Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-31


conduits to accomodate the FIRE alarm,
telegraph wires and police patrol
wires operated from time to time by
the said City of Perth Amboy; and
that the said City of Perth Amboy
shall have the right to place such
wires in said subway or underground
conduits without expense to said
city under the supervision of said
company, and that said company
shall properly maintain in good
working order all such wires without
expense to said city, except as to re-
newal of material.
Section II. And be it further Or
dained. that the said company shall
furnish to the city free telephones
in all public buildings used for pub
lie business together with such pub
lie buildings as may hereafter be err
ected, including school houses and
fire houses also n extra telephone
for the chief of police, and one eX-
ira telephone for the use of the ma
yor; such telephone instruments or
stations to be for the Official use only
of the officers or employees of the city,
and during the construction of any
of the said work in the office of the
chairman on streets and sewers at
place indicated. All tolls shall be
rebated by said Telephone Company
for connections furnished from the
station at police headquarters on
business of the city to any of the
offices located on lines or controlled
by the Hudson & Middlesex Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company with
in the limits of twenty (20) miles
from the central station of said com
pany in the City of Perth Amboy,
upon certiflcation by the chairman
of the police committee that such
calls are made upon official bust
ness.
Section - And be it further or
dained that said company shall pay
to the collector of revenue of said
City of Perth Amboy all advertising
and printing fees incurred by said
city by reason of passage and adop-
ton of this ordinance.
Section 13. And be it further or
dained that this ordinance shall take
effect after the same has been proper
ly advertised, and shall continue in
force for the term of twenty-one
years and thereafter shall be renew
ed for periods of twenty-one years
upon such terms as to yearly pay
ments to the City of Perth Amboy
based upon the gross receipts of said
company as shall then be agreed upon
and in the event of the said company
and the city not being able to agree
upon said terms before six
months prior to the eX-
piration of Il such term the
said terms of payment shall be fixed
by three arbitrators, one to be chos-
en- by the city, one by the company
and one by the two so selected, which
arbitrators shall be so selected before
five months prior to the expiration of
any such term and when so selected
shall ascertain and fix such compen-
sation within thirty days from the
time of their selection, which, when
so fixed, shall be binding upon both
the city and said company. In the
event of either of the said city or
company failing, neglecting or re-
fusing to make such selection or in
the event or the two arbitrators sell
ected by the city and company fail
ing, neglecting or refusing to select
or agree upon a third arbitrator or
in the event of the three arbitrator
failing, neglecting or refusing to
agree upon such terms of payment,
within the time fixed for their
selection or agreement, either the
said city or company may then, upon
five days written notice to the other,
apply to the judge of the circuit court
of the county in which said city is
located, to appoint such arbitrators,
who shall, by order, fix such terms
of payment within thirty days of
time of appointment and shall have
full control and jurisdiction and any
terms so fixed shall be binding on
both the company and the city. In
consideration of the passage of this
ordinance the said Telephone Com
pany agrees to pay to the City OF
Perth Amboy in addition to such
taxes as may be lawfully assessed
and in addition to the annual pay
ment to be made by the company I'M
der this ordinance a sum equal to
two per cent. of its gross receipts
for telephone rentals or tolls for SER
vice in said city from and after two
years from the date of the granting
of this ordinance. Such payments
to be made semi-annually on the
first days of February and August
of each and every year to the treas
urer of the City of Perth Amboy. At
the time of making each of said pay
ments the said company shall file
with the comptroller of the city a
statement of the gross receipts of the
said company for the period such
payment covers. Such statement to be
sworn to by the president, treasur-
err or other financial officer of said
company. In case the accuracy of
onv euch stntpmpnt is CHALLENGED Inv