10/24/1923 Board of Public Works Special Meeting Minutes

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59 Tuesday October 23rd.2 1923. r Board mete in special session %. t,,7:30 P.M. Mr. L. P. Hardy absent. -Meeting adourned, to the Council .rooms . !This meeting called to notify contractors and plumbdns, of Ordinances pertaining to excavations in City Streets. About one hundred parties were present and each was presented with a copy of ordinances, and instructed to obtain permit, from Engineering Department before starting any excavations. Attest: - G Presid nt. Clark of tFF Boar- .'_ Wednesday October 24th.9 1923. Board mettl in special session at 9:00 A.M. L. P. Hardy absent. Atty. Obenchain and Walter Dennis reprlesenitng the New Yersey, Indiana and Illinois Railway Company in reg and to resolution for v%oatdon of a part, of-Kaley Street, ,under Vacation Resolution No. 78 and same is continued to October 31st., 1923.at 10:00 A.M. - - Attorney OBenehain presented petition and resolution with blue prints for the crossing of Kaley Street with eight (8) additional switch tracks. Petition approved and resolution adopted and set for hearing as follows:- STAN OF INDIANA ) S` . JOSrPH'COUNTY ) SS B&POR THE% BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF T HG CITY OF SOUTH B� ND. PETITION OF THE NSW J0&RS&Y, INDIANA & ILLINOIS RAILROAD COMPANY FOR CONS✓NT TO LAY ADDITIONAL TRACKS. To the Honorable Mayors Common Council, Bind Board of Works of the City of South Bend% Your petitioner, the New Jersey, Indiana & Illinois Railroad Compny, respectfully show by this, its petition: IL,, That said petitioner is a corporation duly organized and existing for the purpose of operating a_steam railroad and particularly organized and existing under and by virtue of hhe general laws of the said State .pertaining tuthe organization and existence Of steam railroads. 2 That said petitioner is duly authorized to maintain and operate its present steam railroad in the City of South Bend under and by virtue of Ordinance Number 1250 adopted by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Februar3 28th,, 19o4,-and Ordinance Number 21009 adopted by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, July 12th., 19200 _ 3. Your petitioner further Bespeetfully shows that its owns, c operates .and controls gy steam. railroad in the said State of Indiana, and partiularly in and through St. Joseph County, in said State, and in an from thestation of Pine in said County in a northerly direction in and to the City of South Bend., and is a common carrier of Fraight and passengers for hire, both in stat4 and interstate com- merce; and that its line of railroad connects with and furnishes interchange of traffi< withother lines of railroad engaged in such commerce; that in order to gxixteprovide accommodations necessary to accomplish the purpose for whiag said Company was incorporated, and in order to furnish proper and adequate public facilities in the discharge of -its duties as such common carrier, and for the purpose of -improvement of its road by hhe enstruction of additional yard facilities and round house, it has become and is necessary and desirbble that the said petitioner construct, operate and maintain across Kaley Street, in the Southwest gyaarter of Section i5,Township 37