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ORDINANCE NO. ID Q 6-
An ordinance of the City of Port Townsend, State of Washington granting to the
Port Townsend Southern Railroad Company, its successors and/or assigns, the right,
privilege, authority and franchise to lay down, construct, maintain and operate a
railway spur track and all appurtenances nocoosary and/or convenient to the opera-
tion thereof, in, along, across, upon and over certain streets in the City of Port
Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington.
lows:
The City Council of the City of Port Townsend, Washington does ordain as fol-
Section 1. The City of Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington does hereby
grant to the Port Townsend Southern Railroad Company, its successors or assigns for a
period ending and terminating on the 18th day of August, 1950, the right, privilege
and'authority to lay down, construct, maintain, and operate one standard gauge railway
spur track for the transportation of freight together with any or all appurtenances
necessary or convenient to the operation of said spur in, over, upon and along the
following described streets, avenues and public ways:
Beginning at a point on the center line of the tract of the Port Town-
send Southern Railroad Company, forty feat more, or less, westerly from
the intersection of said center line of said railroad track with the woo-
terly margin of Fillmore street, in the city of Port Townsend, Jefferson
County, Washington; and running thence on a curve to the right one hundred
and five feet, to an intersection with the northerly margin of Water street
on Lot b Block 37, original townsite to the said city; thence on a outve
to left eighty feet, more or less, to an intersection with the easterly
margin of Harrison street, twenty seven feet northerly of the northerly
margin of Water street in said city; continuing thence westerly on said
curve to left twenty-five feet, more or less, on said Harrison street.
Section 2. It is understood and agreed that amid spur shall be used for any and
all purposes and uses whatsoever of the Natural Gas Corporation of Washington exclusive-
ly, and that for such purposes, the said grantee shall have the right, privilege and
authority to transport over its main railroad track over Water Street, the products of
the Natural Gas Corporation of Washington and mnke delivery of same on said spur track;
subject, however, to the condition that no freight traffic cars shall be permitted to
remain on said Water Street.
Section. 3. The right, privilege, authority and franchise hereby granted is made
expressly subject to the rights of tho City of Port Townsend to retain the same control
of the streets in, along, upon, across and over which said railway spur shall be con-
structed as over the other streets, avenues, and alleys of said city, and the said city
shall have such further control and power over said crossings as the city ordinance and