Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-24

ten blocks for the purpose of affordlng
access to said pipe for the cleaning or
maintenance thereof; said traps or
manholeS to be so capped and covered
as to be flush with the street and not
to interfere in any way with the use OF
said street for travel or traffic; that
said pipe shall never, at any time. be
subjected to a pressure of more than
five hundred pounds to the square inch
and that the City Engineer, or any OF
his duly authorized deputies, or the City
Boiler Inspector, shall have the right
at all times, to inspect the pumping
purpose of forcing oil through said
pipe. and to measure or ascertain the
pressure to which said pipe is being
subjected at the time of such inspec-
tion, and that if, at any time. said pipe
shall be subjected to a pressure exceed
ing five hundred pounds to the square
all rights hereunder, shall be forfeited.
change of grade, the laying of any
sewer, sewer or the making Of any other i'm
and under which said pipe may be laid.
shall, in the opinion of the Street Su
perintendent of said city, render neces-
sary any change in the position of said
pipe. the grantee, or it's successors or
assigns, shall shift or move the same
at Its or their own cost and expense, in
conformity with the Instructions and to
the satisfaction of the said Street Su
perintendent, and in case the said
grantee. or its successors or assigns,
shall fail to comply with the instruc-
tions given therefor by said official, for
ten days after service of said instruc-
tions upon the said grantee, or its sue
cessors or assigns, or upon the manager
or agent of said grantee. or it's sue
cessors or assigns, in Los Angeles. he,
the said official, may do the work re-
quired in said notice to be done, and
! keep an itemized account of the cost
/ thereof, which said grantee and it's sue
cessors and assigns, by the acceptance
of this franchise. agrees to pay imme
diately upon its being presented to said
grantee, or its successors or. assigns, or
to such manager or agent in Los An
geles.
and laying down said pipe line shall
Within not more than FOUR EE@ months aTa@
franchise. and shall be continuously
prosecuted thereafter in good faith,
and shall be completed within
and that If said work be not so com
menced, prosecuted and completed with
in the times and in the manner speci-
successors and assigns shall, during the
life of this franchise, pay to the City of
Los Angeles. in lawful money of the
United States, two per cent of the gross
annual receipts of such grantee and its
successors and assigns, arising from the
use, operation or possession of this
for the first five years succeeding the
date of this Ordinance, but thereafter
such percentage must be payable an
nually. and this franchise is to be for
feited by failure to make the pay
merits provided for. The amount of the
gross annual receipts of the grantee of
this franchise and it's successors and
assigns, arising from it's use. operation
or possession, shall be deemed and un-
derstood to be, and shall be, the total
gross earnings collected or received, or
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grantee of this franchise, or its sue
cessors or assigns, from the use of said
pipe line, and from or on account of
the carriage or transmission of oil
through the same. And it shall be the
duty of the grantee of this franchise
and its successors and assigns to file
Angeles, within thirty days after the
expiration of six years from the date
OF the granting of said franchise and
within thirty days after the expiration
| OF each and every year thereafter, a
statement, verified by the oath of the
manager or presiding officer of said
grantee, or its successors and assigns
showing the total gross receipts and
gross earnings collected or received, or
in any manner gained or derived by the
SAID grantee, or it's successors or as
signs, during the preceding tWelVe
months from the use of said pipe line,
and from or on account of the carriage
or transmission of oil through the same
And within ten days after the time for
! filing the aforesaid statement it shall
be the duty of said grantee, or it's sue
eessors or assigns to pay to the City
Treasurer of the City of Los Angeles
the aggregate sum of the said percent
age upon the amount of the gross an
nual receipts arising from the use, op-
Grafton or possession of this franchise
determined and computed in the manner
hereinbefore provided. And any neglect,
omission or refusal by said grantee, or
It's successors or assigns, to file said
verified statement or to pay the said
percentage of the said gross annual re-
ceipts, at the times and in the manner
herein before provided, shall ipso facto
work forfeiture of the franchise here
In granted, and of all rights hereunder,
TO the city of Los Angeles.
That any neglect, failure or
ditions of this franchise shall there
upon Immediately ipso facto effect a
forfeiture thereof, and the said city, by
this franchise forfeited. and may ex-
clude said grantee and its successors
and assigns from further use of the
streets of said city under said franchise.
and said grantee and its successors and
assigns shall thereupon and immedi-
ately surrender all rights in and to the
same, and this, franchise shall be
deemed and shall remain null. void and
OF no effect. Provided, however, that
said grantee its successors or assigns,
shall have the right to remove said pipe
from said streets, subject to such regu-
lations as the said City Council may
impose.
Ihat said grantee, or its sue
cessors or assigns, shall not sell, trans
fer or assign said franchise or any Of
the rights or privileges granted hereby,
except BY duly executed instrument
IN Wrltlng, tiled In the office of the
City Clerk of the city OF Los Angeles:
and provided, further, that nothing in
said franchise contained shall be con-
strued 70 grant TO said grantee. or its
successors or assigns. any right TO sell.
transfer or assign said franchise, or any
OF the rights or privileges thereby
granted, except In the manner afore-
said.
That the City OF Los Angeles shall
have the right, at the expiration of tho
Iaforesaid period, to purchase the pipe
lines and all properties In any OF the
streets hereinbefore mentioned, belong
inE 70 the Rrantae OF hatd franchise. or