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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ARITICLE 7667 OF THE REVISED
CODE OF ORDINANCES ADOPTED BY THE CITY OF BEAUMONT
ON THE 7TH DAY OF FEBRUARY RELATING TO NUMBER OF
CONDUCTORS AND MOTORMEN UPON STREET CARS, AND THE
RATE OF SPEED SAID CARS MAY MOVE IN THE CITY OF BEAUMO.NT .
BE IT ORDAINED, by the City Council of the
City of—Beaumont., that Article 7.67 of t:he Revised
Code of Ordinances of the City of Beaumont a s: passed
on the 7th day of February, A. D., 1911, be amended
so as to hereafter read as follows: -
"No street car shall be propelled or run
at a greater rate of speed than fifteen miles
per hour within any portion of the following
prescribed limits, of the City of Beaumont.,
t o -wit : -
The entire length of Pearl Street and from
Pearl Street to Park Street on College Street,
and Pearl Street to Park Street on Milam Street,
and at no greater rate of speed than twenty miles
per hour within the corporate limits not herein-
above described, and no car shall be propelled
- at. greater rate of speed than five miles per
hour around any curve at street corners within
the corporate limits of the City of Beaumont."
Passed by the City Council this the ��day of Feb.2,1918.
Approved by the Mayor, this th � day of Feb . ,1918.
- -_ATT?EST•
City Secretary.
' a yor of th City v Bea,u�ont.
j.k,4 THIS THE
of H"U' - »1 B
d. G. SUTITTO
SECRETARY
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Beaumont, Texas., February 5th,1918
To The Honorable Mayor & City Council,
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Gentlemen: -
We, your Ordinance Comittee, to "Whom �7&s
referred the attached ordinance., beg to r-
-port that we have
duly �ogon,=Adar%-Od saziie.,_nd recommend that said ordinance be
adapt,ed under a suspension of therules, so as to give the
Street '.car Coppany a chance to operate its cars on better
',,schedule to meet the prasent conditions of a shortage of men,,
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however, we are only reconraending this as an emergency oa?di.,i-
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_-nd if it Nails to meet., and overcome the bad conditions,,
and results in unsatisfactory and poorer services to the citi-,
zenz of Beaumont, the patrons of, sa,4oaxr�
at such time it be rapealeds and the former ordinance requiring
at least one conduductor, and one motorman on each car be put
into oroa
Respectfully submitted.