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VILLAGE FATHERS GRANT A FRANCHISE TO
NEW TELEPHONE COMPANY.
Must be in Working Order Before Sept. 1, 1897.
Charges not to Exceed $24 for Business Offices,
and $18 for Residences.
A regular meeting of the board
of trustees of the village of Cortland was held at the office of Clerk Hatch of
said village on Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock. There were present President H.
F. Benton and Trustees James J.
Glann, E. J. Warfield and Benj. L. Webb.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved.
On motion of Mr. Glann,
seconded by Mr. Webb, E. N. Sherwood, Melvin S. Wright and John Griffith were appointed special policemen on Sept. 5 and
6, the day the Barnum's circus is in Cortland and the day after.
[Union school bonding
resolution omitted--CC editor.]
An application of E. L.
Caldwell & Co. for the granting to them of a franchise for telephone
service in said village was read and placed on file.
On motion of Mr. Webb, seconded
by Mr. Warfield, the franchise was granted to John H. Drake and George F.
Stitch to erect and put in operation the telephone system.
Among the important
reservations, restrictions and conditions contained in the franchise are the
following:
The duration of this franchise
is twenty years. The telephone plant to be constructed and carried on under
this franchise shall be commenced on or before May 1, 1897, and shall be
completed and in first-class working order on or before Sept. 1, 1897. The
telephones used are to be the best instruments manufactured by the Western
Telephone Construction Co. of Chicago, known as the Western Giant, or a better
instrument if there is such upon the market for sale. It will have a common
return metallic circuit and the instruments and appliances shall be first-class
in every respect and shall always be kept in class-class working order. The
village is to have two telephones free of charge, placed wherever they shall
direct.
For five years the annual
charge shall not exceed $24 for business offices and $18 for residences. After
five years the annual charge shall not exceed the average price paid for any
first class telephone in any other six villages or cities of this state having
at that time approximately the same population as Cortland.
No poles or structures are to
be erected in, along or upon any street or public way in the village except by
special permission obtained from the board of trustees, and all poles must be
painted if required by the board of trustees. All must be smooth and straight
and placed where directed by the trustees, and if possible on the division of
the lot lines. The village is to have the privilege of stringing on the poles,
fire alarm and police call wires.
At the end of ten years all
wires are to be placed in subways or underground if so ordered by the trustees,
provided the same ruling is made and enforced in the case of any other
telephone company in town.
The telephone company is to pay
all damages, costs and expenses that the village may be liable for by reason of
actions brought against the village for injuries to persons or property in the course
of the construction of the plant, and also to defend the village and all users
of the telephone from all suits, injunctions, claims and damages brought against
it for infringement on patents or rights.
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