The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-03-25
ORDINANCE.


ORDINANCE.
AN ORDINANCE to authorize and empower the
Burlington County Traction Company, cor
poration incorporated under the laws of the
State of New Jersey, to construct, operate and
maintain a street railway upon, through
and over certain improved road and high
way, bridge and culverts, of the County of
Burlington. to be operated by electricity, and
locating the same, and the tracks or rails and
poles thereon, together with the necessary
turnouts. &C.
WHEREAS, the Burlington County Traction
Company, organized under the provision of an
act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey
entitled, IAN Act TO authorize the formation of
| traction companies for the construction and
operation of street railways, railroads operat-
ed as street railways, and to regulate the same"
approved March A. 1893, and the supplements
thereto, having first filed in the Office of the Sec
rotary of State of New Jersey description of the
route, together with the maps exhibiting the
| same, did, on the twelfth day of February, one
thousand nine hundred and two, present It's petit
| ton to the Board of Chosen Freeholders of the
County of Burlington, praying the said Board to
locate its track upon and over the bridge and
cu1verts in said petition mentioned, and upon,
through and over the roads, highways and public
places named in said petition, such portions of
J the same as have been improved or macadamized
| by the County of Burlington, and thereby be-
| come county roads in the County of Burlington.
couformable TO the route filed in the Office of the
| Secretary of State of New Jersey; and also for
street railway conformable to the route set out
| in said petition and the map which ompanied
| the same and the courses and distances thereof,
including in said descriptions and map, the
streets, roads, culverts bridges and public places
hereinafter mentioned and having. by and in
said petition, signed by majority of its Direc-
tors, accompanied by map and descriptions of
the said route of the said street railway far as
| the same are included within the limits of the
county of Burlington, showing also the proposed
location of the rails or tracks and the location of
poles, applied to the Board of Chosen Freehold
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its tracks and permission to construct, maintain
and operate such street railway or railways on
| the streets, roads, culverts, bridge, improved
roads and public places of the county of Burling-
ton hereinafter mentioned, and for the actual
location of its tracks or rails and poles thereon
and the said the Board of Chosen Freeholders of
| the County of Burlington. having by resolution
passed the twelfth day of February, A. D. 1902,
appointed and fixed time and place when and
where the petition and application would be con-
sdered and all persons interested in said matter
heard, and notice of said meeting and hearing
having been published in THE NEW JERSEY MIR
RoR, the Mount Holly Herald, the Mount Holly
Meas and the Burlington County Democrat,
papers printed and circulated in the said county
OF burlington, for at least fourteen days previous
to the nineteenth day of March, 1902, the time
fixed for such hearing, said newspapers having
been designated by the Board of Chosen Free
holders to publish the same, and by posting such
notice in each of the following places in the
county of Burlington, fora like period, to wit
one at the Arcade hotel in Mount Holly, one at
the hotel of Benjamin W. Ze1ley in Mount Holly
one at the store of Mr.. Walthers in Hainesport,
one at the store of Mr. Lippincott in Hartford,
one at the hotel formerly owned aud occupied by
Charles Coles in Moorestown, and one at the
hotel now occupied by Mr.. Snyder in Moores-
town. said places having been designated by the
Board Of Chosen Freeholders as the places for
posting said notices and due proof having been
made before the said Board of Chosen Freehold
ers of such notice being published and posted,
and also the proof having been made that the
consent of the owners in writing of more than
one-half of the amount in lineal feet Of properties
fronting on the said road highway through
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(which consents have been executed and acknowl-
edged as are deeds entitled to be recorded and
have been and how are filed with the Clerk of
this Board
And Whereas, full and due proof of all such
matters and things was at the time and place SO
appointed, made to the satisfaction of the said
Board of Chosen Freeholders of the county of
Burlington, and the said Board of Chosen Free
holders having heard the said Burlington County
Traction Company and all persons interested in
said application desiring TO be heard there
upon and the said Board of Chosen Freeholders
of the County of Burlington having caused the
said road, highway, bridge, culverts, improved
roads and public places of said county to be ex-
amued by Committee of said Board, appointed
for that purpose, and report of said committee
having been presented to the said Board, from
which it appears that the said Committee did
make examination of all of said road, high
way, bridge, culverts, improved roads and pub
lie places, and of the size, condition and con-
struction of the same, and the said Board of
Chosen Freeholders of the county of Burlington
having duly considered all and singular the
premises and no reason appearing to the con-
trary, therefore,
BE 1T ORDAINED AND ENACTED by the Board
of Chosen Freeho1ders of the County of Burling-
ton, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the
authority of the same, as follows
Section THAT the tracks of the Burlington
County Traction Company be, and the are
hereby located, and the company is hereby
thorized and empowered and given permission
to construct, maintain and operate single track
street railway of the gauge of five feet, with
the motive power of electricity, over, through and
upon the improved road of the county of Burling-
ton extending from point where the road from
Holly Turnpike Road and at the beginning of
the stone road commonly known the Mason
vile and Mount Holly stone road, at Masonville,
and extending thence, in Easterly direction,
through the Village of Hainesport, and ending at
point where said road strikes the tracks of the
Mount Holly Street Railway Company at a point
near the intersection of Washington, King and
West Washington Streets and Madison Avenue, |
in the Village of Mount Holly (beiug part of the
route described in said petition and map.)
Section 2-That the tracks or rails of the street
railway, far as the same extends through, over
aud upon the improved road in Section mention
ed are located as follows, having guage of five
feet on the following described middle line Be-
ginning at point at the beginning of the Mason
Vile and Mt. Holly county stone road, in Mason
vile, the junction of the Rancocas road, in
the township of Mount Laurel, county of Burliug-
ton and State of New Jersey at point the
North side of said stone road, being eight feet |
northward from the centre line thereof thence |
North lightweight degrees and eighteen minutes |
East five hundred feet, and being for the whole of
said distance eight feet North OF the centre of |
said stone road thence by curve TO the left, |
five thousand feet radius, one hundred feet at
said point the centre line OF said tracks to be |
twelve feet northward from the centre of said |
stone road thence North lightweight degrees |
and eighteen minutes East, twenty-tliree hundred
and forty-feet to point on the line between Mt |
Laurel and Lumberton townships; thence ex- |
tending along said road from said township line |
by curve to the left. through Lumberton town
ship, ffty-seveu hundred and thirty feet radius |
twenty feet; thence North eighty EIGHT degrees |
and thirteen minutes East, sxty,oue hundred and
seventeen feet to point at the West end of the
drawbridge over Rancocas creek thence over
the Northern part of said bridge hereafter to be
constructed in general easterly direction one
hundred and eghty-three feet to the East end of
said bridge; thence continuing by a curve to the
left of fifty seven hundred and thirty feet radius
two hundred feet; thence north eighty-six de-
grees, thirteen minutes east, six hundred and !
eighty feet to a point; thence by curve TO the
right fourteen hundred and thirty-three feet
radius, one hundred feet; thence south eighty
nine degrees and forty-seveu minutes east, three /
curve TO the left. five hundred and seventy-three
feet radius, two hundred and three feet; thence
north eighty degrees and two minutes east, fve
hundred feet to point; thence by curve to the
left fifty-seveu hundred and thirty feet radius,
one hundred and five feet; thence north seventy
eight degrees and fiftv-6ve minutes east sixty
with curve to the.right, one hundred feet radius,
thirty-hv feet to the centre of the said Mason
also point on the line between the townships Of
Lumberton and Northampton the centre OF said
line of track the North side of said stone road
to be approximately twelve feet from the centre
of said road, except as in this paragraph other
wise provided and from thence extending, in
the centre of said stone road, North, seventy-nue
degrees East, thirty hundred and ffty-two feet,
more or less, TO connection with the tracks of
the Mount Holly Street Railway on the East side
of Madison Avenue, in the township of North
ampton, County of Burlington and State of New
Jersey.
The description of the turnout along said
route is as follows: Beginning at a point two
hundred feet East of the junction of the Lumber
ton Road with the Masonvi1le aud Mount Holly
county stone road thence with radius of three
hundred feet, sixty feet to point, where will be
placed frog thence by reverse radius of three
hundred feet TO point, and thence by tangent
parallel to the track of the main line, for dis
lance of ninety feet thence by radius of three
hundred feet sixty feet to the right, to point at
which will be located frog; and thence by rad
ius of three hundred feet sixty feet TO an inter
section with the track of the main line, the entire
Turnout to be located on the North side Of the
main track and to be built with American Society
Civil Engineers Section Tee Rail, and'to be filled
in with dirt.
Section 3.-That the tracks of the Burlington
County Traction Company be and the same are
located, and the said company is hereby author
lied and empowered and given permission to con-
struct, maintain aud operate single track street
railway of the gauge of five feet, with the motive
power of electricity, over and upon the draw
bridge over the Rancocas Creek at Hainesport,
said bridge being situated at the southwest cor
ner of the foundry plant of the Roualds and john