Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-02-12

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assigns. 10 use the streets, squares,
lanes. alleys, and roads, paved or IN
paved. otsthe said city, above the sur
face and the ground beneath the same,
for the conductors or pipes for the
transmission Of gas. both natural ana
artificial and for the construction OF
building OF lines or conductors needed
by IL ia the conduct of manufacturing.
furnishing, selling. or disposlng q gas,
natural or artificial. electric light, heat
and power, in the said City Of Annapo-
lis The said Company shall nle eaeh
year with the Mayor. Counsellor ana
Aldermen Of the City of Annapolis
drawings and plans for each street,
SQUARE. lane. alley and road OF saio
City. uuOn or under which SAID pipes,
poies or conductors are laid or cPh-
structed during the preceding year.
said drawings and plans TO show the
character Of pipes, poles or conductors
laid or erected upon or under the same,
the place Of erection of said poles, or
the construction ano laying Of sald
mines OF conductors and the form and
material of the same. The laying, con-
struction and erection Of SAID pipes
poles. or conductors herein authorized,
and the repairing of the same, SO lar
as the same shall affect the road pea
or sidewalks of said streets, squares,
lanes, alleys and roads, shall be unoer
the supervision of the said Mayor
Counsellor and Aldermen OF the CITY
Of Annapolis. or its duly authorized
agent The said Company snail nii up
and repair any street, lane, alley or
road under which the said pipes or con
ductors may be laid, or upon which the
q hn nWnnfaM and restore
the same to their former condition.
Sec. 2. And be il established and
ordained by the authority aforesaid
that the franchise hereby granted, and
the right of the said company, its sue
cessors, lesses and assigns, to use the
streets, squares, lanes, alleys and
roads, paved or unpaved. as set forth
in the tirst section of this Ordinance,
for any purpose whatever, IS for the
term of fifty years from the date OF
the passage and approval thereof, pro-
vided that the Mayor, Counsellor and
Aldermen Of the City of Annapolis may
renew this franchise at the expiration
of the said period of 6fty years, on
such terms and conditions as they, the
said Mayor, Counsellor and Aldermen
of the City may agree upon, but MOTH
| ing herein contained shall be construed
as comforting any exclusive rights or
franchises or any assent thereto.
Sec. 3. And be it established and
ordained by the authority aforesaid
| that nothing contained in this Ordi-
nance shall be construed as exempting
the said company, its successors, les
sees or assigns, or any of its property
| within the corporate limits of the City
of Annapolis, from pole or conduit
taxes, or from any other taxation for
municipal purposes.
Sec. 4. And be it established and
ordained by the authority aforesaid
/ that the said company. its successors,
| 4 lessees or assigns, shall not, upon being
/ awarded or acquiring the contract for
/ all city electric lighting, charge the
/ Mayor, Counsellor and Aldermen of the
/ City Of Annapolis for electrical energy
| greater rates than the following:
For lighting the streets, squares, al
/ leys, lanes or roads of the City,
| (a) BY arc light. each of nominal
2. 000 candle power, burned from dark
until dawn of every night IN the year,
| $40. per lamp per year.
(b) By incandescent light, each of
| nominal 25 candle power, burned from
| dark until dawn of every night in the
year. Sl2. per lamp per year,
| (c) BY sO-called Tungsten or incande-
| scent fixed sidewalk ornamental FIX
/ lures, each fixture to be equipped with
| one rs candle power lamp and four 40
| candle power lamps, and so arranged
| that the four 40 candle power lamps
| shall be exiting at eleven O'Clock
D. m. on every night of the year, and
| the rs candle power incandescent light
| left burning from dark until dawn
| every night of the year; and further
/ provided that the number of said side
| walk fixtures shall at no time be less
| than ten thus operated. S75. per fixture
per year but the Mayor, Counsellor and
| Aldermen of the City Of Annapolis to
have the privilege of burning all lamps
on each so called Tungsten ornamental
fixture from dark until dawn, but not
less that ten fixtures, every night of the
year at and for Sl00. per fixture per
year.
For lighting buildings owned or oc-
cupied by the Mayor, Counsellor and
| Aldermen Of the City of Annapolis for
municipal purposes, IL cents per 200
watts as registered by properly Install
ed meters; provided, however, that rhe
total electrical energy represented by
electric lights and other appliances in
said buildings shall not exceed an
equivalent of 200 sixteen candle power
carbon 6lament lamps Of approximate
ly so watts each. Provided that while
said rates for public lighting shall not
exceed the maximum rates hereinbe-
fore mentioned, the same shall be fixed
and agreed upon in such contract or
contracts as the said Mayor, Counsellor
and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis
and the said Company may hereafter
make or execute.
Sec. 5. And be it established and
ordained by the authority aforesaid
that the said Company, its successors.
lessees and assigns, shall not charge
any citizen or resident Of the City of
Annapolis TOR furnishing electrical
energy greater rates than the follow
ing:
(a) An installation charge for every
customer connected with meter service
Of one dollar per month.
(b) Ten cents C0c) per kilowatt hour
as measured by meter upon a basis of
two kilowatt per month for so per cent.
of all 16 candle power lamps of so
watts each, or an equivalent thereto.
as connected in or on each consumers
premises, and ~ per kilowatt hour
for the balance of electrical energy
consumed az indicated by meter for
each month subject further to a dis
count of ten per cent on the total bill
including both of the above charges.
provided payment is made to the com
pany on or before the fifteenth day of
each month Of the preceding months
bill.