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4-14 Tuesday, June 25th., 1929.
<br />sum than that narr,ed on said roll. The Board further orders that notices of said
<br />hearing on assessment roll shall be published in the South: Bend Trews Times and Tribun
<br />on the 5th. , day of July and on the 6th. , day of July I929, according to law.
<br />The following petitinnwas filed by Jones and Cbenchain, attorneys
<br />for the New Jersey, Illinois and Indiana Railroad Company.
<br />"State of Indiana )
<br />St. Jose-h County) SS
<br />Before the Board of Public ';Works of •
<br />the City of South bend.
<br />Petition of the New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois
<br />Railroad Company for consent to lay addition track across
<br />Sample Street.
<br />To the uonorable'!"ayor, Common Council and Board of Public forks
<br />of the City of South Bend/
<br />Your petitioner, the New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois Railroad
<br />Company, respectfully shows by this, its petition:
<br />I. That said petitioner is a corporation duly organized and •
<br />existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Indiana for the -purpose of
<br />operating a steam railroad and particularly organized and existing under and by
<br />virtue of the general laws of the said state pertaining to the organization and
<br />existence of steam railroads.
<br />2. That said petitioner is duly authorized to maintain and operate
<br />its present steam railroad in the City of South Bend under and by virtue of Ordinance
<br />Number I250 adopted by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, February 28th.,
<br />I904, and Ordinnace Number 2I00, adopted by the Common Council of the City of South
<br />Bend, July.I2th., I920.
<br />3. Your
<br />petitioner further respectfully shows that it owns, oper-
<br />ates and controls a steam railroad in the said State of Indiana, and paerticularly in
<br />and through St. Joseph County, in said State, and in and from the station of Pine
<br />in said County in a ngrtherly direction in and to the City of South Bend, and is a
<br />common carrier of freight and passengers for hire, both in state and interstate
<br />commerce; and that its line of railroad connedts with and furnishes interchange of
<br />traffic ,.-pith other lines of railroad engaged in such com-erce; that in order to
<br />provide accommodations necessary to accomplish the purpose for which said Company was
<br />incorporated, and in order to furnish proper and adequate public facilities in the
<br />discharge of its duties as such common carrier, and for the purpose of improvement of,!'
<br />its raad by the construction of additional yard facilities and team tracks, it has
<br />become and is necessary and desirable that the said petitioner construct, operate
<br />Street,
<br />and maintain across Sample and additional track in said City.
<br />4. That at the nr esent time paving is in progress on Sample Street,
<br />and this petitioner has at the direction of the City Engineer a t actually laid said track:
<br />sub?cect, of course, to the consent of this Board of Public TVorks and the approving
<br />ordinance of the Common Council.
<br />701,1' this petitioner prays that it be granted permission to
<br />construct, maintain and operate said additional track across Sample Street in the
<br />City of South Bend.
<br />N 7 J 3vff, INDI?.NA & ILLINCIS RAILTROAD COMPANY
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<br />BY JON, 79 A"T') OB71CTIAIN ATTORNT YS. "
<br />In compliance with the above -nettition, the Board adopted the follow-
<br />ing resolution:
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<br />ROAD r'OPTATTY 'C? 'FR?`I S SI CN TO 'OTT
<br />STRTTC T '".1 INT A IN ^. "TD O'_'T,'R AT F AN
<br />ADDITIONAL TRA(7 AC70SS SAT'PLF STR 1J^JT
<br />IN TTIF CITY OF S OUT' '3 STD �.
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<br />RFSCT:UTION.
<br />RFSOL7741), by the Board of Public 4orks in the City of South Bend,
<br />Indiana, that the petition of the New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois Railroad Oomroany
<br />heretofore filed, asIcing for permission to construct, maintain and operate an addition;'
<br />al track across Sample ,treet, as .hereinafter 9-erther set forth, be and is same is
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