The Ordinances of the City of Milwaukee Granting Franchises for Quasi-public Purposes, Up to and Including Those Passed June 8, 1896: With an Index

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E. Keogh, 1896 - Municipal franchises - 274 pages

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Page 925 - The said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, maintain and operate a single or double track railway, with all necessary and convenient tracks for turn-outs, side tracks and appendages, in the city of Chicago...
Page 1144 - ... shall not be dissolved, but it shall be lawful on any other day to hold...
Page 925 - All the corporate powers of said corporation shall be vested in and exercised by a board of directors, and such officers and agents as said board shall appoint.
Page 1143 - The affairs of said company shall be managed by a board of five directors, who shall be chosen by...
Page 930 - ... be paid and a license for such car or carriage to be obtained in the same manner as regulated by ordinance respecting hacks in said city, and any officer, conductor, driver, or agent of said grantees, their successors or assigns, who shall operate or cause to be driven or operated upon said line or railway any car or carriage, unless the same shall have first been duly licensed, as herein provided, shall be punished by fine, not less than $10 nor more than $50.
Page 923 - ... shall be punished by fine not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each such offense.
Page 1145 - ... guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof convicted, shall be punished by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding...
Page 1143 - Asylum," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be in law capable of suing and being sued, defending and being defended in all courts and places, and in all manner of actions...
Page 1144 - The directors when chosen shall elect one of their number president, and may appoint a secretary and treasurer, and such other officers and agents as they may deem necessary.
Page 928 - Detroit, hereinafter mentioned, and the same to keep, maintain and use, and to operate thereon railway cars and carriages, during all the term hereinafter...

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