The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-23
A Franchise for Railway in the City
of Yale, County of ST. Clair and
State of Michigan.

A Franchise for a Railway in the City
of Yale, County of st. Clair and
State of Michigan.
A Public Utility Franchise granting
the Meade Construction Company,
a corporation, existing under the
laws of the State of Michigan, its
successors and assigns, hereinafter
called the grantee, the right to con-
struct, maintain. use and operate a
railway in and across the roads and
highways in the City of Yale.
The City of Yale Ordains:
Section /. The consent, permission
and authority is hereby given, grant
ed and duly vested in said grantee,
to construct, maintain, use and OPP
crate a single or double track railway
with the necessary and convenient
tracks and turnouts, side tracks
switches and connections in and on
all the course of streets, ways and
bridges of and in the City of Yale,
hereinafter mentioned, and the same
to keep, maintain use and to operate
thereon. railway cars and carriages
by electricity or by any other mod
bination thereof, except steam and
horsepower during all the term and
upon the conditions hereinafter set
forth. The tracks of said railway
shall be four feet, eight and one-half
inches a. SA") gauge.
Section 2. The said grantee is by
this ordinance, authorized to con-
truct, own and operate a street rail
way as herein provided. upon the fol
lowing route or such part or parts
thereof, as it may elect, to-wit: com
mencing at the intersection of the
south boundary line of the corporate
limits of the City of Yale and the
Brockway road; thence Northwestern
ly on said Broadway road to Main
street; thence north on Main street
to the intersection of Main street and
the north boundary line of the cor
porate limits of the City of Yale.
Section 3. Proper and suitable
crossings shall be constructed and
maintained at all of the roads.
Section 4. Power and authority
are hereby given, granted and vested
in said grantee, to erect poles, string
wires along the line of said railway,
and do all necessary acts for the
purpose of operating said railway,
but said poles and wires shall be so
erected and strung as not to materI-
ally interfere with the ordinary and
proper use of said streets, ways and
bridges by teams, vehicles and pc.
destrians.
Section ;. The cars which shall be
used on such railway shall be propell-
ed at a rate of speed not exceeding
eight miles per hour on said route,
except as otherwise permitted by the
Common Council Of the City of Yale,
hereafter.
Section 6. In constructing said
railway the grades established by
the Common Council of the City of
Yale, for the streets traversed by said
railway, shall be conformed to; the
consent of said Common Council
shall be obtained before any changes
shall be made in said grades on &C.
count of said railway
Section Z. The upper surface of
the rails forming the track of the
said railway shall be laid flush with
the surface of the street and shall be
so laid as to least obstruct the free
passage of vehicles or carriages over
the same.
Section 8. That portion of the
street between the rails Of the track
of said railway and for one foot oft
side thereof shall be graded and
Ipaved on streets hereafter paved, and
graded on all other streets, at the ex
pense and cost of said grantee, upon
such grade as the Common Council
shall fix, and all satisfactory to thg
Common Council of said city, brt
said grade shall not. after being once
fixed as aforesaid. be changed in any
way at the cost of or to the damage
of said grantee, but it shall be the
duty of said grantee TO keep the
space between the rails of track and
one foot Immediately outside of eacl
rail of said track in good repair, ex
cept that i'm the case the city paYei
Main street, the said grantee shall
pave the space between their rails
and tracks and for one foot outside
thereof. on said street, with the same
material, at its own expense.
Section 8. Whenever in the con
structing or repairing of said rail
railway, said grantee shall disturb
the surface of the street beyond the
space between said tracks and one