Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-04-09
CITY ALDERMEN MEET.
Last Nights Proceedings in
Detail, EmbOdying The
EStreet Railway Franchise.

[Ou GGt A0lIW0y H0llIlliOGs
The Board met in regular session,
with Mayor Ormond presiding and
Clerk Broadhurst at his desk. Upon
the roll call the following aldermen
were found in attendance: Messrs.
Borden, Kornegay, Holmes, Gibson,
Gardner. Sugg, We'll and Wrenn.
For the convenience of visiting gen.
tlemen in h matter of the street rail-
way franchise the reading Of the min
utes was deferred until the report of
the special committee appointed by the
Board to prepare and submit a detail
cd franchise should be heard by the
Board. This report was accordingly
read by alderman Borden, chairman
of said committee, as unanimously
agreed upon by the committee, and
the same vas unanimously adopted
by the Board and enacted into the
code of ordinances of the city, and up
on motion of alderman Borden, the
Clerk of the Board was instructed to
furnish Mr.. E. T. oliver, grantee Of
said franchise, a certified copy of said
ordinance, and upon his formal ac-
ceptance OF said franchise in writing
his said acceptance to be recorded as a
part OF this franchise. Mr.. oliver was
present in person and gave verbal
notice in public meeting OF his accept
ance of the franchise.
The following is the report Of the
committee and the full ext Of the
franchise granted by the Board:
Goldsboro, N. c.,
April Sth, 1908.
To the Board of Aldermen of the City
of Goldsboro:
The undersigned respectfully report
that they have taken under consider
alton the proposition submitted by
Mr.. E. T. Oliver, his associates and
assigns, for a franchise for construct
ing and operating a street railway in
the city of Goldsboro; that they have
secured copies of ordinances passed
by a number of the cities of North
Carolina in reference to granting such
franchise which they have carefully
examined; that they made such in
Quiries as they could in reference to
ne provisions usually inserted in or
dinances passed for such purposes;
hat they had a full conference with
Mr.. Oliver and that they suggested
certain amendments to his proposition
which were commented upon and dis
cussed between Mr.. Oliver and the
committee, and which they have en-
bodied in the proposed ordinance
hereto attached, and which they submit
as their recommendation of the ordi-
nance which ought to be passed by
you Honorable body. They believe
the contract embodied in the proposed
ordinance would be fair both to the
city and to Mr.. Oliver and his asso-
ciates and assigns and that under it
both would be fully protected. 1t was
understood by your committee that
Mr.. Oliver should have an opportunity
after this report was filed of examin-
ing the same and either accepting or
rejecting it.
We return herewith Mr.. divers
original proposition.
Respectfully submitted,
F. K. BORDEN,
LIONEL WE'LL,
w. J. GIBSON,
J. e. PETERSON.
GEO. C. ROYAL,
Committee.
Ordinances Passed by The Board of
Aldermen of The City Of Goldsboro
Granting a Franchise to E. r. Oliver,
His Successors and Assigns, for the
Construction and Operation of a
Street Railway System in GoIdsboro,
North Carolina.
Tho Doo-I oG A1l0~oo~ - 49, T;4- -
Goldsboro, North Carolina, do or
dain as follows:
Section 1. That E. T. Oliver, his as
sociates, successors and assigns, here
matter called grantees, be given and
granted, and they are hereby given
and granted the right to locate, con-
struct, maintain and operate tracks,
switches, turn outs and a~ppurtenaces,
and to erect poles, wires, and other
appliances, and to operate cars in,
through and upon the streets to be
hereafter designated by the said gran
tees and the Boar of Aldermen of
the City of Goldsboro, throughout the
city Of Goldsboro, North Carolina, for
the purpose of operating a street rail-
way system in the name and for the
time hereinafter provided. The said
grantees may build and erect such
power houses, car sheds and other
buildings for the purpose Of operat-
ing said railway system as they shall
deem best, and they shall have the
right to cross any side walk or side
walks with the tracks of the said
railway for the purpose of ingress and
egress into and from said power
houses, car sheds, or to any other land
or buildings owned or leased by said