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AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING A CONTRACT WITH AUTOMATIC HOME TELEPHONE COMPANY
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The right is hereby granted to the Automatic Home Telephone Company, successors or assigns, to erect and maintain on the streets, alleys and public ways of the City of Jonesboro, poles, fixtures and wires, also the right to construct and maintain an underground conduit system, necessary and convenient for the purpose of supplying the citizens of said City and the public, communication by telephone or other electrical device, all such right and use to be and continue upon the terms and conditions, herein stated.
Said poles wand wires shall be placed and maintained so as not to interfere with traffic on said highways and said Automatic Home Telephone Company, shall hold said City free from all damages arising by reason of any abuse and negligence in said occupancy. Said poles shall be so placed as to not interfere with the flow of water in any sewer, gas pipe, drain or gutter; and in case of bringing to grade or change of grade of any street or alley, said poles shall by said Automatic Home Telephone Company, be reset so as to conform thereto. Said conduits are to be placed and maintained so as not to interfere with any sewer, gas pipe, City water pipe, and shall be placed deep enough so as not to interfere with the grading of any street, or alley, and this grant is made (as is the right of use of poles and wires) and is to be enjoyed, subject to all such reasonable regulations and Ordinances of a Pole nature, said City Council may be authorized or see proper at any time to adopt, not destructive of the right herein granted.
The right of use here given shall not be exclusive, and the City Council reserves the right to grant like rights of use to others for similar use; the same, however, not to interfere with the proper exercise of the privileges herein granted.
In consideration whereof, said Automatic Home Telephone Company shall agree to furnish for the City’s business and without charge, and with exchange service, so long as an exchange is maintained hereunder, one telephone at the Mayor’s office, or such other place as the Council may designate, also such other telephones for the City’s business as the Council may hereafter, by resolution, require, at 20 percent, discount from the regulat rates, from time to time for business purposes; provided that for each of said telephones separate contracts shall be previously signed containing the usual provisions of said contracts, or having endorsed thereon the terms of payment herein provided for.
The street shall in all cases be left in as good condition as found subject to the approval of the Street Committee.
The rights to be enjoyed under this Ordinance shall forfeited unless the said Automatic Home Telephone Company, its successors or assigns, shall begin and get into operation its exchange within a period of two years.
This ordinance shall take effect in ten days after the date of its publication and the filing by said Automatic Home Telephone Company of an unconditional acceptance of the terms thereof in the office of the City Clerk.
Passed and adopted this 16th day of February, 1904.