The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-10-30

during the continuance OF this franz
chise, and should the city from time
to time add additional hydrants to-
said number Of c.:ghty-three 00 as at
present located and as above provide
ed for, it shall pay for each additional
hydrant so installed the sum Of Forty
Dollars ($400O annually during the
period covered by this franchise.
Any money due the grantee or his
assigns arising out of the provisions
Of this ordinance remaining unpaid
for thirty (3O days after the same be-
comes due and payable shall bear in
terest at the rate of six (6 per cent
per annum until paid.
Section 6. The grantee shall pro-
vide and maintain an electric fire
alarm or telephone system connect
ing the waterworks office with the
pumping plant, which shall be at all
times accessible to the city fire de-
partment or city marshal, so that an
alarm Of fire can be communicated
to the engineer in charge of the pump
ing plant, who shall, upon receiving
said alarm and as speedily as possible,
set the pumping machinery in opera
ton to more fully insure the efficiency
of the fire pressure, and when said
fire pressure is not needed said fire
department or city marshal shall so
notify said engineer at the pumping
plant.
Section z. The city shall have the
free use of water for city offices &C.
cupied for city purposes, for the fire
department for any purpose usually
employed in and around the Fire De-
partments, for churches in the city,
for flushing cutters and sewers and
streets, and for four az drinking
fountains for man and beasts of
burden, but said water for all
such purposes shall not exceed an
average of nine thousand $4,000
gallons per day. For any excess of
this quantity said city agrees to pay
for same under meter rates as here
matter provided for domestic con-
sumers. Water furnished the city
aforesaid shall not be used habitually
by any citizen of Butler, thereby de-
priving the grantee or his assigns of
revenue, and when flushing cutters,
sewers or streets there shall at
all times be attached to the hose
one inch nozzle through which
the water must be discharged,
and the engineer at the pump
ing house shall have been pre-
viously notified of such use. This
section shall not be construed as re-
quiring the grantee to lay any addi-
tional pipe or furnish any fixtures of
the above uses, except the troughs as
now installed. The grantee however
agrees to erect and furnish the water
free through any public ornamental
drinking fountain or fountains that
may be donated to the city by any of
its citizens as a pubic gift or me-
mortal.
Section 8. Within thirty 800 days
after the day on which this ordinance
takes effect the said grantee shall file
his written acceptance or rejection
thereof in the office Of the City Clerk.
Section 9. The city shall have the
option to purchase said waterworks
and appurtenances connected there
with at the expiration of five (5) years
from the date of the acceptance Of
this ordinance and at the expiration of
each succeeding five years thereafter,
by giving notice in writing to said
grantee or his assigns at least three
previous to the expiration of
its time for purchase and by paying
therefor the fair and equitable value
of said works, which value shall be
determined, first, by agreement be-
tween the city and said grantee or
his assigns, and in case they can not
agree, then by arbitrators. If by ar
bitrators the grantee shall select one
arbitrator and the city shall select one
arbitrator. In the event said two ar
oitrators fail to agree then the two
arbitrators shall select a third arbi-
:rator, and in case they cannot agree
Upon a third arbitrator, same may,
It the request of either party, be APP
pointed by the Public Service Com
mission of the State of Missouri, or if
here be no Public Service Commits
lion then by the Governor of the
State, and the decision of any two of
hese arhifrafors shall he hindinU I'M.