The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1904-10-19
Franchise and Contract
For Water Works and Electric
Lights for the Town of
Lancaster.


September 1904, an ordinance
was passed by the Town Council
of the Town of Lancaster, grant.
ing water and light franchise
to II. L. Millner, his successors
and assigns for term of years,
subject to certain terms and con.
ditions in said ordinance specified;
and whereas it was provided in
said ordinance that the same
should be of no force or effect un-
less within ten days after the
passage of the same the sum of
five hundred ($5OOOO) dollars
should be deposited in the Bank
of Lancaster by the said ii. l..
Millner, his successors or assigns,
in trust for the uses and purposes
provided in said ordinance; and
whereas the said ordinance fur.
ther provided for ratification
thereof by vote of the people at
an election to be thereafter held
In accordance with law; and
whereas, since the passage of the
said ordinance, proposition has
been made by Leroy Springs and
I. Y. Williams for the granting
OF a light and water franchise to
them and their successors and as
signs, in the event that the said
IL. L Millner, his successors or
assigns, do not make the deposit
aforesaid in compliance with said
former ordinance and within the
time therein stipulated, or in the
event that said deposit is duly
made and the said franchise and
contract to the said III. l.. Millner.
his successors or assigns, shall
not be ratified by vote of he
people at this election to be held
in pursuance or said former or
dinance:
Now, therefore, be it ordained
by the Town Council of Lancas-
ter, in council assembled, and by
the authority of the same:
Section 1. That, in case the
said II. L. Millner, his successors
or assigns, shall not, within the
time specified by the said former
ordinance, comply with the terms
thereof by making the aforesaid
trust deposit, or in the event that
(after said deposit is made) said
former ordinance is not ratified
by vote of the people of the
said town of Lancaster as provid-
ed in said former ordinance, then
and in such event, that the ex-
elusive privilege is hereby grant,
cd to Leroy Springs and T. Y.
Williams, of Lancaster, in said
State, their heirs, successors or
assigns, for period of thirty (3O)
years from and after the passage
and appoval of this ordinance,
and its ratification by a vote of
the people of the said town of
Lancaster, as required by law, to
construct and maintain, within
the corporate limits of the said
town of Lancaster, South Carolina,
as they now exist or may here
after be extended, water works
for supplying said town and it's
inhabitants with pure and whole
some water for public and private
uses, and to install and maintain
q system and plant for the pur-
pose of supplying electric power
for public and private lighting
purposes, and to use the streets
alleys, sidewalks and public
grounds and the streams and
bridges within said limits, for the
purpose of placing, embedding,
laying and taking up and repair
ing pipes, mains, conduits, hy-
drants and other structures, ap
pliances and services, needful
and requisite for the supplying,
conducting and service of water
and electric lighting to said town
and it's inhabitants, subject to
the terms and conditions herein
aftea set forth.
Section 2. That said Leroy
Springs and I. Y. Williamc, their
successors and assigns, in their
uses of said streets and other
public places of the said town OF
Lancaster, shall restore all street
surfaces and pavements which
they may find necessary to ex-
cavate or remove. and renI.ca