HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 528 ORDINANCE NO.rv:
An Ordinance granting the St. Louis & Southwestern
� - Railway Company of Texas, the right to lay and to maintain a
switch or spur railway track upon and along Hampton Street in
the City of Fort Worth a.nd across and over Oak and Garvey
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Streets all within the Corporate Limits of the City ofFort
Worth, and providing for indemnity against damages to property
or injury to persona on account of the construction of said
switch
• BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMISSIOMM—S OF THE
CITY OF FORT WORTH:
SEC. 1. Whereas, the St. Louis & Southwestern Railway
Company of Texas has heretofore secured, and now has a franchise
to operate a line of railway track along certain streets within
the corporate limits of the City of Fort :forth, and whereas
said railway company desires to build, extend and construct
a spur or switch track along, upon and over a portion of
Hampton Street, a total distance. of about 575 feet hereinafter
fully described, now therefore be it resolved:
Company
SEC. 2. The St. Louis : & Southwestern Railway/of Texas
is hereby granted the right to build, construct,x= maintain
and operate within the City of Fort Worth in Tarrant County,
Texas, a line of railway track along and over a portion of
Hampton Stre=et, the same being a spur or switch track beginn-
ing at its present line of railway track which said spur
track or switch is located and described as follows:
"DESCRIPTION OF THE LOCATION OF THE CMTTM- LINE
OF THE PROPOSED SPUR TRACK TO BE CONSTRUCTED BY THE
ST. LOUIS & SOUTIiV'PLST-AMT RAILWAY COMPANY ON HAMPTON
ST=,,T IN THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TMAS:
Beginning at a point about ten feet North-
west of the North- west corner of Denver & Hampton
Stre,its (taken at right angles to the track) on an
existing track o:s the St.. Louis & Southwedtern Rail-
road, whose center line is 25' east of and parallel
to the East line of Hampton Street, North of Denver
Avenue; Thence in a Southerly direction to the right
on about •a 14 deg. curve, 234 feet to a point of
tangent 10 feet east of the west line of Hampton Streit,
South of Denver Avenue; Thence South 10 feet East
of rand parallel with the West line of Hampton Street
341. .feet to the South line of Garvey street, a total
distance of 575 feet. "
A blue ptint and sketch of the proposed line of
said switch is attached to and made a part of this Ordinance.
Seo. 3. The said St. Louis & Southwestern Railway Company
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of Texas shall have the right to construct, maintain and operate
a single line of railway track over, along and across said
streets as described in Section 2 hereof at such grade or
grades as it may elect to use and as may be approved by the
City Engineer for the City of fort Worth, and it is expressly
provided that the laying and construction of all of said line
of railway and tracks over the streets as hereinbefore designat-
ed and named, shall be under the supervision of the City
Engineer and the Board of Commissioners of the City of Fort
Worth, and shall in all things be subject to their approval.
SEC. 4. It is, however, expressly provided that the
said 5t. Louis & Southwestern Railway Company shall at its
of the construction
own cost and expense immediately after the completion/of
said track, put the said street in as good/condition as it
was prior to the construction of said track thereon, and
on this feature the City Engineer shall be the exclusive
Judge as to when this section of this ordinance shall have
been complied with.
.e' SEC. 5. The franchise and right herein given to said
Railway Company is subject to all of the provisions of the
Charter and Ordinances of the City of Fort Worth.
SEC. G. This franchise and right shall be subject
to all of the provisions, limitations and covenants and run
concurrent with the criginal franchise heretofore granted
by said City to said St. Louis & Southwestern RailwnW Company
and its assigns, to construct, maintain and operate lines of
railroad track within said City.
Sec. 7. It is expressly understood between the St. Louis
& Southwestern Railway Company and the City of Fort Worth that
the said Railroad Company shall save the City of Fort Worth
harmless from all damage to property or injuries to individuals
on account of the conA ruction of said switch, and the laying
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of said track on said street as herein described shall be c"on-
siderea as a full and complete acceptance and agreement on the
part of said Railway Company of all of the terms of this Ordi-
nance,
sm. S. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage.
Approved as to Form.
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Corporation Counsel.
I hereby certify that the above and forgoing Ordinance was duly pre-
sented and unanimously passed and adopted by the Board of Commission-
ers of the City of Fort Worth at a regular session of said Board held
Tuesday, August 22nd, A. D. 1916.
City Secretary. i%
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