city of Ypsilanti, that consent, permission and authority are hereby given, granted and duly vested, for a period of thirty years, to the New State Telephone Company of Michigan, its successors and assigns, to use the streets, avenues and alleys of said city for the purpose of constructing, owning, using and maintaining a telephone system, and setting poles and placing wires thereon; and all poles shall be of wood or iron, and shall be kept painted, and no advertisement shall be posted on said poles by said company nor by its consent. The poles shall be set so as not to impede the traffic in the streets, and are to be placed at such places as the board of public works may di rect. Sec. 2. Said grantee, its successors and assigns, is hereby authorized to place its wires and cables in conduits underground along and in said streets and alleys, and to provide manholes and openings from the surface of the streets connected with such conduits. Whenever and wherever any such conduits are constructed it shall be done under the supervision and in such manner as to meet with the approval of the board of public works, and wherever there is any such construction of conduits, the surface of the street shall be restored without delay to the same condition it was in before the construction of such conduits. Provided, That whenever the said city of Ypsilanti shall decide to pave or repave any of its streets, lanes, alleys or public places, it shall give the said New State Telephone Company, or its successors, not less than thirty days' notice of such intention; and when such notice is given, the said New State Telephone Company shall, if the said New State Telephone Company, its successors and assigns, desire to exercise the right of placing a conduit for placing its wires and cables in said streets so to be paved or repaved under the conditions of this ordinance, they shall place such conduits in such streets, lanes or alleys before the expiration of the said thirty days. Sec. 3. Said grantee, its successors and assigns, may charge the following rates for the use of its telephones within the city: When the subscriber shall enter into a written contract for the use of the telephone for a business place for a term of five years, twenty-four dollars per annum; when the subscriber shall enter into a contract in writing for the use of a telephone for a place used exclusively as a dwelling for a term of five years, eighteen dollars per annum; when no such contract is entered into, the said grantee, its successors and assigns, shall be allowed to charge at the rate of twenty-eight dollars per annum for the telephone in a business place, and at the rate of twenty-four dollars per annum for the telephone in a dwelling, with a rebate of four dollars for business places and six dollars for residences when telephones are used for an uninterrupted period of one year, all rates to be paid quarterly in advance. Said grantee shall not, however, be required to put in a telephone for less than the rental of one quarter of a year. Sec. 5. It is further provided as one of the conditions of the granting of this ordinance, that the said the New State Telephone Company of Michigan, and its successors and assigns, shall during all the time in which this ordinance and the privileges thereunder granted is valid, keep a public office in the city of Ypsilanti, and a duly authorized officer, agent or attorney in said city, upon whom process and all legal notices can be served. Sec. 6. This ordinance is to be null and void unless it is accepted by the said the New State Telephone Company within thirty days, and the work of constructing the plant be commenced within sixty days from date of said acceptance. Sec. 7. publication. This ordinance shall take immediate effect without Sec. 8. The said the New State Telephone Company and its successors and assigns shall, during all the time in which this ordinance and the privileges thereunder granted is valid, furnish to the city of Ypsilanti, free of charge, the use of six of the telephones of said the New State Telephone Company in connection with the local exchange of said the New State Telephone Company, said six telephones to be distributed as the common council of the city of Ypsilanti shall direct. Sec. 9. In the event of the failure of the said the New State Telephone Company, its successors and assigns, to operate its Ypsilanti plant for any continuous period of six months, the franchise hereby granted shall become null and void, and the poles owned by said the New State Telephone Company, which are then being used by the wires of the city of Ypsilanti, shall become the property of said city of Ypsilanti. Sec. 10. Said city reserves the right to run six. fire department wires on the uppermost arm of all poles of the said the New State Telephone Company, and said city for itself and for the Ypsilanti Electric Company, reserves the right to use all the poles of said the New State Telephone Company within the city of Ypsilanti for the carrying of electric light wires, not over six in number, all to be on one crossarm, not over twenty feet above the ground; and said city for itself and the said Ypsilanti Electric Company, grants to the said the New State Telephone Company the right to place its telephone wires on any of the poles of said city and of said Ypsilanti Electric Company; and all poles set by said city and by said Ypsilanti Electric Company in the future shall be not less than thirty-five feet long, and the electric light wires shall be not over twenty feet above the ground. The suspension wires of electric lamps to be attached to top of poles, and no telephone wires to be less than twenty feet from the ground. Section 4 fully erased before passage of this ordinance. Made and passed in the common council of the city of Ypsilanti, Mich., the 23rd day of April, 1897. Approved April 24th, 1897. Attest: P. W. CARPENTER, City Clerk. H. D. WELLS, Mayor. No. 64. AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO DRAYS AND CONVEYANCES FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF GOODS, PROPERTY OR SUBSTANCE, FOR HIRE IN THE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF YPSILANTI. Repealed. See Ordinance No. 65. No. 65. AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO DRAYS AND CONVEYANCES FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF GOODS, PROPERTY OR SUBSTANCE, FOR HIRE IN THE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF YPSILANTI. The Common Council of the City of Ypsilanti ordain : Section 1. That hereafter, any person or persons who shall be engaged in the business of draying or keeping a dray, vehicle or other conveyance for the transportation of wares, merchandise or anything or substance whatsoever for hire anywhere within the limits of the city of Ypsilanti, shall keep said dray, vehicle or conveyance while standing and awaiting trade, on the east side of Huron street near the sidewalk between a line adjacent to and parallel with the south wall of Savings Bank building so called, and a line adjacent to and parallel with north wall of Engine House, so called, on said street, and in no other place in said city. Provided, however, that this ordinance shall in no wise conflict with, or restrain the rights of any hotel keeper, merchant or tradesman keeping dray or delivery wagons at his place of business. Nor shall it restrain drays, vehicles or other conveyances for transportation of goods for hire, from standing at the depots in said city. Sec. 2. Any person or persons who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one or more than five dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed thirty days, or both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Sec. 3. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in any manner conflicting with any of the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. Sec. 4. This ordinance shall take effect from and after the 11th day of June, A. D. 1897. Made and passed by the common council of the city of Ypsilanti, the 1st day of June, 1897. Approved June 1, 1897. Attest: P. W. CARPENTER, City Clerk. N. B. HARDING, Mayor. No. 66. AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE USE OF BICYCLES AND OTHER VEHICLES ON THE PUBLIC STREETS WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF YPSILANTI. The Common Council of the City of Ypsilanti ordain : Section 1. No bicycle or other vehicle shall be driven at a rate of speed to exceed eight miles per hour upon any street within the limits of the city of Ypsilanti. Sec. 2. No person or persons shall ride any bicycle or other vehicle on the sidewalk within the limits of the city of Ypsilanti. Sec. 3. All vehicles turning a corner towards the right shall keep close to the curb. All vehicles turning a corner to the |