Here is the one-hundred fifty-fifth installment:

The Board of Trustees of the Trustees of the Town of Broad Ripple met in regular session. All members present. The minutes of Mch 3rd 1903 and the minutes of the special meeting of Apr 3rd 1903 were read and approved.

The following bills were read and allowed and orders drawn on the treasurer for the respective accounts

The Treasurer made his annual report showing the balance on hand May 14th 1902 $184.15. The receipts for the year including the balance $1254.86. The total expenditures for the year to be $816.66, Leaving the balance on hand to date and on hand in the treasury to be $443.66 and on motion of M. Whitsel seconded by J.O. White, the report was accepted and approved. On regular motion and second the Board adjourned.

C.L. Kirk clerk

L.W Silvey president

The Board of Trustees of the Town of Broad Ripple, Indiana, met in special session on the call of the president C.W. Silvey who stated the purpose of the meeting to be to take action on the petitions for and against the question of submitting the franchise granted to the Indianapolis Northern Traction Co. for a referendum vote. And the clerk presented a petition which had been filed with him asking for a referendum vote over the franchise of the Indianapolis Northern Traction Co. and which is as follows

To the Board of Trustees of the Town of Broad Ripple Marion County Indiana

Charles W. Silvey, President

C.L. Kirk, Clerk

Gentlemen:-

We, the undersigned voters of the town of Broad Ripple, Marion County, Ind. Bring more than Forty Percent (40%) of the voters of such town hereby demand a referendum of an ordinance entitles "An Ordinance granting the Indianapolis Northern Traction Company, its successors and assigns, authority to construct, maintain and operate an interurban street railroad over, along and upon certain streets in the town of Broad Ripple, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana." Which ordinance according to its terms was ordained and established by the Board of Trustees of the town of Broad Ripple, Marion County, Ind. The 3rd day of April, 1903, and signed by Charles W. Silvey, President. Attested by C.L. Kirk, Clerk, having impressed there the seal of the town of Broad Ripple, Indiana.

We hereby certify that we are legal voters of the town of Broad Ripple, Indiana duly qualified as such voters and that we have in person hereto attached our signatures and we ask that this matter be submitted to the voters of the town of Broad Ripple at the coming election, under the provisions of an act entitled "An act vesting a right in the voters of any incorporated town in the State of Indiana to, by a petition, refer any ordinance, agreement, contract, or measure enacted or proposed by the Board of Trustees of any incorporated town of this State to a vote of the voters of such town, and to reject the same by ballot; to prescribe the manner of holding such election, and provide punishment for all offenders against the provisions of this act and declaring an emergency." Which act was approved March 2nd, 1899, and appears in the act of 1899 of the Legislature of Indiana as Chapter ___ on page 216 of said acts. And we ask that this be referred to the voters of the said town for the following reasons, among others: -

1. That the rights of the citizens of the said town are not in any manners protected in said ordinance,

2. That there is no provision compelling the said railroad company to stop cars within the limits of the town of Broad Ripple,

3. That there is no provision fixing the fares to be charged by said company either in the town of Broad Ripple or from the town of Broad Ripple to the city of Indianapolis, or any other place,

4. For the reason that the said ordinance permits the said company to run the trains through the residence part of the town of Broad Ripple at a speed of twenty (20) miles per hour, which speed is excessively dangerous to the lives of the citizens of the said town, and especially to the children of said town, in the opinion of your petitioners,

5. For the further reason that the said ordinance does not provide for the paving of the part of the street occupied by the said railroad company , at the expense of said company,

6. For the further reason that the said ordinance does not provide for any special license for or tax upon the said street railroad for the use of its right of way within said town

7. For the further reason that so much of said right of way as is on Shelby Street and Light Avenue is now already occupied by a double track of the present Broad Ripple Traction Company's line of street railroad, and to place another line of street railroad upon the same streets would be dangerous to the people of said town.

Robert C. Light