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50 Citizens' 2~ailway [ei~/tt-o f- Way. Saz CHAPTER SEVEN. :4 RIGHT OF %VAY. RIGH'i ~kN ORDINANCE granting the right of way to John Martin and associatcs on certain AN ORDINANCE granl streets therein named. ~ Company. ~3e il ordained ay Ibc city council of (he cily of Par[~ .' ]3e it ordained by i SzcxION x, That the right of way be and is hereby granted to John Martin, W. B. V~rise, A. D. Brooks, and A. It. O'Neill. SECTION I. and to their successors and assignees, which shall be a joint stock Brame. Sherman. company, to be organized under the laws of Texas. and known as Graham. ,Henley, the Citizens' Railway Company of Paris. to construct and operate ' Mill, North Main. the city of Paris, a a street railway company as follows: Co, mmencing on Bonham ~, street at the present west city limit, thence east on Bonham street orado and Santa F to the public square, thence north on North Wall street to the citv way and depot p limit: also from the corner of Bonham street and North ~/Vall granted to said Gt across the square, thence south on South Wall street to the Texas Szc. z. The and Pacific depot, with the privilege of such side tracks, spurs, right to cross each and .turn-tables as may be necessary, tween the point of S~c. z. The track of said railway shall be laid with the flat and Pacific railwa3 rail, known as the Johnson rail. or such other flat rails as may be Santa Fe raiRvay, t said city, near the approved by the city council, and shall be level with the grade of street, or streets, through which it may run. cifically named in S~c. 3- Work shall begin within three months, and the SEC. 3. The mer state, said str~ whole shall be completed within 24 months, and on failure to con- struct all the line within said'time, this privilege shall be deemed by said railway co forfeited, impair the usefuln SEc. 4' The passenger fare on said railway shall never be repair, and shall c more than five cents, near as practicabl~ SEc. 5' The rails of the track on said street railway, partic- I that the city shal ularly on street crossings, shall be sp protected on each side as to ~ . grounds of the con present no obstruction to crossing the same by wagons. ];~i' S~c. 4' Thi! SEC. 6. The grant herein made shall extend for and be lim- .i:~:x and after its passa ited to the term of twenty-five years. ;~ Approved. SEC. 7' This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from , :? Attest, and after its passage and ten days publication. , B.P. LEW~S. Approved June xTth. ~886. City S Attest, W.H. SLUDER, Mayor, -~ ~' B. P. LEwxs, City Secretary.