The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-11-09

annual rent ana OF sucu cAptHseo DIS |
shall thereafter accrue, as we'll as of the |
cost which shall then have been in
Cured by said Rock Island & Peoria
Railroad Company or its assigns, IN
permanent structures and improve
ments thereon, including the expen-
ses which, may have been incurred in
extending said grounds by filling up |
the same on the north side thereof,
and if said grounds shall not have been
so filled up as to make a good and suf-
ticient steamboat landing at all stages |
of water in the Mississippi river, the
said other Company shall also be liza
bic to the said Rock Island IL Peoria
Railroad Company, as condition of
its continued right to share in the use
of said grounds to pay one-half of
the cost of filling up the same and con-
structlng a permanent landing for
steamboats, thereon. In lieu of the
obligation which was attempted to be
imposed to permit all Railroad COM
panies whose roads should come in
to said city from the south or west to
share equally in the use of the Rail
road track on the Levee, and to avoid
the danger of collision thereon by said
companies attempting to use said
track in common, said Rock Island ~
Peoria Railroad Company shall be
bound, with its own motive power, to
switch and transfer all such cars as any
other Railroad Company may desire
from time to time to have switched
and transferred, between the Depot
grounds aforesaid and the Depot
grounds of the Chicago, Rock Island
d Pacific Railroad Company in said
city, for such compensation and upon
such terms and conditions as may be
decided to be fair and reasonable by
two disinterested Railroad Superinten-
dents lone to be chosen by each par
ty) or their umpire but if said city
shall not require said Rock Island N
Peoria Railroad Company to share
said grounds with the first Railroad
Company whose road shall be SO COM
pleted as aforesaid, then said Rock
Island d Peoria Railroad Company
| may share the same, on its own mo-
ton, with said other Company, upon
terms mutually satisfactory to the two
| Companies, and thereby exhaust the
privilege of the said city to require the
same to be shared as aforesaid; but
said city reserves the right, by ordi-
nance, to require said company or
companies to construct and maintain
suitable crossings over and across such
railroad tracks as shall be constructed
on said depot grounds, in front of
Otter street, and TO require said COM
panies not to unnecessarily interfere
in the transaction of their business
with the use of said crossings by the
public.
1t is further expressly understood
and agreed, that if the said city shall
at any future time grant the public
grounds lying eighty feet north of the
south line of Mississippi street and be-
tween the Depot grounds aforesaid and
the west line of Eagle street, for De-
pot and other Railroad purposes, TO
any Railroad Company whose road
shall come into said city and into said
grounds from the East, the said city
shall in that case have the right TO
require said Rock Island Il Peoria
Railroad Company, or the occupants
of said Depot grounds herein first
above described, TO exchange such
portion or portions thereof for such
equal portion or portions of said last
mentioned grounds, as shall accommo-
date each and all OF said Companies,
in respect to length OF switches and
otherwise, as equally and equitably as
may be, provided that no such ar
rangement or distribution shall be
made as shall materially impair the
use or value of any permanent struct-
ures then erected and being on any
part of said Depot Grounds herein
first above described. The terms and
manner of such exchange, arrange
ment and distribution shall be deter
mined by agreement of said Compa-
MES respectively, if they can so agree,
and if not, then by disinterested Rail
road Superintendent Ito be chosen,
one by each of said Companies) or
their umpire, and said city shall have
the right, in order to promote and eff
feet such arrangement, if necessary, to
require said Rock Island IL Peoria
Railroad Company to take up, relocate
and relay its main track through the
Depot grounds so to be granted to said
Eastern road. SO as to accommodate
said last mentioned road as fully as
may be,without materially obstructing
the connection of said Rock Island x
Peoria Railroad with the Chicago
Rock Island d Pacific Railroad.
Nothing herein contained shall be
deemed in any way to affect the
bond of indemnity heretofore execu,
ted by the Rock Island d Peoria Rail
road Company to said city, or to ex-
, tend the temporary right of said Com
pany to maintain and use the switch
now laid down on the Levee, east Of
Jefferson street in said city.
In testimony whereof, &c.