The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-26

the street department of said City
shall have the oversight and control
Of the erection and placing thereof, and
shall have the authority to direct the
location and placing thereof, and shall
have the authority to make any
change thereof necessary to properly
conserve public convenience and safe
ty.
(4) All underground pipes or con-
Quits or such electric conductors shall
be laid at least 2 1-2 feet below the
grade of the street or alley in which
the same shall be so placed shall be
properly installed so as to prevent
leakage of current, shall properly and
efficiently guard against damage from
'electrolysis, and shall be so laid at
the time of implacement thereof as
not to interfere with or damage any
other pipes or conduits or other un-
foreground conductors lawfully occu-
plying the streets, alleys, Or thorough
fares of said City, but no such wires
shall be placed underground until the
said grantees shall make and deliver
to the city clerk of said City, a true
and accurate map of the location of
said underground conduitS, pipes or
ether conductors.
60 Said grantees shall use ali due
diligence in the erection of any over
all underground structures, to do as
little damage as possible to the
streets, alleys and public thorough
fares of said City; shall guard the
same at all times so as to protect the
travelling public thereon, and shall
restore the said streets, alleys and
thOroughfares to as good q condition
as the same were in prior to being dis
turbed by said grantees in the making
of such structures.
Co. When in any part of the street
overhead conductors shall have been
placed in underground conductors, said
grantees shall forthwith remove all
overhead structures, poles and appli-
ances from such parts of the streets
alleys and thorOughfares and restore
the same to as good condition as the
same were in before being disturbed
by such removal.
Section 3. AS a consideration for
the granting of this right and fran
chise, said Northwestern Corporation
or its successors or assigns, shall pay
to the said City of Walla Walla. for
the use of said City, on the first DAY
Oh January; of each ana every year
during the life of this franchise, the
following sums in lawful money of
the United States. to-Wit: $4,000 for
each year of the first five years of said
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second five years thereof; $4,000 for
each year of the third five years of
said franchise; 100000 for each year
of the fourth five years of said fran
chise and $4,000 for each year of the
last five years thereof.
Section f. The price to be charged
consumers for electricity for light,
heat, or power purposes, shall. at all
times during the life of this franchise,
be reasonable.
Section s. No wires shall be strung
above the ground on any pole, under
the provisions of this ordinance, at
less height than thirty five feet above
the estab' ished grade of the streets, al
legs, or thoroughfares of said City, and
the City of Walla Wal!a shall have the
light to use any and all poles and I'M
foreground conduits erected or con-
structed by the grantees hereunder,
free of charge to said City for police
and fire alarm system, and other pub
lie purposes, not in competition with
he business carried on hereunder by
the grantee, it's SUCCESSORS and assigns,
the City to string it's own wires and
maintain and operate the same so as
not to interfere WIN the use of said
grantees poles, and to string and
maintain such City wires at the ex-
pense of the said City.
SecC1On D. mat whenever any per-
son shall have obtained permission to
Use any street of the city for remOv
ng building, the said grantee, its
successors and assigns. uOOn 48 hours
notice from the city, shall raise or
remove any of their wires which may
'bstruct the removal of such building.
so as to allow the passage of such
building across, but not along for a
greater distance than one block, any
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the said grantee, it's successors and as
signs, may be erected; provided that
such crossing shall be done at such
reasonable hour and in such reasonable
manner as shall cause the least in
reference with the operation of the
ines of the grantee. its successors and
assigns; provided the party so remov-
ing any building shall pay the actual
costs of removing said wires.
Section Z. The said Northwestern
Corporation, for itself and it's sue
cessors and assigns, shall, within six
ty days from the date of this ordinance
shall take effect, file with the city
clerk of said City, it's written accept
2nce of the terms and conditions of
this ordinance. otherwise this Ordi-
nance shall be and become void from
and after the expiration of said sixty
days.
declared to be a substitute for ordi-
nance No S44, and shall in all respects,
Ipon the the grantee, it's successors or
assigns, fling with the city clerk of
said City the written acceptance men
toned in Section Seven hereof, super
sede and take the place of ordinance
Ne Bf4 and shall be continuation OF
he terms herein stated of said Ordi-
nance No. S44.
Section g. This ordinance shall take
Effect and be in force from and after
i've days after it's passage. aDprOva'
and publication. This ordinance is
subject to Ordinance No. 901, as t.
regulations.
Passed the Council November %.
1909
T. D. S, HART, City Clerk.
Approved, Now "a. 1909.
EUGENE TAUSICK.
Mayor.
Published in Eve ming Statesman,
Nov. &c, 1909.
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