Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-11-15

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Section 6. The City of Baxter
Springs, Kansas, agrees to order In
and hereby does order and authorize
the Grantee to install 90 soon 90 pos
slble, and agrees 10 pay for at the
rates hereinbefore provided for,
enough hydrants for fire protection
for the City (same 10 be located by
the proper authorities as herein pro-
yided for) as will amount to not less
than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00)
Der month; and the City further
agrees to continue to use said fire
hydrants for FIRE protection and to
pay the Grantee therefor at the rates
herein provided for, so that It shall
nav the Grantee not less than One
Hundred Dollars ($lO0.OO) each and
every month for Fire Protection dur
ing the life Of this grant.
All fire plugs shall be placed and
installed ut 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 az years OF
this grant when ordered so to do as
herein provided, install such addition:
al fire hydrants rs the City Council
may order along such mains then ex-
isting, and shall extend his mains
for distance not to exceed four
hundred (400) feet to reach any such
new hydrant ordered installed by the
City. II 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 ID 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 q new franchise for period OF
twenty (20) 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 II the Council
so desire to do, but If the franchise
is not granted at the expiration Of
the seventeen az years period, Their
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 fol
any hydrants that the City Itself
and ut its own expense may install
and pay for during the last three 81
years Of this grant, and shall make
the actual connection ut the point Of
the beginning Of the extension where
same joins their own mains, to any
that the City shall lay for fire by
drants, said connection to be made a
the Grantees expense and the Gran
tee shall charge the City for Fir'
Hydrants under these conditions o.
the same rates as hereinbefore pro
vided for, but shall be compelled Il
pay to the City each year at the rat'
of six (6) per cent on the amount o.
the investment made by the City II
making such extensions for Fire by
drants provided that the cost Of sucl
extensions by the City are reasonable
The Grantee shall only install AMI
make extensions for Fire Hydrant
when ordered SO to do by the Cit!
Council, upon a duly authorized ant
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 Grante'
at the regular monthly rate for SAT-
hydrant, and Grantee shall be fur
nished n certified copy of said reso
luton, said certified copy being sign
ed by the Mayor and certified to b.
the Clerk, and thereafter the Gran
tee shall within sixty 1907 days tim
make the installation of said hydran
or the necessary extension for sal,
hydrant and install same as provides
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 tn
Grantee relative to the installation
of mains, pipes and hydrants or Othe
appliances, to inspect the installation
of same at the City's expense an
the Grantee agrees to abide by an,
reasonable instruction of such Cit,
Officials as to the installation Of new
work in connection with the waite
system, and to the end that such sys
TEN when reconstructed, shall be
circulating system.
Section 9. The City of Baxte
Springs agrees to levy a sufaicien
tax for the specific purpose Of pro
viding funds with which to pa,
monthly on or before the ffteent
| (15th) Of each month, the amount du
the Grantee for Fire Protection an
other water service supplied for tn
previous month and to set sue
amounts aside in q fund for this par
ticular purpose.
Section 10. The City of Baxte
Springs, Kansas, shall have the RICH
at the expiration of ten (10) year
from the date when this Franchis
becomes effective, and at the expiI
alton Of any one ~ year perio
thereafter, by giving six (6) month
notice in writing of its intention
to do, to purchase and take over q
machinery, mains, pipes and any an
every kind Of appliances, real or pei
sonal property, used by the Grante'
his heirs or assigns, in the operatio
of the water works system in the Cit
of Baxter Springs, and to pay there
for the sum arrived at, and in tn