The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-09-23

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vacated. Prorided, he,oerer, that SAID company
may continue in the possession ana use there
of until sixty days after such tiine rs the
said City shall pay or cause to De paid 70 said
Company five thousand dohars iof tne engine
Company may at any time before the expiration
of said sixty days remove all the other buildings
and the side tracks, switches, turn tables and
ether fixtures on said grounds and in said engine
house; failing to do which, within the time afore-
said, the same will become the property of said
City.
SEC. 2. All those grounds which are included
in the following boundaries, wit beginning
at the northern terminus of Ontario street, in
the Mississippi river, and in the west line of said
street and running thence southwardly with sal
west line to point twenty feet south of the
ter Of the present track of said Company, thence
westwardiy parallel with said track and twenty
feet south of the center thereof to Carroll street.
thence northwardly to the southeast corner of
block I, of water lots, thence westwardly
with the south line of said block to the
river aforesaid, and thence up the same with the
meanders thereof to the place of beginning, are
hereby designated and shall henceforth be known
as the depot grounds of said Company and all
the parts of streets, alleys and public grounds
within said boundaries may be used by said Com
pany and its assigns, for switches, side tracks,
engine houses and general railroad and depot
purposes, which depot grounds hereby designated,
located and established include blocks 4, 5, d and
of water lots in the Chicago or Lower Addition to
said City, and those parts of blocks and IN
said Addition which lie north OF . line drawn
twenty feet south of the center OF the
of said Company, and also all the parts OF streets,
alleys and public grounds within said boundaries,
which parts of streets, alleys and public grounds
are hereby vacated for the purposes Aforesaid
Provided ho,oecer, that the vacation of said parts
of said streets, alleys and public grounds shall
not take effect until said Company shall have
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in the boundaries aforesaid, and obtained the
sent thereto of the propretors of all the lands and
lots {if any such there are) abutting on the part
parts of any street, alley public ground
to be so vacated
SEC. 3, Said Company may hereafter main
tain its track through the streets, alleys and pub
lie grounds of said City, where the same is now
located, and run its trains and locomotives over
the same, its business may require, subject
however to all such reasonable ordinances of
general nature as may, at any time, be In
force within the limits of said City for the
prohibition of greater rate of locomo-
tive speed than five miles per hour
and subject also to the right of said City, at any
time after said five thousand dollars shall have
been paid, to require said Company to change the
line Of its track at any and all points east of
Swan street projected NORTH to such other line as
may be designated by the City Council of said
City and will afford to said Company as easy
access to the depot grounds of the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railroad is now enjoyed by
said Company, the City first paying to said Com
pany the reasonable expenses of suoh change.
SEC. 4, The said Company may construct,
maintain and use switchin Water street between
block and block of water lots in the Chicago or
Lower Addition to the City of Rock Island,
with railroad track running there
from along said street into the depot grounds
herein located and established or along said
street into said block and across the street be-
tween said block and said depot grounds as may
best suit the convenience of said Company
SEC. 5. Said Company may also at any fu-
ture time, construct and thereafter for the pc
Rod of five years maintain and use a side track
on the south side of its main track and connected
Herewith by proper switches between the west line
of Eagle street commonly called East Eagle street.
and the east line of Buffalo street projected north,
on which side track cars may be left standing for
the purpose of selling, unloading and delivering
coal; adjacent to which side track said Company
may also erect an Office and scales, all to be
located and constructed as to accommodate said
business and as to interfere with the ordinary
uses of said ground by the public, as little
practicable. Propided, hoperer, that said cars
shall not be left standing said side track so as
to prevent the convenient crossing of teams and
vehicles at the point where West Eagle street
projected north would cross the same; and pro
uided, further, that said Council shall have pow
er at any time after the expiration of said five
years, on six months notice,to compel said Com
pany to take up and remove from said grounds
said switches, side track, Office and scales.
SEC. 6. Steamboats, and other water craft land
ing at the depot grounds hereinsbove established,
and doing coal business merely, shall not be
chargeabie for wharfage but the right is hereby
expressly reserved to the City Council to charge
and collect wharfage on all steamboats, and water
craft landing at said depot grounds and doing
any other business than coal business merely ;
and for the purpose of collecting such wharfage,
the proper City Officers shall, at all times, have
free access to said depot grounds but
this section shall not be construed as giving
steamboats, or other water craft the right to land
at said grounds or to transact any business there
at without the consent of said Company.
Adjourned to the regular meeting i'll DC
tober. J. Z. JOHNSTON, City Clerk.