killed, any animal, and whoever having the charge or custody of any animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon the same, or willfully fails to provide the same with proper food, drink, shelter, or protection from the weather, shall, for every such offense, be punished by imprisonment in jail not exceeding three months, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by both such fine and impris

onment.

Sec. 2. This ordinance shall take effect on the 18th day of January, A. D. 1895.

Made and passed in common council January 7th, 1895.

Approved January 8th, 1895.

Attest:

WM. B. SEYMOUR, Mayor.

C. P. MCKINSTRY, City Clerk.

No. 61.

AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE TO EXAMINE THE OFFICE AND BOOKS OF THE CITY CLERK.

The Common Council of the City of Ypsilanti ordain :

Section 1. That it shall be the duty of the ways and means committee of the common council of the city of Ypsilanti to thoroughly examine, or cause to be examined, the office, books, papers, and each and every matter pertaining to the office of city clerk of said city, four times a year, the first examination to be made on the first day of May, 1896, and every three months thereafter.

Sec. 2. In the performance of the above mentioned examination the said ways and means committee are hereby author

ized to employ whatever assistance they may deem necessary for the carrying on of said work.

Sec. 3.

This ordinance shall take effect on the 1st day of April, 1896.

Made and passed in common council of the city of Ypsilanti, March 16, 1896.

Approved March 18, 1896.

Attest:

H. D. WELLS, Mayor.

GEO. A. COOK, City Clerk.

No. 62.

AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO THE CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTAINANCE OF A STREET RAILWAY IN YPSILANTI.

The Common Council of the City of Ypsilanti, ordain :

Section 1. That permission and authority be and the same is hereby granted and vested in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway Company, their successors and assigns, and any company or corporation succeeding to their property rights, to locate, establish, construct and maintain street railways upon any of the streets within the city of Ypsilanti, with necessary and convenient tracks for turnouts, side tracks, switches, and to run and maintain thereon railway cars for the carriage of passengers, baggage, express and mail, for thirty years from the date thereof, Subject to the following conditions:

Sec. 2. The said grantees, their successors and assigns, and any corporation succeeding to their property rights, shall have the right for a period of thirty years to maintain and operate

street railways on all the streets on which they shall construct or put in operation street railways within eighteen months from date of this ordinance. * Frovided: nothing in this ordinance shall be so construed as to prevent the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway Company from continuing the use of the present tracks as now laid, providing that the present rail now in use shall be replaced with a girder rail or one equally as good within six years from the date of the passage of this ordinance.

Sec. 3. The rails of said street railway shall be laid flush with the surface of the street on which the same may be located, and shall conform to the grade thereof as now or as may hereafter be established, and shall be so constructed as least to inconvenience or obstruct public travel thereon; and before entry upon any street the said grantee, their successors or assigns, shall prepare and submit to the common council for its approval a complete plan or diagram showing the proposed line of its track or tracks in such street, the form or kind of rails to be laid thereon, the location, character and purpose of all sidetracks, turnouts, switches, curves, turn-tables and other necessaries, and when such plans have met the approval of the common council, the track or tracks shall be built in accordance therewith, and shall be inspected as the work of building progresses by the committee on streets and walks, and no change shall be made in such plans unless with the approval of the common council; and if the track is authorized to be laid upon any paved streets, only so much of said pavement shall be removed as will allow the track to be properly laid, and it must be without delay restored to as good condition as it was before removal. Provided, That any street now or which shall be hereafter occupied by said street railway company, that they shall not vacate such street without the consent of the common council.

Sec. 4. The said grantee, its successors and assigns, shall be required to keep the surface of the street inside its rails and two and one half feet outside its tracks in good order and re

*Time extended by Ordinance No. 68.

pair and as high as the tops of the rails of said track, and also keep its track and space two and one half feet in width on each side thereof free from dirt and rubbish or obstructions, and on unpaved streets to plank the outside and inside of tracks and between tracks at all principal street and highway crossings, and to plank in same manner such other highway and street crossings as the city council may from time to time order. Said grantee, its successors and assigns, shall restore all pavements and street crossings removed or displaced in relaying or making repairs on its track to its former condition as near as may be at its own expense. In the streets where said grantee, its successors and assigns, shall operate a double track, it shall be required to keep the space between the rails and tracks in good order; and whenever the city council shall order a street paved, it shall be the duty of said railway company to pave in like manner and at the same time as such street is paved, or to pay the expense of paving in like manner between its rails and tracks and eighteen inches outside its rails, to maintain and keep such pavement in repair; said company shall also remove or level all ridges or banks of snow or ice that shall fall or be formed upon the rails and two and one-half feet outside their tracks; such snow and ice as is removed as aforesaid shall be evenly distributed over the surface of the street as shall least obstruct public travel thereon; and in case the city council shall deem it necessary to and does remove at any time a portion of the snow and ice from any street through which the said company may be operating its street railway, then and in that case the said street railway company shall bear so much of the expense thereof, determined on the basis of the proportion of the width of the street occupied by the track or tracks of the company compared with the whole width of the streets; and if said company snall neglect to obey any order which the city council shall make in relation to such affairs, or any order relative to any repairs of the streets which the said company by the provisions of such ordinance are obliged to make, the said city council may cause the same to be made and collect the expense there

of from said company. Provided: That the said company may deposit or sprinkle salt upon the tracks of their railway at

all switch points, curves and turntables, and at and upon other portions of said tracks. The salt in all cases to be deposited or sprinkled on the surface of the rails only, and in such moderate quantities and in such manner as to least impair the use of said streets for public travel. Providing, they shall keep the bridge between the tracks and 18 inches each side of tracks in good repair.

Sec. 5. The common council shall have the right to regulate and prescribe the fare for carrying passengers upon the several lines of the road that may be operated by said grantee, their successors or assigns; provided, that the fare shall be five cents for the carrying of one passenger a continuous trip on their lines within the city limits without the consent of said grantees, their successors and assigns; provided, that they shall be at liberty to charge and collect double fare at and after ten o'clock p. m. upon cars not run on schedule time but put on especially for the accommodation of public meetings and entertainments.

Sec. 6. The cars shall be run regularly and frequently enough to accomodate the public, but for no purpose other than to transfer passengers and their ordinary baggage, express and mail and the same shall for that purpose be at all times in style equipment and accommodation at least equal to those in use in other cities of like size in the state. The said cars shall be provided with suitable apparatus for warming same during the winter months. Provided, said grantee, its successors and assigns shall have the right to transport its own apparatus and material, at such time as not to inconvenience public travel. Providing that the said Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti street railway company be allowed to use only one car for express and mail. Sec. 7. No cars shall be allowed to stop on crosswalks or in front of any intersecting streets except to avoid collisions or prevent dangers to persons or property in the street. And when the conductor, driver or motorman of any car is required to stop at the intersection of streets to receive or leave passengers, the cars shall be stopped so as to leave the rear platform very slightly on the crossing. All cars shall come to a