The Penn's Grove record., 1917-09-28
ORDINANCE

"An ordinance to authorize E. 1. du
POINT de Nemours ana Company - con
struct, maintain and operate two SIN
gle track surface across a
Penns Neck, Salem County, New Jer-
sew. and 10 use Electric Storage Bat
terry locomotives as the propelllng
power of the cars to be USED on the
WHEREAS. e. 1. dupont de Nemours
and Company, a corporation created
under and existing by virtue of the
laws of the State of Delaware, and
owning property and doing business
and having a resident agent IN the
township of Upper Penns Neck, salem
County, New Jersey, having by its petit
ton applied to the Township Commit
tee OF the township. of Upper Penns
Neck, County of Salem, New Jersey,
Tor permission to construct, m
and operate two single track tramways
across a public highway in the said
township of Upper Penns Neck, salem
County, New Jersey, at places herein
..fter particularly set forth and the
said township committee OF the town
ship of Upper PennS Neck, ha"lng
passed ON the thirteenth day of Au-
gust, nineteen hundred and seventeen,
G917), a resolution appointing a hXed
time and place when and where the
petition and application would be con-
sidered and all persons Interested in
the said matter heard, and notice OF
said meeting and hearing having been
published in the Penns Grove Record,
a newspaper published and circulated
in the said township "f Cpprr Ienns
Neck, weekly. for at least two weeks
prior to said meeting, said newspaper
having been designated by the said
township Committee of the township
of Upper Penns Neck, to publish the
same, and having been set up IN live
public places in the said township ~
Upper Penns Neck, for at least II days
before said meeting. to wit:
One on the bridge tenders house at
Upper Canal Bridge.
Carney's Point;
one at the entrance to Plant =
one on the moving picture building,
near entrance to plant l..
All in the said township OF Upper
Penns Neck and designated by SAID
township committee of the township oil
Upper Penns Neck as he places TOR
posting said notices and Tie .'itld toMn-
ship committee of the township of Up
per Penns Neck having heard the IL. !;
dupont d. Nemours and and
all persons interested in said appllca-
ton or desiring to be heard thereon
and no reason appearing to the con-
trary, therefore.
The township committee o! The Town
ship of Upper Penns Neck, ordains:
/. That permission be and is hereby
granted to E. l. dupont de Nemours
and Company;
ate two single track tramways across
the surface OF a public highway IN SAID
township of Upper Peans Mex known
the places described as follows:-
l.. BEGINNING at a stake in the
Southerly side of the S Saie@ sennn
thousand two hundred feet from the
North face of the pier at the South end
of the draw span of the Lower Canal
thence crossing said road
f~orty-one degrees forty-fve min
West sixty feet to. a stake in the
Northerly side of said road; thence
along the side of the road North forty
degrees fifteen minutes East eight
feet to a stake. thence again crossing
said road South forty-one degrees for
along the S%outherly side of said road
feet to the place of beginning, the
said tramway to be built in the centre
2. BEGINNING at a stake on the
South side of the Salem and Penns
Grove road. said point being two
face of the pier at the South end
of the draw span of the Lower Canal
Bridge; thence crossing The road North
stake in the Northerly side of said
thence along the side of the road
North thirty nine degrees East eight
said road South fifty-one degrees East
fifty feet to a stake in the Southerly
side of the road; thence along the
Southerly side of said road eight feet
to the place of beginning, the said tram
way to be built in the centre line of
the above.
A map OF the same showing the To-
cation of said tramways is filed with
Clerk of the said township of Up
per Penns Neck.
OBJ To use electric storage battery
locomotives as the propelling or mo-
tive power to move the cars on said
tramwayS.
8. That the permission and consent
for the crossing of said road is grant
ed upon the following terms and con-
ditions:
Section l. That the said company
hall aAaaarat 49, II
crossings in accordance with the plan
the same showing the location of the
racks filed with The clerk of the
said plan is hereby approved.
Section 2. That said company when
runnlng any cars across said highway
shall have a guard or f1agman on duty
to. give warning to any person using
highway.
Section 3. That said tramways shall
ner as shall offer the least obstruction
to the travel upon said highway and as
near as possible shall conform to the
grade OF said highway and shall be so
located that ravel may pass and re-
pass over the same with as little inter-
ference as possible.
Section a. That the consent and
privilege hereby granted shall contin-
ne Tor a term of fifty years from the
of this ordinance.
section .. That this ordinance shall
become effective unless the Com
pany shall, under its seal and by its
proper officers. signify in writing it's
ddfGeptance Or all the terms and con-
sage. pas
section 9. That all costs and ex-
penses incurred by said TOWNSHIP Of
Upper. Penns Neck. County of Salem
\. j., IN connection with the passage of
said company. ~ II
Introduced September 4th. 1917.
Notice is hereby given that the town.
Thlp of the township of
9ppef Penns Neck will consider the
maj passage of the above ordinance
1n luesdday the End day of october
81, az . O'Clock p. m. at the house of
EDWARD NJ; Summerill in said township.
DAVID w. WRIGHT,
rDuv Chairman.