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e R D I N A .N C E N O. 322 ., -------------
DECLA?JNG ORDINANCE /g4 GP.ANTING JOHN-.:!..•
PAP.XI.NSON THE EIGHT TO CONSTRUCT A.ND MAINTA! N
AN ELECTRIC ?.AILWAY ON UNIVERSITY AVENUE AND
WAVERLEY ST?l!ET IN THE CITY OF PALO ALTO TO BE
NO LONGEP. IN FOECE AND EFJ'ECT.
The Council of the City of Palo Alto DO
ORDAIN ae follows:
THAT WHEREAS, on the 16th day of Au~ust,
1903, the Town of Palo Alto p~ased Ordinance 8'94
of said .town, as an emer_gency ordinance, which.
said ordinance purported to grant to John 1. Parkinson
and assigns, etc .. the right to construct and main
tain an electric railway on University Avenue and
Waverley Street in the Town of Palo Alto; and
WHEREAS, thereafter# the Feninsular
Railway Company became and is the assignee of said
et_r;~t r-ailway franchise and is now and has been
cperating the street railway upon said University
Avenue and Wa.verl ey' Street in the City of .?alo Al to,
the successor of the Town of Palo Alto: and
_, WHEREAS, application has been made to the
Railroad Commission of the State of California by
the said .Peninsular Railway Company to abandon ea.id
franchise; and
WHEREAS, said application has been acted
upon by the ?.ailroad Commission of the State of
California, and an order of said Railroad Commission
made thereon, permitting said ienineular Railway
Company to abandon its said franchise and street
railway system in the City of Palo Alto:
NOW, THEREFOP.E, IT IS HEP.EBY OP.DERED,
that said 'franchise gran.ted by Ordinance #94 be and
the sa::.ne is hereby declared to be no longer in force
and effect from and efter JuJ.y 6, 1925, the ef1·ective
date of said order of the Railroad Commission above
referred :to, permitting said .Peninsular P.ailway
Company to abandon its stl"3et railway s~tem ia said
city, save and except that under the provisions
thereof and of this ordinance, it shall be encumbent
upon said Peninsular Railway Compan3.to remove any
and all obstructic,ns on account of rails and ties,
poles and appurtenances theretos within said city
within a reasonable time after said order of the Rail
road Commission, and before said ~~reets upon which ~
said traoks of said company are l;.iid, are improved.
After said a·ban.donment, no chargr.: or assessment for
new street work is to be made against said company.
The City Clerk is directed to post this
·ordinance ·11pon the bulletin board. at the cj·ty hall
in the City o! Palo Al to.
The above and foregoing ordinance was
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introduced at a regular meeting of the Council of
the Cit7 of Palo Alto held on the 8tb. day o!
Jmie, 1925, and thereafter duly passed as amended
on the 13th day of July 1925, by t:O.e following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
Bertsche, .Bonn, Cooley, ~veneck,Easte:rday,
Hobart, Jordan, Kelly, Laueten, Thoi·ts,
Thomae, Wil 11 ams, Wing. .
None
ABSENT: Cathcart, Cottrell
Attest: ,W,,,--? ~ --~--~i--ty~Cl...,e-=r..-.k--
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