The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-02-25

streets upon which they may have thei,
lines. and in case the said city shall
grant to any other company or person
hereafter the right to lay tracks II
any street or avenue, interesting thu
streets or avenues in which the tracks
OF the said grantees, their SUCCESSION
and assigns shall have been laid, the
said grantees herein ana their success.
sors and assigns. shall permit said
other person or company to cross theil
tracks In such streets, or avenues.
section 4. The cars used upon said
tracks shall be Of the style and elias.
generally used On electric railway
INES, or railroads using gasoline mo.
tors as the motive power. and similar
TO those which shall be operated by
the said grantees, their successors and
assigns In other villages and cities In
said st. Louis County, Minnesota, and
the tracks of said grantees. their sue.
cessors and assigns shall be laid so o.
10 conform, as nearly possible, to thu
estaol1shed grade Of the streets upon
winch the same are laid, and said gran
tees, their successors and assigns shall
plank the space between the tracks al
street crossing, whenever required by
tne city council so to do; in so planking
however. one plank may be laid on the
OUTSIDE OF each rail and one on the
inside when ordered by the city COM
Gil.
Section S. The tracks of the said
srantees' their successors and assigns
snail be laid, as near as practicable.
IN the center of the streets occupied
oy them, in all cases where it is con-
Venlent so to do, and shall be of stand.
ara gauge and lad so that the top or
surface of the rails in and along such
streets and avenues shall conform to
the established grade of the streets,
and In case no such grade is estnb.
1lshed' then such tracks and rails shall
be laid SO as to conform to the grade
OF the street as it is used, as nearly
as may he, except that before laying
said tracks the grantees, their success
sors and assigns, may notify the said
city or their desire SO to do, and tho
said city shall thereupon, upon the re-
quest of the said grantees. their sue
cessors and assigns, cause a grade to
be established on such streets and ave-
nues, and the said grantees, their sue
cessors and assign may, at their own
expense, do whatever filling or make
whatever cuts are necessary to bring
such street or avenue to such grade
before placing their tracks thereon;
and whenever the City of Virginia
shall change the grade Of any such
street or streets or avenues, or any
portion thereof, said grantees, their
successors and assigns, shall at their
own cost and expense raise or lower
their rails, so that the surface or top
of the rails shall conform to such
change or established grade of said
streets, and the said tracks shall at
all times be kept by the said grantees,
their successors and assigns, in such
condition that vehicles, horses and
passengers may cross the same con-
venfently.
The said grantees, their successors
and assigns, shall be required to keep
the surface of the streets or highways
in the space between their rails and
eighteen Q8) inches outside of their
tracks in good order and repairs.
The said City Of Virginia shall have
the right to lay any Of its fire appar-
atus or hose over, along or across any
of the tracks of the said grantees,
their successors and assigns, in the
said city, while the fire department of
the said city is actually engaged in
extinguishing fires.
The said grantees, their successors
and assigns, shall repair any and all
done to the streets, avenues,
pavements. curbs, sidewalks, crossings.
cutters and other public property
by the construction and oper-
alton Of said railway lines, and shall
save and keep harmless the said City
OF Virginia, from any and all DAMAGES
done by virtue of the exercise of the
rights and privileges herein granted:
and in case the said grantees, their
successors and assigns, shall fail and
refuse so to do, then the city may
make such repairs at the cost Of the
said grantees their successors and as
signs.
The said grantees, their successors
and assigns, shall not deposit any
snow, which may be removed by them
from their tracks, along any street,
avenue or alley of the City of Vir-
the use of the same by the public in
driving along or across any Of said
streets, avenues or alleys, or so as to
interfere with the use of any cross
walks by pedestrians; and the said
grantees, their successors and assigns
shall be required, if necessary, to re-
move the snow, which shall be re-
moved by them from any of their
tracks, upon any public street or ave.
nue. in said city and entirely off from
and deposit the same at some place
or places other than upon any street,
avenue or alley in said city.
IT any of the tracks of said railway
shall be laid upon any street or
streets in the City Of Virginia which
have heretofore been paved, then and
in that case such tracks shall be laid
so as to do as little damage as pos
sible to such paving, and the said
grantees, their successors and assigns
shall at their own cost and expense
replace all such paving which shall
have been disturbed in the laying OF
such tracks with material Of the same
kind and quality as that which the
original paving was done and shall lay
the same in a good workmanlike man
ner, SO as to leave the pavement on
said streets in as good condition as it
was prior to the laying Of said tracks.
And if the City OF Virginia shall pave
any street over which said grantees.
their successors and assigns, lay their
tracks and which was not paved at
the time of laying such tracks the
said grantees, their successors and as
signs, shall at the same time as
such paving shall be done by said city