HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1017 ORDIN WCE NO.
Xi ORDI&ANCE granting to the Wlf, Colorado & Santa Fe gail-
way Company the right to construct and maintain a switch
track or passing track across Twenty-ninth Street in the City
of Fort 'Torth, Texas.
BE Ii URDAMED BY 2HE BOARD 01, COLMISSIOnERS Or
A!" L'3 4Y L& �W 4JZ ,l AZE:
5:+0 TION 1: the Izalf, Colorado a. Santa Fe Railway
Company is hereby granted the right, power, privilege .vpd
franchise to build, construct, maintain and operate a cer-
tain switch or passing track over a portion of iwen ty-N is th
Street as follows:
the center line of said switch or passing trach be-
ginning at an intersection with the Borth line of 29th street
1315 feet Eastward from its intersection with the East line of
Borth Main Street, measured along said South line of 29th Street,
said center line of passing track being also 14 feet Northeast-
ward at right an gl es to c en ter line of main track of Calf, u of o-
rris ,, 3mta Pe sway l+epany, con uiaa3ag tbeRce rd
parallel with said center line of main track to the intersection
of north line of 29th l l2b4 feet Eastward from intersection
of said Forth line of 29th Street with Fast line of forth Blain
Street.
ShxIION 2: It is provided that said Switch or Passing
track as constructed across said Twenty Ninth Street, as provided
herein, shall be upon such grade as shall be approved by the
City Engineer of the City of Fort i'orth, ead the top of each
rail of each and every part of said track, and the spacing be-
tween the rails, shall be kept level with the- 9wremt ryZa� is ;
and the trakes, and all other equipment used in each extension,
shall ne of standard quality and so constricted and maintained
on said street as that travel on said street shall not be un-
necessarily obstructed or endangered at any place, and all
matters of co*tructien and maintenance shall be subject to the
approval of the Oity yngineer .end -Aoard of vommiss ion era of the
City of fart •orth; and all tracks dri said street,or portions x
thereof, that are now, or shall hereafter be paved, shall be
of first class rails of each kind as shall be designated by the
City lbgin eer, and shall be laid in each manner as to make the
least possible obstruc .lon to vettcles, and shall be maiu6a&-aed
in that condition.
33�iI09 3: Said Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Com-
pany, its successors and assigns, shall at its or their own
cost and expense, pave and repave,. or otherwise surface and
resarfaeeL, and keep constantly in good order and condid on,
with the same material with which the street on the outside
is paved or surfaced, all that part of said street occupied by
it, and that which lies be4ween the rails of said track oc-
cupied by it and for eighteen inches on each side thereof, as
may be laid under this franehiae, and said Gu4 , wolAradc-
Santa Fe Railway company, its assigns and successors. ehillk
conform its or their track, or any part thereof, to the proper
grade of said street and change the level of said track as
often and whenever the grade of said street is changed, so that
every part of such track shall always be kept at the daly ea-
tablishsd grade line, or as near thereto as the surface of the
grade of said street outai,le thereof will permit.
SM.'ION 4: Said Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway
Company, its successors and assigns, do hereby agree to indemnify
and hold the city of Fort iVorth harmless because ol,and promp'.: ;-
to pay off and discharge, or repay to the City of Fort Vorth,
all damages, claims, judgments, attorneys fees and other costs
and expenses rendered against, or incurred or paid out by the
City of Fort .north by reason of injuries either to persons or
property occasioned as the proximate result of anything done
or permitted, or anything proximately arising oat of the con--
struction, operation or maintenance of said traoks upon the
above named street.
$30210H 5: fhis Ordinance shall take effect and be in
force and effect from and after its passage.
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