Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1897 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

METER BATES Per Day of 24 hours. 10 to 800 gallons, per 1000 gallons so 300 to 1000 gallons, per 1006 gallons 25 1 1000 to 6uoo gallons, per loou gallons 20 6000 to 14000 gallons, i>er iooo gallons 15 14000 to 20000 gabons, per iooo gallons' is 20000 to 25000 gallons, per 1000 gallons 12 Above 25(00 gallons, per 1000 gallons 10 , BEASON RATES. • Fountains flowing not exceeding three hours Sir day, during the season from the first of ay to to the first of November: One sixteenth inch orifice 8 8 00 Fountains, one-eighth Inch jet io oo Hose for sprinkling streets Including i sprinkling and washing sidewalks and outside buildings, per lineal foot, busness hou-es, per season of six months.. .15 Same as foregotng, private houses per front foot ,io i Hose for sprlnkliDglawns, 50. frontage . 5.00 Hnse for sprinkling lawns, each foot front 1 foot in excess of 60 feet .05 | Hose when used as fountain, at fountain rates. | Rates for all other purposes that may be ap- ! plied for not named in the foregoing schedule of maximum rates, will be fixed by estimation or meter at the option of said Horton. DC RATION OF FRANCHISE. Sec. It. .In consideration of the benefits which will be derived by said city and its inhabitants from the construction and operation of said waterworks, and the further consideration of the water supply hereby secured for public use. and as an inducement to the said Horton, to enter upon the construction and operation of said waterworks, the franchise, license and authority, and all the rights and privileges hereby and herein granted and conferred, shall remain in full force and effect, commencing with the acceptance of this ordinance an (Tending thirl yflve years thereafter. Sec. 12. In consideration of the furnishing of water for sixty-seven hydrants for fire . and ntiier enumerated in the precediug sections, and in further consideration of the several mutual covenenats in this ordinance contained, the said City of Rensselaer agrees to pay said Horton as and for rental and water supply a semi-annual hydrant rental payable on the 20th day of June and the 20th day of December in each and every year, of eighteen <818,00;dollars for each of said hydrants located upon the pipe system approximately, as shown upon said map, and eighteen ($18.00) dollars for each six months payable as aforesaid, for each additional hydrant put in and maintained by the said Horton pursuant to the orders of said city as herein provided The said hydrant rental shall begin on the completion and acceptance of said works, and the said first payment shall be for such part of a month as shall intervene between the completion and acceptance of said works, and the last day of the month, in such acceptance shall be made. And event that said Horton or assigns shalliKonvey said waterworks system by mortgage or trust deed to secure any indebtedness. The payments of hydrant rental hereib agreed to be paid shall De made to the or trustee named. J TAX TO PAY RENTAL. Sec. 13. The City of Rensselaer Shall annually during the said -term hereinbefore mentioned, levy and collect a tax sufficient to pay said hydrant rental accruing during said year, and said tax, when collected, shall be kept separate and known as "The Hydrant Fund," and shall be held inviolate for and Is hereby irrevocably pledged and appropriated for the payment of said hydrant, rental in the manner herein provided. Provision to meet the requirements of this section shall be made in the annual appropriation bill. OPTION TO PURCHASE. Sec. 14. The City of Rensselaer shall have the right to purchase the system of waterworks erected under the provisions of this ordinance at any time within six months after the completion thereof, or at the end of any one year thereafter at such price as shall be agreed upon between the said city and the owners of said system, and in the event such an agreement cannot be made, an appraisal shall be had in which each of the parties interested shall select an appraiser who shall not be residents of the state of Indiana, and if the two so chosen shall fail to agree upon the valuation of said system of waterworks, the two so chosen shall select a third, and the decision of the said Board of Appraisers as heretofore constituted or a majority of them shall be a conclusive finding as to the value of said system, and the City of Rensselaer shall thereupon, and within sixty days after being notified of the price so fixed by said apnraisers, take and pay for the waterworks system, upon the basis so fixed, and in case the city shall at any time elect to purchase under the terms of this section, it shall take the same subject to any mortgage indebtedness, which shall then be a lieq upon the system and shall only pay the owners of the system the value thereof after deducting the entire amount of mortgage indebtedness.

ACCEPTANCE and bond. Sec. 15. The said Horton shall, within thirty days after the Dassago of this ordinance, file with the City Clerk of the City of Rensselaer, a written acceptance of this ordinance, duly acknowledged before some officer authorized to take the acknowledgement of deeds, and within a like period shall file a bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, with surety subject to the approval of the Common Council of said city, and conditioned for the faithful performance of all the stipulations of this ordinance for the construction of said waterworks, and upon the filing of said acceptance and bond, this ordinance shail be iu full force and effect, and shall be considered a contract between the City and the said Horton, and as an accepted grant of the franchise to build aud maintain said waterworks upon the terms and conditions herein provided; said bond to be released when said works are accepted, INTERPRETATION. Sec. 10. Whenever the City of Rensselaer shall be named or understood in this ordinance, the same shall be held and construed to intend the City of Rensselaer, its successor or successors.and that whenever the said Horton shall be named or understood in this ordinance, the same shall be held and construed to intend the said Horton, his representatives, associates or assigns. SEC. 17. Whereas an emergency exists this •ordinance shall be iu force from and after its passage. Rensselaer, Ind., October 2,1897. I. Schuyler C. Irwin, Clerk of the City of Rensselaer. Indiana, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a full, true and complete copy of Special Ordinance No. 15. except the specifications therein referred to. which said specifications are on file and open for public inspection in my office. I further certify that said ordinance was duly adopted, ordained and established by a unanimous vote of the Common Council of said City at a regular meeting held at the council chamber on the 27th day of September, 1897. as appears from the original ordinance on file and on record in my office. In witness whereof. I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said city this 2nd day of October. 1897. [Seal] Schuyler C. Irwin. Oct. 8-13 city clerk.

SPECIAL ORDINANCE NUMBER 14, An Ordinance, authorizing Horace E. Horton to Construct, Maintain and Operate an Electric - Light System in the City of Rensselaer, Indiana. The Common Council of the City of Rensselaer do ordain as follows: Section i. That Horace E. Horton, of the City of Chicago, Illinois, be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, maintain and operate an electric light system in the City of Rensselaer, for the purpose of supplying the said city and its inhabitants with light, heat and power for public and private uses, and for that purpose to use the streets, alleys, public grounds and bridges of said city within its present or future corporate limits, for the purpose of erecting and repairing poles, lines, and all other structures and devices for the service of electric light, heat and power. Sec. 2. The said Horton shall furnish electricity to the citizens of Rensselaer, who may desire to use electricity for light, heat or power, at not exceeding the following rates, namely, on meter plan, twenty cents per iooo watts, or one cent per sixteen candle lamp per hour, twenty-five per cent to be added to the above price lor lamps or motors in halls and churches which are used only occasionally, or 6o cents per light per month for businesor thirty-five cents per month for residence lights. Sec. 3. In consideration of the benefits to be derived by said city and its inhabitants from the construction and operation of said electric light system, the franchise hereby granted shall remain in full force and effect