Approving a Contract Between the City of South Bend & Indiana Michigan Electric Co.

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2. Extensions of the street lighting system provided for in Paragraph 1 -(b) shall be made upon the order and request of the Board of Public Works but in no event shall the Con- tractor be required to install more than ten (10) underground lighting units in any one year and if the Board fails to re- quire the above number in any one year, the Contractor shall not be required to install more than ten (10) lights in the next year and in the same manner each succeeding year. This paragraph shall be construed with Paragraph Seven (7). 3. All lamps herein provided for shall be burned from one -half hour after sunset until one -half hour before sunrise, every night ,and all night, burning approximately 4,000 hours per annum. Contractor covenants herein to furnish and maintain Four Hundred Forty -four (444) lighting units, located in the Business Districts of the City of South Bend. The City shall designate One Hundred Fifty -four (154) of these units to be lighted, during the term of this contract, from one -half hour after sunset until midnight only, the remainder of such lamps to be burned from one -half hour after sunset until one -half hour before sunrise as above provided. 4. The minimum number.of each type of lamp furnished under this contract shall be Ninety -five (95) per cent of the number provided for in Paragraph One (1) hereof, and such lamps shall be maintained at the locations existing at the time of the execution of this contract with the exception of such changes as are provided for in Paragraphs Six (6) and Eight (8) hereof. 5. If any lamp is '"out" during the hours in which it should be lighted, the City may deduct from the total monthly amount which would have been paid had no ttoutage" occurred, a sum bearing the ratio to the total as the outage bears to the total time the lamps should have been lighted in any month. -3-