Here is the one-hundred fifty-third installment:

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...

It shall be lawful for Grantee, its successors or assigns, to make reasonable rules governing the conduct of its business and the operation of its railroad, and for the government of passengers on its cars, and for the conductor or other employe of Grantee to eject from its cars any person violating any such rules, or acting in a rude, insolent or disorderly manner, in or about such cars or on the platform thereof.

Any person may carry on the lap any hand bag or other parcel that can be carried on the lap without inconvenience to other passengers. Children under six (6) years of age, carried on the lap by any parent or other person in charge of them, shall ride free. All trunks, bundles, boxes or other articles carried upon the seat, floor or platform of any passenger car, may be carried at the option of said Grantee, its successors or assigns, upon such terms and conditions as it may prescribe. Said Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall have the right to transport over its said railroad passengers, mail, express matter and freight, and said Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall regulate the fare or compensation to be charged therefor.

Said Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall set their poles for stringing their wires against the curb line, outside of such curb. Said Grantee, its successors or assigns, may use iron, cedar or spruce poles, or some other equally good material. Said poles, in setting, to be adjusted, to give free access to property. If it becomes necessary at any time to have any of said poles moved, the Board of Trustees of said town may cause the same to be moved at the expense of Grantee, its successors or assigns, and in setting the same, the poles shall be well filled around and tamped and set and maintained at a perpendicular height at all times, as nearly as practicable, and so as not to obstruct any water-way and to conform to other works and paving where they are placed. The guy poles at turning points shall be well anchored.

The guy wires shall not come within less than ten (10) feet of the surface of the ground, and so as not to obstruct free passage or travel. All cross wires shall be suspended not less than eighteen (18) feet above the surface of the ground, except where necessary to pass under bridges or other obstructions. The poles and lines herein contemplated shall be so constructed, maintained and operated as not to interfere with the use and operation of any existing telegraph, telephone, fire alarm or electric light wires in said town, beyond the extent reasonably necessary for the construction and operation of such railroad line.

Said company, its successors or assigns, shall equip all its lines operated by electricity with good and modern cars, provided with proper appliances for operating the same, so as to provide for the comfort and safety of its passengers.

Said Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be liable for and save the town of Broad Ripple harmless from all legal and consequential damages which may be sustained by any person or their property by reason of carelessness or negligence or want of ordinary care arising from the misconduct of any of its agents, servants or employes in the course of their employment in the construction and operation of said street and interurban railroad, and said company, its successors or assigns, shall hold the town of Broad Ripple harmless from any loss or damage to any of Grantee's property that may be occasioned by the breaking of sewers, gas or water mains or service pipes owned by the town, or any reasonable delay in repairing the same; provided, said town shall use ordinary care in doing such work or in making such repairs, and said town shall make any repairs or cause the same to be made without unreasonable delay.

Said Grantee, its successors or assigns, whenever it becomes necessary, shall be required to take up and relay any portion of its said track for the purpose of putting in, taking up or repairing any street, sewer, water or gas pipes or service connections, and the same shall not be required to be done at the expense of Grantee, its successors or assigns, but shall be done by it upon reasonable notice and demand therefor, and the reasonable and actual cost of the same shall be paid to it in such a way as said town may provide.

Said Grantee, its successors or assigns, in the operation of said railroad, may run their cars upon such schedule and in such manner as to taking on and letting off passengers as it may deem consistent with public convenience and safety.

Said Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall have the right under this ordinance to operate over the lines included in this grant its interurban cars in the due course of Grantee's business in operating its lines of interurban railroad connecting said town of Broad Ripple with other towns and cities on the route of Grantee's railroad.