the immediate construction of a fire alarm, police, and water telegraph, in and for said city; said telegraph to be constructed in accordance with the general plan herewith submitted for that purpose by John F. Kennard & Co., or that of any other responsible company or party, but subject to such modification of the details thereof as to the said board of public works shall seem expedient. 10. CONTRACT TO BE LET-COMPENSATION, HOW TO BE MADE.] SEC. 2. Said contract shall be let to some skillful and responsible party or parties, at such price, not exceeding seventy thousand dollars, as may be agreed upon. The work shall be done under the superintendence and subject to the approval of the board of public works, and the payments therefor shall be made as follows: On the satisfactory completion of the whole work, and the presentation to the city comptroller of a certificate of the completion and acceptance thereof, signed by the board of public works, the said contractor shall be entitled to receive a sum equal to the entire amount that shall then have accumulated in the city treasury to the credit of the special fund provided by section eight, chapter twelve, of the revised charter, for a fire-alarm telegraph; and the balance of the contract price shall be payable, in successive annual installments, at the expiration of each and every year, ensuing the date of the aforesaid certificate, of ten thousand dollars each (provided so much shall remain due) until the whole amount shall have been fully paid; the said deferred payments to bear interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum from the date of said certificate, payable semi-annually. But the right shall be reserved to the city, in and by said contract, to make such additional payments, on the first day of January and July of each or any year, as it may be prepared and choose to make. pro 11. APPROPRIATION TO PAY FOR.] SEC. 3. The whole amount now in the treasury of said city standing to the credit of the fire-alarm telegraph fund aforesaid, together with seven-eighths of the entire proceeds of all fire insurance rates that shall be hereafter paid into the city treasury, agreeably to the provisions of the revised charter, are hereby appropriated to provide for the cost and expense of the work hereby authorized, and to meet the payments for the same in the manner, and at the times, contemplated and vided for in the foregoing section. In case the said fund should be insufficient or unavailable to meet any one or more of said deferred payments, or the interest accruing thereon, when the same shall have matured, such deficiency shall be supplied from the general fund of said city; but the said general fund shall be reimbursed, for all such advances, from the proceeds of said insurance rates as soon as a sufficient amount shall have accumulated for that purpose. 12. BOXES, HOW TO BE LOCATED.] SEC. 4. That a committee of three, composed of one from each division, to be appointed by the president, together with the chief engineer of the fire department, shall together meet with the board of public works, and locate the boxes mentioned in the proposed plan of a fire-alarm telegraph. 13. WHEN IN FORCE.] SEC. 5. This ordinance shall take effect from its passage. An ordinance concerning the United States Telegraph Company. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago: 14. U. S. TEL. Co. MAY CONSTRUCT LINES.] SECTION 1. That the United States Telegraph Company is hereby authorized to construct and maintain a line or lines of telegraph through the streets, and under the bed of Chicago river and its branches, so as in nowise to interfere, now or hereafter, with the navigation of said river and its branches; the line or lines to be constructed along such streets, and across the river or branches, at such points and i.. such manner, as to the kind and position of the telegraph poles, the height of the wires above the streets, and in all other particulars, as the board of public works may direct: Provided, however, that all the doings of said telegraph company under this ordinance shall be subject to any ordinance which may hereafter be passed by the council concerning the same. An ordinance authorizing the construction of a tunnel under Lake Michigan, etc. [Passed October 5, 1863.] Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago: 1. LAKE TUNNEL AUTHORIZED.] SECTION 1. That the board of public works are hereby authorized to extend the inlet pipe of the water works, two miles out into Lake Michigan, by the construction of a brick tunnel under the bed of the lake, according to the specifications prepared by the board of public works for the same, entitled "specifications for lake tunnel,” and appended herewith, and to contract for the doing of the work. 2. APPROPRIATION OF BONDS.] SEC. 2. The board of public works are hereby authorized to issue one hundred and fifty (150) water loan bonds, of the denomination of one thousand dollars each, to be dated July 1st, 1863, and payable in New York July 1st, 1888, with coupons attached for interest, at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually in New York, the said bonds to be issued in conformity with the provisions of an act of the general assembly of the state of Illinois, entitled "An act in amendment of, and supplemental to, an act, entitled 'An act to incorporate the Chicago City Hydraulic Company,' approved February 16, 1857: and also of an act of the general assembly of the state of Illinois, entitled "An act to reduce the charter of the city of Chicago, and the several acts amendatory thereof, into one act, and to revise the same," approved February 13, 1863. 3. OTHER BONDS APPROPRIATED.] SEC. 3. The board of public works are hereby authorized to issue, in addition to the bonds above named, two hundred and twenty-five (225) water loan bonds, of the denomination of one thousand dollars each, to be dated July 1st, 1864, and payable, in New York twenty-five years after the date thereof, with coupons for interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually in New York, the said bonds to be issued in conformity with the provisions of an act of the general assembly of the state of Illinois, entitled "An act to reduce the charter of the city of Chicago, and the several acts amendatory thereof, into one act, and to revise the same," approved February 13th, 1863. SECTION. LA SALLE STREET (RIVER) TUNNEL. 1. Tunnel authorized to be constructed. 2 Issue of bonds authorized. 3. Proceeds of sale of bonds appropriated. SECTION. 4. Further issue of bonds authorized. An ordinance authorizing the construction of a tunnel under the Chicago river at La Salle street and the issue of bonds therefor. [Passed August 16, 1869.] Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago: 1. TUNNEL TO BE CONSTRUCTED.] SECTION 1. That the board of public works are hereby directed to proceed with the construction of a tunnel under the Chicago river, in the city of Chicago, at La Salle street, causing said work to be executed by contract in manner as provided by law, and according to plans and specifications to be adopted by said board. 2. ISSUE OF BONDS AUTHORIZED.] SEC. 2. That the comptroller of said city is hereby authorized and directed to issue and negotiate, in the name and on behalf of said city, two hundred and thirty (230) bonds of the denomination of one thousand dollars each, for the term of thirty years, bearing interest at the rate of seven per centum per annum, payable semiannually on the first days of January and July of each year, interest and principal being payable in New York; said bonds will be issued in accordance with the provisions of an act of the general assembly of the state of Illinois, approved March 10, 1869, and entitled "An act to authorize the city of Chicago to issue bonds for the purpose of paying the debt incurred for and extending the water and sewerage works of said city; and also to purchase or lease grounds and erect school houses in said city, and for cleansing the Chicago river." 3. PROCEEDS OF BONDS APPROPRIATED.] SEC. 3. That the proceeds of the sale of said bonds are hereby set apart, and appropriated exclusively, to the carrying out of the purposes of the foregoing section. Ordinance authorizing the issue of bonds for the La Salle street tunnel. [Passed June 6, 1870.] Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago: 4. FURTHER ISSUE OF BONDS.] SECTION 1. That the comptroller of the city of Chicago is hereby authorized and directed to issue and negotiate, in the name and on behalf of said city, three hundred (300) bonds of the denomination of one thousand dollars each, and for the term of thirty years. Said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of seven per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, both principal. and interest being payable in New York. They will be issued in accordance with the provisions of an act of the general assembly of the state of Illinois, approved March 10, 1869, and entitled An act to authorize the city of Chicago to issue bonds for the purpose of paying the debt incurred for and extending the water and sewerage works of said city; and also to purchase or lease grounds and erect school houses in said city and for cleansing the Chicago river." 5. APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.] SEC. 2. That the proceeds of the sale of said bonds are hereby set apart, and appropriated exclusively, as a fund for the construction of a tunnel under the Chicago river at La Salle street. An ordinance for the vacation of that portion of Adams street lying between Canal street and the south branch of the Chicago river, and for the construction of a tunnel at Washington street. [Passed January 9, 1865.] Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago: 1. PORTION OF ADAMS STREET CONDITIONALLY VACATED.] SECTION 1. That all that portion of Adams street which lies between Canal street and the south branch of the Chicago river, be, and the same is hereby, vacated and discontinued upon the conditions hereinafter contained. 2. CONDITIONS OF THE VACATION.] SEC. 2. That the vacation herein before provided for shall take effect when and so soon as the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Company shall have paid the comptroller of the city the sum of twenty thousand dollars, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a tunnel under and across the Chicago river at Washington street, and an additional sum shall have been raised, by subscription, sufficient to make in all the sum of one hundred thousand dollars for building said tunnel, besides the proceeds of the bonds hereinafter provided for. 3. PROCEEDS OF BONDS APPROPRIATED.] SEC. 3. That the proceeds of one hundred bonds of the city of Chicago, of one thousand dollars each, bearing seven per cent. interest payable half-yearly on the first days of July and January in each year, and the principal payable twenty-five years after their date, in the city of New York, to be issued by the mayor and comptroller, for the payment of which the faith of the city is hereby pledged, be and the same are hereby appropriated for the construction of said tunnel at Washington street by the city of Chicago, under the supervision of the board of public works, in accordance with the provisions of the city charter, which tunnel shall be forever free for the passage of teams and persons. 4. WHEN APPROPRIATION TO TAKE EFFECT.] SEC. 4. That the appropriation aforesaid shall not take effect until proper authority shall be obtained, from the legislature of the state of Illinois, for the issuing of the said bonds, nor until the further sum, as provided in section two, shall be raised by subscription among the citizens and property holders, to construct said tunnel in accordance with a plan to be adopted by the board of public works. 5. CONVEYANCE TO BE MADE TO P., FT. W. AND CHI. R. Co.-RESERVED RIGHTS OF CITY.] SEC. 5. That after the payment of said sum of twenty thousand dollars, as provided in section two, by the said Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Company, to the comptroller, and the subscription and payment of said additional subscription of eighty thousand dollars, a proper conveyance shall be executed, by said city, conveying by quit-claim all of its right, title and interest in that portion of said street, so vacated, to said company: Provided, however, that the right and privilege shall be and is hereby reserved to said city to construct a tunnel under the Chicago river at said Adams street at any time hereafter, and to use so much of the street hereby vacated as may be necessary for that purpose: And provided, further, that the right and privilege of constructing a bridge across the river at said Adams street, at any time within ten years from the completion of the tunnel first above provided for, shall be and is hereby also reserved to said city, upon refunding to said railroad company the aforesaid sum of twenty thousand dollars, and said city shall have the right to use so much of the street hereby vacated as may be necessary or convenient for that purpose; and all buildings or erections that may be placed on said premises by said railroad company, its successors or assigns, which shall interfere in any way with the full exercise or enjoyment of the rights hereby reserved to said city, shall be removed by said railroad company, its successors or assigns, at its or their own cost, and without expense to said city. |