PARK LIGHTING 



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form of material or method of manufacture, process, 

 composition or thing which is patented or claimed to 

 be patented, except any claim because of the use of 

 any equipment which the Board of Park Commission- 

 ers is to furnish under these specifications. 



All proposals shall be accompanied by a certified 

 check of the bidder for five hundred dollars, on a 

 clearing house bank, drawn to the order of the Mayor 

 and the City Council of Baltimore. 



The successful bidder will be required to execute the 

 contract and furnish bond within ten days of the date 

 of award of contract. All checks, except that of the 

 successful bidder, will be returned after the contract is 

 awarded. The check of the successful bidder will be 

 returned when satisfactory bond and contract is filed 

 with the City Comptroller. 



Whenever the surety or sureties on the bond so 

 furnished shall be deemed by the mayor to be unsatis- 

 factory, the contractor, within ten days after notice to 

 that effect, shall furnish and deliver a new bond to 

 the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore in the same 

 penalty and on the same conditions with surety satis- 

 factory to the mayor and this duty shall continue on 

 the part of the contractor whenever and so often as 

 the mayor shall require a new bond with satisfactory 

 surety or sureties. If the contractor shall fail to furnish 

 such bond within ten days after said notice is mailed 

 to his address, the Mayor and City Council of Balti- 

 more, through its proper agent or agents, may refuse 

 to accept current under said contract and relet the 

 contract at the expense of the contractor. 



Specifications in detail. Under these specifications, 

 the company shall furnish and deliver overhead pri- 

 mary electric current, except where the park is located 

 in the underground district, to the following parks and 

 squares: namely, Druid Hill, Wyman, Clifton, Patter- 

 son, Carroll, Fort McHenry, Latrobe, Broening, Hanlon 

 and Easterwood parks and to Union, Franklin, Harlem, 

 Lafayette and Perkins squares, and also to all other 

 parks and squares or properties under the jurisdiction 

 and control of the park board, as the latter may require 

 from time to time, during the term of this contract; 

 the said current to be the standard supplied in the 

 territory in which the park is located. It may be alter- 

 nating, twenty-five or sixty cycle, single or three phase, 

 or direct current. In rating the voltage of each phase, 

 twenty-four hundred volts will be understood as the 

 basis agreed upon. The voltage variation shall be 

 within the limit prescribed by the standard of the 

 Public Service Commission of Maryland, set for elec- 

 trical corporations in the state. Bids are desired for 

 a period of three years, the Board of Awards reserving 

 the right to accept such bids as it may deem to be to 

 the best interest of the city. 



In determining the number of phase to be installed 

 at the above mentioned stations or future stations, it 

 is to be understood that for all loads not exceeding 



twenty-five kilowatts, such current supplying the said 

 load shall be single phase and for all loads exceeding 

 twenty-five kilowatts, the said current may be three 

 phase, with the consent and approval of the park 

 board. 



Demand. All demands shall be determined by actual 

 measurement of the maximum loads, using suitable 

 instruments which shall be furnished by the bidder and 

 subject to the approval of the park board. The demand 

 may be increased or decreased from time to time by 

 the city, which shall so notify the bidder at least ten 

 days in advance of making such changes. In deter- 

 mining the maximum load upon which the demand shall 

 be based, momentary or abnormal peaks will not be 

 considered. The interval over which the demand shall 

 be averaged shall not be less than one-quarter of an 

 hour, except for rapidly fluctuating loads. 



The demand of the said parks and squares shall not 

 aggregate less than two hundred and seventy-five kilo- 

 watts in any month. 



Payments. The city will pay in monthly installments 

 for the service and current delivered to the premises 

 heretofore mentioned, also to all other premises as may, 

 in the future, need supply. Such payments shall be 

 based upon the monthly readings taken on or about 

 the first of each month by the representative of the 

 city and the bidder and no payment will be made 

 until both parties agree upon the amount of service 

 rendered. 



Fixed charges. Under these specifications the bidder 

 shall name a price per year, payable in equal monthly 

 installments, which shall be charged per kilowatt of 

 demand up to and including fifteen kilowatts and a 

 price per kilowatt exceeding fifteen. In figuring the 

 reduction in fixed charges, the kilowatt of demand will 

 be taken at each station and fixed charges shall be 

 determined at each station according to the load at 

 the particular station. 



Running costs. Bids are desired per kilowatt hour on 

 the consumption set forth below and the successful 

 bidder shall be paid the schedule rate, which rate shall 

 be determined by the actual consumption at each sta- 

 tion. On or about the first day of each month the con- 

 sumption for the preceding month shall be ascertained 

 by reading the instruments especially installed for the 

 purpose. According to this consumption the bidder 

 shall be paid for the amount of the current consumed 

 at the rate fixed in the respective schedule by him 

 within which the consumption for the month shall fall, 

 and prices are desired and current will be paid for by 

 the park department to the successful bidder according 

 to the amount bid under the following schedules: 



A. A price per kilowatt hour for all electricity fur- 

 nished up to and including five hundred kilowatt hours 

 per month. 



B. First. A price per kilowatt hour for all electricity 

 furnished exceeding five hundred kilowatt hours and 



