gcls_citycode_1894_078

68 Ordinances of the City of Greenville.

of Greenville, South Carolina, as follows: That the City
of Greenville do hereby grant to The American Pipe
Manufacturing Company or their assigns, who are to
procure the organization of a Company to be styled
"The Paris Mountain Water Company, of Greenville,"
the exclusive right and privilege of constructing, maintaining
and operating a system of water works for the
purpose of supplying said City and its inhabitants with
water taken from the mountain streams for protection
against fire and for domestic, sanitary and other useful
purposes for twenty-five years from the passage of this
ordinance. That the Company for the purpose of
constructing, maintaining, operating, extending and
repairing said system of water works shall have the sole
and exclusive privilege and full power, right authority
to lay pipes and mains for water along any or all
streets and avenues of said City as same are now
open, or may hereafter be extended, or nay new streets
which may be opened, said lines to be laid by consultation
with the Chairman of the Street Committee, and
to that end shall have full right to dig ditches or
trenches in the streets of said City to such depth and
width as may be necessary in which to lay the pipes or
mains in, and to use the streets, sidewalks and bridges
for like purpose: Provided, That the City shall not be
responsible for any damage occasioned thereby, and
that the streets shall not be unreasonably obstructed
by such work.

Sec. 2. The water supplied by said works shall be the
water taken from the mountain streams and of sufficient
quantity and quality for domestic, fire and manufacturing
purposes, and where the source of supply cannot be
be contaminated by the sewerage of said City or
from any other causes.

Sec. 3. That the said Company or their assigns shall commence
work within sixty days and have in operation
withing twelve months from the date of the passage of
this ordinance, unless delayed by epidemics, strikes