Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-04-24
An Ordinance

Granting to the Wildwood, Anglesea and
Holly Beach Gas Company permission
and consent to extend its main pipes to
the Township of Lower Township, and
to lay, maintain and operate Its mains,
pipes and conductors tor conducting and
supplying gas along and under certain
streets and roads of Township of Lower
Township.
Be 1t ordained by the Township Committee
of the Township of Lower Township:
l. That permission and consent be and Is
hereby given to the Wildwood, Anglesea and
Holly Beach Gas Company to extend Its main
pipes to the Township of Lower Township, In
2. That the Wildwood, Anglesea and Holly
Beach Gas Company be granted for period
of twenty years the right to use Atlantic ave-
nue., Pacific avenue, Philadelphia avenue,
Park boulevard, Lake road Cresse avenue,
Morning Glory road, Buttercup road, Laven-
der road, Heather road, Crocus road, Aster
road, Cardinal road, Sweet Briar road, Wis.,
taria road, Columbine road, Rosemary road,
Forgetmenot road, Fern road, Palm road,
Rambler road, in Township of Lower Town
ship, in the County of Cape May, to lay, main
tain and operate mains, pipes, supply pipes,
conductors and conduits below the surface of
said roads and streets for conducting and sup
plying gas as we'll to supply the Township of
Lower Township and the inhabitants thereof,
as to transmit gas to other municipalities.
3. That the public travel shall at no time
be unnecessarily affected or impeded by the
laying of said gas pipes, conductors and con-
dufts, and making connections, and that not
more than fifteen hundred 1,500) feet of said
streets, avenues, lanes, highways, squares
and public grounds shall be open at any one
time, and that the said streets, avenues, lanes,
highways, squares and public grounds shall
be put and left in as good condition as they
We're before the pipes, conductors and con-
4. That the said Wildwood, Anglesea and
Holly Beach Gas Company shall not charge
to private consumers of It's gas in the said
nAWpShin of m One
Dollar and Fifty Cents (Sl.50) per one tholfs-
and cubic feet of gas.
5. That the said Gas Company must have
gas turned into the company's mains within
twelve months from the date of the final pas
sage hereof, otherwise the township commit
tee may by resolution declare this franchise
void; provided, however, that if the com pany
be delayed in building its plant or laying its
mains by any legal proceedings or the fran
chise as herein granted shall be questioned
by writ of certiorari or injunction, either at
law or in equity, the time which the said
Wildwood, .Anglesea and Holly Beach Gas
Company shall be delayed by reason of such
proceedings shall not be reckoned or counted
or constitute any portion of the time afore-
said in which the said plant shall be SO COM
pleted.
6. That the Wildwood, Anglesea and Holly
Beach Gas Company before commencing
work shall furnish bond to extend for a pc
riod of one year for the sum of One Thousand
Dollars $1,000 for the indemnification and
saving harmless of the said Township of
Lower Township from all damages that may
arise by reason of the construction of the sys-
tenn of pipes.
7. In case the Township of Lower Town
ship wishes to enter into contract with the
said Wildwood, Anglesea and Holly Beach
Gas Company for street lights, the price
thereof shall not exceed Thirty five Dollars
$3.50 per annum per public lamp having
three and one-half inch gas mantle to be
lighted from sunset to sunrise on each and
every night, or Thirty Dollars $500 per an
mum to be lighted on standard moonlight
schedule; above price to include repairs care,
lighting and extinguishing.
s. That the Wildwood, Anglesea and Holly
Beach Gas Company shall accept or reject In
writing, the provisions of this ordinance,
within thirty days after the same shall have
been finally passed by the Township Com
mittee.
8. That the said Wildwood, Anglesea and
Holly Beach Gas Company shall pay the ex-
penses of the publication of this ordinance.
TO- This ordinance shall take effect imme-
diately.
Attest-CHARLES G. REEVES,
Clerk Lower Township.