The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-23

work incident thereto shall be paid
and performed by the said town of
Centerville and at its expense. All
spans of the said town of Centerville
crossing tracks or wires OF the said
traction company in or near the said
town shall be not more than seventy
five (75) feet in length, and the con-
struction and maintenance of the
poles and appliances supporting the
wires of all such spans, and all poles.
wires or other structures erected
over upon or Immediately adjacent
TO the right-of-way. tracks or wires of
the said traction company shall be APP
proved by said traction company.
2. Hereafter and during the exist
ence of this contract the burden of
maintaining the appliances and struc
lures used by the said town of Cen
terville from the point of connection
with the high tension wires of the
said company. and of maintaining
regulating and caring for said meter
shall rest exclusively upon said town
of Centerville, excepting, however.
that the party desiring or requesting
the testing or celebration of meter
shall bear and pay the cost thereof
such celebration to be made after due
notice TO and in the presence of the
other party to this contract.
3. The duty of furnishing suitable
structures. wires, poles, lamps for
street and other lights. motors, and
other appliances for furnishing power,
insulation, connections, protective de-
vices and all appliances necessary to
supply the citizens and business
houses of said town for the purposes
herein stated, with light and power
from the point where said connection
is made at said point of connection
with the high tension wires of said
traction company to the various
streets, residences and business
sively with said town of Centerville,
together with the work and cost of
repairing maintaining and replacing
all such appliances, and said traction
company assumes no responsibility in
Connection Herewith. 1t is the pur-
pose of this contract and agreement
that the said town of Centerville shall
furnish electric light to all users in
said town of Centerville, and power to
persons, corporations and business
houses in said town, and to that end
the said town of Centerville
hereby agrees that it will we'll and
truly furnish said light and power to
all persons. corporations and business
institutions in said town applying for
electric light or for power. or both,
and that it will furnish and maintain
suitable and sufficient appliances so
as to give reasonable satisfaction and
service to the Inhabitants of said
town, in this particular, and will sup
ply all such users as may apply for
such service.
4. The said traction company agrees
that during the period of this contract,
and subject to the terms and provis-
ions thereof to deliver to the said
town of Centerville for the purposes
aforesaid high tension current at APP
proximately thirteen thousand, two
hundred Q9,2OO) volts, or thirty-three
thousand (33,000) volts, which deliv-
cry shall take place at the point
where the wires of said town of Cen
terville are attached to the high ten
sion wires of the said traction COM
pany. The meter aforesaid shall be
attached however, at the low voltage
side of said transformers, and shall
be so arranged as to measure the cur
rent at the voltage at which it leaves
said transformer. Said current of
electricity will be furnished only be-
tween the hours of 430 a. m. to mid
night of each week day from October
Is to March Is of the following year
(Sundays eXcepted) and between the
hours of 5 a. m. and midnight all
the other days of the year and such
other times as current is being manu-
featured and furnished upon the trans
mission lines of said traction COM
pany for regular train service, and
said traction company shall not be
obliged to operate its power houses,
lines or sub-stations for the purposes
only of delivering current to said
town of Centerville. Said traction
company shall not be responsible for
any failure to furnish current due to
storms or other weather conditions,
fires, strikes, riots, accidents, break
downs of machinery, plant or appa'
ratus, or other causes not due to its
negligence Said traction company
also reserves the right to cut out the
line through which said current is fur
nished whenever necessary to the
making of repairs; forty-eight (4S)
hours notice of such intention to
make repairs of cut out the line being
given to the town of Centerville by
the traction company, except for
emergency repairs. Said traction com
pany also reserves the right to
change the voltage of the current to
be furnished under this contract, If
such changes are necessary for the
betterment of the service in its bust
ness as a common carrier, and if such
changes shall require a modification
of the structures connecting its wires
with the wires of said town of Center.
Vile, then sucn change shall be made
at the expense of said town of Center
vile, if such changes are made any
time after this contract shall have
been in effect five (5) years, or when
the consumption of current by the
town of Centerville shall exceed the
rated capacity of the original installa
ton. Notice of any such contemplated
change shall be given said town OF
Centerville in sufficient time that il
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