The Street Railway Question in Chicago (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Street Railway Question in Chicago Meanwhile a question had been raised as to the legal authority of the city council to grant such a franchise. To settle these doubts and to incorporate the grantees, a special act of the Illinois legislature was passed on February 16, 1859, incorporating the grantees under the city ordinance as the Chicago City Railway Company, for a period of twenty-five years, and authorizing the construction and operation of street railways upon terms and conditions provided by the common council. Authority was also given to extend the lines to any part of Cook County, by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, or with the assent of the supervisor of any township for laying tracks in the highways. The same powers were granted to an other group of individuals, as the North Chicago City x Railway Company, for the north division of the city and county. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.