The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-05
ORDINANCES


AN ORDINANCE to grant certain rights and
privileges to the City and Suburban Railway
Company upon the conditions expressed in
said ordinance.
SECTION l. Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council
Assembled, in compliance with the petition of
the City and Suburban Railway Company filed
in the Office of the Clerk of Council on the 9TH
day of March 1888, that the said company is
hereby authorized and empowered to connect
its tracks in the City Of Savannah at the inter
sections of Liberty and Whitaker streets and of
Liberty and Abercorn streets by a curve at each
of the said two intersections, provided that the
building of said curves shall not disturb any
tree now growing at or near said intersections,
and upon the further conditions hereinafter ex-
pressed.
SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, upon the con-
ditions hereinafter expressed, That the said
railway company is also authorized to build
line about twelve hundred feet on Randolph
street, in the said city of Savannah, SO as to
connect its Liberty street line with the depot of
the Savannah and Tybee Railway Company at
the foot of President street; also to extend it's
AbercOrn street line through Abercorn street
extended in said city to Second street, and
thence to the depot of the said City and Sub
urban Railway Company on Second street, at
the corner of Whitaker street, extended; and
also to build turn-outs on Whitaker, Abercorn,
Second and Randolph streets in said city,
SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That the privi-
leges and rights hereinbefore mentioned are
granted upon the following conditions and not
otherwise, namely: (D All the work done by
UDe SAID railway company IN The assertion OF
the privileges and rights hereinbefore granted,
or any of them, shall be done, and the curves
and turnouts shall be located, under the super
vision and control of the Committee on Streets
and Lanes and the City Surveyor; ~ the turn
outs on Abercorn street shall be paved or
planked the entire width of the track at each
intersecting street or lane, and the tracks and
spaces between contiguous tracks of said turn
outs and two feet outside of said tracks shall
also be paved or planked the entire width of
the lntersecting street and lane: (9) the
said Second street shall be paved or
planked the entire length Of the turn,
out, from point to point; a. the curves at
Abercorn and Whitaker streets, including the
triangle formed by the curve at Whitaker street,
shall be paved, and the curves at Abercorn and
Second streets shall be paved or planked; 90
all the tracks of the said railway company now
built, or which may be hereafter built through
any square of the city of Savannah shall be
paved, and at the crossings in said squares the
pavement shall consist of paving blocks.
be paved by the first of May next,
and in the others by the first day of January
next; o. the location of the building of the said
railway company on said Second and Whitaker
streets extended shall be so changed by the said
company as to avoid any encroachment on
either of said streets; l0 the paving and planking
hereinbefore provided for and the proper grad
ing shall be kept up and maintained by the said
railway company, and respecting all the work
done by the said railway company under the
authority conferred by this ordinance the said
company shall be under tine full control of the
ordinances of the said city of Savannah
SEC 4. Be it further ordained That all ordi-
nances and parts of ordinances in conflict with
this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed in Council March 81 1888
RUFUS f. LESTER. Mayor.
Attest: FRANK f. REBARER, Clerk Of Council.