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 FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I1. Ch. 1405. 1904. 229 Sum of money sufficient to pay one-half of the cost and expense of making and constructing such connections and for current for the period of one month. “Sec. 6. The company shall not be required to extend, construct, or maintain its main lines beyond a distance of three hundred feet unless there be an applicant for each three hundred feet of extension or fraction thereof, and unless each ap licant shall, in addition to the other requirements in this Act prov1d)ed, agree to take, install, and maintain five sixteemcandlepower lights or one horsepower of power apparatus for not less than one year: Provided, however, That if the company is unable to furnish power or light applied for by reason of lack of capacity of the apparatus for producing electricity, the company shall be allowed a reasonable time, not to exceed nine months from the date of any application, to procure such additional apparatus as may be necessary to furnish such applicant. ' °‘SUPPLY or Ennorarcrrr. " Sec. 7. The company shall have the right to discontinue or cut off ,,€“pP1Y °f °“°m°‘ the supply of electricity to any consumer who shall refuse or fail to pay the amount due for electricity supplied by said company within such reasonable time as said company may fix for the payment of the same, and such discontinuance of service or supply of electricity shall not prejudice the right of the comlpany to any remedies now or which , may hereafter be authorized by w for the recovery and collection of said amount. · “ nuns AND anenmurroxs. " Sm. 8. The superintendent of public `works is hereby authorized uf,‘;‘°' "" ’°‘“"’ to make, and from time totime to change, amend, or add to, reasonable rules regulating the placing of poles and wires, the insulation of wires and apparatus carrying the electric current, and the maintenance in good repair of all poles, wires, and apparatus, and generally concerning the manufacture and sqpply of electricity, which may be necessary or proper for the public sa ety and welfare. " No erson, firm, or corporation shall be allowed to place or maintain pollds or wires along, upon, or across any public street except such as are authorized by the superintendent of public works. Any person violating this provision last above mentioned shall, u on conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not exceeding fifty dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding three months. The superintendent of ubhc works may at any time cause such poles or wires to be removedp at the expense of the person, firm, or corporation placing them or causing them to be p aced in such position. " If at any time the company, after reasonable notice iven to it in writin, shall fail to observe or execute the rules am? regulations hereinbefore provided for, relative to the placing of poles and wires the insulation of wires and apparatus carrying electric current, and the repair of all poles and apparatus, the superintendent of public works shall, after giving the company reasonable notice thereof in writing of his intention so to do, proceed to remedy such failure, and the cost of such repairs or changes may be recovered from the company by the Territory. " Srrrnnvrsron. “S1:c. 9. The entire plant, operation, books, and accounts of the S¤1><>rvi¤i<>¤· · company shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the superintendent of public works or other officer appointed by him for that purpose.