3. The franchises, rights and privileges hereby granted shall expire by limitation on the 31st day of December, 1930, and it is hereby expressly stipulated that this grant is made and accepted upon the condition that whenever by any extension of the corporate limits of the City of Richmond, any line, or part thereof, now or hereafter constructed, operated or maintained by the grantee hereof outside of the limits of the said City, shall be brought within the said limits, the said line or part thereof so brought within the said limits shall then be subject to all the general ordinances of the City of Richmond relating to street railways, as the same may be from time to time amended, and to the limitations and conditions to which the line of the said company in the said City, with which the line aforesaid, or part thereof, connects, shall then be subject. 4. All bids for the franchise rights and privileges hereby granted shall be submitted in writing as required by law, and each bidder shall file with his bid a bond executed in favor of the City of Richmond in a penalty of ..... dollars, with surety satisfactory to the City Attorney, conditioned as follows, in the event that the franchise rights and privileges herein specified are granted to him: 1st. That he will, within thirty days from the day of the approval of this ordinance granting the above named franchise, rights and privileges to him, file a written acceptance of the same with the City Clerk. 2nd. That he will construct and put into complete operation the plant or plants and works provided for in this ordinance, within the time and in the manner herein specified, and will maintain and operate the same, as required, during the life of the franchise hereby granted. 3rd. That in the event of his failure so to file the said written acceptance, or of his failure so to construct and put into complete operation the said plant or plants and works, within the time and in the manner herein specified, or of his failure so to maintain and operate the same, as required, the said bond shall thereupon ipso facto be forfeited to the said City, and shall immediately be and become payable to the City of Richmond without offset, as liquidated damages. Upon the approval of this ordinance the City Clerk shall return to the unsuccessful bidders the bonds filed with him by them respectively, and shall deposit the bond so filed by the bidder to whom the grant is made, with the Auditor of the City of Richmond, who shall hold the same upon the conditions herein specified. 5. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage. 2. That upon the approval of this ordinance the Mayor of the City of Richmond, it shall be the duty of the City Clerk to cause to be advertised once a week for four successive weeks in a newspaper published in the City of Richmond, the draft of the ordinance contained in the foregoing section, and in addition he shall, by such advertisement, invite bids for the franchise, privileges or rights proposed to be granted in the proposed ordinance, which bids are to be delivered to the presiding officer of the Common Council of the City of Richmond, at the day and hour of the next regular meeting of the said body, in open session, to be held next after such advertisement is completed, which bids, by said presiding officer, shall be presented to the said Common Council to be dealt with, and acted on in the mode prescribed by law. 3. This crdinance shail be in force from its passage. AN ORDINANCE (Approved November 18, 1912). To authorize the Washington Terrace Corporation to grade certain streets in Madison (formerly Washington) Ward. Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Richmond 1. That the Washington Terrace Corporation, a corporation created under the laws of the State of Virginia. be, and it is, hereby authorized, at its own expense, in accordance with the established grades and under the supervision and direction of the City Engineer to grade that part of the following streets passing through its property known as "Springhill" or "Bellevue," lately the property of the R. A. Patterson Tobacco Company: Cowardin avenue, Nineteenth street, Twentieth street, Twenty-first street, Bellevue avenue, between Cowardin avenue and Twenty-first street; but before any work shall be done the said corporation shall obtain from the City Engineer a permit to excavate and do other work necessary for such grading in said streets. 2. That the said Washington Terrace Corporation, shall indemnify and save harmless the City of Richmond from all damages to persons or property by reason of the doing of the said grading, and shall waive all right to damages to its own property by the doing of the said work. 3. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage. AN ORDINANCE (Approved November 18, 1912). To change the name of Cary street from the Boulevard to the corporation line, to Westhampton avenue. Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Richmond 1. The name of Cary street from the Boulevard to the corporation line is hereby changed and shall hereafter be known as Westhampton avenue. 2. All ordinances, parts of ordinances and all resolutions in so far as the same may conflict with the provisions of this ordinance, are hereby repealed. 3. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage. To establish a building line on the south side of Franklin street between Laurel and Shafer streets, and to annul the resolution of the Committee on Streets adopted on the 1st day of December, 1911, establishing a building line on said street between Laurel and Shafer streets. Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Richmond— 1. That a building line on the south side of Franklin street between Laurel and Shafer streets be, and the same is hereby established, distant twenty-one (21) feet, eleven (11) inches south of the southern line of the said Franklin street within the limits aforesaid, and the line hereby established shall have the same force and effect as if the same was established in accordance with the provisions of section 45, chapter 35, Richmond City Code, 1910, and any person constructing a building nearer to the street line than the building line hereby established shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each offence, recoverable before the Police Justice of the City of Richmond. 2. That the resolution adopted by the Committee on Streets on the 1st day of December, 1911, establishing a building line on said Franklin street between Laurel and Shafer streets be, and the same is, hereby annulled. 3. That a copy of this ordinance shall be certified to the Building Inspector of the City of Richmond who shall record the same in the book kept in his office for the purpose of the recordation of the establishment of building lines. 4. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage. AN ORDINANCE (Approved November 18, 1912). To require the Southern Railway Company, to construct and maintain a concrete bridge, over the line of said railway where it crosses under Lester or Rocketts street. Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Richmond 1. That the Southern Railway Company, a corporation, successor of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, be, and it is, hereby required to construct and maintain, in a manner satisfactory to the City Engineer, a reinforced concrete bridge over its tracks in place of the wooden bridge now maintained by it over its tracks where they cross under Lester or Rocketts street, between Poplar street and Williamsburg avenue in the City of Richmond. For a failure to comply with the requirements of this sec tion within ninety (90) days from the approval of this ordinance the said company shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, recoverable before the Police Justice, of the City of Richmond, each day's continuance of such failure to constitute a separate offence. 2. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage. AN ORDINANCE (Approved November 18, 1912). To amend and re-ordain an ordinance entitled, “An ordinance to permit the owners of those three blocks located between Ashland street on the south, Elm street on the east, Beverly street on the north, and Davis avenue on the west, to close the alleys now extending through said three blocks from Elm street to Davis avenue, upon the execution of proper deeds dedicating an alley seventeen (17) feet in width extending through said three blocks from Beverly street to Ashland street," approved April 18, 1911. Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Richmond 1. That an ordinance of the Council of the City of Richmond, approved April 18, 1911, entitled "An ordinance to permit the owners of those three blocks located between Ashland street on the south, Elm street on the east, Beverly street on the north, and Davis avenue on the west, to close the alleys now extending through said three blocks from Elm street to Davis avenue, upon the execution of proper deeds dedicating an alley seventeen (17) feet in width extending through said three blocks from Beverly street to Ashland street," be amended and re-ordained so as to read as follows: That the West End Electric Park Company and the Virginia Railway & Power Company, corporations, the owners of all the land embraced in those three certain blocks, located in the City of Richmond, and bounded by Ashland street on the south, Elm street on the east, Beverly street on the north, and Davis avenue on the west, be, and they are, hereby authorized to close to public use and travel those three strips of land now dedicated to public use as alleys, extending a distance of one hundred and thirty (130) feet east of Davis avenue, upon the execution, delivery and recordation of a deed satisfactory to the City Attorney of the City of Richmond dedicating to public use and travel an alley seventeen (17) feet in width extending through the said three blocks of land from south to north, beginning on the north side of Ashland street one hundred and thirty (130) feet east of the intersection of Davis avenue and Ashland street, and extending in a northerly direction parallel with Davis avenue to Beverly street, the exact metes and bounds of which strips of land proposed to be closed and proposed to be dedicated as aforesaid appearing on a plan on file in the City Engineer's office, entitled "Plan showing Davis avenue as at present located from Beverly street south, and suggested arrangement of alleys between Davis avenue and Elm street (property of Andrew Pizzini, Jr., and Virginia Railway & Power Company)," dated October 14, 1912, a blue print copy of which is attached to the draft of this ordinance. 2. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage. AN ORDINANCE (Approved November 18, 1912). To establish the true western line of Tenth street between Broad and Marshall streets. Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Richmond 1. That the true western line of Tenth street between Broad and Marshall streets be, and the same is, hereby established, commencing at a point six (6) and three-eights (3-8) inches east of the line laid down on the map of the City of Richmond on file in the City Engineer's office, and extending at right angles with the north line of Broad street to the south line of Marshall street, the exact metes and bounds of which will appear on a "Map of the west side of Tenth street from Broad to Marshall streets," dated October 28, 1912, on file in the City Engineer's office, a blue print copy of which is attached to the draft of this ordinance. 2. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage. AN ORDINANCE (Approved November 18, 1912). To repeal certain joint resolutions, approved January 17, 1884, granting permission to Andrew Pizzini, Jr., J. W. Kates and such others as they may associate with them, to erect and maintain poles and wires in the City of Richmond, and to revoke the right thereby granted to use the streets and alleys for the maintenance of said poles and wires. Whereas, the Council of the City of Richmond, by an ordinance approved August 15, 1912, and for the reasons set forth in the preambles of the said ordinance, repealed as far as lay in its power, certain joint resolutions, approved January 17, 1884, granting certain rights to Andrew Pizzini, Jr., J. W. Kates, and such others as they may associate with them; and, whereas, such repeal to be effective must be ordained by two successive councils; now, therefore. Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Richmond— |