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up to and including five thousand kilowatt hours per 

 month. 



C. Second reduction. A price per kilowatt hour for 

 all electricity furnished exceeding five thousand kilo- 

 watt hours and up to and including one hundred thou- 

 sand kilowatt hours per month. 



D. Third reduction. A price per kilowatt hour for 

 all electricity furnished exceeding one hundred thou- 

 sand kilowatt hours per month. 



Fuel rate adjustment. The net price for each kilo- 

 watt hour of electric energy supplied under this schedule 

 shall be subject each month to adjustment by increase 

 or decrease according to the average cost of coal as 

 delivered to the coal bunkers at the company's gener- 

 ating plants. This adjustment is based upon changes 

 in the cost of generating electricity by steam, due to 

 changes in the cost of coal from a base price of five 

 dollars per short ton, five dollars and sixty cents per 

 long ton, and shall be taken at the rate of one one- 

 hundredth cent per kilowatt hour for each nine cents 

 per short ton, ten cents per long ton, change in the 

 cost of coal. This adjustment shall be made to the 

 nearest one-hundredth of a cent per kilowatt hour. 



Note. The price of coal is filed monthly with the 

 Public Service Commission of Maryland. 



All meters, instruments, etc., used for the purpose 

 of measuring the current supplied to the city shall be 

 tested by the Public Service Commission, if in the 

 opinion of the city, such meters, instruments, etc., are 

 not correct and such tests shall be at the expense of 

 the bidder. Demand and consumption shall be read 

 by the representatives of the city and the contractor 

 and agreed upon before any payment will be made. 

 Payments under the head of running costs are in 

 addition to payment under the head of fixed costs or 

 charges. 



It is understood that in determining the monthly 

 payments due the bidder that the consumption in all 

 the parks, squares and other areas under this con- 

 tract, shall be added together, and on the basis of the 

 aggregate consumption for all stations, the price to be 

 paid for the current for the month shall be determined 

 according to the schedule prices offered by the suc- 

 cessful bidder. 



On behalf of the Board of Park Commissioners. 



Park Engineer. 



Approved: Assistant City Solicitor. 

 Approved: President Board of Awards. 



SPECIFICATIONS FOR LIGHTING BY 



ELECTRICITY THE PARKS, PARKWAYS, 



PLAYGROUNDS AND OTHER PUBLIC LANDS 



UNDER THE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL 



OF THE BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS 



OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI 



1. Proposals. Sealed proposals will be received at 

 the office of the Board of Park Commissioners, 2005 

 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, until twelve o'clock 

 noon of Thursday, the fourteenth day of May, 1925, at 

 which hour bids will be publicly opened and read, for 

 lighting by electricity the parks, parkways, playgrounds 

 and other public lands under control of the Board of 

 Park Commissioners of the City of Cincinnati for a 

 period of ten years dating from and after June I, 1925, 

 and expiring June I, 1935, the work to be done in 

 strict accordance with this specification, and the plats 

 on file at the office of the Board of Park Commissioners. 



2. Price per lamp. Each proposal shall state the price 

 per lamp per year in writing and in figures. Proposals 

 shall be in strict conformity to this specification. 



3. Deposits. Each proposal shall be accompanied by 

 a certified check on any solvent bank in the City of 

 Cincinnati, payable to the order of said city, in the 

 sum of five thousand dollars, which shall be deposited 

 with the Board of Park Commissioners, and the deposit 

 of such check shall be a condition precedent to the 

 opening of any such proposal, and no bid shall be given 

 consideration which is not accompanied by such check. 



4. Forfeiture of deposit. In case the bidder to whom 

 the contract is awarded shall for a period of ten days 

 refuse or neglect to enter into the contract on the basis 

 of this specification, then in such case the money repre- 

 sented by the check shall pass to and become the 

 property of the City of Cincinnati, not by way of 

 penalty but as a compensation for the loss of time and 

 expense incurred by the city as a consequence of such 

 failure to consummate and execute the contract thus 

 awarded; and the city treasurer of the City of Cin- 

 cinnati shall thereupon endorse such certified check, 

 collect the money represented thereby, and pay the 

 same into the city treasury. 



5. Return of deposits. The certified checks deposited 

 by the unsuccessful bidders shall be returned imme- 

 diately upon the award of the contract, and in case all 

 bids are rejected, all such certified checks shall be 

 returned forthwith. The certified check deposited by 

 the unsuccessful bidder shall be returned immediately 

 after he shall have entered into and executed the con- 

 tract hereto attached, and given bond as required by 

 this specification. 



6. Sur ty bond. The bidder to whom the contract 

 is awarded, and within ten days thereafter, will be 

 required to enter into a contract in the form hereunto 

 attached, and give bond in the sum of five thousand 



