The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-07

hours when used, amount used, and in
Stailation of service.
And current for light and power shall
| be furnished to any customer who may
apply for the same when such custom
er is located within one hundred 100)
/ feet of any pole and wire line estab-
| lished and maintained by said COM
pany-
The current so supplied to be of
! kind and character to meet the need of
| the customer SO far as practicable,
| current, if Transforming is practicable,
shall be paid by the customer, and the
said company shall supply a 24-hour
service upon its lines wherever the
same is required and paid for by any
customer at the reasonable and legal
rate therefor.
In considerationof the rights and
privileges herein granted, the said Edi-
son Electric IIlumina ting company
hereby agrees to keep the Kansas ave-
nue. bridge across the Kansas river well
lighted with electric lights during the
| life of this franchise.
And the said company is to continue
to improve its electric plant and en-
| large and extend it's service So as to
furnish electric current for light and
power to portions Of said city not now
supplied and put in service wires and
connect its service with buildings al
| ready wired inside for electric current,
provided that said buildings are not
over one hundred Q0o) feet distant
is further provided that the aforesaid
connection for service to any applicant
is conditioned upon the execution of
formal contract and upon the payment
to said company by the applicant, for
such connection and service, the
amount due under and subject to the
reasonable rules and regulations of
said company; and it is further provid-
ed that the said company shall have
reasonable time in which to make all
extensions and connections with its
service lines and shall be assured of, at
least ten (10) per cent net earnings up
maintenance, depreciation and operat-
ing expenses and taxes before making
the same.
And in consideration thereof. all con-
tracts, rights, privileges, licenses and
franchises hereby granted to said Edi-
son Electric Illuminating company of
Topeka shall continue in force for
period of thirty 900 years from and
after the date of the publicati ton of this
ordinance in the official city paper.
The mayor and council of the city of
Topeka shall at all times during the
existance of this grant. contract and
franchise, have the right by ordinance
to fix a reasona bic schedule of maxi
mum rates to be charged by the said
Edison Electric Illuminating company of
Topeka within said city. provided,
however, that said mayor and council
shall at no time fix a rate that viii
prohibit said company from earning, at
least, ten (10) per cent upon it's capital
invested in said city of Topeka over
and above its reasonable operating ex-
penses and the expenses for mainten-
ance and taxes.
Section 8.
Said Edison Electric Illuminating
company of Topeka shall have the
right to make all reasonable rules and
regulations for the prevention of loss
or waste in the conduct and manage
ment of its business and sale and dis
tribution of its products to its Gus
toners as may from time to time be
deemed necessary.
Section Q.
That upon the termination of said
franchise at the conclusion of said per-
iod of 80 years, the said city of Topeka
may acquire title to the plant of the
said Edison Electric Illuminating COM
pany of Topeka and all the rights,
privileges and property thereto per-
tanning, in the manner following, to-
on the termination of this grant, file a
petition in the district court of Shaw
nee county, Kansas. against the owner
or owners of such plant and others in
terested therein, which petition shall
contain a general description of the
terest or property rights of said cor
poration or others therein, as near as
may be done, and praying that the
city may be permitted to acquire IL
tie thereto in the manner provided by
an act of the legislature of the state
of Kansas approved March 13. 1903. en-
titled AN act relating to cities of the
first class and repeating chapter 81 OF
the laws Of 1881 and all acts amenda-
tory and supplementary thereto and
chapter 50, laws of 1897, and all acts
amendatory and supplementary thereto