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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 938 fl ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE granting to the Northern Texas Traction Company, a corporation, and its assigns, the right and:&anchise to construct, maintain and operate certain lines of electric street railway over and upon certain Streets in the City of Fort Wortho and to erect and maintain, in connection therewith, poles, trolley wires and overhead wire equipment necessary to operate such electric railway; the same being extensions of, connections with and branches of certain lines of electric street railway, at present owned and operated by said Northern Texas Traction Company in the City of Fort Worth. BE IT ORDAIUED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH: Section L, The City sf Fort Wo rth, a rAg pi 'P ');Pq .......... ton, In Tarrant County, Texas, doth hereby give and grant unto the Northern Texas Traction Company, a corporation, domiciled in Tarrant County, Texas, and organized for the purpose of operating electric street railways, and its successors and assigns, the right, privilege and franchises to construct, maintain and operate a line of electric street railway tracks, together with all necessary switches, side-tracks and turnouts, for the opera- tion of electric street cars thereon, as an extenbion of, con- nection with and branch of that present line of electric street, railway, now owned and operated by the said Northern Texas Trao- t,3.oa Company, over East Front Street, end known as the East, Front Street line, along, over and upon the following named and described streets in the said City of Fort Worth, Texas , to-wit- Beginning at a point of connection with the lines of railway trao of the Northern Texas Traction Company, immediately opposite the West end of Wilkinson Avenue, at its junction with 2. Handley Boulevard., /f ' the Eastern extension of East Front Street; thence across said Boulevard and along and over Wilkinson Air' ue to Tor WO in said City. And the like privilege and franchise is also granted unto the said Northern, Texas Traction Company, and its assigns, to erect and maintain, in connection, with its said line of street railway track, poles, wires and overhead electrical construction necessary, useful or desirable for the propulsion of said care by electric power. This franchise and grant of the right and privilege to extend said lines of street railway over the streets just above mentioned, to be subject to and run",tftTrent with the franchises heretofore granted by the City of Fort Worth, for the "WAN construction, maintenance, spd operation of a line of street railway over said East Front Street. Section II; The City of Fort Worth, a municipal cor- poration, in Tarrant County, Texas, doth hereby give and grant unto the Northern Texas Traction Company, a corporation, domiciled in Tarrant County, Texas, and organized for the purpose of operating el ctric street railways, and its successors and assigns, the right, privilege and franchises to construct, maintain and operate a line of electric street railway tracks, J,ro'gether with all necessary switches, side-tracks and turnouts, for the operation of electric street cars thereon, as an ex- tension of, connection with and branch of that present line of ,,,electric street railway, now owned and operated by the said Northern Traction Company, over Commerce Street, along, over and upon the following named and described streets in said City of Fort Worth, to-wit: Beginning at a point of intersection with the present ........... �. lines of street railway track, owned and operated by the Northern 11exas Traction Company on Commerce Street, at theintersection of Third Street; thence Eastward over East Third Street to Harding, , Street; thence South over Harding Street to East Fourth Street; thence Eastward over East Four$h Street and the extension thereof to Maple Street in said City. And the like privilege and franchise is also granted unto the said Northern Texas Traction Company, and its assigns to erect and maintain, in connection with its said line of street railway track, poles, wires and overhead electrical construction necessary, useful or desirable for the propulsion of said cars by electric power. This Franchise and grant of the right and privilege to extend said lines of street railway over the streets just above mentioned, to be subject to and run"Rwrent with the franchises and right heretofore granted to the Northern Texas Traction Company and its assigns, to maintain and operate a line of electric street railway over Commerce Street in said City. Section III. All tracks laid under the provisions of this Ordinance, shall be located, laid and maintained in such manner as shall be designated by the City Engineer. Section IV. Said Northern Texas Traction Company, or its assigns shall at its or their own sole cost and expense p,ave and re-pave or otherwise surface and re-surface and keep constantly in good order and condition, with the same material with which the street on the outside is paved and surfaced, all that part of vAeh street occupied by it or that which lies between the rails of said tracks and for 18 inches on each side thereof, and said Northern Texas Traction Company or its assigns shall conform its or their tracks or any part thereof to the ........................ or� 4. proper grade of each street and chapge the level of said tracks as often and whenever the grade of an, y such street is changed so that every part of each 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 V. Said Northern Texas Traction Company, its successors and assigns, do hereby agree to indemnify and hold the said City of Fort Worth harmless because of, and promptly to pay off and discharge, or repay to the said City, all damages, claims, Judgments, attorneys' fees and other costs and expenses rendered against, or incurred, or paid out by the said City by reason of injuries either to persons or property occasioned as the proximate result of ar7thing done or permitted or in ar4r wey prox- imately arising out of the construction, operation, maintenance upon the above streets and thoroughfares of the tracks, poles or wires of said Company. Section VI: All of the conditions, limitations and pro- visions contained in(the Ordinances granting, franchises now owned by the Northern Texas Traction Company on Bast Front Street, and in the original franchises granting the rights and privileges to the Northern Texas Traction Company, for the operation of a line of street railway Over Commerce Street, shall continue in force and govern and control (in addition to the provisions of this ordinance) the operation and con- straction of the contemplated extensions of" the present line's of street railway as herein and hereby granted respectively. Section VII. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.