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<br />Ordinance No. 631.
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<br /> An Ordinance, amending Ordinance No. 62S, of the Cit7 of
<br />Santa Aha, entitled 'An Ordinance granting to Pacific Electric Railway
<br />Company, a corporation, and its assigns, a franchise a~.d right to
<br />construct, maintain and operate for the term of fifty (50) years an
<br />electric railroad across certain streets and alleys in the City of
<br />Santa Ana, County of Orange, and State of California, known as the
<br />*Irvine Extension*,~ so as to extend the t~me within which the work
<br /> thereunder shall be completed.
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<br /> WHERE~S, by ordinance No. 62S of the City of Santa Ana, passed and
<br /> adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City of Santa Aha on
<br /> September 24th, 1el?, there was granted to Pacific Electric Railway
<br /> Company, a corporation, and its successors and assigns, a franchise
<br /> and right to construct and for fifty (50) years to maintain and
<br /> operate an~eleotrio railroad in, over, and across certain public
<br /> streets and alleys in the City of SantaAna, therein particularly
<br /> described, and
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<br /> W~nersae, by Section 5 of said ordinance it was provided that
<br /> the work of constructing said road should be completed within not more
<br /> than three years from the granting of said franchise, and that if same
<br /> shoul~ not be so completed said franchise should be forfeited, and
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<br /> ~hereas, thereafter, on to-wit: the 9th day of March, 191~,
<br /> the Honorable Railroad Commission of the State of California, by order
<br /> made and entered in a certain proceeding pending before it, denied to
<br /> said Pacific Electric Railway Company permission to construct said
<br /> railroad, until after the end of the war now being waged, ard
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<br /> Whereas, said Pacific Electric Railway Company is thereby
<br /> for the duration of the war now pending, prevented from prosecuting
<br /> said work and made unable to comply with said Section 5'of said
<br /> ordinance, as to completion thereof, and is deprived of the benefit of
<br /> the time by said ordinance granted for the completion of said work
<br /> therefore~
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<br /> The Board of Trustees of the City of Santa Aha do ordain as
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<br />follows:
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<br /> Section I. That the time within which said grantee of said
<br />franchise Pacific Electric Railway Company, may complete said con-
<br />struction is hereby extended, so that the work of constructing said
<br />road may be completed by it, its successors or assigns, within not
<br />more than three years from the date of the enactment of this amends-
<br />tory ordinance, unless the war with ~ermany be sooner ended~ and i~
<br />that event, said work may be completed within not more than one year
<br />from the date peace is proclaimed by the President of the United States.
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<br /> Section II. The City Clerk of said City of Santa Aha shall
<br />certify to the passage of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to
<br />be published three times in the Santa Ana Daily Evening Register, a
<br />newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated in said
<br />City of Santa Aha, and thereupon and thereafter it shall be in f~ll
<br />£oros and effect.
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<br /> I hereby certify that the full number of the BOard of Trustees
<br />of the City of Santa Aha is five (5), and that on the 19th day of
<br />August, 1~15 at the regular meeting of said Board of Trustees the fore-
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