The Jersey City news., 1904-11-07


line Is to be put into operation.
Fourteenth. During the month Of
JANUARY. nineteen hundred and
six, and during said month
IN each year thereafter. said coninany
shall file with tile Comptroller Of Jersey
CRY Statement Of the gross earnings
received upon any line operated, in
whole or In part. over the tracks author
lied to be laid by this ordinance, for he
preceding calendar year. said company
shall thereupon pay to the Comptroller
as compensation for the franchise hereby
granted such proportion Of five per cent.
Of the gross earnings OF any such iine as
the length OF the route operated under
this ordinance bears TO the entire length
Of said line. provided, that from the
amount 80 ascertained shall be deducted
the portion Of the gross earnings on said
route hereby located, now OF hereafter
required By any statue OF New Jersey.
to be paid to the city. The gross earn
ings on the route hereby located, for
such purpose, shall be ascertained by ta-
king such proportion OF the gross earr-
ings OF any line OF lines using the tracks
hereby located, as the length of such
tracks bears to the entire length
of the line or lines operated
over the same. In default Of such pay
ment the City may bring an action on
contract for the recovery thereof in any
Court Of competent jurisdiction.
Fifteenfh--The compensation above
named shall be paid By said Jersey City
Hoboken and Paterson Street Railway
Company for term of twenty-five years
next succeeding the passa &c of this ordi-
nance, and at the termination of said
period Of twenty-five years, and at the
termination Of each succeeding period of
twenty-five (251 years the said compensa-
ton herein or hereinafter provided for,
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ther agreement. and the compensation to
be paid by said Jersey City. Hoboken and
Paterson Street Railway Co., to the said
City OF Jersey City, for the twenty-five
t2o) years then next ensuing shall be
fixed ana determined by agreement be-
tween said parties. their successors and
assigns with tile approval OF the
no agreement shall be reached
by said parties within three months after
the expiration Of any period aforesaid.
then such compensation shall be fixed
and determined by three arbitrators or
commissioners, who shall be selected as
follows: One shall be the chief execu-
tive. Of said city for the time being. one
shall be chosen by the Jersey City, Hobo
ken and Paterson Street Railway Co,
and a third, or umpire, shall be selected,
or apnointed. by the persons so chosen;
it said board or company shall fail to
appoint u commissioner. or arbitrator,
within thirty days after the expiration of
said period of three months, or if the
two arbitrators, or commissioners, ap-
pointed by said board or company shall
fail to agree upon an umpire within fhir-
ty days from the date of their appoint-
ment, application may be made, in either
of those cases, to any Justice of the SUI
preme Court of New Jersey for the APP
pointment of commissioner, or umpire,
as the case may be, and in case of
any change in the judicial system
of New Jersey whereby the Supreme
Court shall no longer exist, such appli-
cation for the appointment of an arbitra-
ter or commissioner or umpire may be
made to any Judge. or Justice of the
Court of Last Resort in this State The
decision of said arbitrators or commits
sioners and umpire. or any two of them,
shall be final and binding upon the city
of Jersey City and the said Jersey City
Hoboken and Paterson Street Railway
Company for the period Of twenty-five
years (25) thereafter. The powers and
obligations created and imposed by this
section shall be binding upon the sue
cessors of said Board, city and company.
Sixteenth. Said company shall sprin-
kle its tracks hereby authorized to be laid
and at least four t4l feet outside there
of. from the fifteenth day of April to the
fifteenth day Of October in each year
whenever necessary; provided, that said
city shall supply the water required for
that purpose without charge, and in case
said company shall fail to sprinkle said
tracks, and space on each side thereof,
ms herein provided, the same may be done
by the city and the expense thereof
shall be paid BY the company.
Seventeenth. No power shall be used
for the operation of the street railway
hereby authorized to be laid, except
electricity.
Eighteenth. The present turnouts or
switches in Grove street. between New
ark avenue and the Hoboken city line,
shall be removed as soon as the tracks
authorized by this ordinance shall be laid
Nineteenth. This ordinance shall be
binding upon Jersey City, Hoboken and
Paterson Street Railway Company and
Public Service Corporation of New Jer-
sey and their successors and assigns re-
spectively, and, shall also be binding up
on the Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey
City and the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners of said city and their sue
cessors.
Twentieth. This ordinance shall be
and remain imperative unless written
acceptance of the terms and conditions of
certain other ordinances this day passed,
entitled:
An ordinance granting permission TO
the North Jersey Street Railway Com
pany, a corporation organized under the
laws of the State of New Jersey its
successors and assigns. to locate con-
struct, operate and maintain certain
main line connections between tracks at
present operated by said company, and
also certain connections, between tracks
operated by ii and tracks operated by
the Jersey City, Hoboken and Paterson
Street Railway Conlpanv."
IAN ordinance granting permission to
the Jersey City, Hoboken and Paterson
Street Railway Company. a corporation
organized under the laws of the State
Of New Jersey, its successors and as
signs. to locate, construct. operate and
maintain certain main line connections
between tracks at present operated by
said company in the City of Jersey
City
'sAn ordinance granting permission 10
the North Jersey Street Railway Com
pany, q corporation organized under the
laws Of the State Of New Jersey, its
successor and assigns TO locate
construct, operate and maintain
a double track electric surface street
railway, to be operated by the overhead
trolley system. on West Side avenue,
Danforth avenue, Fowler avenue
Greenyille avenue Ronlar avenue, Sea-
view avenue. Old Bergen road and Gates
avenue, in the City of Jersey City,
Hudson County and State of New
Jersey
AN ordinance granting permission to
Jersey City. Hoboken and Paterson
Street Railway Company. a corporation