Approving an Agreement between City of South Bend and Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. to Provide and Mainstain a Street Lighting System

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together with electrical energy through a general system of distribution, sufficient to operate said all night lamps continuously from one -half hour after sunset until one -half hour before sunrise, every night and all night, approximately 4,000 hours per annum during the term of years hereinafter set forth. Said lamps shall be so maintained and operated that they will give the maximum amount of illumination obtainable under commercial conditions. The number of lamps reflected in Paragraph A of this Paragraph 1 of 15,000 Lumen Incandescent White -Way (U.G.) All night service and the number of 10,000 Lumen Incandescent White - Way (U.G.) All night service shall be reduced by twelve (12) and fifty -seven (57) respectively upon installation of the sixty -nine (69) lamps of 40,800 Lumen Fluorescent White -Way (U.G.) All night service under Paragraph B of this Paragraph 1, as the latter is set forth in Appendix A. 2. It is further agreed that the location of the minimum number of lamps contracted for as specified in Paragraph 1 above shall be those existing on the 5th day of July , 1960, plus those authorized by the Customer prior to the date hereof, within the corporate limits of the City of South Bend, Indiana, (See Appendix B -Map) with the exception of such changes as are provided for in Paragraphs 5 and 7 hereinafter. 3. All material furnished by the Company shall remain the property of the Company and may be removed at the termination of this contract, if the Company so desires. 4. Company shall keep each and every lamp contracted for in operation during the time provided and the Customer may make de- duction for failure to operate any one or more of said lamps in the following manner: For all outages which shall be reported daily in writing to the Company by the proper officers of the Customer, the Customer may deduct from the total monthly amount which would have been paid for any lamps had no outage occurred, a sum bearing the ratio to such total as the period of outage bears -2-