San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-21
AN ORDINANCE.

Granting to the Galveston, Har-
risburg and San Antonio Railway
Company the license to construct,
maintain and operate spur track
diagonally across the junction of
Cherry and Burnett streets, in the
city OF San Antonio.
Be it ordained by the City Coun-
Gil of the city Of San Antonio, as
follows:
Section l. That the license to
construct, maintain and operate
for period Of twenty-five years,
spur track from the southeast cor
ner OF block twenty -one (2I, to the
northwest corner of block nineteen
(19), diagonally across the junction
Of Cherry and Burnett streets in
the city Of San Antonio, in a direc-
ton from northwest to southeast,
be, and the same is hereby granted
to the Galveston, Harrisburg and
San Antonio Railway Company,
subject to the following limita.
tions, reservations, conditions and
stipulations:
Sec. 2. The City of San An
tonic reserves the right to the full
exercise OF it's charter powers of ex-
elusive control over the streets OF
said city, and OF directing and con.
trolling the laying and construc-
tion OF railroad tracks, turnouts
and switches, and said city reserves
the right to require the temporary
removal Of said spur track or any
extension thereof, from any public
street of said city, whenever, in the
judgment Of the City Council of
said city, such removal may be
necessary for the construction or
repairs Of any public work, or for
the grading or repairs of such
street, or in case of change in the
grade OF such street, and to require
the permanent removal of said
spur track or any extension there.
of from its location in any public
street of said city to another place
I'M such street, whenever, in the
opinion OF said City Council, such
change OF location may be neces.
ssry for the proper location OF any
public work, or to the proper accom-
mediation OF said grantees use OF
said street to other uses to which
public streets are dedicated; all
such removals, temporary or per-
manent, to be at the expense of the
grantee, and without compensation
thereto And said city reserves
the right to remove said spur track
from said street whenever the
grantee shall fail to comply with a
require ment for its removal such
as is above provided for, for
twenty days after notice from said
City Council to remove the same
and in case of such removal by said
city, the expense thereof shall be
paid by the grantee to said city.
Sec, 3, This license is granted
upon the condition that tho grantee
shall conform 10 all existing or
future ordinances of said city gov
erning the construction or opera
tion OF railroads in the streets Of
said city.
Sec. 4. The license hereby grant
ed shall not be assigned or leased
without the consent OF the CITY
Council of said city expressed by
ordinance; and in case OF any
attempted assignment or lease
thereof, no rights shall pass there.
by, and the license hereby granted
shall thereupon Immediately ter
inmate.
Sec. 5. II the grantee shall vio-
late any OF the conditions or stipu-
lations herein expressed, other than
section 4, after notice from said
City Council to the grantee Of such
violation, and a continuance OF
such violation for ten days after
such notice, the said City Council
may, by ordinance, declare this
license forfeited.
Passed and approved January
goth, 1896.
HENRY ELMENDoRF,
Mayor.
Attest: