Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-25

street Superintendent
ten blocks for the purpose of affording
access to said pipe for the cleaning or
maintenance thereof; said traps or
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
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
machinery, that may be used for the
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 pressure exceed
ing five hundred pounds to the square
inch, the franchise herein granted, and
change of grade, the laying Of any
sewer, or the making Of any other i'm
provements in any Of the streets along
and under which said pipe may be laid.
shall. in the opinion Of the Street Su
perintendent of said city, render neces-
pipe, the grantee. or It's successors or
assigns, shall shift or move the same
at its OF. 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 its 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 it's being presented to said
grantee, or it's successors or assigns, or
to such manager or agent in Los An
! geles.
That the work of constructing
and laying down said pipe line shall
be be, commenced ;elo in in good faith in
from the date of the granting of this
franchise, and shall be continuously
prosecute, pro t,6 !, thereafter in good faith
and that if said work be not so com
menced, prosecuted and completed with
! fled, this franchise shall be forfeited
That the said grantee and it's
successors and assigns shall, during the
Los Angeles. in lawful money of the
United States, two per cent of the gross
annual receipts of such grantee and it's
successors and assigns, arising from the
use, operation or possession of this
franchise. No percentage shall be paid
for the first five years succeeding the
date of this. Ordinance, but thereafter
such, percentage must be payable an
nuallyl and this franchise is to be for
feited by failure to make the pay
merits provided for. The amount of the
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
in any manner gained or derived by the
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
with the City Clerk of the City of Los
Angeles, within thirty days after the
of the granting of said franchise. and
within thirty days after the expiration
Of each and every year thereafter,
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
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,
or transmission of oil through the same.
And within ten days after the time for
IlllnB Ine aIOFeSdlu statement III snail
be the duty of said grantee. or it's sue
cessors 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
its successors or assigns, to file said
verified statement. or to pay the said
ceipts, at the times and in the manner
hereinbefore 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
refusal to comply with any of the. con-
ditions of this franchise shall there
upon Immediately ipso facto effect
forfeiture thereof, and the said city, by
its City Council, may, thereupon declare
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
of no effect. Provided, however, that
said grantee, it's Successors or assigns,
shall have the right to remove said pipe
iations as the said City Council MAY
That said grantee, or its sue
cessors or assigns, shall not sell, trans.
the rights or privileges granted hereby,
except by a duly executed. instrument
ia writing, filed in the office OF the
and provided, further, that nothing In
said franchise contained shall be con-
strued TO grant to said grantee, or It's
successors or assigns. any right TO sell,
transfer or assign said franchise, or any
granted, except in the manner afore-
said.
That the city OF Los Angeles shall
have the right, at the expiration OF the
aforesaid period. 20 purchase the pipe
lines and all properties In any OF the
streets hereinbefofe mentioned, belong
ing to the grantee OF said franchise, or