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ORDINANCE NO. �
AN ORDINANCE granting to the TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY
the right to lay and construct an oil pipe line across Front
Street, Seventeenth Street, Ninth Street, Fourth Street, Third
Street, Second Street, First Street, Veatherfodd.
nap Street, Peach Street and Park Street, and to extend same
from Front Street so that same may be connected with a cer-
tain supply pipe line extending from the South edge of Front
Street in a Southwesterly direction to a certain oil storage
tank to be erected on the premises of the Texas & Pacific
Railway Company near its present Roundhouse.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COIGMSSIONERS OF THE CITY
OF FORT WORTH:
Section 1. The Texas & Pacific Railway Company is hereby
authorized and granted the privilege to construct and maintain
a certain supply pipe line over and across certain streets in the
City of Fort Worth, as follows:
Beginning at the south line of Front Street and extending
north over said Front Street to the north edge thereof; thence
extending northerly along the Might of way and property of the
Texas & Pacific Railway Company crossing Seventeenth Street and
Ninth Street at under-grade, and extending thence north along
the right of way of ss,id Company crossing Fourth Street at over-
head, and thence northerly along and upon the right of way of said
Company, crossing 'Third, Second, First, Weatherford, Belknap,
Peach and Park Streets at under-grade; and thence extending norther-
ly along its said right of may to the northern limits of the City of
Fart Forth.
Section 2. Said supply pipe line shall be 6f steel, six
inches in diameter, and as same crosses Front and Fourth Streets
it shall cross same over-head, and be located upon the bridges
and trestles of said Texas & Pacific Railway Company as now con-
atructed and to be constructed. Wherever �Md pipe line crosses
the other streets hereinbefore mentioned same shall be undergrade,
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and shall be placed at a depth of not less than twenty-four (24)
inches.
Section 3. Said pipe line, excep: where the same shall cross
the streets herein named, shall be constructed and maintained upon
the property and right of way of the Texas & Pacific Railway Com-
pany.
Section 4. Said pipe line, when so constructed, shall be
used only for the purpose of conveying fuel oil from a point north
of the City limits of Fort Worth along the line hereinbefore in-
dicated, to the soith line of Front Street, and thence by a connec-
tion with a supply pipe line of same material extending in a south-
westerly direction across the private property of the Texas & Pacific
Railway Company to a certain storage tank to be erected by The Texas
& Pacific Railway,Company on its private property at a point north
of Railroad Avenue and east of its present Roundhouse which fronts
on South Main Street.
Section 5. The Texas & Pacific Railway in constructing said
storage tgnk, and in the use of same, shall have same of a height
not exceeding thirty (30) feet and not exceeding forty (40) feet in
diameter, and shall locate, construct, equip and use same in accord-
ance with the rules and requirements of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters for the storage and use of fuel oil as recommended by
The National Fire Protection Association, in accordance with its
printed pamphlet issued in the year 1913, which is on file in the
office of the Chief of Fire Department of Fort Worth, ,Texas, and
in accordance and subject to all of the ordinances and regulations
of the City of Fort Worth.
Section 6. In accepting xis the provisions of this ordinance
the said Texas & Pacific Railway Company shall be construed as
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having agreed to and bound itself to indemnfy and safe harmless the
City of Port Worth from all damages and injuries of any kind and
character whatsoever which may result from the negligent construction,
operation or maintenance vf-sa.id pipe line across, over and4ong the
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streets hereinbefore named.
Section 7. All streets disturbed by the laying or maintenance
of said pipe line shall be, by said Texas & Pacific Railway Company,
restored in such condition as the same may have been prior to the
laying of said pipe line.
Section 8. Said pipe line shall be constructed, maintained
and operated in strict accordance with the provisions of this
ordinance, and shall be used exclusively for the purpose herein
setforth, and the construction thereof shall be under the supervi-
sion of, and shall be approved,by, the City Engineer for the City
of Fort Worth.
This ordinance shall be in force and effect from and after
its passage.
Approved as to form;
Golxp
oration ounsel .
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance was duly
presented and unanimously passed and adopted by the Board of Commission-
ers of the City of Fort Worth at a Special Called session of said Board
held Monday, January, Sth, 1917.
City Secretary