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IV.

(1) The Albemarle Telephone Company appearing through
J. Edwin Wood, its president, and making application for leave
to put in operation a telephone system in the city upon the terms
and conditions as hereinafter granted and set forth, it is thereupon
resolved and ordered that the said company is hereby
granted the privilege and franchise of establishing and operating
a telephone system in the city, with the right to use the streets
and alley ways of the city for the erection of poles and the stringing
of wires, the said poles and wires however to be erected and

strung in such a manner as the Committee on Streets may approve;
but the privilege and franchise herein granted, however,
are limited to the term of fifty years and said company shall have
the system in working order so as to be ready to supply telephones
to the inhabitants of the city within six months from this date;
provided that in consideration of the franchises and privileges
herein granted the city shall have the use of five instruments at
police headquarters or in the City Hall or in any of the offices of
the city, which instruments and the lines of the company in connection
therewith shall be used by the city officials free of charge
on business connected with the city; and further that nothing
herein contained shall interfere with the city's locating its own
wires, and the city shall have the privilege of stringing on the
poles of said company a wire for the service of a fire alarm system
should the city desire to establish such a system.

(2) Authority is hereby also given the Albemarle Telephone
Company to construct, lay and maintain along and underneath
the surface of the streets of the city at such places, and at such
depth below the surface of the streets as may be prescribed by
the street commissioner, pipe lines and conduits in which to enclose
and conduct their telephone wires and cables.

(3) Such pipes and conduits to be laid along such lines as the
city engineer may prescribe, and in such manner as not to injure
or interfere with any gas or water pipes or sewers already laid,
with the privilege of connecting the wires and cables in the conduits
and pipes with those of the company upon its poles, in such
manner and at such points as may be authorized by the street
committee; and the work upon the trenches and ditches of such
conduits to be proceeded with and conducted in such manner as
the street committee may direct, and the surface of any street
where they may be laid, to be fully restored in equally as good
condition as it was before the laying of the same.