HomeMy WebLinkAbout63 of 1903 - Ordinance 63 of 1903 – Franchise, Consolidated Railway & Power Company to construct & operate doub A_ ORDINANCE GRAlTTI'TC TO TEE CONSOLIDATED RAILWAY AfID POWER CON-
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DOUELE TRACK STRIT!,'' ' LILT?OA D TROT INTO R ECTI01T OF INNTH
TEST AND TORTE TTEPLF STREETS IN SALT LAKE CITY, UTAK, fEd
RENDING THENCE NORTH TO FOURTH NOT; ^. STI ST Al,O " NTCE WEST
ALONG FOURTH NORTH STREET TO T TriLFTN WEST STREET IN SAID
SALT LAKE CITY,
Be it ordained by the City Council of Salt hake City, Utah:
Sdction 1. That the Consolidated Railway and Power Com-
pany, its successors and assigns, have the authority and consent
of the City Council, and the permission is hereby granted it, to
' construct and operate by electric motive power a double track
street railroad, together with all the necessary switches
and turnouts for the accomodation of said road, from a convenient
point at the intersection of Ninth Test and North Temple
Streets in Salt Lake City, Utah, and running thence north along
said Ninth i Test Street to a convenient point on Fourth North
Street, and running thence west along Fourth "_Forth Street to
a convenient point en Twelfth. West Street, upon the following •
conditions:
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First. All tracks are to be laid on such grades as are
now or may be hereafter established by the City Council, and the
grantee herein, its successors and assigns, in accepting this
franchise and grant, hereby agrees to keep in good repair
!with the same material and in the same manner as the rest of the
street is constructed or may be hereafter constructed or
paved, the space inside its tracks and for a distance of two
feet from the outside of the outer rails, including all spaces
between double tracks here the same may be constructed.
Second. The grantee crust place cars upon said railroad,
..the franchise for the cenot notion of which is hereby granted,
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with all necessary modern improvements for the convenience and
',:comfort of passengers, which shall be run thereon each and every
;day, both ways, as often as the public convenience may require,
;and at a rate of speed not exceeding twelve miles per hour,
and under such regulations as are now or may be hereafter
prescribed by ordinance or resolution of the City Council.
Third. The center of the space between all double tracks
;;shall be the center of the street, and said tracks shall be
,placed as close together as public safety and convenience shall
warrant, but there shall not be a Nutsaa$ space of more than seven
!feet between the inside rails of double tracks.
Section 2. Nothing in this grant shall be so construed as
to prevent Salt Lake City or its authorized agents from paving,
sewering, laying gas or water mains or pipes, altering,
repairing, or in any manner improvir_; any of the streets
,mentioned herein or any other streets of said city, hut all such
;improvements shall be made with as little injury as practicable
to said railway and the operation thereof.
Section 3. This franchise is granted for a period of
fifty- years from and after the approval of this ordinance.
Section .. This grant and all the terms and. conditions
thereof shall be accepted in writing- by the grantee herein
within thirty days from the approval of this ordinance.
Passed by the City Council of"Salt Lake City, Utah,
�• , 1903, and referred to the mayor• for
his approval.
City :iecorder.
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