The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-12
ORDINANCE NO. $50.

sors- .essees and assigns TO operate .
street railway and power company in
the City Of Keokus-
Be il ordained bv the city council
OF the CITY o, Keokuk:
Sec / That the right, privilege
and franchise are hereby granted IN.
10 Joseph O. Proctor. Jr.. his success
sors, lessees and assigns, Hereinafter
called the granteel TO lay down, con-
struct, acquire, equip. maintain and
operate street railways. with single
or double tracks, Of standard railway
gauge. four feet eight and one-hslf
inches vide, together with turnouts,
cross overs, side tracks and switches
on all the streets. alleys and public
places, except as hereinafter pro
vided, within the present and any
future limits OF the City OF Keokuk.
for the period o. twenty-five years
from and after August 1, 1911. for the
purpose OF conveying and transporting
thereon by means OF electric power,
or any other power except steam,
passenger, freight, baggage, express
and mail cars or any OF them. to be
used in the carriage of passengers,
property and United States mail,
whether such cars belong to the gran
tee to be delivered to the grantee by
or for any connecting carrier TO be
transported within the limits of the
City of Keokuk. No tracks shall be
laid upon Grand Avenue Except
those now operated by the Keokuk
Electric Railway and Power company
or upon Belknap Boulevard. Orleans
street, or any street hereinafter laid
out which the city council shall es-
pecially exempt at the time of laying
out, except for the purpose Of cross
ing the above streets and before any
track shall be laid in any public
park the plans for location and con-
struction of the same shall be sub
mitted to and approved by the city
council Freight cars shall be operat-
ed over any of the grantees tracks
laid upon improved streets only be-
tween the hours OF ten p. m. and six
o'clock a. m, provided, however, that
/ the grantee may operate cars contain
ing material for the construction and
operation OF the street railway sys-
4 TEN aforesaid at other hours, subject
/ TO regulation by the city council, and
the city council may by ordinance
/ provide for the temporary operation
/ of freight cars at other hours under
such conditions as it may prescribe
4 To enable the grantee to deliver OF
receive freight cars to or from any
| factory, warehouse or other industry
located adjoining the tracks of the
grantee, said grantee shall have the
right to construct, maintain and oper
ate switch from the main track to
or into OF alongside such factory
warehouse or other industry. There
I is further granted to said grantee the
right to erect and maintain poles in
! of the CITY of Keokuk, and to string
and maintain wires thereupon for the
operating of said electric street rail
way.
Sec. 2. All the poles. apparatus ant
appliances used by said grantee il
the construction and operation of til
street railyaw shall be located under
the direction of the city engineer OF
other proper official of the City o.
Keokuk. Said city reserves the RICH
at any time to direct such changes t.
be made in the location OF all cleo
trical apparatus, appliances, poles
etc, used or erected In the streets o
said city as shall be reasonably ne
cessary and proper.
Sec 3. The tracks shall be laid 81
as to conform to the established grad,
on any street IN which the road MAJ
be built, where the city has brough
said street to grade. Where a stree
has not been brought to grade, sait
grantee shall maintain and lay 1t.
tracks on the surface grade, and shall
gravel. cinders or other suitable ma
terial, provided that whenever the cit,
shall bring said street to the grad
established by law, the grantee shall
at It's own expense, raise or lower th'
tracks go as to conforms to the estab
lished grade; provided also, that II thu
city shall at any time change an.
, temporary or permanent grade of an.
street along which said tracks shall
| be laid, It shall be the duty OF tn
grantee at its own expense, to max
the tracks conform to such changes
, grade.
Sec. 4. 1t shall be the duty OF tn
said grantee to keep space OF fou
, a. feet on both sides of the cente
Of any track laid on paved or mat
| adamized street, In as good conditio
as the balance OF the roadway Is mair
/ tanned by the city Whenever an
!, street upon which the tracks OF tn
grantee are laid is paved or improve
+ by the city 1t shall be the duty OF tn
< grantee to pay for the paving or In
! provements Of space OF four a
J. feet on each side OF the center 9
any track laid on such street.
{ When the tracks cross any gutter
at the intersection OF the streets
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