Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-05-01

Granting to the Wildwood, Anglesea ant
Holly Beach Gas Company permission
and consent to extend its main pipes tt
the Township of Lower Township, ane
to lay, maintain and operate its mains
pipes and conductors for conducting anC
supplying gas along and under certain
streets and roads of Township of Lower
Township.
Be it ordained by the Township Committee
of the Township of Lower Township:
|. 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
the County of Cape May.
That the Wildwood, Anglesea and Holly
Beach Gas Company be granted for a 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,
Lotus road, Myrtle road, Primrose road and
! Rambler road, in Township of Lower Town
ship in the County ofCape May, to lay, main.
tain ana operate mains, pipes, supply pipes,
conductors and conduits below the surface of
said roads and streets for conducting and su D.
plying gas as well 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-
duits, and making connections and that not
more than fifteen hundred (l,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
duits were laid.
4. That the said Wildwood, Anglesea and
Holly Beach Gas Company shall not charge
to private consumers of its gas in the said
Township of Lower Township more than One
Dollar and Fifty Cents lSl60) per one thous-
and cubic feet of gas.
o. That the said Gas Company must have
gas turned into the companys 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 company
be delayed in building its plant or laying its
mains by any legal proceedings or the fran
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-
peted
8. 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 (Sl,0O0) for the fndemnification 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
!. In case the Township of Lower Town
ship wishes to enter into a contract with the
said Wildwood, Anglesea and Holly Beach
Gas Company for street lights, the price
thereof shall not exceed Thirty Live Dollars
800 per annum per public lamp having n
5nree and one-half inch gas mantle to be
lighted from sunset to sunrise on each and
every night, or Thirty Dollars (S3O) per an
1um TO be lighted on standard moonlight
schedule; above price to include REPAIRS care,
lighting and extingushing.
D. That the Wildwood, Anglesea and Holly
5each Gas Company shall accept or reject in
writing, the provisions of this ordinances
within thirty days after the same shall have
'een finally passed by the Township Com
o. That the said Wildwood, Anglesea and
ioly Beach Gas Company shall pay the ex-
lenses OF the publication of this ordinance.
10. This ordinance shall take effect imme-
lately.
Attest-CHARLES c. REEVES,
Clerk Lower Township.