The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-06-14
NoIaE OF APPLICATION FoP
AMENDMENT ri sFrarf,rlssr

/ ctu,ss, NDii1E Is HEREBY
~ hs, las required by the Citv
mhafter OF the citv Of Waxahachis
1 leAas' on behalf of The Texas .ong
:, Instance Telephone Company 3
texas corporation, by its President
!. b. Earle, and its Secretary -
Blomeyer, as follows Al
/. That it IL the intention of said
Inc IeXas Long Distance TeIephone
company to apply to the Civ Conn
cii OF the City Of Waxahachie. Texas
az The next regular meeting of the
same, for the passage OF an nrsjn-
aace amending certain prdinane
passed BY the City Council of Gid
city on the firth day OF August.
lyl3, which said ordinance was in
erect the grant OF franchise to the
hfazos Valley Telegraph & Tele-
phone Company, a corporation IN
when said The Texas Long Distance
Ieiephone Company Is the success
sorl granting to said corporation.
It's successors and assigns the right
10 erect, maintain and operate a
telephone exchange in the City of
| W aAahachie, Texas.
That said amendment TO be asked
Tor to said ordinance passed August
I .. 1918. Is as follows:
BE IT ORDAINED by The City
Council OF the City of Waxahachie:
ART. / That the paragraph mark
led tel OF Article 4, Of an ordinance
Ientitled, An ordinance granting to
THE Brazos Valley Telegraph and
Telephone Company and its assigns
the right 70 erect poles and stubs.
and to string and run wlvts along
the straefs, aspnaes, allies. aud pub
lie grounds within the City eff Waxa-
hachie, sIaie Il to the conditions and
limitations herein named, which
said ordinances was passed on the
5th day of August, 1913. be. and it is
hereby cancelled and annulled. and
in its place there shall be substituted
and Is now substituted, the following
paragraph
fel That the maximum rate for
the rental OF their telephones in the
said exchange by residents Of the
City Of Waxahaehis. shall DC $500
per month per telephone for resi-
denees, and the sum Of $3.50 per
month per telephone for straight
lire business houses aud Offices
ART = This ordinace shall not
take effect until The Texas Long
Distance Telephone Company, sue
tessor to the said Rra7os Valley Tel
egraph and Telephone Company, or
its assigns, shall purchase the tele-
phone exchange now operated In the
city of Waxahaehie, BY the South
western Telegraph and Telephone
Company. and shall merge the said
telephone exchange So purchased
with the independent telephone OK
change in the city Of WaXahaca5e.
thereby eliminating the dual or dup
fieate telephones now in this eisy,
and this ordinance shall take effect,
end be in full force Immediately Up
on the completion Of the said mef-
ger
ART. 3: PROVIDED that after
tbe merger Of said telephone eH-
changes in the City OF Waxahachies
all subscribers to said merged eA-
chanae shall have access TO a COM
necsion with the toll lines Of both
The Texas L0ng Distance Telephone
Company or its assigns, anu the
Southwestern Telegraph aadf Fele-
khone Company for soEg qlssa.les
Nnufunieation and shall be provided
IN adequate facilities yor such
ann Nnieations with distfnt points,
aid sNice 10 be as gooa and to be
r9rnisheAat a price ~ exceeding
the price Merged tefbhop le users users
cities for simN sefiee'
Further proviNdknat sd osefioefs
% the merged exanse s1ah nage
he benefit of all ~ rural service wee
sqososq bv both FophNe exchanges
:, Waxahachie EIthoHtN additional
,bar@s 10 said Subscribers.
ApT a. Mis- further provided
that 4'' said telkhone company xhail
~, - allowed rcasonable net NJ
~ its invest lent in the WaHahacn~'
ralenbone change or system ana
i0,+ tha pukose of aseertainihs the
nonnt offhe conpany's net prom
~, w. its loea4 exchange i'll WaXahachie'
- hos; Ion which 10 determine
.ahedaje rates to be charged, the
,e ~ na,,v 4hail be required TO keep
IN "a ,nsin4,io complete and systamat7
G books 1and feeofe9 % 80 - ~, onj
nents nblnd the business "a - 55.s'
- ,he Cit of Waxahaohie and snow
ne its Il Rtire feee,fts ~. @A ~ 'esecnrI
Mi no lppt By competent aceounN
'hasl - tbe manner prescribed by
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