The Pascagoula chronicle. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1905-1920, 1919-12-20

ORDINANCE No. 22-ts1e.

Pascagoula, State OF MISSISSIPPI, anC
providing for a water-works system
for said city, and for supplying its in
habitants with electric light and pow
err and water and authorizing A. b
Paterson, his successors and assigns
TO purchase or construct, and to main
tain and operate an electric light and
power plant in said city and water
works plant in said city, and to lay
erect, maintain and operate poles
wires, transformers and water mains
and pipes in, along, over and upon the
streets and alleys and public places OF
said city; and contracting with the
said A. b. Paterson with regard ia
the rates to be charged by him. his
successors and assigns to the inhabi
tants of said city for electric lights
and water; and contracting with the
said A. b. Paterson for municipal lights
for the said city to light the streets
and alleys of said city, and for furnish
ing to said city water for fire and
other municipal purposes.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor
and Councilmen of the City of Pasca-
goula, State of Mississippi:
Section l. That A. B. Paterson, his
successors and assigns, hereinafter
called the grantees, he, and they are,
hereby granted, franchise for a peri
cd of twenty-five (25) years, subject
only to the conditions herein con-
tanned, to erect maintain and operate
an electric light and power plant or
plants within the present and future
limis of the City of Pascagoula, State
of Mississippi, and to use the streets,
alleys and public places of said city
for the erection of poles, wires and
other appliances and appurtenances,
necessary or proper, for the genera
ton and transmission of electrical en-
ergy.
Section 2. That the said A. B. Pat
erson, his successors and assigns,
hereby granted franchise for peri
cd of twenty-five (25) years from the
date hereof, subject only to the con-
ditions herein contained to erect
maintain and operate waterworks
plant or plants within the present and
future limits of said city, for the lay
ing and maintenance of mains, pipes,
services, plugs and other appliances
and appurtenances necessary and prop
er for the operation of said plant, and
the distribution of water among the |
of the city of Pascagoula. |
Section 3. In consideration Of the I
payments to be made, and the cove
nants to be kept and performed by the |
city as hereinafter mentioned. the said |
grantee shall furnish the City of Pas
cagoula for period Of twenty-five (25) |
years from the date of the completion |
Of the said electric light plant 1876 |
Tungsten street lamps, said lamps to be |
located by the said mayor and council |
men of the said city: said lamps to be |
kept by the grantee in good repair and |
to be lighted every night in the year
from thirty 500 minutes after sunset |
until thirty 500 minutes before sun
rise the following morning being ap-
thiriy-six hundred (3600) I
hours per year, and shall be e.n,,ied
witt a voltage Of ne' - -.
-. hundred ard forty (224oJ volts at
the plant
For the said lamps the said city
agrees to pay a service charge of fifteen |
$4,000 dollars per lamp per year plus |
a rate of five cents per kilowatt hour |
for current consumed by said lamps, |
kilowatt hours consumed per year to /
be arrived at by multiplying the watt
10000 hours The sum arrived at by |
adding the service charge of fifteen !
(S15.00) dollars per lamp per year to |
the consumption arrived at as afOre-
said for one year shall be payable in
twelve 12) equal monthly Install
ments on the 18th day of each month,
payment being made the month sue
ceeding when the service is rendered.
The said lamps shall be kept burn
ing all night during every night in the
year. but in case of outages. then an
amount shall be deducted each month
for the number of hours any lamp or
lamps are out, at the rate in proper
ton to the amount the city is paying
for the current consumed.
Section 4. In consideration of the
to be made and the cove
nants to be kept and performed by the
said city as hereinafter mentioned, the
said grantees shall furnish the said city
Of Pascagoula for a period of twenty
FIVE t25) years from this date "a fire
plugs of uniform and standard type
with its water main, and
shall furnish a water pressure on its
mains of not less than fortythree t43)
pounds. and in case of. and during the =
existence of fire witt. n the corporate d..
limits of ;s'd city, the grantee shall
'aise or increase such pressure as re-
luired to not less than one hundred
md twenty-five (125) pounds, and
said pressure of one hundred
nd twenty-five t125) pounds on the I
mains as long as may be necessary to ,
such fire. Such necessity
D be indicated by order of the chief of
be fire department or in his absence
is substitute or authorized represen-
tive, who shall have authority to I