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OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF WORKS
CITY OF RICIfl' OND, INDIANA,
MONDAY- MARCH 8, 1937 .
The Board of Public Works and Safety of the City
of Richmond , Indiana , met in Special Session in the
office of said Board , Monday March 8, 1937 , at 8 :00
11/ o ' clock P. M. All members of the Board were present.
The Wayne Works being represented by Yale Shively,
its president , and Will W. Reller, its attorney,
requested that the City grant it the right to use
part of N girth "F" Street and part of North 17th
Street for a railroad switch and siding.
A form of contract for this purpose was presented
and the same was discussed. Thereupon on motion
made and sceonded, the following resolution was
unanimously adopted by the Board.
RE TT RESOLVED That it is the desire and the
intent of the Board of Pubic Works and Safety
of the City of Richmond, Indiana, to enter
into the following contract with the Wayne
Works, an Indiana corporation, operating a
factory in said City, to-wit :
CONTRACT
THIS CONTRACT Made by and between the City of
Richmond, Indiana, hereinafter designated as City,
and the Wayne Works , an Indiana corporation, here-
inafter designated as Grantee,
WITNESSETH:
Said City hereby grants tosaid Grantee and its
assigns the right to build, maintain, and use a
railroad switch, with a branch therefrom, for indust-
rial purposes in, along, and over North "F" Street
and North Seventeenth Street in said City, as follows :
The center line of the main sidetrack to be
constructed and used shall commence at a point in the
south line of North "F" Street approximately Two
Hundred Fifty Five (255) Feet east of the east line
of North Sixteenth Street, thence by a curve to the
left a distance of approximately One 'Hundred Sixty
(160 ) Feet to a paint in the center line of North
Seventeenth Street ; thence north along the center
line of North Seventeeith Street approximately
Two Hundred Forty (240) Feet to the north line of
North "0" Street.
The location of the private sidetrack branching
therefrom is to be as follows : Beginning at a switch
Point in said main sidetrack approximately One .
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Hundred Thirty ( 130.) Feet north of the center line
of said North "F" Street ; thence northwestwardly
along North Seventeenth Street a distance o.f appr-
oximately Two Hundred Thirty (230 ) Feet to a point
in the north line of North "G" Street. •
Al'l in accordance with a plat attached hereto '
and marked "Exhibit A" . {..
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Said tracks shall be of standard gauge and shall be
laid and maintained by said Grantee to conform to .
the established grade of said street , and said Grantee
or its assigns, shall keep and maintaih said streets
occupied by said tracks, and for eighteen ( 18) inches
on the outside of each rail thereof, in ' proper and safe •
condition at its expense.
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In the event that said tracks shall be removed •
from said streets, whether the same be done voluntar-
ily or by authority of said City, then and in either •
of said evenets said Grantee shall immediately there-
after, at its own expense, place sais streets as
occupied by said tracks in a proper and safe condition
for public travel. •
Said Grantee.-agrees to save said City harmless
froi4 any liability arising during construction of •
said tracks by reason of the of the maintenance of •
the same or that portion of the streets occupied
bTr them.
In the event that the City shall determine to
permanently improve either of said streets at the
place occupied by said tracks , then said Grantee
shal bear the cost of improving such portion of
said street or streets as is occupied by said track
or tracks and eighteen inches (18) on the outside
of each rail thereof.
INWITNESS WEEREOF said parties have hereunto
affixed their names this day of ANarch, 1937 .
CITY OF RICHMOND, INDIANA,
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BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND S,FJTY.
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WA.YNE WORKS
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President .
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The Board now fixes Friday March 26, 1937 , at
-nine o ' clock A. 1v1. as the time at which said contract
-will be finally considered, and at which time a
public hearing- shall be held thereon.
The Clerk, at the expense of said Wayne Works , shall
cause the complete text of said contract to be pub-
lished in the Palladium and the Item, two daily news-
papers of general circulation, published in said
• . City of Richmond , together with the time of said
hearing. Said notice shall be published in each paper
twice, one week apart, and the last Publication to
be at least one week before said hearing, and said
contract and notice shall be posted in 10 public
places in said City.
There no further business, the Board adjourned.
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jMayor.
' Attest : - (_- 7/
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