b. To construct, maintain and operate a railroad (which railroad is hereinafter referred to as the EIGHTH AVENUE AND 162ND STREET CONNECTION) upon the following route or routes:

Diverging from the existing structure of the Ninth Avenue Elevated Line of the Manhattan Railroad near West One Hundred and Fiftyseventh Street and Eighth Avenue and thence running northeasterly over private property and public streets to the Harlem River, thence crossing the Harlem River over the Putnam Bridge and crossing over the property and right of way of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company to Sedgwick Avenue at a point north of One Hundred and Sixty-first Street, thence under Sedgwick Avenue, private property and public streets to a point near the intersection of One Hundred and Sixty-second Street and Ogden Avenue, thence under One Hundred and Sixty-second Street to a point at or near Anderson Avenue, thence curving southerly and easterly through private property and public streets to the intersection of One Hundred and Sixty-second Street and Jerome Avenue; thence easterly over and along One Hundred and Sixty-second Street to a point near River Avenue; thence curving northeasterly through private property into River Avenue to a point where a connection can conveniently be made with a municipal railroad on River Avenue.

Eighth

Avenue and 162nd Street Connection

tracks

The Eighth Avenue and 162nd Street Connection shall consist of two Additional tracks. Two additional tracks may, if necessary to provide a convenient connection between the Eighth Avenue and 162nd Street Connection and the Ninth Avenue elevated road, be constructed over Eighth Avenue between a point one hundred feet north of 153rd Street and 157th Street. The Eighth Avenue and 162nd Street Connection shall be constructed as an elevated railroad excepting that part from a point on private property near the intersection of 161st Street and Sedgwick Avenue to a point on private property west of Jerome Avenue at or near 162nd Street which shall be constructed as a subway.

c. To construct (except such portions already built as are an integral Queensboro Bridge Line part of the Queensboro Bridge or the approaches thereto), maintain and operate a two-track elevated railroad (which railroad is hereinafter referred to as the QUEENSBORO BRIDGE LINE) upon the following route or routes:

Diverging from the existing structures of the Second Avenue Elevated Line of the Manhattan Railroad on Second Avenue, between East 58th and East 60th streets, and running thence easterly across the Queensboro Bridge upon two of the upper tracks to the easterly side of Ely Avenue, in the Borough of Queens, in the City of New York.

Farms

d. To construct, maintain and operate a two-track elevated railroad West (which railroad is hereinafter referred to as the WEST FARMS SUBWAY Subway CONNECTION) upon the following route or routes:

Diverging from the existing Third Avenue Elevated Railroad at about 143d Street; thence extending through private property and Willis and Bergen Avenues to a point near 149th Street; thence north

Connection

Authorization to construct,

easterly, crossing 149th Street over a public place, Gerard Street, the right of way of the existing Manhattan-Bronx Rapid Transit Railroad constructed under the contract of February 21, 1900, and private property to a point near the intersection of Brook and Westchester Avenues, where a connection can conveniently be made with the West Farms Division of the said Manhattan-Bronx Rapid Transit Railroad.

2. To construct, maintain, and operate within the streets, avenues and public places included within the aforesaid routes or within the adjacent maintain and lines of intersecting streets and avenues lying within seventy-five (75) feet

operate

railroads

To acquire real estate

To transport persons and property

To construct and maintain wires, cables, etc.

Term-85 years

Earlier termination

of the exterior line or side of the longitudinal streets, avenues and public places of the route, all necessary and proper connections with terminal yards, stations, landing places, stairways, platforms, elevators, escalators, telegraph, telephone and signal devices and other appliances and facilities, all as may be either necessary or convenient for the construction, operation and maintenance of the Railroads.

3. To acquire and use private property for the construction, maintenance and operation of the Railroads including yards, stations, station extensions, terminal rooms, power plants, stairways, elevators, escalators, or other methods of access to and from the street, and for other purposes necessary or convenient to carry into execution the terms and authority of this grant. 4. To transport upon the Railroads persons and property and to use therefor and in connection therewith all suitable appliances.

5. To construct, maintain and operate upon, under or contiguous to the Railroads for the transmission or exchange of power, heat and light for the use of the Railroads and such other railroads as may be owned, operated or controlled by the Interborough Company (and for no other purposes), telegraph and telephone wires and wires, cables, contact rails, conduits and ways and other appurtenances; provided, however, that, except for the purpose of making necessary connections, all such appurtenances, when not placed upon the structure, shall be placed underground, unless otherwise directed by the Commission.

The authorizations or licenses hereby granted to construct, maintain and operate the Webster Avenue Line, the Eighth Avenue and 162d Street Connection, the Queensboro Bridge Line and the West Farms Subway Connection shall be held by the Interborough Company for a period of eightyfive (85) years from the date on which the Interborough Company shall first begin operation of any part of any of the Railroads, unless sooner terminated as hereinafter provided. Said date shall be evidenced by a resolution of the Commission entered in its minutes approving such date as the date of beginning operation of the Railroads and as the date from which the terms of these authorizations or licenses run and from which compensation payable hereunder accrues, and also the date from which the period of ten years begins to run, after which the City may terminate the authorizations or licenses hereby granted; provided, however, that if operation of any of the Railroads be first begun as to any part thereof at a later date, such date may be evidenced by a resolution of the Commission approv ing that date as the date of beginning operation of such railroad and as the date from which the period of ten years begins to run after which the City may separately terminate this authorization or license therefor.

to terms,

Provided, however, and it is expressly agreed that the authorizations or Proviso as licenses hereby granted are subject to certain terms, conditions and require- conditions ments which appear to the Commission to be just and proper, and which and requireas so subject, are prescribed in the following articles, to wit:

ments

I

of certificate

This certificate will be executed by the Commission in five identical Execution originals, so proved as to be entitled to be recorded in the office of the Register of the County of New York and the Clerk of the County of Queens, and to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York, all of which will be delivered by the Commission to the president, vice-president, secretary or treasurer of the Interborough Company. The authorizations or licenses hereby granted shall be inoperative and this certificate shall be void unless within thirty days after such delivery or such further period as shall be prescribed in writing by the Commission, the Interborough Company shall have procured four of the said identical originals to be returned to the Commission, each of them having an acceptance of this certificate and all the terms, conditions and requirements thereof subscribed at the foot thereof by the Interborough Company, such acceptance being so proved as to entitle it to be recorded and filed as aforesaid.

To be accepted within 30

days

II

To obtain property owners'

consents

within one year

The authorizations or licenses hereby granted, if the Commission shall Condition so determine, after due hearing, shall become void unless within one year from the time of the acceptance of this certificate by the Interborough Company that Company shall further and in due and lawful form obtain and submit to inspection by the Commission the consents of the owners of one-half in value of the property bounded on each portion of the streets, avenues or highways upon, under or over which the Railroads or any part thereof are authorized, to the construction and operation of the Railroads or such part thereof, or in case the consent of such property owners cannot be obtained, then the determination pursuant to law of commissioners to be appointed by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the proper department that such portion of the Railroads ought to be constructed and operated, the said determination of such commissioners when confirmed by the Court, to be taken in lieu of such consent of property owners. Provided, however, and it is expressly stipulated, that the Commission shall Commishave power, upon reasonable cause shown, to extend by written certificate extend time either of the periods hereinbefore in this article prescribed.

or determination by commis

stoners

sioners may

The Interborough Company covenants that it will be diligent in prosecut- Company ing applications for the consents aforesaid, but if it shall not have secured to be diligent the same within the period of one year after its acceptance as aforesaid of this certificate, then and in such case the Interborough Company shall, after a written notice of three months to the Commission, be released from its obligations hereunder, unless within such three months, or within such further period to be prescribed by the Commission, such consents shall have been given.

May be released