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ed, or failing to complete the railway within the times
herein before specified on the streets named as pro-
vided for in section seven, he or they shall forfeit all
privileges granted on such particular streets, but none
others.

SEC. 9. - Nothing in this Ordinance nor any privi-
lege granted hereby, shall be construed to prevent the
proper officers of the city from grading, paving, sew-
ering, planking, macadamizing, improving, altering or
repairing any of the streets over or upon which the
privilege of constructing a railway is granted by this
Ordinance, or upon which any railway may be con-
structed under its provisions, but all such shall be
done so as to offer as little obstruction as possible to
the passage of the cars, and the owner or owners of
such railway shall have the privilege of raising or
shifting the rails, so as to avoid as much as possible
the liability to obstruction, during the progress of
street repairing, improving or altering.

SEC. 10 - {As amended by Ordinance No. 213.}
The owners of said railway shall pay annually to the
City of Seattle as a license upon each car in use by
them on said railways such sum not exceeding fifty
dollars as shall be fixed by Ordinance of the Common
Council. Provided however [italics], that said license shall not
be collected by the city for the first two years and
six months said road is operated.
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by Ordinance of the Common Council, to regulate the
rate of fare to be charged in any railway constructed
under the provisions hereof: Provided [italics], that the rate
to be charged shall not be reduced below six and one-
fourth cents per mile, or fractional part of a mile,
within the five years next ensuing the completion of
the railway on the first streets as named and provided
for herein, nor shall it ever be reduced below five
cents on any route beginning and ending on any one
street, or fractional part thereof; and for the purposes
hereof the railway on any street running parallel with
Elliott's Bay shall be deemed one route from the
northern boundary of the city to the southern bound-
ary thereof; and in any street running at right angles
to the Bay, the railway from Front Street to the
eastern boundary of the city shall be termed one
route.

SEC. 12. - There shall be no double track railway
laid under this Ordinance upon any street that is less
than eighty feet wide; and in operating such railways
as shall be constructed under this Ordinance, no car
shall be allowed at any time to stop or remain still
upon any intersection of streets, and any violation of
the provisions of this section shall subject the owner
or owners of said railway to a fine of not less than
five nor more than twenty-five dollars for every
offence upon conviction thereof before the Justice of
the Peace for the city.