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shall deem it necessary, and shall order the said rails to be taken up, the said Railroad Company shall cause the pavement of the streets to be placed in good and sufficient repair; and, provided further, that the said Company have their single rail tracks above-mentioned completed on or before the first day of May, 1834, and that they are to charge and receive such tolls, rates or fare for the carrying of passengers or effects upon the said rail tracks south of Twenty-third street, as the said Common Council may prescribe.

Resolved, That the above resolution shall not be considered as binding on the Common Council, nor shall the same go into effect until the said Harlem Railroad Company shall first duly execute, under their corporate seal, such an instrument in writing, promising, covenanting and agreeing on their part and behalf to stand to, abide and perform all the conditions and provisions in the said resolution contained as the Mayor and the Counsel of the Board shall approve of by a certificate under their hands, nor until such instrument shall be filed, so certified in the Comptroller's office of this city.--(Resolution, May 10, 1832).

Resolved, That the New York and Harlem Railroad Company be permitted, and the Common Council hereby consent, so far as their rights extend, that the New York and Harlem Railroad Company may continue their rails by single or double track southerly, from the north line of Prince street to the north line of Walker street, subject to the same conditions and restrictions which the Common Council heretofore imposed upon the said Company in respect to that part of the said road between Prince street and Twenty-third street, as provided by the ordinances of the Common Council, May 20, 1832.- (Resolution, May 4, 1837).

Resolved, That the New York and Harlem Railroad Company be permitted, and the Common Council hereby consent, that the said Company may continue their rails similar to those laid between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets by a double track from the Bowery through Broome street to Centre street, and from Broome street through Centre street to Chatham street, subject to the same conditions and restrictions which the Common Council heretofore imposed upon the said Company.

Resolved, That when such rails shall be laid through Centre and Broome streets, the said Company shall cause so much of the rails as are laid in the Bowery south of Broome street, to be removed, and the street repaved under the direction of the Street Commissioner.-(Resolution, May 4, 1838.

Resolved, That the New York and Harlem Railroad Company be authorized to lay down rails in Canal street, from their road in Centre street, to a point seventy-five feet east of Broadway, to enable them to afford the increased accommodation for the public, which may be required by the extension of their own road, and by their connection with the New York and New Haven Railroad Company, and for the purpose of establishing a depot for passengers to and from the New York and New Haven Railroad, with permission to cross the sidewalk from the rail tracks into any premises which either of said companies may become the lessees or owners of, all of which to be under the direction of the Street Commissioner, the privileges hereby granted to be enjoyed by said company during the pleasure of the Common Council.-(Res., Nov. 15, 1848).

Resolved, That the New York and Harlem Railroad Company be, and they are hereby authorized to take up their double track, from the corner of Grand and Centre streets, to the Bowery, and lay down a single track in the centre of the street, from the corner of Grand street, through Centre and Broome streets to the Bowery; down the Bowery to Grand street, and through Grand street to Centre street, under the direction of the Street Commissioner.-(Res. Sept. 13, 1850).

Resolved, That the New York and Harlem Railroad Company be, and they are hereby authorized to lay groove rails in a permanent manner, for a single track, on the westerly side of Chatbam street, from the present terminus at Centre street, to the southerly end of the Park, with a turn-out, as shown on a profile on the petitions hereunto attached, for the exclusive use and purpose of running their city line of small passenger cars upon, to that point, subject to the pleasure and order of the Common Council; that when the Common Council may, or shall hereafter, order the said track to be taken up, the Company shall comply therewith at once, and that said Company shall, before said track is laid, execute to the city an agreement to comply therewith at once, when ordered, and that they will not run any but small passenger cars thereon, and that the Comptroller be charged with the preparation and execution of said agreement; said track to be laid under the direction of the Street Commissioner, provided that the said Company shall grade the street through which the said rails shall be laid, at their own expense, and keep the same in repair; that all ordinances heretofore passed relative to the said Company, shall not be deemed to be in any way repealed by such permission hereby granted, except so far as the same conflicts therewith. And that said rails shall not be laid within a distance of

twenty feet of the cross walk at the corner of Broadway and the southern end of the Park.-(Res. Feb. 6, 1851).

Resolved, That no locomotive or steam engine be allowed to run on the tracks of the Harlem or New Haven Railroad Company, on Fourth avenue, south of Forty-second street, eighteen months after the passage of this ordinance.-(Res., Dec. 27, 1854).

Resolved, That the Harlem Railroad Company be directed to station a flagman at the corner of the Bowery and Broome street, for the purpose of warning pedestrians and those persons driving vehicles, of the nigh approach of the rail cars, as they turn the corner of the said Bowery and Broome street.-(Resolution, Feb. 3, 1857).

Resolved, That the Harlem Railroad Company be directed to place a flag-man at the corner of Pearl and Centre streets for the protection of persons crossing said streets.-(Resolution, Feb. 10, 1857).

Resolved, That the Harlem Railroad Company be, and they are hereby directed to cause their small cars to be run on their track to Forty-second street, as often and as regularly as they are now run between Twentyseventh street and Park Row, the said Company to commence running small cars as aforesaid, within four months after the approval of this resolution by his Honor the Mayor.-(Resolution, July 12, 1858).

Be it Ordained, &c.

1. The New York and Harlem Railroad Company is hereby authorized. empowered and permitted to use steam in the drawing of their passenger and freight cars upon their railroad, on the Fourth avenue, to and from the northern extremity of Manhattan, or New York Island, to the south side of Forty-second street, and to permit the use thereof by the New York and New Haven Railroad Company to the same point, with turn-outs to the engine houses respectively, for a period of thirty years from the passage of this ordinance.

2. Until the completion of their new machine shops, at or above Forty-second street, the New York and Harlem Railroad Company shall be permitted to run their engines with steam, for repairs only, but without any car, truck or other vehicle attached, to and from their present machine shop at Thirty-second street; but such permission shall not extend, in any event, beyond a period of eighteen months from the date of this ordinance.

23. The New York and Harlem Railroad Company are hereby au

thorized to lay down a double track or railway from their track in the Fourth avenue, at Forty-second street, up said strect to Madison avenue, and up Madison avenue to Seventy-ninth street, or as far as it may, from time to time be opened, for the use of their small cars only.

4. The said company is hereby authorized to lay down in the Fourth avenue, between Forty-second and Fiftieth streets, two additional tracks for the use of themselves and the New York and New Haven Railroad Company, to enable them to land and receive their passengers, and may cover that portion thereof which extends from Forty-second to Fortyfourth street, by a neat ornamental roof or shed, to be first approved by the Mayor of the city of New York; and that the sidewalks opposite to said building be reduced to sixteen feet on each side of said avenue in front of the premises of said railroad company.

25. The New York and Harlem Railroad Company shall forthwith complete the title of the Corporation of the city of New York, to the strip of ground twenty feet wide, between Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth streets, on the west side of the Fourth avenue, and also to the strip of ground twenty feet wide, between Thirty-second and Thirty-third streets, agreed by them to be conveyed to the city; and shall, within six months from this date, remove their engine house at Thirty-second street from said last-mentioned strip of land.

6. In the case the New York and Harlem Railroad Company shall fail to carry out in good faith the provisions of the second and fifth sections of this ordinance, within the times in said sections respectively limited, the privileges hereby granted shall cease and determine, and this ordinance shall be null and void.-(Ordinance, December 31, 1858.)

THE HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD.

The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, in Common Council convened, do ordain as follows:

1. Permission is hereby granted to the Hudson River Railroad Company to construct a double track of rails, with suitable turn-outs along the line of the Hudson River, from Spuyten Devil Creek to near Sixtyeighth street; occupying so much of the Twelfth avenue as lies along the shore, thence winding from the shore so as to intersect the Eleventh avenue, at or near Sixtieth street; thence through the middle of the Eleventh avenue to about Thirty-second street; thence on a curve across

to the Tenth avenue, intersecting the Tenth avenue at or near Thirtieth street; thence through the middle of the Tenth avenue to West street, and thence through the middle of West street to Canal street.

§ 2. The said Hudson River Railroad Company shall grade, regulate, pave and keep in repair a space twenty-five feet in width, in and about the tracks, in all the avenues and streets through which the said track or tracks shall be laid, whenever the Common Council shall deem the interest of the public to require such pavement to be done. The said company shall lay such rail track through the avenues and streets in conformity to such directions as to line and grade as shall be given by the Street Commissioner, and shall conform their said railroad to the grades of the avenues and streets through which it shall extend, or cross, as shall be from time to time established by the Common Council, if the latter so require; and shall lay their rails or tracks in the streets or avenues, in such manner as to cause no unnecessary impediment to the common and ordinary use of the street for all other purposes, and so as to leave all the water courses free and unobstructed. It shall be especially incumbant on the said Hudson River Railroad Company, at their own cost, to construct stone bridges across such of the streets intersected by the railroad as may, by the elevation of their grades above the surface of said road, require to be arched or bridged, whenever, in the opinion of the Common Council, the same shall be necessary for public convenience; and also to make such embankments or excavations as the Common Council may deem necessary to render the passage over the railroad and embankments at the cross streets easy and convenient for all the purposes for which streets and roads are usually put to; and the said company shall also make, at their own cost and charge, all such drains and sewers, as their embankments or excavations may, in the opinion of the Common Council, render necessary; and said company shall be at all times subject to such regulations, with reference to the convenience of public travel through such streets and avenues as are affected by the said railroad, as the Common Council shall, from time to time, by resolution or ordinance, direct; and the Corporation hereby reserves the right to require said company, at any time after the Eleventh avenue shall be made to Fourteenth street, to take up their rails in the Tenth avenue, and lay them in the Eleventh avenue to said Fourteenth street, and through Fourteenth street to connect with West street.

3. The said company shall, within one year from the passage of this ordinance, and before entering upon any contracts for grading, file in

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