05/25/1937 Board of Public Works Special Meeting Minutes

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302 over said Navarre Street and Portage Avenue to said Elwood Avenue. The said second parties agree to operate motor busses over said route with a regular time schedule, adequate to the convenience and necessity of the users ■ of said service, at the same rate of fare now being charged by the parties of the second part on other motor bus routes in said city, to -wit, a ten cent cash fare, • and three tokens for twenty-five cents (each token giving a passenger the right to one ride or trip on a bus), together with the right of one transfer to either street cars or other busses operated by the parties of the second part. The party of the first part further grants the right to the parties of the second part to erect and maintain suitable signs along.said streets and routes, advertising its stops and schedules, which right shall be subject to reasonable . regulation by the Board of Public,Works and Safety of said City. The party of the first part intends to repave said Portage Avenue, and 11 it further grants to the parties of the second part the right until such time as said improvement is completed, to operate its said motor busses over such streets and avenues of said City as they may select and which lead into the same general section of the City as is now served by said Portage Avenue street car line. The narties hereto further agree that this contract shall not be binding I i and. effective until and unless the same is approved by ordinance of the Common Council of said City, end by order of the St. Joseph Circuit Court. And the parties of the second part agree that upon its final and complete execution and approval as aforesaid, they will remove the street car tracks from the streets first above mentioned so as to permit the making of said improvement. • IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the first party has hereunto caused its name to be signed by the members of its Board of Public Works and Safety, and the second party, Northern Indiana Railway, Inc. by its President and Secretary, and said Receiver has also affixed his name. CITY OF' SOUTH BEND, INDIANA By Frederick J. Anderson • Edwin W. Hunter �I Fred Woodward Its Board of Public Works and Safety NORTHERN INDI ANA RP ILWAY, INC. By W. W. Waterson Its President ATTEST: Oren A. Small Its Secretary. Raymond R. Smith Receiver of Northern Indiana Railway, Inc. The above Agreement having been duly considered, it was regularly moved, seconded and carried that the Board of Public Works enter into this Agreement, subject to approval of the Common Council and agreement was accordingly signed by the proper officials.