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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 606 o to ror ORDINANCE NO. 606. AN ORDINANCE granting to the Northern Texas Traction Conipany, a corporation, and its successors and assigns , the right , privilege, and franchise to construct, equip, maintain and operate by electricity or some motive power other than steam, a line of street railway over and Apon certain streets in the City of Fort ;Porth," and to erect and maintain poles and overhead trolley and other necessary vires thereon. BE IT ORDAINED BY RB BOARD OF COM I SSIONERS OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH: Section 1. That in consideration of the stipulations and agreements hereinafter contained, to be kept and performed by the Northern Texas Traction Company, its assigns and successors, the City of Fort North, a municipal corporation, has given and granted, and does hereby give and grant unto the said Northern Texas Traction Company, a corporation domiciled in Fort -orth, Tarrant County, Texas, and its successors and assigns, the right, license and franchise to construct , equip, maintain and operate a line of single or double track street railway for the carriage of passengers and f5reight, together with all necessary turnouts, Y's, frogs, and connections to pr6sent existing tracks at or near that portion of the street hereinafter designated, and all poles , wires , and other fixtures , appurtenances or appointments requisite, convenient or necessary for the construction, operation and maintenance of a line of street railway on and over the following streets in the City of Fort ,'orth, as an extension or branch of the present line of street railway -z- owned and operated by said grantee, the Northern Texas Traction Company, on and over Houston Street in said city, to-wit:- 0 o-wit:. Beginning at a point of connection with the present line of street railway and tracks of the Northern Texas Traction Company, at the intersection of Houston Street and First Street, in the City of Fort .,Iorth, thence westward over said First Street to Throckmorton Street, and to a point of connection with its present line of tracks on said Throckmorton Street. This franchise and grant of the right to construct said line of street railway over First Street between Houston and Throckmorton Streets is to be subject to and run cancurrent with the original franchise heretofore granted by the City of Fort Worth to Northern Texas Traction Company, and its successors and assigns, to maintain and operate its said line of street railway tracks over a certain portion of Houston Street in said city Section S . All tracks laid under the provisions of this Ordinance, except the turnouts and connections to and with present existing lines rtAd tracks at the intersection of said Houston and First Streets, and Throckmorton and First Streets, in said city, shall be laid and kept as nearly as practical in the middle of the streets whereon said track is to be laid, and said connections made with the existing lines of track as aforesaid, and the top of each rail of each and every part of said track and the spaces between the rails shall be kept level with the streets alongside; and the tracks, wires, poles, and all other equipment shall be all of standard quality and so constructed and maintained that travel on said street shall not be unnecessarily obstructed or endangered at any place; and all VK e -3r matters of construction and maintenance shall be 81bject to the approval of the city engineer and the city electrician and the Board of City Commissioners; all tracks on said street or portions thereof that are now or shall hereafter be paved shall be of first- olass rails of such kind as shall be designated by the city engineer and shall be laid in such manner as to make the least possible obstruction to vehicles and shall be maintained in that condition. Section 3; said Northern Texas Traction Company, or its assigns, shall .at its or thoir cost and expense pave and repave or otherwise surface and resurface 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 each street or streets occupied by it or that which lies between the rails of said tracks and for eighteen inches on each side thereof as may be laid under this franchise, and said Northern Texas Traction Company, or its assigns and successors shall conform its or thaeir tracks or any part thereof to the proper grade of each street, and change the level of said traake as often and whenever the grade of any 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 4; Said Northern Texas Traction Company, its successors and assigns, do hereby agree to indemnify and hold the City of Fort 'orth 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 of Fort Forth by reason of injuries either to persons or property occasioned as the proximate reqult of anything done or permitted or in any way proximately arising out of the construction, operation or maintenance upon the above streets and thoroughfares, tracks, poles and wires of said c ompany. Section 5. The city engineer shall direct and point out the places at which poles erected under this Ordinan.oe shall be set, provided always that no poles shall be set in violation of any city Ordinance. Section 6 . All the limitations , provisions and conditions contained in the Ordinance or Ordinances referred to granting the franchise on Houston Street, shall continue in force and shall govern and control in addition to the provisions of this Ordinance the operation and construction of the contemplated extension of the present line as hereby granted. Section 7 . This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. I HEREMI CERTIFY THAT THE A-30VE AIM FOREGOING ORDINANCE AS DULY PRESENTED AI'TD UNAIII 1OUSLY PASSED AIM ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF COI"IISSIOIIERS OF THE CITY OF FORT UORTH,TEXAS,AT A REGULAR. SESSION OF SAID BOARD MMD FRIDAY I(ARCH 1ST,1918. CITY r'"` Y- y ' tea: M.M.PHINNEY,PRESIDENT STONE&WEBSTER G.H.CLIFFORD.MANAGER GENERAL MANAGERS W.C.FORBESS.ASST MANAGER NORTIIERN TEXAS TRACTION COMPANY ADDRESS ALL LETTERS TO FORT WORTH AND DALLAS THE COMPANY FORT WORTH,TEXAS. March 15, 1918• To the Honorable, the Mayor, and Board of Commissioners of the City of Fort Worth, Texas. Gentlemen; The Northern Texas Traction Company accepts and takes this means of expressing its acceptance of the rights, priv- ileges and franchises granted to it by the Uoard of Commissioners of the City of Fort Worth, as set out and expressed in the ordi- nance adopted by that body on the 2nd day of March, 1918, and the same bal now enrolled and recorded in the ordinance books of the City of Aort Worth as ordinance number 606. And the said Northern Texas Traction Company hereby agrees that it will be bound by and observe and carry out the terms, conditions and provisions in said ordinance contained. Re spe c tf ully, NORTHERN RA ION COMPANY. By r ice-Press t. • e e t • t i r� ,� � ale_♦ �"`.i !�� � 1 �1 f � �a r �e i hL+ 00 �� m r}J �r �'rw `� �►� �� 3• . • e --