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Converted from paper version of the Broad Ripple Gazette (v12n03)
Old Town of Broad Ripple Meeting Minutes #152
posted: Feb. 06, 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-second installment:
Sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 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 3.
Whenever said Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall construct any part of its railway upon any street that has not been built or improved to established grade by said town, then any such track or tracks shall be built as near as practicable to the surface of the street, but when any street has been built to an established grade by the town, then in every such case the said Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall conform said tracks, switches, side-tracks and turn outs to such established grade, and said town shall, upon reasonable notice at all times by said Grantee, its successors or assigns, require the Town Engineer to furnish such grade upon all streets, and, also, the center line of all streets.

SECTION 4.
A "T" rail may be used in the construction of any of the tracks laid by said Grantee, its successors or assigns, and should any street or part of street be paved with brick, asphaltum, stone, concrete or other similar durable material, the track may be laid with rails at least five and three-fourths (5-3/4) inches in height, upon ties laid upon gravel or broken stone foundation, so that the top of the rail when laid shall be flush with the pavement on the outside; and said Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall put in its track when its street is being paved so as not to unnecessarily delay the street contractor in his work, and all ties used in the construction of any tracks, side-tracks, turn outs or switches shall be laid and at all times kept and maintained at such depth as not to be exposed above the surface of the street, or interfere in any way with the public travel, beyond the extent reasonably necessary for the purpose of constructing and operating said road.

SECTION 5.
Said Grantee, its successors or assigns, may take up or alter any track laid by it, but it shall put the vacated street in as good condition for travel for the general public as it was immediately before such track was taken up; and in case of laying, relaying or repairing its track, said Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall put the street in as good condition as it was before said laying, relaying or repairing was done, and when said Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall occupy any street or part of any street that has been improved by said town by graveling the same, said Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall repair all that portion of such street lying between the ends of the ties of its track, whenever the same becomes out of repair by reason of the maintenance and operation of said railway, and shall keep and at all times maintain the track in a condition so that the rails and ties of said track shall not interfere with the public travel on said streets more than is reasonably necessary to operate said railroad, and not to interfere with crossing of or driving upon said tracks by vehicles, and when said Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall occupy any street or part of any street that has been improved by said town by paving with stone, brick, asphaltum, concrete or other similar durable material, as said town may designate, said Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall repair all that portion of such street lying between the rails of its tracks, with like durable material, whenever the same becomes out of repair by reason of the maintenance and operation of said railway, and on failure of said Grantee, its successors or assigns, to repair such part of such street after reasonable notice to it by said town so to do, then said town may make or cause to be made such repairs at the expense of Grantee, its successors or assigns.

SECTION 6.
Said Grantee, its successors or assigns, are hereby granted the right to construct, maintain and operate said railway on such route and over and across all bridges and railway tracks on said route, and the right of way along its tracks as fully as said Board of Trustees of said town can grant the same for uses and purposes expressed in this ordinance.
The cars of said railroad shall be entitled to the track against all vehicles and persons, and when ever a car meets or overtakes a vehicle, person or persons, such vehicle, person or persons shall give way to the car, after sounding alarm by ringing gong or blowing whistle, except that funeral processions, and the fire department of said town while on duty in going to or coming from fires, shall have precedence over the cars of Grantee.



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