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AN ORDINANCE
assessing a portion of the cost of improve-
ment of WEST SEVENTH STREET in the City of
Fort Worth, Texas, between its intersection
with Throckmorton Street and the Trinity River
Bridge, against the NORTHERN TEXAS TRACTION
COMPANY and the CITIZENS RAILWAY & LIGHT COM-
PANY, between the rails and tracks and 18
inches on fHe outside thereof.
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That the cost of said improvement in accordance
with the terms of the said contract, between the rails and
tracks ands incheon the outside thereof of the
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,QA d T Company, a Street Railway
Company, occupying said street , is hereby ascertained and de-
termined to be the sum- 6f $ A//b�_ (M ; and to se-
cure the payment of the said sum, a special tax in said amount
. is hereby levied upon and against the road bed, rails, ties,
fro-chiaea, f ixt3]r.o5_ and id '? :,;11t': y ('ori:-
pany as prescribed by the charter of this city, which tax
shall be a lien against the said property of the said street
Railway Company`�as prescribed by the charter of this city,
which tax shall be a lien against the said property of the
said Street Railway Company)- superior to all other liens or
claims or titles whatever, except lawful ad valorem taxes,
which tax shall become delinquent if not paid in full within
thirty days after the completion and acceptance of said im-
roYement by the OitY; and if the tax shall not then be ,)_-,id,
the the same shall be enforced either by sale of the said premises
in the manner as near as possible as provided for the sale
of property by the City of Fort Worth for ad valorem taxes,
or the same may be enforced in any court having jurisdiction,
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That the cost of the said improvement between rails
and tracks of t-he h/� company,
and 18 inches on the outside thereof, sad CompEhy being a
railroad company occupying the said street , is hereby
ascertained and determined to be the sum of $ g'S i ,
under the terms of the said contract , and a special tax of
the said amount is hereby levied against and upon the road bed,
rails, ties, franchises, fixtures, and property of said company,
as v,rescribed by the city charter, which tax shall constitute
a first and superior lien upon the said property of the said
company to all othvT—Re",
lawful ad valorem taxes; that the said tax shall become de-
linquent if not paid within thirty days after completion of
said improvement and its acceptance by the city, and shall
be enforced either by sale of the said property in the manner
as near as possible as provided by the city charter for the
sale of property for non-payment of ad valorem city taxes, or
by suit in any court having jurisdiction.
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That this ordinance shall take effect from and after
its passage.
r A"tify that the above and 'fore goiMig
fv rZ/ ' ased and adopted
o nance was Ally resented and unanimously p P
by the Board ers of the City of Fort "Forth 3xfxiJgMx
MIX M_ at a� o '' r id Board helcl Tv sday October 11th,
1910.
City ecretary