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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 237 t ,dk _ ,f ORD I N A I C E NO.dC/� AN ORDINANCE granting to the UORTHERN TEXAS TRACTION 00112ANY, its successors and assigns, the right, license and franchise to acquire, construct, equip, maintain and operate, along and upon certain streets and public grounds within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Worth certain lines of single and double street railway track, as branches, exten- sions and connections of its existing lines of railway in the said City; and the right, license and franchise to acquire, construct and maintain all necessary poles, wires and over- head electric equipment and appliances suitable or necessary for maintaining and operating said lines of electric railway over said named etreets, alleys and public places within the said City of Fort Worth. BE I T ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF CO1MSSIONEI?S OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH: SECTION 1: THAT the right, license and franchise are hereby given and granted by the City of Dort Worth to the NORTHERN TEXAS TRACTIZ COMPANY, its successors and assigns; to acquire, construct, equip, maintain and operate all those certain lines of single or double track electric street railway, for the carriage of passengers and freight for hire, as branches, exten- sions and connections of its present lines of street railway in the City of Fort Worth now being .operated by said Northern Texas Traction Company under grants and franchises heretofore given and ;ranted to it and its predecessors by the City of Fort Worth along, over and upon the following named streets, alleys and public places in the said d � t 2 City, to wit: SECTION IA. An extension and branch of the street railway lines of the grantee on Belknap street , in said City; Beginning at the point of intersection of Belknap street with Houston street; thence over Belknap street westward to Throckmorton street; thence over Throckmorton street south- ward, with a single or double track, to West Seventh street, with the right of connection and to points of connection with the present line of the grantee at the intersection of Houston and Belknap streets and at said point of Throckmorton and West Seventh streets . SECTION 1B: 9n extension, branch and connection of the line of tracks of the grantee on West Seventh street , in said City: Beginning at the intersection of West Seventh street with Throckmorton street ; thence southward over said Throckmorton street , with a single or double track, to Eighth street ; thence Eastward over Eighth street, with a single track, to Commerce street; thence southward, with a single or double track, over Commerce street to Seventeenth street; thence Westward over Seventeenth street to Front street; thence continuing westward with a single track over Front street to Houston street; thence northward over Houston street to Fifteenth street; with the right for connections at Seventeenth and Front streets, and Houston and Fifteenth streets, and Seventh and Throckmorton streets, with the present lines of track now operated by the grantee on said streets . 3 SECTION 10: The connections and branches of and with the present lines of street railway track owned and op- erated by the grantee herein on Main street, in said City: Beginning at the intersection of Houston and Fifteenth streets ; thence eastward along and over Fifteenth street , with a single or double track, to Jones street; thence northward, with a single or double track, from Fifteenth street over Jones street to Fourteenth street; with the right of connection and to appropriate points of connection with the present lines of track of the grantee at the intersection of Houston and Fif- teenth streets, and Main and Fifteenth streets, and Commerce and Fifteenth streets. Also, beginning at the intersection of Commerce and Ninth streets westward over Ninth street, with a single track, to Houston street, and continuing westward on said Ninth street passing in front of the Carnegie Library on the north and what is known as Hyde Park on the south, to and upon Throckmorton street and to a point of connection with the present lines of track owned and operated by the grantee at what is an intersection of Jackson street and Jennings Avenue; with the right of connections with the present lines of track owned and operated by the grantee at the intersections of Ninth and Commerce streets, Main and Ninth streets, Houston and Ninth streets, and at the intersection •of Jennings avenue and Jack- son street . SECTION 1D: An extension and branch of the "Hou- ston street and Jennings avenue line," in said City: Beginning at the intersection of Jennings avenue and Jack- son street; thence westward over Jackson street to Monroe street; thence south over Monroe street to Texas street; thence Alk • + . r► 4 west over Texas street to Penn street; thence north over Penn street to West Seventh street; of' a line of single track, with all the necessary and proper oonneotions with the present lines of track owned and operated by the grantee, at the intersection of Jennings avenue and Jaokson street , and the intersection of Texas and Summit avenue, and the intersection of Penn street and West Seventh street. SECTION 2: The City of Fort Worth hereby further grants unto the Northern Texas Traction Company, its successors and assigns, the right, lioense and franchise to acquire, con- struot , maintain and operate, along or upon any or all of the streets hereinabove named, and in connection with each and all of the branches, extensions and connections of the said dif- ferent lines of street railway as set out in Section 1 here- of, all necessary switches, sidings, turnouts and connections, and also all necessary and desirable poles, trolley wires, sup- ports, span wires, and other necessary applianoes pertaining to the maintenance of an overhead trolley system. SECTION 3: That all the rights, licenses and franchises in this ordinance granted., as set out in Section 1 hereof, Subdivision A thereof, shall run concurrent with and are hereby made expressly subject to the conditions, require- ments and limitations specifically set out in the original ordinances of the City of Fort North granting unto the grantee or its predecessors the right, license and franchise to main- tain and operate its certain lines of electric street railway d �. S on Belknap street. And all the rights,. licenses and fran- chises in this ordinance granted, as set out in Section 1 hereof, Subdivision B thereof, shall run concurrent with and are hereby made expressly subject to the conditions, require- ments and limitations specifically set out in the original ordinances of the City of Fort Worth granting unto the gran- tee, the Northern Texas Traction Company, and such as have been confirmed in it on -West Seventh street, the right , li- oense and franchise to maintain and operate its certain lines of electric street railway on West Seventh street. And all the rights, licenses and franchises in this ordinance grant- ed, as not out in Section 1 hereof, Subdivision C thereof, • shall run concurrent with and are hereby made expressly sub- ject to the conditions, requirements and limitations specifi- cally set out in the original ordinances of the City of Fort Worth granting unto the grantee or its predecessors the right, license and franchise to maintain and operate its certain lines of electric street railway on Main street. And all the rights, licenses and franchises in this ordinance granted, as set out in Section 1 hereof, Subdivision D thereof, shall run concur- rent with and are hereby made expressly subject to the con- ditions, requirements and limitations specifically set out in the original ordinances of the City of Fort forth granting un- to the grantee or its predecessors the right, license and fran- chise to maintain and operate its certain lines of electric street railway on 4Houston street and Jennings avenue. " A .� 6 SECTION 4: That the City of Fort Worth hereby approves and consents to the purchase by the Northern Texas • Traction Company from John W. Davis , the Receiver of the Ci- tizens Railway & Light Company (said Receiver acting under the orders of the Judge of the Honorable 48th Judicial Dis- trict Court of Tarrant County, Texas , having been appointed in that certain cause pending in said Court entitled Arling- ton Heights Realty Company v. Citizens Railway & Light Com- pany) , of all those certain rights and franchises for the operation of lines of street rilway as follows: That certain Ordinance No . 948, granted by the City of Fort Worth upon a referendum vote to G. E. Montgomery and his assigns, and passed and adopted by a proclamation of the Ma- yor of the City of Fort Worth on November 29 , 1905 , and re- corded in the ordinance books of the City of Fort Worth in Book E, page 143 et seq. That certain order of the Commissioners Court of Tarrant County, Texas, granting to G. E. Montgomery and his assigns right of way and franchise for a line of street railway on the Arlington Heights boulevard or West Seventh street, which was duly passed by the Commissioners Court of Tarrant County, Texas, on the 16th of March, 1905, and which is recorded in the Minutes of the Commissioners Court of Tarrant County, Tex- as, in Vol. 19, page 263, or so much of the same as covers that portion of West Seventh street which was at that time beyond and which is now within the city limits of the Gity of Fort Worth. That certain order and resolution of the Commissioners Court of Tarrant County, Texas , granting the right, license ''' and franchise for the construction and operation of a line of AM Ak 7 street railway over and upon what was then known as Twenty- fifth street, and Azle road, from the city limits of Borth Fort Worth in a westerly direction throughout what is known as Rosen Heights, unto Sam Rosen, of Tarrant County, Texas, and his assigns, which said order was passed and adopted by the Commissioners Court of Tarrant County, Texas, on the 16th of October, 1903, and which is of record in the Minutes of the Commissioners Court of Tarrant County, Vol. 19, p. 29, or so much of the same as relates to that portion of said Twenty-fifth street as was then beyond and is now within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Worth. An ordinance passed by the City Council of the City of North 'Fort Worth, granting to Sam Rosen and his assigns a franchise to construct certain lines of street railway in Borth Fort Worth, the same being ordinance No. 17 , and duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Horth Fort Worth on the 25th day of August, 1903, the said entire territorial area of the said City of North Fort Worth to which said ori- ginal ordinance had reference being now a part of the City of Fort Worth. And the said City of Fort Worth and the Board of Commissioners thereof do hereby grant unto the said Northern Texas Traction Company, its sucaessors and assigns, the right to hold, use and enjoy said rights, licensee and franchises in said ordinances and resolutions hereinabove described, and do hereby confirm in the said grantee, its successors and as- signs, all the rights, privileges and franchises for the opera- tion, maintenance and acquisition of lines of street railway M ' k 8 as in said ordinances, resolutions and orders granted and au- thorised, with the right in it, the said grantee, and its as- signs also , to own, enjoy and use said licenses and franchises for the operation of any part or portion of the lines of street railway contemplate& in or constructed under said grants, or any such part or portion of any such line of street railway contemplated under said original grants aforesaid as said grantee or its assigns may see fit to acquire or construct, and to such extent, over such parts or portions of said streets, roads or public thoroughfares as said grantee herein may desire. SECTION 5: That this ordinance take effect and be in force from and after its passage? I hereby certify that the above and fore going ordinance was duly presented and unanimously passed by the Board of Comm- issioners of the City of Fort Worth at A session of said Board hc- held ':.Wednesday July 12th,19110 4* 'ecretary.