On the Construction of Horse Railways for Branch Lines and for Street Traffic

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J. Weale, 1860 - 81 páginas
 

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Página 75 - ... and shall be liable for any loss or injury that any person may sustain by reason of any carelessness, neglect or misconduct of its agents and servants in the management, construction, or use of said tracks...
Página 76 - Roxbury may, at any time during the continuance of the charter of said corporation, and after the expiration of ten years from the opening of any part of said road for use, purchase of said corporation all...
Página 76 - The capital stock of the said Corporation shall not exceed the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each.* And no shares shall be issued for a less sum to be actually paid in on' each, than the par value of the shares which shall be first issued.
Página 75 - The mayor and aldermen of said cities respectively shall have power at all times to make all such regulations as to the rate of speed and mode of use of said tracks as the public convenience and safety may require.
Página 75 - SECTION 3. Said corporation shall maintain and keep in repair, such portions of the streets and bridges in the city of Boston, as shall be occupied by their tracks ; and they shall also keep the whole of the bed of any road in the town of Dorchester, which shall be thus occupied, in such repair that the public travel or teaming over said Dorchester Turnpike, within the limits of the town of Dorchester, shall be well accommodated while said railroad corporation may continue to occupy any part of said...
Página 74 - exclusively authorized to construct and operate railways as herein provided, on and through" (certain specified streets) "and through such other streets and avenues in said city as may from time to time be fixed and determined by vote of the common council of the said city of Detroit and assented to in writing by said corporation.
Página 76 - SECT. 4. If any person shall wilfully or maliciously obstruct said Corporation in the use of said road or tracks, or the passing of the cars or carriages of said Corporation thereon, such...
Página 79 - ... the construction of their railroad : provided, that the occupancy of said track shall be taken to be the space between the rails and so much on each side thereof as shall be within the perpendicular let-fall from the extreme width of any car or carriage used thereon, being the space from which the public travel is excluded during the passing of said car or carriage...
Página 75 - Selectmen of said town, respectively, shall give notice to the abuttors thereon, by the publication in one or more newspapers published in the said City of...
Página 77 - The said road shall be constructed and maintained in such form and manner, and upon such grade...

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