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ORDINANCE N0,
AN ORDINANCE GRANPING THE ST. LOUIS, SAN FRANCISCO
AND TEXAS RAILWAY COMPANY THE RIGHT TO CONSTRUCT,
MAINTAIN, OPERATE AND REPAIR A CERTAIN SPUR TRACK
IN, ON AND ACROSS VACEK STREET AND TILUAR STREET
IN THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, -SPECIFYING TIM
CONDITIONS OF SAID PE RESIT, SPECIFYING AN EFFECTIVE
DATE AND PROVIDING AN INDFAMITY AGAINST CI,An S AND
DAMAGES IN TEE USE AND MAINTENANCE OF SAID RASE ENT.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF FORT WORTH TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That the St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway
Company, its successors and assigns, is hereby granted the right
and privilege to construct, maintain, operate and repair certain
industrial or spur track connecting with its main line of Railroad
and other spur tracks in the City of Fort Worth, described as
follows:
(1) Said proposed track is to extend in a general
easterly and westerly direction in Tiller Street and Vacek Street,
center line of said track being more particularly described as
follows: Commencing at the intersection of the east line of
Rupert Street with the north line of White Settlement Access
Road; thence northerly along said east line 363 feet to center
line of said Railway Company's track serving Bailey Warehouse
No. 4; thence southwesterly and westerly along said track No. 4,
962.5 feet; thence southwesterly on curve to the left, with
radius of 461.11 feet, 3.4 feet to point of beginning; thence
continuing on last described curve 117.2 feet; thence on curve to
the right with radius of 461.11 feet, 120.6 feet; thence westerly
on tangent to last described curve, parallel with and 8.5 feet
perpendicularly distance in a northerly direction from the south
line of said Tiller Street 114.2 feet to the end.
SECTION 2.
The grantee,St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway
Company, shall have the right to construct, maintain, operate and
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repair the line of railway track over, along and across said
streets as described in the foregoing section hereof; and wherever
the said track is in, on or through the portion of said streets
designated by the city officials now or hereafter as traveled
portions of said streets, the said spur track shall be maintained
at such grade or grades as it may elect to use so long as said
grade is approved by the Director of Public Works or the City
Engineer of the City of Fort Worth, and it is expressly provided
that the laying, repairing and construction of said spur track
shall be under the supervision of the director of Public Works or
the City Engineer of the City of Fort Worth. It is further provided
that grantee, its successors and assigns, shall maintain the space
between the rails of said track and for two (2) feet on each side
thereof as near as W be practicable with the tops of any of such
tracks, and same shall be constructed and maintained so as not to
unnecessarily obstruct or endanger travel on said streets or any
portion thereof; and the construction, maintenance and operation
of said track and of that portion of the streets between rails and
for two (2) feet on the outside of such rails shall be in accordance
with plans and speoifioatioxa to be approved by the Director of
Public Works or the City Engineer of the City of Fort Worth. Where
said tracks pass in, along or through any portion of said streets
designated by the proper officials of the City of Fort Worth as the
traveled portion of said streets, the said grantee, its
successors and assigns, shall conform said tracks, or any part
thereof, to the proper grade of said streets, making changes thereof
as often and whenever the grade of said streets is changed by the
officials of said City, so that all parts of said tracks and the
materials between the rails and two (2) feet on the out.Vide thereof
shall conform to the established grade and the materials used in
the maintenance to the ranaining portion of the street or streets.
2.
SECTION 3.
The said grantee, St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas
Railway Company, its successors and assigns, does agree to indemnify
and save harmless the City of Fort Worth from any and all damages,
claims, judgments, and other costs and expense recovered against
or paid by the City of Fort Worth by reason of injuries or damage
to either persons or property proximately caused by or arising
from and out of the construction, maintenance, and operation of
said tracks in, upon, along and through said streets.
SECTION 4.
That this ordinance shall take effect and be in full
force and effect from and after the date of its passage, and it
is so ordained,
APPROVED AS TO FOIN:
City Attorney.
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Fort Worth, Texas
May 12, 1 9 5 1
Hon. City Council of the City of Fort Worth,
Port Worth, Texas
Gentlemen:
St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway
Company respectfully prays leave to construct, maintain,
operate and repair a certain industrial or spur track over
and along Tillar Street and Vaoek Street in the City of
Fort Worth, in order to serve certain industries in the
Bailey industrial addition to the City of Fort Worth.
There is attached hereto proposed Ordinance
and Map, which show the area and track involved to
which proposed Ordinance and the Blue Print Map reference
is here made for a description and the proposed location
of the trackage. A necessity exists for the construction
and maintenance of said track, in order that the industries
it will serve in said area may have rail connection.
Respectfully submitted.
ST. LOUIS, IHCQ & TEXAS RAILWAY CO.
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