during the life
of this franchise, said grantee shall and
will furnish all necessary gas for con-
sumption to any and all churches, church
charitable institutions tributary to any of
its mains, at one-half the current price
charged to other regular consumers of gas.
Sec. 10. The gas manufactured and fur
nlShed by said grantee shall all be good
and first class for illuminating purposes.
free from all noXious impurities, and all
coal gas shall be of not less than eighteen
candle power, and all water gas shall be
of not less than twenty-five candle power,
within radius of one and one-half miles
of the holder from which the same is dis
tributed into the mains, such Illuminating
power to be determined by the photome-
trio process in ordinary use.
The city, by such person or persons
as it may from time to time designate for
that purpose, shall at all times, during
business hours of any day, have full and
free access to the gas works and plant of
the grantee and all departments thereof
for purposes of full and complete inspec-
ton and making tests of the quality of gas
furnished.
Must Maintain Up-to- date Service.
Sec. IL. That in consideration hereof
said grantee shall at all times during the
life OF this franchise keep and maintain it's
gas works, manufacturing plant, pipes,
tunnels conduits and all appliances for the
manufacturing and furnishing of gas for
all purposes in good and proper condition
and repair and shall during all of said
time run and operate the same so as to
give good and constant service TO said city
and the inhabitants thereof upon and
along the lines of all its mains, and shall
at all times furnish and supply to any and
all persons along the lines of it's mains,
without discrimination, an ample and ade-
quate supply of gas for Illumination, fuel,
or any other proper purpose at current
prices, under such reasonable rules and
regulations as may be adopted by said
grantee and approved by the common
council of said city.
Said grantee shall also at all times sell
and dispose of at retail to the public gen
orally, without discrimination at reason
able current prices. all surplus residuals
not required for use in its own business
which are obtained by said grantee in
Said grantee shall also at all times dur
ing the life of this franchise, in all parts
of the city where gas is used for illumin-
public buildings, keep its mains, service
pipes and street posts in proper condition
for USE and shall in good faith bid upon
and compete for all public lighting and
furnishing gas therefor at prices not in
excess of the current rates herein provided
for, or in excess of such rates as may be
hereafter fixed and established, and shall
faithfully carry out and perform any and
all contracts awarded to it for public
lighting or furnishing gas to the city
therefor.
Sec 10 IF at anv time during tho life
of this franchise an emergency exists by
reason of no contract being in force for
furnishing public lighting, or gas. there
for, or if for any other reason the city
is deprived of light upon its streets or
public grounds or in its buildings, then
the city by resolution or ordinance of its
common council, shall have the right to
order and direct said grantee to furnish
and provide, temporarily, until such emer-
gency shall have passed, gas lighting up
on the streets and public grounds Wher-
ever there are street posts, and in the pub
lie buildings of said city, or to furnish gas
therefor, at the then current prices here
under for such gas and lighting, and when
so ordered and directed, said grantee shall
promptly furnish and provide such light
ing, or the gas therefor as the case NAV
pc, Tor and during the time it is so or
dered and directed, but such temporary
arrangement shall not be continued longer
than to give said city reasonable oppor-
tunlty to procure such lighting, or the
necessary gas therefor in the usual and
customary manner.
Sec. 10. Said city also reserves the
right In case it shall at any time during
the life OF the franchise hereby granted
acquire or construct, or authorize the
construction of, any system of conduits
tunnels or subways, for general accom-
mediation, in any under street or streets
of the city, to order and require said
grantee, its successors and assigns. at
tnelr own expense, to remove and relo-
cafe any or all of its pipes, tunnels and
condults along or under any such street