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<br />70 this resolution shall celitstitut* a contract betweta the City
<br />of ,South Bend, Indiana 4xd ,the pet it imar : litd iaxa Northern railway.: aay whoa
<br />the .same shall have been ,.accapted by said ra i 4y co�paay vxd r tifiad, cexf #uod:
<br />and' pprowed `by the C oon C"ac it sf the City of South 13exd, lad iasa �
<br />WITNESS our hands and seals this{, the 12tt. day, of Oet,!% 1920. j
<br />THE BOARD OF PUBLIC - WORKS . OF
<br />SOUTH BEND, IND IMA. ,
<br />BY _G. A. ELLIOTT
<br />Chair tax
<br />$ARVEY P. ROSTISER
<br />JOHN P. DEHAVEN
<br />Referrod to the railway Company for ancptanco.
<br />,the f of low ix
<br />S peat it ion rece-ived_ read -and placed ox file and net ion ,
<br />deferred until Wednesday October 13th.,1920 at 7:15 P.M.
<br />STATE OP IND-IANA
<br />COMY OF ST. JCSEP$3SS
<br />To the Honorable ,.Board of Pab1ic Works,
<br />of the City of South Bead, Isnd iaaa
<br />Pet it Ion' Of the MichEan-Central .railroad: Con
<br />fot permission
<br />to lay a track across Walnut Street, ii the City .ef -South Bead.
<br />E Coss " not the Petitioner and shows that it has had and inta in:od
<br />.: tracks over and ''"aeress Walnut Street, in the said City,, at and Prjar to the year ,
<br />19090
<br />Said Street was or giftally known as union Street— and its name
<br />Wso. changed to Walnut `Street on August ' 24th,1914; and pr for to the- charge in the
<br />name of =said street, this Petitioner had and operated four tracks, over said street.
<br />-that , later, its south track was taker up, on aceouat of close
<br />clearsaee 'to the aouth property line, sometime bebetwe.ex 1909 and` 1919
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<br />that within the last year the construction of a spur track, to the'
<br />Studebaker plait ,,by the Now Jersey. Indiana and Illinois railway Csnpaxy. parallel=
<br />ng the right of way of this petitioner on the south side to Prairie Avenue, where
<br />Vaid>spur track'seosses the right of way of this Petitioner, _made, it necessary
<br />under the order of the Public Service Commission of Ixdtaaia, in dispesikg of the
<br />ler+ossing rights of the two riailreader to shift the lour tracks of this petitioner
<br />wow croselAg Prairie Avenue to the west, in order to clear said Street, and render
<br />.t`s use .practicable for the highway traffic and railroad traffic Barr led ox . sver
<br />said' crossing by this Petiti:anar and said Now Jerssy,- Indiams. and Illinois Railway i
<br />Company-',1
<br />that in extending its present yards westward, as aforesaid, this
<br />Pet !.t ioxer finds it necessary , to carry on its business as a e emmex . carr ier and to
<br />discharge its duties to the public, to relay and extend its said south'track,
<br />acres$ and beyond Walnut Street altsaessid: which track sad the _right of. way t
<br />Of ,this Pert it ioxer as it crosses said walnut Street, is shown upon a Blue-pr1at-
<br />att,ached beret o and ' made a part here of as . Exhlb It- A: and which Blue -print not
<br />oily .shows the proposed track cross ixg, said, Waixut Street, but the existing tracks,
<br />together with the coxstruetsd and proposed spur of the said Now Jersey, Indiana and
<br />Ill tai is ra Ilr ead on the s outh s ids.
<br />what a ikore particilai deseriptiox of said track which this pets-
<br />dozer -d"iron to o®ssttbat across said street is as follows, to-Wjt:
<br />A Standard guage track, to be constructed across Malnut Street,, in
<br />the City of South Bend, Indiana,, the denter line of Which 3s described as follows: `
<br />Beginning at a point on the west line of Walnut Street 47-�5 (forty-seven and
<br />thirty-five hundroths) feet southerly measured at right axglea_ freft the xbrth iae '
<br />of the or ig tonal 'right of way of the Indiana and w i ichig4n Railways thence
<br />eastorlY"P- atallo2 with said airtn right of cony 2e0a xty) ''set, more nr iesa
<br />to the east lire of walnut Street.
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