Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-11-29

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such test more than Two Dollars
$4,000. Any meter 20 failing to regis
ter correct shall be removed and q
Ecorrect meter furnished for said con-
sumer.
Section 9. The City Of Baxter
Springs, Kansas, agrees to order In
and hereby does ordor and authorize
che Grantee to install ~ soon ~ pos
sibls, and agrees to pay tor ut the
rates hereinbefor0 provided for,
enough MIGRANTS Tor hro protection
tor the City (same 10 be located by
The proper authorities ~ herein pro-
vided tori ~ will amount to not less
than One Hundred Dollars ($lOO.OO)
per month; and the City further
agrees to continue to use said fire
hy drants for lire protection and to
pay the Grantee therefor at the rates
herein provided for, SO that it shall
pay the Grantee not less than One
hundred Dollars (S100.00) each anu
every month for Fire Protection dur
ing the life Of this grant.
All fire plugs shall be placed and
installed at such locations as may be
designated by proper action OF the
City Council in regular session.
Section z. The Grantee shall dur
ing the first seventeen (17) years OIL
thus grant when ordered SO to do as
herein provided, install such addition
al fire MIGRANTS az the City Councll
may order along such mains then eA-
lsting, and shall extend his mains
for q distance not to exceed tour
hundred (4O0) feet to reach any such
new hydrant ordered installed by the
City. 1t being the intention that the
Grantee need not extend his mains
Tor Fire Protection unless the City
shall agree to have installed and pay
Tor one az hydrant for each tour
hundred (400) feet OF main laid. Ii
at the end Of seventeen (17) years
The City Council shall give the Gran
tee q new franchise for aNperiod OF
twenty (20) years, then the Grantee
shall be bound to continue to make
extensions Tor fire hydrants during
the life of the new franchise upon
the terms provided for If the Council
SO desire TO do, but II the franchise
is not granted at the expiration Oh
the seventeen (l7) years period, then
during the last three ~ years Oh
This grant the Grantee shall not be
compelled to install any ire MIGRANTS
unless they SO desire. The Grantee
shall, however, furnish service tor
any hydrants that the City itself
and at its own expense may install
and pay Tor during the last three ~
years of this grant, and shall make
he actual connection at the point OF
the beginning Of the extension where
same IONS their own mains, to any
that the City shall lay Tor fire hy-
Grants, said connection to be made al
the Grantees expense and the Gran
tee shall charge the City for Fire
Hydrants under these conditions al
The same rates as hereinbetore pro-
vlded for, but shall be compelled "
pay to the City each year at the rate
ot six 90 per cent on the amount OF
the investment made by the City III
making such extensions for Fire Hy-
Grants provided that the cost OF such
extensions by the City are reasonable.
The Grantee shall only install and
make extensions Tor Fire HydranLs
wnen Ordered so to do by the City
Council, upon a duly authorized anu
regularly passed and recorded reso-
luton OF the said City Council order
ing the Grantee SO TO do, and pro-
wang for the paying TO the Grantee
at the regular monthly rate for sail
hydrant, anu Grantee shall be tur-
nished q certified copy OF said res0-
luton, said certified copy being sign
ed by the Mayor and certified to by
the Clerk, and thereafter the Gran
zee shall within sixty 1907 days time
make the installation of said hydrant
or the necessary extension tor said
hydrant and install same as provided
Tor in the certified copy OF the reso-
luton.
Section 8. The Mayor, City Coun-
ell, City Engineer or other duly auth
orized City Official or Officials, shall
have the right to confer with the
Grantee relative to the installation
Of mains, pipes and Migrants or other
appliances, to inspect the installation
OF same at the City's expense and
che Grantee agrees 70 abide by any
reasonable instruction OF such City
Officials as to the installation Of new
work in connection with the water
system, and to the end that such sys-
TEN when reconstructed, shall be d
circulating system.
Section 8. The City of Baxter
Springs agrees to levy q sufficient
tax for the specific purpose Of pro-
viding funds with which to pay
monthly on or before the fifteenth
u5th) Of each month, the amount due
the Grantee for Fire Protection and
other water service supplied for the
previous month and to set such
amounts aside in fund for this par
tlcular purpose.
Section 10. The City Of Baxter
Springs, Kansas, shall have the right
at the expiration of ten (10) year.
from the date when this Franchise
becomes effective, and at the expir
alton of any one ~ year period
thereafter, by giving six (6) month
notice m writing OF its intention 50
to do, to purchase and take over all
machinery, mains, pipes and any and
every kind Of appliances, real or per-
sonal property, used by the Grantee,