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An .ordinance granting unto the Fort Worth Grain & Elevator
Company, a private corporation doing business in the City of Fort
Worth, an easement for the construction of a railway switch in,
upon and through that certain alley in the City of Fort Worth
extending iron 17aggatt Avenue to Val.l.road Avenue,running North
and South and parallel with the grain elevator of aajo 1,riv4tu
corporation, as said elevator now stands, and closing said alley
to public travel and providing for the indemnification of the
City of Fort Worth for any damage to person or property occasioned
by the construction of said switch or the operation or maintahance
of same.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY
OF FORT WORTH:-
Section I; That the Fort Worth Grain & Elevator Company, a
private corporation, doing business in the City of Fort Worth,
Texaa, be and it is hereby vmtherized and penmitted,and an ease-
ment is hereby granter that purpose, to astab'►i-h and 4Qna:L3^1rt
a railway switch in and through that certain alley situated with-
in the corporate limits of the City of Fort Worth,lying immed-
iately East of the railroad track of the Missouri, Kansas &Texas
Railway Company of Texas, extending from Daggett Avenue to Rail-
road Avenue, and running North and South, parallel with the grain
elevator of said corporation as said elevator now stands.
Section 2 : That said alley,for the uses and purposes and
while same continue by grantee, be and the same is hereby closed
to public travel.
Section 3: That on the discontinuance of said elevator,or
bn the cessation of conditions that require the use of said switch
by said corporation,the City of Fort Worth reserves the right to
open said alley to the publio and to remove said switch,and gen-
erally to exercise the same control over said alley as of any
other thoroughfare in the City of Fort Worth.
Section 4: The easement herein granted shall not inure to
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any other person or persons,firms or corporations than the grantee
herein named.
Section 5: That by the acceptance of this ordinance the gran-
tee herein shall indemnify and keep harmless the City of Fort
Worth from any damage tv person or pronorty occ•aex oned by `?ie
construction of said switch or the operation or maintenance of
same,and in case the City of Fort Worth should be impleaded in
court by reason of any alleged act or omission on the part of
grantee or because of the construction or operation of said switch,
the said city shall be entitled to judgment over against @aid
grantee because of any judgment, verdict or decree.
Section 6: This ordinance shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage as prescribed by lax.
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing ordinance was
duly presented and unanimously passed b* the Board of Comm-
issioners of the eity of Fort Worth,at a regular session held September
15th, 1908.
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Oi Seeretary.
Fort Worth,T exas, Sept. 1591908.
To the Honorable Board of Connieeioners of the City of Fort Worth:-
Now comes the Fort Worth Grain
Elevator Company, a private corporation,doing business in the
City of Fort Worth,Texas, the grantee in a certain ordinance passed
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on this the 15th dar of 'geptfmber,1908, in which an easement Ys
granted for the conetxu.Qtion of a railroad switch in, upon and
through a certain alley in the City of Fort Wo rth,Aas, adjacent
to the grain elevator of grantee and extending from Daggett Ave-
nue to Railroad Avenue, and now here signifies its full and uncon-
ditional acceptance of said ordinance and of all the terms,con-
ditions and obligations therein set forth and contained.
FORT WORTH GRAIN & ELEVATOR COMPANY
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Fort Worth,Texas,Sept.7th,1008:
m,) the -Ronorable Mayor and Commissioners of Fort Worth:
. Gentlemen: Your petitioners, Fort Worth
Grain & Elevator Company,respectfully askfor permission and authority
to close the alley extending from Daggett 'venue to Railroad Avenue,
irmediately east of the M.I. & T.xail3�Qad,;Lnd running north and south
parallel with the elevator (rece3stly ereoted+ -og petitioners.
Peti'tioners �~re � ow'n.ers of _e an .d�oin n - sa a ey, i
• �s� �, �„ ic.� - �ua :. c-� v Or the
i�o�#•-�hn . , andloncimA in this request.
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The land where this alley is located- isrlow and inaccessible
for general pubfto use'it being impissible for a Aragon or of?.er
vibhicle to ?pass through the same
Petitioners desire to construct a railroad switoh where Lhe
sa alley is now located, for the purpose of holding cars to unload
grain into and from their said elevator.
Fort North Grain}} & Elevator Co.
BY
President.
We approve and concur in the above request.
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AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE PERTAISSION OF THE FORT
WORTH GRAIN & ELEVATOR COMPANY TO CLOSE UP A
PUBLIC ALLEY, ETC.
SECTION I.
Be it enaby the Oty Commission of
the City of Fort Worth that the Fort Worth Grain &
Elevator Uompany, a private oorporation, doing bus-
ineas in the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Tex-
as, and they are hereby authorized and granted per-
mission to olose up that certain alley extending from
Daggett Avenue north to Railroad Avenue, situated just
east of the right away of the M.K.& T.R'Y Co., being sit-
uated in Morrie & Base' Add1-t1,on_1a_1,he City of Fort Worth,
Texas.
SECTION 2.
Be it further ena�that all ordinanoes
and parts of ordinanoes in confliot with this ordinanoe,
be in the same and hereby repealed. wj du� Vr,