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AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING A CONTRACT WITH JONESBORO WATER & LIGHT COMPANY FOR STREET LIGHTS
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The City of Jonesboro agrees to and does rent from the Jonesboro Water and Light Company for a period of ten years from the date hereof, not less than forty arc lamps either direct or incandescent of not less than six ampere capacity. Each light to be located at such place in the streets as the City Council may direct, suspended over the street from thirty foot poles, or form arms projecting from poles erected on the sides of the streets. No light to be less than eighteen feet from the ground. Said lights to be burned from dark to daylight, bright moonlight nights excepted, and any night the said lights are not burning, and in the opinion of the Mayor should be burning, the said Jonesboro Water and Light Company shall obey his orders by turning on the lights.
Said City hereby agrees to pay the said Water & Light Company the sum of Seven Dollars for each light per month on or before the tenth day of the succeeding month, in United States currency; and in default of the payment of the sum for each lamp per month in United States currency, the said City agrees to pay the said Jonesboro Water & Light Company the sum of ten dollars per month in City warrants for each lamp until such time as it may be able to pay the sum of Seven Dollars in currency per lamp for each month.
If the said Jonesboro Water & Light Company fail to furnish the said lights as required by this contract or ordinance, for any night or nights, the amount to be paid for said lights on such night or nights shall be deducted from the rental, pro rata.
It is agreed by and between the said City and the said Jonesboro Water and Light Company that the street lighting contract may be renewed or extended at the end of ten years from the commencing of this contract.
The maximum rent charged private consumers shall not exceed the amount allowed and fixed by the ordinance granting Geo. W. Decker and his ...
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