The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-18

Lee c. Bradley, counsel for the Bir- mingham Railway. Light & Power Company embodying the late proposal of the company to reduce current charges, arc light charges and the street car fare to Ensley, were received Monday by the Board of Commission CTS.
 The contracts were drawn up separ- ately. One of them has to do with the cent car fare to Ensley. The other deals in the electric current exclu- siveIy.
 become operative. must be adopted by the commissioners will perhaps have the attention of that body shortly. The commissioners are studying the two or dinances with the view of fully &C., Quainting themselves with the various provisions.
 It is expressly stipulated in the light ordinance that the city may build, buy or operate its own plant at any time and that the people may at any time purchase their electricity from any firm or corporation. The provisionr is also in the ordinance that the city may have access to the books of the com pany at any reasonable time to look into charges.
 The contracts as drawn up follow: The proposed ordinance reducing the Ensley car fare to cents and regu- lating the usee of transfers is as fol- lows:
 Be it ordained by the Board of Com missioners of the city of Birmingham that the president of the board of com missioners be and he is hereby author ized and directed, in the name and be- half of the city of Birmingham to enter into contract with the Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Company, in words and figures as follows, to wit: This indenture between the city of Birmingham, municipal corporation, hereinafter, for convenience, called the city. of the first part. and the Birming- ham Railway, Light & Power company, corporation, hereinafter for conven- fence. called the company, of the second part, executed this the-day of, A. D., 1911. "Witnesseth: That, whereas, the company has heretofore charged a fare of 10 cents per passenger for the car riase of passengers from points west of Thomas station to points east of East Thomas station. and a like fare per passenger for the carriage of passen- gers from points east of East Thomas station to points west of Thomas sta- tion on the North Ensley line of said company. the termini of which line are at the intersection of Nineteenth street and Avenue E in Ensley and al the intersection of Nineteenth street and First avenue in Birmingham; and has heretofore charged q fare of 10 cents per passenger, for the carriage of passengers from points west of Helena station to points east of Rising station, and like fare per passenger for the carriage of passengers from points east of Rising station to points west of Helena station on the South Ensley
 
 Identical with the termini of the North Ensley line; a transfer valid, under the rules and regulations of the company for the purpose, when presented, being accepted by the company as cents of the 10 cent fare charged on said lines and each passenger paying fare of 10 cents, whether in cash or one-half in cash and one-half by the delivery of a transfer, being entitled to receive a transfer good to such passenger for a 6-cent fare on certain other lines of the company, if valid. under the rules and regulations of the company, for the pur- pose, when presented.
 And. whereas, the city, through it's Board of Commissioners has requested the company to install and hereinafter maintain on both of said lines, in ad- dition to its system of fare and trans 7ers aforesaid, cash fare of 5 cents per passenger for the carriage of pas sengers between all points on either of said lines for which a fare of 10 cents has been heretofore charged, then com pany, however.
 me1tmer receiving transfer in pay
 ment of any part of such cnsh fare
 of cents from, nor issuing n
 transfer to, passenger paying
 such cash fare of cents for car
 x1age between such points, except
 In the case of a passenger carried
 on the South EnsIey and Tuxedo
 lines, between points on the Tux
 edo line east of Tuxedo junction.
 and Birmingham, and who trans- fers from either line to the other at
 Tuxedo Junction, as to all such
 passengers, the request being that
 passenger accepted for carriage
 as aforesaid md paying n cash fare
 of cents on either line shall be
 entitled to receive a transfer good
 to such passenger for carriage on
 the other line, from Tuxedo Junction
 to Birmingham, or to points on the
 tiOn, as the case may be, if vnIid,
 under the rules and regulations of
 the company, for the purpose when
 presented.
 And 1t is expressly understood tha the foregoing recital shall not be con etrued to confer on the company tn right to abandon. qualify or limit an, feature of the system of fares an transfers now maintained on any o