1889-05-04 At a meeting of the Selectmen of the town of Beverly, held on the fourth day of May in the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, upon the petition of the Association known as the Beverly
and Danvers Street Railway Company after due notice and after hearing all parties who desired to
be heard said Selectmen granted a location of the track of said Association extending from Cabot
Street in said Beverly, through Elliott Street to the boundary line between the towns of Beverly and
Danvers on said Elliott Street: subject to such specific orders and restrictions as said Board shall
hereafter determine.
And it was determined and ordered that the track of said Association shall be laid on the
northerly side of Elliott Street in such a manner that the northerly rail of said track shall not be
farther than twenty feet from the northerly line of said Street nor less than twelve feet therefrom,
excepting that where said track crosses the Mill dam it shall be laid as near the northerly line of said
dam as possible. And said Association shall construct a safe and substantial plank walk not less than
six feet in width across and outside of the southerly line of said dam, with suitable landings and
approaches at each end thereof. Said walk to be suitably railed and constructed to the satisfaction
of the Selectmen provided further that said Association shall widen the traveled part of said way four
feet, by removing so much of the ledge near the easterly end of said Mill dam as may be necessary
to accomplish which such widening to the satisfaction of the Selectmen.
And wherever said track as above located shall be laid into that traveled part of the way, said
Association shall widen so much thereof as shall be necessary to make said traveled part as wide as
it was before the laying of said tracks. And said Association shall be subject in the laying of said
tracks to such further orders and restrictions as said Board of Selectmen may determine.
And said Association is hereby authorized to operate their cars by the storage battery system
of electricity or by horses.
All previous locations granted said Association are hereby repealed.
Dated at Beverly aforesaid this fourth day of May in the year eighteen hundred and eighty
nine.
Freeborn W. Cressy
Joseph A. Wallis Selectmen
John H. Woodberry of
Horace W. Woodberry Beverly
Robert R. Endicott
A true copy.
Attest.
William H. Lovett, Town Clerk.
To the Selectmen of the town of Beverly.
The Directors of the Association known as the Beverly and Danvers Street
Railway Company hereby certify their acceptance of the location in said town of the tracks of the
railroad which said Association was formed to construct and operate as said location was granted
by your board on the fourth day of May instant.
John I. Baker
Calvin Putnam
Peter E. Clark Directors
Perry Collier
Saml. J. Foster
May 13,1889
Received and recorded May 22, A.D. 1889 at thirty minutes past nine o'clock to A. M.
By William H. Lovett, Town Clerk.