The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-12-02
Contract Between the CITY nj
A1cknlan and. the Nashville
ana CHATTANOOGA Rail-
road COMPANY.

49, 49,
4 The following is the contract between
the City of Hickman and Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad Company, relative
to building wharf, piIing river front, ETC.
referred to in Council proceedings:
This agreement made and entered into
this the 9th day of November 1871, by
aud between the Nashville and Chatta-
j. nooga Railroad Company, an iucorpo
rated Railroal Company in the State OF
Tennessee, of the first part; aud the
City of Hickman, an incorporated CITY
IN the State Of Kentucky, of the second
part.
Witnesseth. That the said Nashville
and Chattanooga Railroad Company, in
consideration of the covenants or the
part of the said City of Hickman, doth
covenant to and with the said City of
Hickman, that they will within twelve
months from this date, expend at least
eight thousand dollars in filing. grading
paving, graveling and in doing such
other work upon the bank of the Miss.
issippi river in front of said CITY of
Hickman as will tend to protect its bank
from caving and falling 10, as also to pro.
vide suitable wharf for the doing of
wharf and transfer business, said work TO
be done In a workmanlike and substan
tial manner-and with good material
and at a reasonable cost The piles to
be of pine or cypress timber and the
paving to be done with rock, stone and
gravel. The piling to begin as near as
practicable in front of the northwest
corner of Lot No. 236 in Old Hick man
aud extend up the river at least one
thousand feet.
The grading, paving and graveliug to
be done at point convenient and &C
cessible to the present business portion of
the city, somewhere between the East |
boundary line of Allegheny street and |
West boundary line of Kentucky street |
upon the property this day purchased of |
Jno. G. Steele and wife, to be graded, at
from low water mark to high water mark
and for space of at least three hundred |
feet 10 width, all of said space to be /
also we'll paved and graveled with rock,
stone and gravel. One hundred aud |
fifty feet in width and from low water
mark to high water mark to be unob.
structed by any Of the tracks or transfer
ways of said Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad Company, to be always kept 10
good repair, to be always open aud free
for the transfer aud handling of all pri-
vate freight and the same made accessi-
bic for wagon aud drays by good and
sufficient crossings made and kept up
across the main tracks and switches OF
said Railroad Company at some con-
venient point to be selected by them.
And the said City of Hickman, in
of the covenants of the
said Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
Company, doth covenant to aud with the
said Nashville and Chattanooga Rail.
road Company, that she will and doth
hereby authorize and permit the said
Nashville aud Chattanooga Railroad
Company to have the free aud perpetual
use OF any. of the streets and alleys
west of Troy Avenue. and north OF
W oodbiae alley and Market street; or so
nauy of them as may be necessary for
them to run their tracks over, or trans
Ter freight, or to do any other work per
aiming to their business.
That she will and doth hereby trans t
er to the said Nashville aad Chattanooga :
Railroad Company, all of her stock in
he Nashville aud Northwestern Rail
Dad Company, viz: -Four hundred :
shares of one hundred dollars each {
nd that after the said Nashville aud
Railroad Company shall
nave expended two thousand dollars ia
he piling, grading, paving, graveiing.
Sc., of river bank, that she will eede 10
her one-haIt of all the wharfage that may
De collected at the port of Hickman,
and forever, so long as they
,ontinueto operate the present Nashville
nd Northwestern Railroad over its pre-
sent iae add road bed to the said City of
Hickman. Said wharfage to be assessed
and collected from the vessels and crafts,
lnd at the rates now provided by the
ordinances of said City of Hickman,
1ut subject TO be hereafter altered. chan :
,ed or amended upon the consent and !
agreement of both the contracting par :
les hereto. The said Nashville and
chattanooga Railroad Company to have
he right and privilege of collecting the
wharfage by themselves or their selected
lgent upon executing bond to the said :
City of Hickman, conditioned to make !,
monthly reports of ali wharfage collect :
ID and at the same time to pay into the !.
Jity Treasury one half of the gross
mount thereto-Bhich bond is TO be
euewed annually so long as they choose a
% do the collecting. i
Upon their declining to collect the
Wharfage, then the same to be collected /
~ a wharfmaster duly elected aud quail =
led as now provided by the charter and r
ordinances of said City of Hickman. ;,
Said wharfmaster to collect the wharfage :
lpon the terms and commissions now =
provided by the said ordinances, unless :
hanged by the consent of both the con
racting parties hereto; aud after deduct
ng his said commission to pay monthly
me half of the net amount over to the
aid Nashville aud Chattanooga Railroad
company, and the remaining one half
nto the Treasury of the said City of
Hickman. =
10 witness whereof, the said parties
rave hereunto set their hands and seals
he day and year first above written. O
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