The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-25
THE VILLAGE CONTRACT
FOR ELECTRIC LIGHTS
Copy of the Agreement Recently Made
With the Twin state Gas and
Electric Company.

The Twin State Gas and Electric
company has been making the changes
in the lighting system on certain
streets as specified in the new con
tract which is publ she'd below for the
information of the people of the VIII
lage.
Articles of agreement, made and
concluded between the village OF Ben
nington, a body corpo ate and polite
situate in the county of Bennington,
state of Vermont, her natter for con
vnienee called the village, as party
OF the first part, and Twin State Gas
and Electric company, its successors
or assigns, corporation created, or
ganized, existing and doing business
under and by virtue of the laws of the
state OF Connecticut, owning and OPP
Grating the gas and electric plants al
Bennington, county OF Bennington,
state of Vermont, hereinafter for
convenience sake called the company,
as party of the second part.
Witnesseth that whereas both par
ties hereto are DESTROYS of obtaining
the best system Of street lighting for
the village of Remington at the least
possible expense to its inhabitants.
Now the efore, it Is mutually under
stood and agreed by and between the
parties hereto, that both parties shall
and hereby do enter into and are
bound by the following agreement for
a period of five years from the first
day of December, A. d., 1919.
Item l. The company agrees to
make changes in and additions to the
present street lighting system without
expense to the village in accordance
with the company's offer in its letter
dated November &c, 1919, and adj
dressed to Lee C. Warner, chairman
of the street lighting committee, said
changes to be approximately as fol
lows:
On Main street, Depot street. North
street and South street: Remove
nineteen so cp. and thirteen $50 cp.
lamps replacing them with seven $50
cp. Mazda &c" lamps on ornamental
brackets. If it is found to be imprac-
ticable to place the ornamental brack-
cts on the present poles owing to the
present location of electric Sight or
signal wires some special arrange
ment satisfactory to the lighting COM
mittee will be made for suppo. ting the
400 cp. type "C'' lamps in the proper
fixture.
Item 2.-For these changes and adj
ditions the village agrees to pay the
company an additional sum of 1885 |
per year, the price per lamp per year
for the present installation, the |
changes. and any additions thereto be- |
ing as follows:
so cp lamps S $500 per year
ESQ cp. lamps 5000 per year
400 cp. lamps 5000 per year
500 cp lamps 1000 per year
Item ALL street lights covered /
by this contract are to be lighted and I
kept burning from one-half hour after
sunset to one-half hour before sunrise,
each and every night during the year.
I Item 5.-lf the company, through ac
cident, neglect or otherwise. fails to
have lighted the street lights herein
contracted for, upon each and every
night. when under the terms of this
contract, the streets should be light
ed the village may deduct such pro
portionate sum for the payment to be
made to the company as the number
of nights during which no light Is
furnished bears to the number OF
nights during which light should BIZ
furnished.
Item 6.-The company agrees to add
any of the above sizes of lamps. if or.
dered by the village within a period
of two years from the date this con
tract, provided the locations of the
same are not moro than 500 feet
from the company's present lines,
without expense TO the village
Item THE village agrees to pay
one-fourth the cost of fixtures. lamps
and wire necessary to make additions
to the street lighting system ordered
by the village during the third year of
the period covered by this contract
Item S,-The village agrees to paw
one-fourth the cost of fixtures. lamps
and wires necessary to make addi-
lions to the street lighting system or
dered by the village during the fourth
and NTH years of the period covered
by this contract
Item 9.-The company agrees to re.
fund any such payments made by the
village for additions to the street
lighting system provided this contract
is extended for a period of FIVE to
ten years beyond December /, 1924
Item 10.-Any changes in the loca. 4
ton of street lamps and poles order
ed by the village after the loca
tion has been established will be made
by the company at the expense of the
village
Item 1.-THE company hereby
agrees to and does give the village the
privilege of attaching the village fire
alarm and other village signal wires