HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 641ORDINAWRIC NO.
AN ORDINAPICE granting the Fort Worth & Denver City Rail
Company the xif""ht to coxistruot and i
Manta a in Oonzaptin
truck across Terry Street and 8 and. Str'eet in t'he City,
Fort Tfortb, Texas.
BF, IT, ORDAINMI) by the Bosrd of GoriuvAesionoxe of the City of
Fort Worth:
Section 1: The Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Com'jpa�ny
is hereby granted the right, power, privileF
ge and franohise to
build, construct, maittaln and operate a certain, connecting
track over certain portions of Terry wid Sixth Streets as follows:
The canter line of said oonnectitig track beginning at an
intersection with the east line of Terry Street 85.2 feet measured
north along said east od(p of Terry Street from
of the east line of "furry Street 1"'V'Itlh the north lino'ol EUxth
Street, continuing thenoe southwesterly a a ose Terry Street to the
intersection of the mast iii,ie of said Tarry Street 32.6 feet from
the north line of Sixth Street. Axid which said ooraieotirig track
as sauke crosses Sixth Street beg ,,,Aiis at the intersection of said
track with the north line of Sixtl,,� Street 3,2.2 feet from the
intersection of the west line of Terry Street and the north lito
of Sixth Street, oontinuing thence southmestorly to a interseotion
with the south line of Sixth Street at as point 75.8 feet from ail
intersection with the west live of Terry Street and the south
Line of Sixth Street.
'geotiet 2: It is provided that, said oonzeoting,, track as
constructed across the s&1d Terry, azd Sixth 'Btreets, as provided
heroin, shall be upon such grade as shall be approved by the
City Engineer of the City of Plo:vt Worth) and the top of each
rail of each and every part of said track, and the opaoing
between the rails, shall be kept level With the street alongside;
Viand the t,racks,and all other equipment used in suob extension or
conaactiotl shall be of standard wality and so oonstructed and
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M&intaine& that travel on said streets shall not be unnecessarily
obstructed or endangered at any pL&ce, and all matters of Uon-
struotion and maintenance shall be eub3aot to tl,:xe ap) (,roval of
the city engineer and Eoard of CoaoaAsaicners of the city of
Ji"ort Worth; and all trac4e of said street; or portions thereof,
that are now, or shall hereafter be paved, shall, be of first class
rails of such kind as shall be designated by the City Lag
gineer,
and shall be laid in such wanner as to 'wake the least possible,
obstruction to, vehicles, and shall be wainta,ir,ed iii that condition.
Section 3: Said Fort Worth & Deaver City Railway
Company, its successors wtd masigns, shall at its or tlivir costs
and expouse, pave and repave,ox otberwise surface and resurface,
and keep constantly in order and cor4ition, 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
betweea tkae ra4la of said tracks occupied by it, and for eighteen
Inches on each side thereof, as may be laid under t),Ue franchise,
and said Fort Worth & Doxivew City Retilw&y Cor,,cpany, its assigns and
suoce es ore, shall uonform Its or their tracks, or any 'part thereof,
to the proper grade of said streets and change the level of said
tracks as often and wbenevor the grade of said street is chaxiw
ged
so that every part of each track shall alwtqe be kept Fit tba duly
established grade line, or as near thereto as the surface of the
grade of the street outside thereof will permit,
Section 4: Said Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Coa,,paany,
Its suoeessq,;# and aasigns, do hereby agree to indetailfy and hold
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and discharge, or repay to the said City of Fort 'Nortb, all 4ammgas,
claims, judguez,ts, attorneys fees axid other costs wid expenses
rendered against, or incurred or paid out by the said City of
Fort Worth by reason of injuries either to persons or pro arty
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occasioned as the proximate result of anythirig done or permitted,
or in any vray proximately arising out of the Constw-action,
operation or maintenance of said traoka upon the above named
Section 5: This Ordinarice shall take effect and be
in force frog and after its passage.