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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>PROPOSALS, about Lights for this CITY, To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Court of Aldermen, and Common Council.</HEAD>
<P>WE do hereby propo&s;e to this City, to enlighten it with <HI>Gla&s;s Globe Lights,</HI> which &s;hall be &s;o made, that neither the Tin or Lead, that is u&s;ed in them, &s;hall occa&s;ion any dark Shadows what&s;oever, but that the Light thereof &s;hall be always Clear, and equally di&s;pers'd in the Streets, both under and on each Side round about them; &s;o that their Eight will be delightful and u&s;eful to Pa&s;&s;engers, with|out glaring or dazling the Eye.</P>
<P>The&s;e Lights to be &s;et upon Po&s;ts, or in Rings of Iron about Ten Foot high from the Pavement, and that tran&s;ver&s;ly in the &s;everal Streets; that is to &s;ay, there &s;hall be &s;till placed a Lamp on the one Side of the Street, again&s;t the Middle of the Space where the Light of the two Lamps on the contrary Side &s;eems to meet.</P>
<P>We will further agree, That no Hou&s;e &s;hall pay above Six Shillings a Year, and that every &s;uch Dwelling, or other Hou&s;e, in which Trade is car|ryed on, and that &s;o payeth, &s;hall have the Benefit of the Light, reaching and &s;hining as far in the Street or Lane, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> where they dwell, as their Door, or Pa&s;&s;age into it; and after the &s;ame Manner, every Street, Lane, Alley, Court, Square, Yard, or other Places, &s;hall be enlightened, having at lea&s;t one Lamp within Thirty Yards di&s;tance of each Hou&s;e.</P>
<P>And that all Churches, Halls, Schools, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;hall pay after the Rate of Eight Shillings a Year, and no more.</P>
<P>We will al&s;o agree, That the &s;aid Lighting yearly, &s;hall be continued from the Twentieth of <HI>September,</HI> to the Twentieth of <HI>April;</HI> and that they always be maintained only with Rape-Oil, and Cotton-Wick, and that they &s;hall begin to be lighted at Candle-lighting, or as &s;oon as it begins to be dark; and that they &s;hall be kept burning clear, each Night, untill Twelve of the Clock, or &s;o much as &s;hall not be enlightened by the Moon; and that the Gla&s;&s;es &s;hall be cleaned every Day, and the Lights &s;nuffed every Night, as often as there &s;hall be occa&s;ion.</P>
<P>And it &s;hall be agreed, That the &s;aid Lights &s;hall yearly be of the &s;ame Dimentions and Goodne&s;s as the Pattern to be given in.</P>
<P>And for further Encouragement to the City to give a Grant hereof, We will be obliged to pay the Lord Mayor and Commonalty, the Sum of <HI>Eight Hundred Pounds</HI> yearly, on the Twentieth of <HI>May;</HI> they obliging them|&s;elves, not to permit any other Publick Lights to be &s;et up in the City, during the Time of their Grant.</P>
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