The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-05-29
Ordinance No. 4G, Relative to street Rail
way,

An ordinance granting Geo L. Bardeen and G..
w. Meulman, trustees, their successors and
assigns, and any company or corporation succeed
ing 10 its property rights, permission and author
ity and right of way 10 locate, establish con-
struct use and maintain, own and operate, rail-
way by electricity, or other approved power, with
an the appuUenauces thereuntO belonging, on, in,
through and over the streets and highways in the
village of Paw Paw county Of Van Buren,, state OF
Michigan
The Village of Paw Paw Ordains.
Sec. l. Permission and authority and right OF
way ls hereby granted 10 Geo. l.. Bdrdceu aud G..
W. Meulmau, trustees, their successors and
assigns, and company or corporation succeeding
10 its property right 90 locate establish, construct,
extend, USE, maintain, own and operate a railway
by electricity, or other approved power, with all
the appuuenances thereunto belonging, IN, on,
through and over the streets and highways I'm the
village of Paw Paw, county of Van Buren, state of
! Michigan, with all the necessary and convenient
double tracks, turnouts, sidetraCks and switches,
and with single or double trolley with necessary
/ poles and overhead wires and rail connections,
and 70 own and maintain thereon cars for the
transportation of passengers baggage, freight, I.
! S. mails and express, necessary and convenient
fol ITS business for thirty 80 years from the date
/ of this charter,
sec. II. The rails of said company, its success
ors or assigns, may be OF the style known the
ct rail and shall be placed flush with the surface
] of the streets and shall conform TO the grade
thereof and shall be constructed as TO least in
| convenience and obstruCt public travel thereon,
and the wire and structure in said streets shall be
/ kept at all times IN good safe condition, az al
streets or road intersections the approaches shall
be graveled between the rails and sufficient dis
t3nce each side Of the ral 10 afford proper ap-
! proach for teams.
Sec. III. said company, its successors or
assigns, shall not charge more than two ~ cents
| per car mile for each passenger, provided, how
ever, that no single fare shall be less than five 80
| cents
Sec ". None but careful sober and prudent
men shall be employed TO take charge of the cars
| on the road and they shall use every reasonable
precaution not 10 inIure the teams carriages or
persons on foot
Sec. V. The cars at all times shall be entitled
| TO the tracks, and any vehicle or persons on the
the track of said railway shall turn out when the
! cars come up, IN either direction, so as TO leave
the track unobstructed.
Sec VI Said company, its successors or as
| signs, shall have road completed within two years
from the time this ordinance takes effect.
Sec. VII. Permits shall not be issued TO move
buildings, or large or bulky articles on or across
any Of the streets upon which said tracks are, or
may be situated in such manner as to interfere
with the overhead equipment or operation OF cars
upon railway, unless at time of making such APP
plication the person desiring the permit shall hle
with the village clerk the written of said
company, their successors OF assigns or the presi
dent OF said village. Whenever the president OF
said village shall grant 10 any person the right 10
move buildings articles, person moving
same, shall be required, II possible or practicable
TO move the same across or along the track OF
said railway between the hours of twelve "a
O'Clock midnight and 81 o clock the next morning
the party in whose favor the permission Is granted
shall pay grantees, their successors or assigLs,
any and all damages and expenses caused 10y the
removal or disturbance OF the wires, poles and
premises Of said railway or by the stoppage Of its
cars.
Sec. VIII. This ordinance shall take effect at
once upon It's passage and the public notice there
of, required by law
Sec. The power. privileges and rights
conferred, and obligations herein and hereby I'm
posed, shall be deemed contract, and continued
TO said grantees, their successors and assigns, toi
period Of thirty 500 years from and after the
adoption thereof.
Sec. X. Said grantees shall within thirty $50
days after the passage of this ordinance, signify
their acceptance IN writing OF the rights and
privileges hereby granted and file the same with
the village clerk.
We do hereby certify that the foregoing ordin
ance No. 20 adopted by the village council oil
Paw Paw at a special meeting of said village
council held May 18th, 1903.
T. b. LONGWELL,
President.
W. II. MASON,
Clerk.