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Exposé of the Facts Concerning the Proposed Elevated Patent Railway Enterprise in the City of New York. 1866 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exposé of the Facts Concerning the Proposed Elevated Patent Railway Enterprise in the City of New York. 1866 write by Anonymous. This book was released on 2013-09. Exposé of the Facts Concerning the Proposed Elevated Patent Railway Enterprise in the City of New York. 1866 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...of railway shall have been completed and put in operation, if the Street Commissioner shall not within ten days thereafter report to this Common Council that passengers can not be transported thereon safely at an average rate of at least six miles an hour, or that a greater surface on the pavement is occupied by the columns of the structure than is equal to a circle of fifteen inches in diameter, once in each twenty feet in length of the curbstone line, or a circle of twelve inches in diameter, or its equivalent space at face of sidewalk, once in forty feet in length of the outer line of sidewalk, next to buildings, except at street crossings, or at stairways located at intervals of one fourth mile, as near as may be, and to be approved by him, then said company may proceed to erect and complete said elevated railway upon and along the residue of the route first above designated; but if said Commissioner shall report as above set forth, and the facts shall warrant such reports, then the said erection of railway of one half mile in length shall be removed at the expense of said company within thirty days after such report shall be approved by the Common Council. Second. That upon the completion of said railway, and entering upon the use of the same, or any part thereof, said company shall execute and deliver to the Comptroller of the city their bond in the penal sum of five hundred thousand dollars, conditioned that they and their successors and assigns shall pay into the City Treasury, quarterly, five per cent of the gross earnings of said railway on the said routes, as far as they are within the city limits, less such sum as shall be levied upon the same earnings or profits therefrom by State or National, City or County authority; and...