Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-06-17

cessors or assigns, shall at any time
or times, after twelve months writ
ten notice, commence the work Of
laying underground conduits with
the necessary manholes and appli
anceS.
The total amount Of underground
conduits which the said Its
successors or assigns, shall be re.
quired to lay during the life of this
franchise shall not be in excess OF
seventy-eight hundred feet to be laid
in such amounts and at such times
as may be ordained by the City Coun-
ell of Alexandria, provided that the
said its successors or
assigns, shall not be required by said
City Council of Alexandria to lay the
total amount herein provided for in
less period than three years from
the commencement of this franchise.
In event that the City Engineer and
the Committee on Streets and the
said its successors or
assigns, cannot agree, in ninety days
from the date of the service Of the
aforesaid notice upon the location
of said underground conduits, then
and in that event third person shall
be chosen arbitrator by the City
Engineer, the Committee on Streets,
and the said Its successors or
assigns, whose decision as to the To-
cation of said underground condults
shall be final and binding on the City
Council of Alexandria and the said
Its successors or assigns
In the event that the City Engineer
the Committee on Streets and the
said its successors
or assigns, are unable to agree upon
an arbitrator within ten days, then
and in that event the said arn,tra1or
shall be appointed by the Judge of the
Sixteenth judicial Circuit of the state
OF Virginia, and his decision as To
the location of said conduits shall be
final and binding on the City Coun-
Gil OF alexandria and the said
It's successors or assigns. The COM
pensation of any arbitrator chosen
under this section shall be paid by
Ihe SAID its successors or
assigns.
SECTION 4-Thar the schedule of
rates for local exchange service now
IN force at Alexandria, Virginia, by
the Chesapeake and Potomac TeIe-
phone Company of Virginia shall not
be increased during the life of the
franchise hereby granted without
the consent of the State Corporation
Commission of Virginia, or such other
body as may have jurisdiction over
telephone local exchange rates in the
State of Virginia.
And the said it's Sic
cessors or assigns, agrees to give to
the City Council of Alexandria at
least ninety days notice in writing of
any application to increase local ex-
change rates, to be made to the State
Corporation Commission OF to any
other body having jurisdiction over
telephone local exchange rates in the
state OF virginia.
SECTION 5.-That the said
its successors or assigns, shall fur
nish to the City Council of Alexan-
dria twelve telephones, free of charge
to be located in such City Offices, en-
CINE houses, schools or police sta
tions within the corporate limits of
the City Of Alexandria, as may be de-
signated by the said City Council Of
Alexandria, or at the Aims House Of
the City of Alexandria, in the County
of Alexandria; the free service shall
be for municipal business to all tele-
phones within the area to which To-
cal service is furnished TO the sub
scrlberS of its successors
or assigns in the City of Alexandria.
SECTION 6-Said its sue
cessors or Assigns, shall at all times
he subject to the City ordinances now
in existence, or which may be here
after passed relative to the use of its
streets, sidewalks, public alleys and
other public ways and places, and the
said its successors or as
sigrs, agrees by accepting this fran
chise that the City Council OF Alex
andria shall retain and reserve all its
rights, powers and jurisdiction which
it may exercise under it's police pow
crS.
SECTION THE rights and privi-
leges hereby granted shall continue
for twenty-five years, unless sooner
forfeited, and unless this franchise is
renewed in the manner provided by
law, the said Its successors
or assigns. shall upon the termination
Of the franchise remove its poles
wires, conduits and cables from, on,
over, along, in, under and through
the streets, sidewalks, public alleys
and other public ways and places in
the City of Alexandria, and shall re-
under the supervision of the City
place the portion of said streets, side
walks, public alleys and other pub
lie ways and places occupied by it.
Engineer and the Committee on
Streets in good condition and of like
material, within a reasonable time;
or in case of failure so to do the City
Council of Alexandria may have the
said work done and the expenses there
of shall be paid by the said
its successors or assigns,