The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-09-04

of this ordinance, SO enlarge, extend,
improve and equip its electric light
plant in the City of Palatka, that it
will then be capable of Furnishing ALI
electric lights and power required un-
Ger the terms of this ordinance that
may be necessary to then supply the
Demand and requirement OF the busi-
ness and people of the City
of Palatka then attached, and
from time to time so continue
to improve and extend said plant
as to meet the growing demand
of Palatka, so that said plant shall
at all times be capable of providing
ample and sufficient electricity, light
and power for the City of Palatka;
and the said Grantees shall within the
nine months begin the operation of
said electric plant and shall thereaf-
ter operate the same on a twenty
four hour per day schedule, and con-
tinue so to operate the same day and
night, thereby giving a continuous
electric current for all necessary pur-
poses during the life of this franchise,
excepting failures caused by the act
VI hou, wal, SIl lhCo, anu una OiN''"iN
accidents.
Section II. The said Grantees
shall provide and keep in repair one
cross arm on each pole when request
ed by the City Council, for the free
use of the City of Palatka in opera
ting a police or fire alarm system or
both and shall also provide and equip
the power plant of the Grantees here
in with fire alarm whistle, and shall
upon notice by the City or its authorl-
ties, cause to be blown a fire alarm
upon said fire alarm whistle indicat-
ing the ward within which fire may
occur.
Section II. The City of PalatkG
gives and grants the franchise, rights
and privileges herein set forth, res
CRYING the right and requiring the
Grantees as a condition precedent to
the taking effect of this grant to give
and grant to the City of Palatkl the
right and privilege at the periods of
ten, twenty and thirty years from the
passage of this ordinance to purchase
said plant or plants used under ard
in connection with the franchise and
rights hereby granted IN accordance
with the laws of the State of Florida,
at a valuation of the property real
and personal, which valuation shall be
fixed by arbitration as may he proyid-
ed by law provided, however, that
should the City elect to purchase at
the ten, or twenty year period, the
Grantees shall have three months no
tice of such intention on the part II
the City to do so.
Section 10. The said Grantees
shall, whenever requested by the said
City, extend it's wires and install
street lights at such places within the
City of Palatka as the said City may
REQUIRE, provided the said Grantees
shall be paid for at least one street
light for every seven hundred and
fifty feet of extension.
Section IA. A substantial failure
on the part Of the Grantees herein
to comply with the terms and provis-
ions of this ordinance shall work a
forfeiture thereof. provided, however,
that there shall be no forfeiture I'M
less declared by the said City, for le-
gal cause on substantial grounds.
Section IS. That the written ac-
ceptance of the provisions of this or
dinance by the Grantees as herein
provided, shall be taken and constru-
ed to be a surrender by said Grantees
of all rights, privileges, franchises
and powers granted to said Grantees
under and by virtue of an ordinance
entitled "An Ordinance to Grant
Cor+oin privi1epes TO the Palatka Gas
Light & Fuel COMPANY passed in
open council October Goth, 1885 and
nqssed by the council over the may
or's veto, October 9th, 1885.
Section 16. That the said Grantees
shall furnish to the said City of Pa
Jatka. free of charge, lights for the
City Hall Building.
Section II. The said City of Pa
Iatka does hereby reserve unto itself
the right and privilege to at any time,
erect, install and operate an electric
li"ht and gas plant or plants in said
Citv
--o~ts of ordinances in conflict with
the provisions of this ordinance be
ard the same are hereby repealed.
Passed in open council this DIST day
of August, A. D. 1914.
(SFAL) ]. II. YFLVEPTON. Jr.,
President City Council
w. A. WILLIAMS. Jr.,
City Clerk.
Approved this DIST day of August,
A. D. 1914.