Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-06-05

ceSSofS or assigns, Sflall at any Tine
!or times, after twelve months writ,
| ten notice, commence; the Wpgk o1
laying underground conduits witt
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 zof 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 ninsiy days
from the date 81 che 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 conduits
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, arc unable to agree upon
an arbitrator within ten days, then
and in that event the said arbitrator
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-
I'll of AIc~andria and The said
its successors or assigns. The COM
pensation Of any arbitrator chosen
lnder this section shall be paid by
the said its successors or
assigns.
SECTION I--f'bat the schedule Of
rates for local exchange service now
n force az Alexandria. Virginia, by
he Chesapeake and Potomac Tclc-
lhonc Company of Virginia shall not
DC increased during the life of the
franchise hereby granted without
he 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 its sue
.essors or assigns, agrees Lr give TO
thc City Council Of Alexandria at
least ninety days notice in writing Of
my application to increase local cX-
change rates, to he made to the State
Corporation Commission or 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 Alcxan-
lria twelve telephones, free Of charge
70 be located in such City Offices, eli
zinc houses, schools or police sta
ions within the corporate limits Of
Inc City Of Alexandria. rs may lie dc
;ignatcd b. The said City Council OF
tlexandria, or at the Aims House Of
he City Of Alexandria, in the County
IF Alexandria; the free service shall
&c for municipal business to all tclc-
ohoncs within the area to which 10
al service is furnished to the SUBJ
;cribcrs Of its successors
or assigns in the City Of Alexandria.
SECTION G-Said it's sue
:csSors or assigns, shall at AL times
nc 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 it's Successors or as
signs, agrees by accepting this fran
chisc that The City Council or Alex
andria shall retain and reserve all its
rights, powers and jurisdiction which
it may exercise under its police pow
crs.
SECTION THE rights and privi-
legcs 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 it's poles
wires, conduits and cables from, on,
over, along, in, under and through
the streets, sidcwalks5 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 d 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
it's successors or assigns.
SECTION S-That whenever re-