PRICE PER LAMP.

$1 per month.

$5,076 per year for 24 arcs and 186 50-watt tungstens;
additional arcs, $75 per year and additional in-
candescents, $18 per year.

$15 per year; underground system, $27 per year;
25 cents extra for 75-watt lamps in remote places;
26 overhead lamps, on which 50 cents each per
month extra is charged.

50

422

430

430

363

9.0

30.4

10.6

30.4

$18.72 per year.

$86.40 per year.

10.6

30.4

$25 per year.

6.9

30.4

$10 per year.

$13.80 per year.

$17 per year.

$17.30 per year.

$17.30 per year.

3-light clusters, $32.80 per year; 5-light clusters.

$51 per year.

151

6.3

30.4

$17 per year.

$75 per year in clusters of 5.

75

7.2

30.4

$18 per year.

35

$65.70 per year.

203

$15 per year.

4.9

27.6

16

$75 per year.

230

6.0

30.4

$50 per year.

1,894

} 1,090

10.9

30.4

($23.50 per year.

$80.30 per year.

($90 per year all night; $76 per year until 1 o'clock.

$14 per year; three-year contract.

$15 per year; five-year contract.

305

5.2

28.0

($13.50 per year.

$16.50 per year.

Ten-year contract.

91

5.1

28.7

$14 per year.

Five-year contract.

$17.25 per year.

264

6.1

29.7

$15 per year.

Five-year contract.

| $18.25 per year.

$13.50 per year; five-year contract.
$14 per year; five-year contract.

MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.

Official replies to inquiries relative to action about a municipal gas or electric lighting plant have been received from 184 towns and cities, including all the cities and substantially all the towns in which the population exceeds 1,500 and in which no such action had previously been taken. Except as stated on page 199 none of these have taken action during the

year.

Pages 188-198 contain a tabular statement intended to show briefly all action within the State in respect to the municipal ownership of gas or electric light plants prior to 1913. The pages following contain carefully prepared abstracts from the reports of town officers, showing, in two sections, the history of this subject during the last calendar year. The first section (page 199) exhibits the action of those towns which are not engaged in the lighting business, but have during the year considered propositions to undertake it. The second section, relating to municipal plants in actual operation, contains two parts: the first part (pages 200-241) setting forth certain financial data relative to the preceding municipal fiscal year, with the estimates and appropriations of the current fiscal year, taken from information furnished the Board by various town officers, and the second part (pages 242-263) setting forth certain general financial and physical data relative to the plants from the returns made to the Board as of June 30, 1914. In Appendix C will be found, under date of June 30, 1914, the separate balance sheets, profit and loss and manufacturing accounts from the annual returns of the different municipalities. Appendix F contains detailed statistics relative to the municipal plants, compiled from the annual returns of June 30, 1914.

Tabular Statement showing Action about Municipal Gas and Electric Plants prior to Jan. 1, 1914.

Votes favorable to Acceptance of
Municipal Ownership Act.

Adverse committee report in 1897.