The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-09-20
Attest:
Ordinance No. 4

| ordnance No. d
| An Ordinance Granting to the
Brookings d Sioux Falls Railway
| Company, Corporation, the Privilege
and Power to Construct, Maintain and
Operate System OF Street Railway in
the City of Bookings.
Be it Ordained by the City Council
of the City of Bookings:
Section /. There is hereby granted
| to the Brookings & Sioux Falls Rail-
way Company, corporation, the
privilege and power to construct, main
tain and operate street railway sys-
J tenn for the carriage OF passengers,
! freight, mail and express across such
streets as may be Necessary to reach its
terminal grounds south of South Sec
Ond Street from the southern bound
airy OF said City, and along, upon and
over the West twenty feet of Medary
Avenue between the Southeast corner
of the Northeast quarter OF Section
| Thirty-tive and South Second Street,
| South Second Street between Medary
Avenue and Main Street, and Main
Street between South Second Street
and the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway tracks; and for the carriage Of
passengers, mail and express only,
|
portions OF streets and avenues in said
City, to-wit: Main Street between
South Second Street and Seventh
Street, Seventh Street between Main
Street and Medary Avenue, Medary
Avenue from the Southern to the
Northern boundary of said City. Such
system to be operated only by electric
or other mechanical motors, excluding
steam and animal power. Said privi-
lege includes the right to lay and
maintain single or double tracks with
the necessary turnOuts, curves and
switches; to erect, maintain and wire
trolley poles; to run cars and carriages;
and to do any and all things neces-
sarily incident to said system.
Section 2. Said railway shall be Of
standard guage, four feet eight and
One-half inches wide, and it shall be
subject to such reasonable rules and
regulations as the City Council may
from time to time prescribe; it shall
be constructed. maintained and Oper-
ated upon the most improved plan and
so as not to obstruCt public travel up
on any OF said streets or avenues: its
cars motors and carriages shall be of
the latest and most approved cOnstruc-
ton, and shall be equipped with all
such modern Improvements as shall
be necessary for the safety, comfort
and convenience OF the employees,
passengers and public, in the opera
ton of the same; its rails shall be laid
true to the established street grades
and flush with the surface OF the
street and shall not be permitted to
project above the same; single tracks,
where laid, shall be in the center of
the street, and double tracks, where
laid, shall be equally distant from the
center line OF the street and not more
than six feet apart; its tracks shall be
kept in first.class condition, clean and
free from snow, and that portion Of
the street or roadway between its
tracks and for one foot from the outer
edge thereof, including cement cross
walks wherever and whenever ordered
by the City Council, shall be properly
constructed and kept in repair and
condition for the safety and conven-
fence of the public by said Company
at its own expense. Said railway
shall be so constructed and operated
as not to interfere with any system Of
drainage, sewerage, waterworks, cleo
trio lights or telephone, now, or here
after to be, established by said City,
and any change in said railway sys-
tenn hereafter necessitated by any
change in any municipal plant or in
the grade OF any street or avenue shall
be made by said Company at its own
expense; and all injury, damage or
change done or necessitated to or in
any street, avenue, alley, curb, side
walk, cross-walk, pavement, gutter or
other public or private property by the
| ,,,t
ton of said railway shall be repaired
or made by or at the expense OF said
| Company.
Section 8. The rights and privileges
herein granted shall exist after and
continue for twenty years from and
after the passage hereof: Provided,
that within thirty days after the publi-
cation hereof said Company shall file
with the City Auditor its written ac-
ceptance of all the provisions OF this
ordinances; Provided further, that said
Company shall have fully completed
and have in actual and continuous
operation at least one and one-half
miles OF said railway in said City
within eighteen months after the pas
sage of this ordinance; and Provided
further, that said Company shall fully
and faithfully comply with all and
singular of the provisions OF this or
dinance and all lawful rules and regu-
lations of the City Council. But If
said Company shall fail to file its
written acceptance within the time
aforesaid, or shall fail to have COM
pleted and in continuous and actual
operation the required length of road
within the time Aforesaid, or shall fail
fully and faithfully TO comply with
any or all OF the provisions OF this
ordinance or any lawful rule or regu-
lation OF the City Council, then and in
any OF said cases, the rights and priv
4 iIoges granted by this ordinance shall,