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• • • • • ORDINANCE NO. 4/2/[/ AN ORDINANCE GRANTING TO THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS OR ASSIGNS, THE RIGHT, PRIVILEGE AND AUTHORITY TO LOCATE, LAY DOWN, CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE, FOR A PERIOD OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS FROM AND AFTER THIS ORDINANCE BECOMES EFFECTIVE, A RAILROAD SPUR TRACK OVER AND ACROSS PACIFIC AVENUE AT A POINT APPROXIMATELY 110 FEET EAST OF WALNUT STREET AND OVER AND ACROSS THAT CERTAIN STREET RIGHT-OF-WAY DESCRIBED.AS PACIFIC AVENUE EXTENSION, WALNUT TO HEWITT AVENUE IN THE STREET BOND ISSUE, ORDINANCE NO. 4192, WHICH IS TO BE ACQUIRED IN CONNECT- ION WITH THE STREET CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZED BY SAID ORDIN- ANCE AT A POINT APPROXIMATELY 110 FEET EAST OF WALNUT STREET WITHIN THE CITY OF EVERETT TO A CONNECTION WITH THE TRACK OF THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES HERE B Y � ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. That there is hereby granted to the Great Northern Railway Company, its successors or assigns, for a period of twenty-five years from and after the date this ordinance becomes effective, a right-of-way for the right, privilege and authority to lay down, construct and maintain a railroad spur track over and across Pacific Avenue at a point approx- imately 110 feet east of Walnut Street and over and across that certain street right-of-way described as Pacific Avenue Extension, Walnut to Hewitt Avenue in the Street Bond Issue, Ordinance No. 4192, which is to be acquired in connection with the street construction authorized by said ordinance at a point approximately 110 feet east of Walnut Street in the City of Everett to a connection with the track of the Great Northern Railway Company. Section 2. That wherever said track crosses the street or avenue now constructed or hereafter to be constructed, laid out or extended, said grantee, its successors and assigns, shall pave, plank and keep in repair all that portion of the improved street or avenue occupied by its tracks to a point three feet beyond the end of the ties at each side of said track. Said spur track shall be constructed at an elevation approved by the City of Everett. Section 3. Should the City desire to improve said street or avenue by the installation of pavement, water mains, sewer lines or other public utilities the grantee agrees to make such adjustments as are necessary to accom- modate such public improvements. Section 4. Said grantee, its successors and assigns will not allow its locomotives or cars to block or impair the free flow of traffic longer than reasonably necessary to make switches or to make-up and divide trains and cars, and in no event to impair the flow of traffic so as to create a line of east bound vehicles for a distance greater than between the spur track and Walnut Street. The grantee agrees that it shall immediately remove all locomotives and cars standing upon said track in said street or avenue to permit the passage of emergency vehicles on emergency calls and at such