Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-09-25
ORDINANCE NO. az.
THE VILLAGE OF ALMA ORDAINs


and authority be and is hereby granted
TO Marcus Pollasky and associates, Their
successors and assigns, grantees herein
TO locate, establish construct, operate anC
maintain a street railway upon the street:
hereinafter specified, within the village
of Alma, Gratiot County Mich, with
necessary and convenient tracks TO con,
meet with another road that is now OF
may be built within the village of Alma,
for turnouts and side tracks and switches
and TO run and maintain thereon railway
cars for the carriage of passengers, bag
gage, freight, express and mail for thirty
years from the date thereof, subject to
the conditions hereinafter specified.
SEC. ?. The streets of said village to be
ordinance, shall be Superior Street west
Street to the Railroad, that part of Cen
ter Street between Church and State
Streets, and State Street South of Sup
erior Street to the Railroad, and on
State Street north TO the Golf Links;
Court Street between Superior and Ely
Streets; Ely Street from village limits
west to Court Street. Alma and St.
Louis Road from village limits TO SUI
parts of streets as may be hereafter
granted Provided, that part of Super
Tor Street east of the race way and the
St. Louis State Road, the track shall be
laid on the north side of the street and
the center of the track twenty (2o) feet
distance from the center of the street.
If said grantees vacate any streets or
part of streets the said grantees shall
i'm .ediately repair so much of said streets
and make it as good as the balance of
said streets.
SEC. g. The tracks of said railway shall
be of standard guage, the trolley poles i'll
said streets shall be of cedar, properly
painted and to kept free from posters and
advertising. All poles to be set outside
of sidewalk line. The location and
grade of said tracks, turnouts, switches
and sidetracks, shall be as ordered by
the Common Council at the time of lay
ing the tracks of said street railway upon
said streets and the said grantees, their
associates, successors and assigns at the
time of such laying of said tracks shall
plank or pave the space between the
rails and the space for twelve inches out
side the same with three inch pfanks at
street intersections; and they shall main
tain the same; and in the event of said
street being paved by said village then the
said grantees, their successors and assigns
shall at the same time pave with the
same material as used in said streets adj
joining their tracks, that portion of said
street lying betweens the rails of said
tracks and twelve inches on the outside
of said rails and maintain the same.
SEC. !. Said grantees, their successors
and assigns shall also remove or level all
ridges or banks of snow or ice that shall
fall or be formed upon or between the
rails, and one foot outside their track
Such snow and ice as is removed as fore
said shall be evenly distributed over the
surface of the streets i'll such manner as
shall least obstruct public travel thereon
and in case the Village Council shall
deem il necessary to and does remove at
any time a portion of the snow from any
street through which the said grantees,
their successors and assigns NAV be
operating their street railway, then and
in that case the said grantees, their sue
Cessors and assigns shall bear so much of
the expense thereof as the proportion of
the width of the street occupied by the
track or tracks compares with the whole
width of the street; and if said grantees,
their successors and assigns shall neglect
to obey any order which the Village
Council shall make in relation to such
affairs, or any order relative to any re-
pairs of the streets which by the provi-
sions of this ordinance they are obliged
TO make, the said Village Council shall
cause the same to be made and collect
the expenses thereof from the said gran
tees, their Successors and assigns. Pro
vidcd, that the said grantees, their sue
Cessors and assigns may deposit or
sprinkle salt upon the tracks of their
railway at all switch points, curves and
turntables, and at and upon other por
tions of said tracks, the salt III all cases
to be deposited or spr nklcd on the sur
face OF the rail only and IN such modcr
ate quantities and in such manner as TO
least impair the use of the street for
public travel Said grantees shall keep
the space between the track and one
foot each side of the tracks within the
village limits in good repair and free
from dirt, rubbish, weeds and other OBJ
structious.
SEC. s. The said railway to be
constructed operated and maintained
under this grant. shall be operated by the
overhead trolley wire system of electri-
city or such other manner of operation
with electricity as may be feasible or by
such other modern rapid power as said
grantees. their successors and assigns
NAV from time TO time deem expedient.
Provided however that steam power
shall not be used within said village
without the consent of the Common
Council. The cars and other equipments
shall be comfortable and sufficient for
the accommodation of the public, and
the cars shall at all times be entitled TO
the tracks and any vehicle on said tracks
shall turn out without delay so as TO
leave said track uuobstructed. Provided,
however, that this section shall not apply
TO FIRE apparatus, engines, trucks or carts
which shall at all time be entitled to the
street and tracks as hereinafter provided.
Said grantees, their successors and as
signs shall be entitled TO haul trains for
freight or other purposes
for general traffic provided the same
shall not interfere with regular passenger
traffic
SEC. 8. Nothing in this ordinance