This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...19th, 1878. EL WOOD S. CORSER, Attest: President of the Council. SELAH MATHEWS, City Clerk. Approved July 25th, 1878. A. C. RAND, Mayor. XXXIII. AN ORDINANCE GRANTING TO THE MINNEAPOLIS EASTERN RAIL-WAY COMPANY A RIGHT OF WAY UPON AND ACROSS CERTAIN STREETS IN THE CITY OF MIN-NEAPOLIS. 1'lie City Council of the City of Minneapolis do ordain as follows: Section 1. The Minneapolis Eastern Railway Company, its successors and assigns, are hereby authorized to construct and maintain one or more tracks of its railroad, not exceeding two tracks, upon and across such streets in the city of Minneapolis as may be included or crossed in a line of railroad described as follows, viz.: Commencing at a point on the west bank of the Mississippi river where the easterly line of Second Avenue South, if extended to said river, would intersect the center line of the right of way of said Company already located; thence running easterly parallel with and thirteen feet distant northerly from the center line of the track of the Minneapolis & Saint Louis Railway Company to a point at the beginning of curve in block eighteen (18) in Minneapolis; thence curving regularly to the left toeoSgtructted to a point at the end of curve in the line dividing lots nine (9) and TMj remove" ten (10) in block seventeen (17) in Minneapolis, ten (10) feet distant tracks over from the rear end of said lots; thence in a direct line tangent to e am streets, the curve, and parallel with and ten (10) feet distant from the southerly line of the north half of said block seventeen (17), and across Fifth Avenue South to and parallel with and ten 10) feet distant from the northerly line of fractional block sixteen (16), in Minneapolis, to Sixth Avenue South. Such tracks to cross...