Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-23
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Ordinance No. 11,ses

New Series.)
An Ordinance granting to the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company the right.
privilege and permission to lay and con-
struct and for a period of twenty-one
years thereafter to maintain and operate
a railway spur track along jackson
street in the City of Los Angeles County
of Los Angeles, State of California.
The Mayor and Council of the City OF
Los Angeles do ordain as follows:
Section /. That the right, privilege and
permission be and 1t is hereby granted to
the Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
a corporation, or its successors, and as
signs to lay and construct and thereafter
for a period of twenty-one years from
the date of the passage OF this Ordl-
nance to maintain and operate a single
railway spur track along jackson street
in the City of Los Angeles, County OF
Los Angeles, State of California, between
the points hereinafter described, as fol-
Beginning at the main track of said
Southern Pacific Railroad Company upon
Los Los Angeles, State Of California; rum
ming thence across said Alameda street
and along Jackson street to the easterly
line of Lafayette street,, thence across
private property over which said COM
pany may acquire the right of way, TO
Amelia street; thence across Amela
street and along Jackson street to point
two hundred (2OC feet east of Center
street. -.
be laid and constructed under the privi-
lege hereby granted shall correspond to
The offciai grade of the street or alley
across or along which 1t may be placed
where the same is improved to the Of
fetal grade, and shall conform to the
natural surface of the ground where such
street is not so improved, the tops or the
surrounding surface Of the street or alley,
and in event such street or alley shall
be graded, paved or otherwise improved
under the authority of said City of Los
Angeles, then such spur track over or
upon such street and the ground for n
distance of two feet on each side there
of shall be by the grantee, or Its assigns,
made to conform to said grade and shall
be so maintained by said grantee, Its
SUCCESSORS or assigns. with the tops OF
said rails flush with the surface of said
Sec. 8. The right, privilege and per;
mission hereby granted shall be exercised
and enjoyed subject to the following con-
ist. That no cars or locomotives shall
be permitted at any time to stand upon
any of the streets occupied or crossed ~ by
said spur track except during the time
actually employed in switching loading
or unloading the cars placed thereon, and
that said spur track shall at all times
be so used as to obstruct the use of said
streets by vehicles or passengers as little
as possible consistent with the uses for
which said spur track is to be con-
I'd That no locomotive. train or car
shall be operated or run over said track
at greater speed than eight miles an
hour.
3D. That said grantee, its successors
and assigns, shall construct all necessary
fumes and culverts for the passage OF
water under said track whenever ana
wherever necessary, and that all such
fumes or culverts shall be constructed
in accordance with plans and speoihea-
gineer of the City of Los Angeles.
4th. That said grantee, its. successors
and assigns. will plank and repiankSI
gravel and regravel pave and repave, all
portions Of the streets or alleys occupied
by said track and for distance of two
feet on each side thereof with the same
material and under the same speciica-
tions and in the same manner as said
streets or alleys are now or may mere
after be planked or replanked, graVeled
or regraveled, paved or repaved, and that
all such work shall be done under the
instructions of and to the satisfaction
of the Superintendent of Streets of the
City of Los Angeles; and in case sald
grantee its successors or assigns, shall
fail for a period of ten days after service
upon it of a written demand made by said
agent of said grantee, it's successors and
assigns. to perform any such work IN
connection with said spur track which whc
Council of the City of Los Angeles then
said Street Superintendent may perform
the work so ordered and shall keep an
itemized account of the cost Thereon;
which the said grantee, its successors and
assigns, by the acceptance of the prlvl-
leges hereby granted to It, agree to pay
to its manager or agent in the City OF
Los Angeles of such itemized account.
5th That any neglect, failure or re-
fusaI on the part of the, grantee. its sue
cessors or assigns, to observe or comply
with any of the terms or conditions in
this ordinance contained shall effect q
forfeiture of the right, privilege. and
permission hereby granted, and said city
by a resolution of its City Council may
thereupon declare such rights and privi-
leges forfeited and may exclude said
grantee, its successors and assigns, from
any further use of the streets occupied
by said spur track, and the grant hereby
made shall thereupon become and remain
null, void and of no effect.
Sth. The City Clerk shall certify to
the passage of this ordina,nIG;e and ad shall n
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dinance was adopted by. the City Council
of The city Of Los Angeles at its meeting
on the 9th day of October, 1905.
II. J. LELANDE,
City Clerk of the City of Los Angeles.
Approved this 18th day of October 1905.
OWEN McALEER,
1923 1t Mayor.