The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-10-01
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
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(OFFICIAL.)
Council Chambers, September 10, 1915
Meeting called to order by Mayor
Fales. Roll call-Present, Aid. Ben
edict, Shawley, Hollenbeck, and Pur.
dy. Absent, Aid. Friedly & McCue
Present az. Absent (2).
Minutes of the previous meeting
read and approved.
The following ordinance No. $50 OF
the city of Bedding relative to the
advance in the price Of gas was read
Ordinance No. $50 of the city OF
Belding.
An ordinance to amend Section No
three CD of ordinance number sixty.
six (66) of the city of Belding, being
an ordinance granting to Henry J
Leonard, his successors and assigns
franchise and right to use the
streets, lanes, alleys and public
grounds, of said city, for the purpose
of laying pipes and erecting lamp
posts for conveying gas to supply SAID
city and the inhabitants thereof, with
gas for illuminating and heating
purposes, adopted and approved by
the Common councif on the 4th day
of November A. ID. 1904.
The city of Bedding ordains:
Section 1, Section number three (3)
of ordinance number sixty-six (66)
being an ordinance granting to Henry
j. Leonard, his successors and assigns
franchise and right to use the
streets, lanes, alleys and public
grounds of said city for the purpose
of laying pipes and erecting lamp
posts for conveying gas to supply
said city and the inhabitants thereof
with gas for Illuminating purposes
adopted and approved by the Common
Council on the 4th day of November
A. ID. 1904. is amended to read as
follows: ~
Section 3, The franchise hereby
granted is upon the express condi.
ton that said Henry j. Leonard, his
successors and assigns, shall com
mence the construction Of gas plant
or works within said city on or be.
fore the first day of July A. d. 1905
and complete and commence to cper.
ate the same on or before tn first day
of December, A. d. 1906; that sale
plant or works shall be constructed
according to modern methods and gas
for illuminating and heating purposes
shall be furnished to said city and the
inhabitants thereof on equal terms
and conditions, for five years from
the date of the acceptance Of this
ordinance, at not to exceed one dollar
and fifty cents ($1.50) for one thous.
and cubic feet and thereafter ant
until the 1st day of October, A. ID
| 1919, at rate not to exceed one dol.
lar and twenty-five cents ($1.25) pei
thousand cubic feet of gas and from
the first day of October, A. ID. 1919 tt
the 1st day of October A. ID. 1921 al
a rate of not to exceed one dollar anc
| fifty cents ($1.50) per thousand fee
of gas and thereafter and from the
said LIST day of October A. ID. 1921
during the life of the franchise, al
not to exceed one dollar and twenty.
five cents ($1.25 per thousand cubic
feet of gas, provided that nothing il
this ordinance contained, shall bs
construed as an obligation on the part
Of said city to use and pay for gas
unless the same shall be hereafter
contracted for by the Common Coun,
Gil of the said city.
Section 2, This ordinance shall bt
known as ordinance No. 100 Of the
city of Bedding and shall take effect
from and after the LIST. day of Octo'
Der A. ID. 1919 and upon the accep.
lance thereof in writing, by the sale
Henry j. Leonard, his successors and
assigns.
Elmer K. Fales
/ hereby certify that the foregoing
ordinance, No. $50 was presented t.
the Mayor, signed by him and return.
ed to me on the 10Th day Of September
A. ID. 1919, and that said ordinance
was published in the Belding Ban
ner-Newsi "a newspaper published
and circulated in the city of Belding
and being the official paper of sale
city, on the Gath day Of September
A. ID. 1919.
In witness whereof, have hereun
to set my hand and affixed the sea
Of the city Of Belding, on the 19tl
! day of September, A. d. 1919.
Clellie s. Hoover, City Clerk.
Adopted and approved this 19tl
! day Of September, A. ID. 1919.
Elmer f. Fales, Mayor
Belding, Mich, Sept. 10, 1911!
| To the Hon. Mayer and Common
Council of the city Of Belding:
| Gentlcmen:-
| The undersigned. successor
! to Henry j. Leonard, named in ordi
| nance No. Sc of the city Of Bedding
adopted and approved November
| 1904, hereby accepts the provision o
| Ordinance No. $50 adopted and an
proved the 10th day of September A
| ID. 1919. and which amends Section
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