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AN ORDINANCE GRANTING THE RIGHT TO OPERATE BUSSES FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF PASSENGERS ON CERTAIN STREETS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA, TO --- BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville that the right and franchise to operate motor busses on the streets of Charlottesville for the trans- portation of passengers for hire on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth be and the same is hereby granted to _____________________________, hereinafter called the Grantee: (1) The rights herein granted shall continue for a period of fifteen years from the date of the final passage of the ordinance granting them. (2) The routes on which busses shall be operated until changed as herein provided, shall be as follows: (a) From the Chesapeake and Ohio depot over Main Street and Rugby Road to the intersection of Rugby Road with Gentry Lane and return. (b) From the Chesapeake and Ohio depot over Main Street, University Avenue, Emmett Street and Fry's Spring Road to Fry's Spring and return. (c) From Belmont Park over Avon Street, Main Street and Fry's Spring Road to Fry's Spring and return. (d) From Belmont Park over Avon Street, Main Street, to the University Grounds and (with the consent of the University of Virginia) through said grounds on the road passing the hospital to Fry's Spring Road and over Fry's Spring Road to Fry's Spring and return. In the event the consent of the University as above mentioned should be refused, service over other routes to Fry's Spring shall be correspondingly increased. (e) From the intersection of Locust Avenue and Calhoun Street over Locust Avenue, High Street, Seventh Street, East Main Street, Preston Avenue, Grady Avenue and Rugby Road to the intersection of Rugby Road and Gentry Lane and return. (3) Additional routes as required by changes in conditions may be established on application of the grantee, with the consent of the Council of the City, and the grantee may be required to establish such additional routes for such trial period as the Council may require, and if on trial a reasonable demand for such new route is demonstrated so that it may be operated at a reasonable profit, the Council may require it to be made permanent. On application of the grantee, and a showing that there is not reasonable demand for any service now or hereafter established, the Council may authorize the dis- continuance of such service. (4) The grantee shall operate a sufficient number of busses, on schedules of such reasonable frequency as will reasonably meet the demands for service over the routes now or hereafter established. Busses shall be kept in good condition with all reasonable safety devices and manned by competent drivers. (5) Passengers may transfer without charge from any bus starting from the Chesapeake and Ohio Station, Belmont Park or Locust Avenue to a bus from any other of said starting points; and passengers may transfer without charge from a bus starting at Fry's Spring or Rugby Road to a bus from the other of said starting points; transfers to be effected at such points and in such manner as the grantee may by regulation provide. (6) The fare for one way passage over the whole of any route now or hereafter established, with transfers as herein provided, shall not exceed five cents. The grantee may make provision for purchase of tickets at reduced rates on such terms as it may deem best. On application by the grantee the Council may, if in its opinion change in condi- tions makes operation at the fare herein prescribed impracticable, authorize an increase in fare. Free transportation shall not be provided except to bona fide employees of the