The Pascagoula chronicle., 1919-11-29
ORDNANCE No. 22.1s1s.

AN ORDINANCE providing for the
lighting of the streets of the City oi
Pascagoula, State of Mississippi. and
providing for a water-works system
for said city, and for supplying its in
habitants with electric light and pow
er 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 to
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 aid
other municipal purposes
BE 1T ORDAINED by the Mayor
and Councilmen of the City Of Pasca-
goula, State of Mississippi:
Section 1. That A. B. Paterson. his
successors and assigns, hereinafter
called the grantees, he, and they are,
hereby granted, franchise for 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
}imis 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,
hereinafter called the grantees, are
hereby granted franchise for a 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
payments to be made, and the cove
nants to be kept and performed by the
city as hereinafter mentioned. the said
shall furnish the City of Pas
cagoula for period of twenty-five (25)
years from the date of the completion
CT the said electric light plant 125
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 (30) minutes after sunset
until thirty 500 minutes before sun
rise the following morning, being ap-
thirty-six hundred (36OO)
hours per year, and shall be supplied
with voltage of not les than twenty
two hundred and forty (2240) volts at
The plant.
For the said lamps the said city
lgrees to pay service charge of fifteen
$4,000 dollars per lamp per year plus
/ rate of five cents per kilowatt hour
'or current consumed by said lamps,
hours consumed per year to
be arrived at by multiplying the watt
age of the lamp by thirty-six hundred
36OO) hours. The sum arrived at by
.dding the service charge Of fifteen
$1,000 dollars per lamp per year to
he consumption arrived at as afore-
'aid for one year shall be payable in
welve (12) equal monthly install
nents on the 18th day Of each month,
,ayment being made the month sue