New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-05-13

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granted, shall take effect from the date
OF the passage and publication Of this
Ordinance, and shall continue for the
period OF twenty years thereafter. Upon
the expiration Of said period, unless the
city shall thereupon or Heretofore
purchase the gas plant and property Of
said grantees or their assigns as herein
before provided, this franchise and the
rights privilege and authority herein
granted shall be extended for an adj
dit tk' period Of Is years. In such
event, however, the grantees and their
assigns shall and will furnish gas to
consumers syn at a maximum price not ex-
ceedlng $l.40 per thousand cubic feet,
with discount of 10 cents per thousand
cubic feet to any and all consumers using
less than 10000 cubic feet Of gas per
month who shall pay their gas bill on or
before the 18th day of the month follow
ing that in which the gas was consumed
and bill rendered, and with discount
OF y cents per thousand cubic feet for
all consumers SO paying their gas bills
who shall use over 10000 cubic feet and
less than 10000 cubic feet per month;
and with discount of 20 cents per
thousand cubic feet for all consumers
so paying their gas bills who shall use
over 10000 cubic feet and less than
10000 cubic feet per month, and with
a discount OF Is cents per thousand cubic
feet Tor all consumers so paying their
gas bills who shall use over 10000 cubic
feet OF gas per month; provided, how
ever, that the grantees and their assigns
shall be permitted to make and collect
minimum charge of so cents per month
from each and every consumer whose
meter does not show consumption of
gas which figured at the current price
therefor shall equal such minimum
charge, and provided, however, that in
the event of such extension that the city
OF New Ulm may at its option at any
time during the period of said extension
ask for readjustment and regulation
:of the rates so charged by the grantees
and their assigns for gas, and in the event
that the grantees and their assigns and
the city of New Ulm shall not agree upon
the rates SO to be charged for gas, then
and in that event said matter shall be
referred to a board of adjustment to
consist of three persons, one to be named
by the City of New Ulm, one by the
grantees or their assigns, and the third
by these two. In the event that the two
adjusters first named shall fail for ten
days to agree upon the third, such third
adjuster shall be appointed by the Judge
OF the District Court of Brown County,
Minnesota, upon the application Of either
party. The determination of any two
OF said adjusters shall be final and con-
elusive upon all parties, it being under
stood that the price to be fixed by them
for gas shall under no circumstances
exceed the maximum price herein speci-
fed.
The City of New Ulm shall have
the right at its option, at the end of each
five-year period during any extension
OF this Ordinance, to purchase the gas
plant, mains, pipes and entire works and
property of the grantees and their as
signs, for the price and upon the terms,
and in the manner provided in Section
10 of said Ordinance 81"
Section 6. Section 10 of said Or
dinance No. 81 is hereby amended by
adding thereto the following paragraph,
to wit: 1.-THE City Of New Ulm, by such
person or persons as it may from time
to time designate for that purpose, shall
at any time that it has under considera-
ton the purchase Of the gas plant and
property of said grantees and their
assigns, as provided in this section, have
the right to inspect all of the books and
records of said grantees and their as
signs"
Section z. The provisions of any
and all ordinances inconsistent herewith
are hereby repealed.
Section s. This = ordinance shall
take effect and be in force from and after
its passage, approval and publication.
Passed May II, 1914.
Theo. Mueller
President of the City Council.
Attest:
VIM. Backer
City Clerk.
Approved May II, 1914.
L. A. Fritsche,
Mayor.
Seal, City of New Ulm.
Realty Transfer
William G. Frank to Jens Rasmussen, L
/ and 2 B 8 Knudson's Add, Evan,
MINI !, 1925.