Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-11-08
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Springs, Kansas, agrees to order II
and hereby does order and authorize
the Grantee TO install as soon a. pos
sible, and agrees TO pay for at the
rates hereinbefore provided for
enough hydrants for fire protection
for the City (same to be located By
the proper authorities as herein pro
vided for) rs will amount TO not lesi
than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00)
per month; and the City further
agrees to continue to use said fire
hydrants for fire protection and Il
pay the Grantee therefor at the rates
herein provided for, so that It shall
pay the Grantee not less than One
Hundred Dollars ($100.00) each anC
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 Of
this grant when ordered so to do as
herein provided, install such addition
al fire hydrants as the City Council
may order along such mains then ex-
isting, and shall extend his mains
for O distance not to exceed -four
hundred (400) feet to reach any such
new hydrant ordered installed by the
City. It being the intention that the
Grantee need not extend his mains
for Fire Protection unless the City
shall agree to have installed and pay
for one (1) hydrant for each four
hundred (400) feet of main laid. II
at the end Of seventeen (17) years
the City Council shall give the Gran
tee O new franchise for a period OF
twenty COY years, then the Grantee
shall be bound to continue to make
extensions for fire hydrants during
the life of the new franchise upon
the terms provided for if the Council
so desire to do, but If the franchise
is not granted at the expiration OF
the seventeen az years period, then
during the last three (3) years OF
this grant the Grantee shall not be
compelled to install any fire hydrants
unless they so desire. The Grantee
shall, however, furnish service for
any hydrants that the City itself
and at its own expense may install
and pay for during the last three (3)
years of this grant, and shall make
the actual connection at the point of
the beginning of the extension where
same joins their own mains, to any
that the City shall lay for fire hy-
drants, said connection to be made at
the Grantees expense and the Gran
tee shall charge the City for Fire
Hydrants under these conditions at
the same rates as hereinbefore pro-
vided for, but shall be compelled to
pay to the City each year at the rate
of six (6) per cent on the amount of
the investment made by the City in
making such extensions for Fire Hy-
drants provided that the cost of such
extensions by the City are reasonable.
The Grantee shall only install and
make extensions for Fire Hydrants
when ordered SO to do by the City
Council, upon o duly authorized and
regularly passed and recorded reso-
luton of the said City Council order
ing the Grantee so to do, and pro-
viding for the paying to the Grantee
at the regular monthly rate for said
hydrant, and Grantee shall be fur
nished a certified copy of said reso-
luton, said certified copy being sign
ed by the Mayor and certified to by
the Clerk, and thereafter the Gran
tee shall within sixty (60) days time
make the installation of said hydrant
or the necessary extension for said
hydrant and install same as provided
for in the certified copy of the reso-
luton.
Section 8. The Mayor, City Coun-
Gil, 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 hydrants or other
appliances, to inspect the installation
of same at the City's expense and
the Grantee agrees to 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 q
circulating system.
Section 8. The City of Baxter
Springs agrees to levy a sufficient
tax for the specific purpose of pro-
viding funds with which to pay
monthly on or before the fifteenth
(15th) 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 a fund for this par
ticular purpose.
Section 10. The City of Baxter
Springs, Kansas, shall have the right
at the expiration of ten (10) years
from the date when this Franchise
becomes effective, and at the expir-
alton of any one ~ year period
thereafter, by giving six (6) months
notice in writing of its intention SO
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,
his heirs or assigns, in the operation
Of the water works system in the City
of Baxter Springs, and to pay there
for the sum arrived at, and in the
manner provided for under the Stat
utes Of the State of Kansas, or may
if the Grantee and the City Council
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