HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 763 ORDINANCE NO. i
AN ORDINANCE rg D� HART the ri ho Am asast UQ
and maintain a connecting or spur Sailtoad track along and
across 20th Street & Central Avenue, in the City of Fort worth
Texas.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH:
SECTION, 1, That D. HART, his heirs, successors and
assigns are hereby granted the right, power and privelege to
build, construct, maintain and' operate a certain switch or spur
iailroad track over, along and across 20th Street and Central
Avenue in the City of Fort Worth, as fol�.ows; Along the route
indicated on the attached plat showing the rex;':tive positions
of D.HIRIIS properties and�stid^ Railroad and adjacent streets,
which plat is referred to and made a part h6reof: that, as
shown by said plat, the proposed switch shall branch off from
the line of the S.L.& S.F.RY at a point just East of the South
corner of Lot 1, of the H.d .Wilscn sub-division, and then run
thence in a curving line a little West of North passing out
of the Frisco right of way and on to other property owned by
D.BART, at a point 37.6 feet about Northwest of the Southeast
corner of Central Avenue, and thence still curving toward the
west across a strip of property owned by tr. MMT -r'n a northwest
course across a very short street east of Block 551 and connecting
Central Avenue with 20th street, entering about the middle of
the east line of Block 55J, thence curving more westerly and
entering 20th street at a point about fifty or .sixty feet west of
the northeast corner of said Block 5b' and thence diagonally
across 20th street to and along side of D.HAR` I S warehouse.
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Section 2,- It is .provided that said connecting track
as constructed across the said 20th street and Central Avenue
as provided herein, shall be upon suob(grade as shall be
approved by the City Engineer of the City of Fort Worth, and the
top of each rail of each and every part of the laid track, and
the spacing between the rails, shall be)kel5t level with the
street along side; and the tracks, and all other equipment
used in such extention or connection, shall be of standard quality
and so constructed and maintained, that travel on said streets
shall not be unnecessarily obstructed or endangered at any place
and all matters of construction and maintainance shall be subject
to the approval of the City Engineer and Board of Commissioners
of the City of Fort Worth; and all tracks of said streets
or portions thereof, that are now, or shall hereafter be paved,
shall be of first class tails of such kind as shall be designated
by the City Engineer, and shall be laid in such manner as to
make the least possible obstruction to vehicle&, and shall be
maintained in that condition.
Section 3.- D.HART, his heirs, successors and assigns
shall at his or their own costs and expense, pave and repave
or otherwise sltaface and resurface, and keep constantly in good
order and condition, with the same material with which the streets
on the outside is paved and surfaced, all that part of said streets
occupied by it, and that which lies between the rails of said tracks
occupiel-'by it, and for eighteen inches on each side thereof, as
,as may be laid under this Ordinance, and the said D.HART, his
heirs successors and assigns, stall conform his or their tracks,
or any part thereof, to the proper grade of said streets and
change the level of said tracks as often and when ever the grade
of said streets is changed, so that every part of ea0h track
shall always be kept at the duly established grade line, or as
near thereto as the surface of the grade of the street outside
thereof will permit.
Section 4.- Said D.HART, his successors, heirs and
assigns, do hereby agree to indemnify and hold the City of Fort
Worth forever harmless because of, and promptly to pay off
and dlcharge, or pmpay to the said City of Fort Wort?% all
damages, claims, judgements, attorneys fees and other costs and
expenses rendered against, or incurred or paid out by the said
City of Fort Worth by reason of injuries either to persons or
property, occasioned as the proximate result of anything done
or permitted, or in any way proximately arising out of the con-
struction, operation or maintainance of said tracks upon the
above named streets.
Section 5.- This Ordinance shall take effect and be in
force, from and after its passage.
I hereby certify that the above and forepving Urdina.nce was dulyy
resented, passed and adopted by the Board of Commissioners of th
ity of Fort Worth Texas at a regular meeting of said Board held
May 29th, A. D. 1�21.
C. S. mow.
CITY SECRETARY.
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