New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-16

aed warehouses on 6oo TO the great convenience
merchants. l -
Ne 'Ss,I i- Tortt Nov 1e. 1866
THE RAILROAD QUESTION IN THE COMMON COUNCIL
oPISI0Y OF THE CORPORATION COUNSEL
At the meeting of The Board oi Couucimen, yester-
day the following oorT,sspondcncc was submitted
hAroRs FTca. NEW. OAK nov. 10, 1885.
respect cogy Ian opinion Of the Corporation COM.
futonHte concur wit bin a. The opinion that the Trucks
been 4o ~'hor' authority Of law and respectfully suggest TIE
toproe. immediately rurye de md requesting tie Conn
ueat may be lecsssary to Ir,ec' The h' Of The city
Law DEPARTxEsr OYroz o, CoUS.SL 70 CoaroRATiOsj
TIE Boa JoHs EIorPMAS M0yoy Of the civ Of NSy Yok
bsln sa have 90 honor % acknowledge The receipt Of your
T W ~, & 70 o. SoTa n The railroad
sek. u Bro dwsy bswe'n Ann and Fqtoo't aud
proc g car be bad to compel the removal OF such teh and an
T, lEst By Legislators q the ofNew York
passed April ~ 100 tCsaP 52 Laws Of $780, certsin person..
through 1lons certain streets and avenues city
row 10 Bosdy on the east ide The f,nese hos given was
understood Subsequently acquired BY the Dry Dock and Eat Broad
by II he Lrus passed May 1866 ent.ed an act 10
authorize the Dry Dock East Broadway Battery Railroad Com
Papy sIsee their railroad tracks and to authorize tie Ninth
ave. hoad Conps to use poiion thereof Chsp goo Lava ca
tcf fo fcenwich and through pe,
cst IL and through Couriudt to the North through
FuouSt 70 Broadway with 'nl track nom to
together w The necessary connections turnouts aud switches Tor
ne S ss %SSs 81 s and saiS%a
Informed the railroad tracks recently laid In broadway
Company claiming the right 20 connect tier tracks which
previously eu the Of Broadway ard fuons win
under the act VI the Legislature last stated
In opinion does not either expressly by mpeation
cOneT right such connections The extensions author
lied BY refer TO the tracks OF The Com
horze their through FuOns from Wsshuonst the
westerly Broudwsy aud the nedvH coanee0rs alluded
by the extensions thus authorized
authority TO firm connection between the ter
Broadway aud the east side OF the route end
SIDE Of the broadway and Faont
A the second branch % vour nq VIZ what steps can be
had 10 compel 40, beg TO say; .
am informed that Attorney General behalf Of the People Of
the Of has commenced action resron the use
esid railroad tracks aud obtained injunction
Before tie cpt Of etef suits also instituted by ts
Corporation Attorney under directions 70 recover from the sad
City (Chsp "a aud a. Revised Ordinances Of 1881 for ne
violation the aud such suits In aud "A De
tired.
addition THE Ordinances Of the City Tart Secs u and
a. Ordinances Of 1882 the Street Commissioner remove
obstruction street veue not 70
moved BY the parties interested within twenty iolr hou se' an
order 20 that effect made by him.
the OF the removal OF those
authority thus vestedn the Sire Department They
luz thoe being authority OF law opinion aud
Ordinances Of tie City the Police suthone would
y opinion JUSTIFIED preventing the laying Of tie sd
oud be justified in preventing the elton o. that
work .-.t
Of opinion that 81 in
Of The public streets in trust for tie p-op be n1nsued to
restrain the sd company from using tue said street Se IN tbs
obrctedto. Yours faithfully,
RICHARD oGONxAs, Counsel to TIE CoTPOrstiOu.