use of their respective roads. If the stockholders shall, at such meeting, ratify and adopt such declaration of abandonment, the secretary of the company shall so certify under the seal of the corporation, upon such declaration. Such declaration shall then be submitted to the board of railroad commissioners for its approval, and if approved by such board, such approval shall be indorsed thereon or annexed thereto, and the declaration so certified and indorsed shall be filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state, and from the time of such filing, such portion of the route designated in the declaration shall be deemed to be abandoned. (As amended by chap. 676 of 1892 and chap. 478 of 1900.) § 104. Contracting corporations to carry for one fare; penalty. Every such corporation entering into such contract shall carry or permit any other party thereto to carry between any two points on the railroads or portions thereof embraced in such contract any passenger desiring to make one continuous trip between such points for one single fare, not higher than the fare lawfully chargeable by either of such corporations for an adult passenger. Every such corporation shall upon demand, and without extra charge, give to each passenger paying one single fare a transfer, entitling such passenger to one continuous trip to any point or portion of any railroad embraced in such contract, to the end that the public convenience may be promoted by the operation of the railroads embraced in such contract substantially as a single railroad with a single rate of fare. For every refusal to comply with the requirements of this section the corporation so refusing shall forfeit fifty dollars to the aggrieved party. The provisions of this section shall only apply to railroads wholly within the limits of any one incorporated city or village. (As amended by chap. 676 of 1892.) § 105. Effect of dissolution of charter as to consents.-Whenever any street surface railroad corporation shall have been dissolved or annulled, or its charter repealed by an act of the legis lature, the consent of owners of property bounded on, and the consent of the local authorities having the control of that portion of a street or highway upon which the railroad of such corporation shall have been theretofore constructed and operated, and the order of the general term confirming the report of any commissioner that such railroad ought to be constructed or operated, Street Surface Railroads. § 106 shall not, nor shall either thereof, be deemed to be in any way impaired, revoked, terminated or otherwise affected by such act of dissolution, annulment or repeal, but the same and each thereof shall continue in full force, efficacy and being. The right to the further enjoyment and to the use thereof, subsequent to such act of dissolution, annulment or repeal, and of all the powers, privileges and benefits therein or thereby created, shall be sold at public auction by the local authorities within whose jurisdiction such railroads shall be, in the same manner as is provided in section ninety-three of this article. When such sale shall have been so made, the purchaser thereat shall have the right to the further enjoyment and use of such consents and orders, and of each thereof, and of all the powers, privileges and benefits therein or thereby created, in like manner as if such purchaser had been originally named in such consents, reports and orders; if such purchaser shall be otherwise authorized by law to construct, maintain and operate a street surface railroad within the municipality within which such railroad shall be. (As amended by chap. 676 of 1892.) § 106. Corporate rights saved in case of failure to complete road; right to operate branches; conditions; former consents ratified; limitations.-The corporate existence of and powers of every street surface railroad corporation, which has completed a railroad upon the greater portion of the route designated in its certificate of incorporation, within ten years from the date of filing such certificate in the office of the secretary of state, and which has operated such completed portion of its railroad continuously for a period of five years last past, and is now operating the same, shall continue with like force and effect, as though it had in all respects complied with the provisions of law with reference to the time when it should have fully completed its road. Every such corporation shall have the right to operate any extensions and branches of its railroad, now constructed and operated by it, which have been so constructed and operated by it, for a period of ten years last past, with like force and effect, as though the route of such extensions and branches were designated in its certificate of incorporation. But every such street railroad corporation is authorized to operate such railroad and any extensions or branches thereof, upon condition that it has heretofore, or shall hereafter, obtain the consent of the local authorities having the control of that portion of the streets, avenues or highways included in such railroad, or any extension or branches thereof, to the construction and operation of the same, and also upon the condition that it has heretofore or shall hereafter first obtain the consent of the owners of one-half in value of the property bounded on the portion of the streets, avenues or highways included in the route of such railroad, or any extensions or branches thereof, to the construction and operation of the same, or in case the consent of such property owners can not be obtained, the appellate division of the supreme court of the department in which such railroad or any extension or branch thereof is located, may, upon application, appoint three commissioners who shall determine, after a hearing of all the parties interested, whether such railroad ought to be constructed or operated, and their determination, confirmed by the court, may be taken in lieu of the consent of the property owners. If any street surface railroad corporation shall have made and filed a statement or statements of proposed extensions or branches embracing a line from the boundary of a city or village to the boundary of another city or village generally parallel with the route specified in its certificate of incorporation and generally distant not more than one-half mile therefrom, and shall have made and filed an agreement of consolidation with some other street surface railroad corporation formed to build a street railroad upon a route continuous or connecting with one or more of the routes described in such statement or statements of proposed extensions or branches, and thereafter there shall have been constructed and operated for a period of four years a street surface railroad from such city or village to such other city or village upon a line embraced in any such proposed extensions or branches, such consolidated corporation may relinquish and abandon any unconstructed route or unconstructed portions of route specified in the certificate of incorporation or in any statements of proposed extensions or branches of such first-mentioned corporation by filing in the office of the secretary of state a copy of a resolution of the board of directors of such consolidated corporation certified by its president and secretary, declaring such unconstructed route or unconstructed portions of route relinquished and abandoned, and thereupon the corporate rights, powers and franchises of such consolidated corporation shall be and continue the same as though the certificate of incorporation of such constituent corporation had specified the constructed and not the unconstructed portion of such route and proposed extensions and branches. All consents heretofore given, or grants made by local authorities having the control of the portion of any street, avenue or highway included in the route of such railroad, or any extensions or branches thereof, to any such street surface railroad corporation, are hereby ratified and confirmed and declared valid. This section shall be applicable to any corporation whose lines are wholly within any towns, cities or villages having less than twenty thousand inhabitants. This section shall not apply to or affect any railroad corporation in the city of New York; nor any special grant made to or authority conferred upon any street surface railroad corporation by any law of this state; nor any pending litigation; nor shall it impair existing rights, privileges or franchises of any street surface railroad corporation. (As amended by chap. 676 of 1892, and chap. 198 of 1900.) § 107. When sand and salt may be used on tracks.— The owner or operator of any street surface railroad in cities of this state, may place upon the space between the rails, and upon the rails of such road sand in sufficient quantities to prevent the horses traveling thereon from slipping, and to enable cars operated by mechanical, or electrical appliances to be safely and properly operated. The owner or operator of any street surface railroad in cities of this state may use salt in necessary quantities, upon the rails of all the switches, curves, turnouts and crossovers, between the first day of November of each year and the first day of May following, for the removal of snow and ice therefrom and to prevent the same from freezing. The quantity of salt to be used and the manner of applying salt to the rails, to be under the direction of the city officials having charge of the streets of said cities. (As amended by chap. 676 of 1892 and chap. 491 of 1899.) § 108. Road not to be constructed upon ground occupied by public buildings or in public parks.-No street surface railroad shall be constructed or extended upon ground occupied by buildings belonging to any town, city, county or to the state, or to the United States, or in public parks, except in tunnels to be approved by the local authorities having control of such parks. Provided however that the commissioners of the state reservation at Niagara, by and with the consent of the commissioners of the land office, may construct, without expense to the state, street railroad tracks upon and along that part of the riverway, so called, between Falls and Niagara streets in the city of Niagara Falls, and in their discretion may grant revocable licenses to street surface railroad companies to use such tracks upon such terms as said commissioners may prescribe. (As amended by chap. 460 of 1892, chap. 676 of 1892 and chap. 710 of 1899.) § 109. Center-bearing rails prohibited. No street surface railroad corporation shall hereafter lay down in the streets of any incorporated city or village of this state what are known as "centerbearing" rails; but in all cases, whether in laying new track or in replacing old rails, shall lay down "grooved" or some other kind of rail not "center-bearing" approved by the local authorities. Such grooved or other rail shall be of such shape and so laid as to permit the paving-stones to come in close contact with the projection which serves to guide the flange to the car wheel. Where in any city, the duty of repairing and repaving streets, as distinguished from the authorization of such paving, repairing and repaving, is by law vested in any local authority other than the common council of such city, such other local authority shall be the local authority referred to in this section. (As amended by chap. 676 of 1892.) § 110. Right to cross bridge substituted for a bridge crossed for five years. Should any street surface railroad company have crossed any bridge as a part of its route for a period of more than five years and should any other bridge be substituted therefor at any time, such company shall have the right to cross such substi tuted bridge and to lay and use railway tracks thereon for the transit of its cars and to make all changes and extensions of its route subject to all the provisions of this act, as the convenient operation of its cars and public convenience may require. (Added by chap. 676 of 1892.) ARTICLE V. OTHER RAILROADS IN CITIES AND COUNTIES. SECTION 120. Application for railway; commissioners. 121. Oath and bond of commissioners. 122. First meeting of commissioners. 123. Determination of necessity of railroad and route. 124. Adoption of plans and terms upon which road shall be built. 125. Appraisal of damages and deposit of money as security. 126. Shall prepare certificate of incorporation; proviso as to for feiture. 127. Organization. 128. Commissioners to deliver certificate; affidavit of directors. 129. Powers. 130. Crossing of horse railroad track. 131. Where route coincides with another route. 132. Commissioners; to transfer plans, et cetera. 133. Commissioners to file reports; confirmation thereof. 134. Pay of commissioners. 135. Quorum; term of office; removal; vacancies in board of commissioners. 136. Abandonment or change of route; new commissioners; their powers and proceedings. 137. Increased deposits; when and how required. 138. Trains to come to full stop, etc. 139. Gates. 140. Penalty for violation of this article. 141. Sections to be printed and posted. 142. Extension of time. § 120. Application for railway; commissioners.-Upon the application of at least fifty reputable householders and taxpayers of any county or city, verified upon oath before a justice of the supreme court, that there is need in said county or city of a steam railway in the streets, avenues and public places thereof for the transportation of passengers, mails or freight, the board of supervisors of such county may, within thirty days thereafter by res olution, approve of the application, and authorize its presentation to the supreme court, and if the railway is to be built wholly within the limits of a city, upon the application of a like number |