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Converted from paper version of the Broad Ripple Gazette (v12n02)
Old Town of Broad Ripple Meeting Minutes #151
posted: Jan. 23, 2015

The Town of Broad Ripple was incorporated in 1894, and started holding regular meetings at that time. In each issue, I will print my transcription of the old Town of Broad Ripple meeting minutes. These are taken from the original, hand-written minutes that contain many spelling errors. I have transcribed all the records as they were entered, including errors. I will make some corrections to the text in brackets [ ]. The original minutes books are at the Indiana State Archives at 6440 E. 30th St.

Here is the one-hundred fifty-first installment:
Sections 1 and 2 of the ordinance for the traction company

AN ORDINANCE granting to INDIANAPOLIS NORTHERN TRACTION COMPANY, its successors and assigns, authority to construct, maintain an operate an interurban street railroad over, upon and along certain streets of the Town of Broad Ripple, in the County of Marion, and State of Indiana.

SECTION 1.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Trustees of the Town of Broad Ripple, in the County Of Marion, and State of Indiana, that consent, permission and authority be and hereby are granted unto Indianapolis Northern Traction company, its successors and assigns, hereinafter in this ordinance designated as "Grantee", to survey, locate, construct, maintain and operate a single or double track standard guage [sic] street and interurban railroad, with the necessary side-tracks, switches, turn-outs and turn-tables, and to locate, construct, maintain and use all mechanical appliances and contrivances necessary and suitable to operate the same, including the use of electricity as a motive power by the overhead trolley system, or such other system as the Grantee, its successors and assigns, may select, in, upon, along and over the following streets in said town, to-wit: Light Avenue from the south corporation line, running north on said Light Avenue to the south line of Shelby Street, and thence north across Shelby Street to and over a private right of way acquired or to be acquired for the purpose, to and across the street or road known as the Westfield Gravel Road, to and over a private right of way acquired or to be acquired for the purpose, to and across the north corporate limits of said town.
All rights and privileges granted by this ordinance are granted to the Grantee, its successors and assigns, for a term of fifty (50) years from the passage and acceptance of this ordinance. In the event of the discovery of any new power suitable for street or interurban railroad purposes, the Grantee, its successors and assigns, may use the same in the operation of said railroad, but this shall not authorize the use of steam motors or locomotives.

SECTION 2.
The track of said Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be laid in all cases in the center of the street, as far as practicable, except where a double track is contemplated being put down, and said track shall be so laid that the center line of the street shall be the center line between the tracks. When a double track is contemplated and only one track is laid, then said track may be laid only with the consent of the Board of Trustees of said town at any other place then the center of the street, and when it is so laid with such consent, it must be laid at such a distance from the center of the street as will make the center line between the two tracks when laid the center line of the street, and so laid that when a double track is laid only so much space shall be left between the two tracks as is necessary for cars to pass in safety; and all side tracks, switches, turn outs and turn tables shall be so constructed and maintained at all times as not any way to obstruct or impede the free use of said streets by the public, beyond the extent reasonable necessary for the purpose of the construction and operation of said railway. In all cases, said Grantee, its successors and assigns, so far and as soon as practicable, upon the completion, change or repair of any of its tracks, or any portion thereof, shall replace any such street and make the same as good and passable for the general public as it was before such track or tracks were placed in position, changed or repaired, and this provision shall include alleys and street crossings intersected by such tracks.



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