Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-11-14
resolution Concerning a Hearing Be-
fore the City Council of the City
OF Brownsville, Texas, Relative
to Paving, ETC., in Paving Dis
trict No. One of Said City.

10 Paving, etc., in Paving Dis
trict No. One of Said City.
Whereas, the City Council of the
City OF Brownsville has heretofore
by ordinance duly established and
created Paving District Number One
within the following limits and en-
bracing the streets and portions of
streets hereinafter designated, viz:
Elizabeth Street, beginning at the
City Limits where the same connects
with the United States Military Res
ervation, known as Fort Brown, to
and across Fourteenth Street, Thir-
teenth Street, Twelfth Street, Elev-
enth Street to and including Tenth
Street. Levee Street from and includ-
ing Tenth Street to and across Elev-
enth Street, and Twelfth Street to
and including Thirteenth Street;
Washington ST., from and including
Tenth ST., to and across Eleventh st.
street, Twelfth Street and Thir-
teenth Street; Tenth street, Eleventh
and Twelfth to and including Thir-
teenth Streets from and including
1C'CO obICCL y OSO ElILdUCIH oLlOCI
and to and including Washington
Street as the same was recommended
by the Street and Bridge Committee
OF the City Council and the Citizens
Committee acting in an advisory ca
pacity and recommended by them in
their report of July II, 1911;and,
Whereas, said city council has order
ed the paving of said District No
One with creosoted wood blocks and
has contracted with the C~reosoted
Wood Block Paving Company for
paving same and has by said ordin-
ance declared hat one-third (1-3) of
the cost of said paving Of said Dis
trict shall be paid by the owners of
property AUDITING upon said portions
OF said streets, respectively, and by
the owners of railroads and street
railroads occupying OIL using or have
a franchise to use or occupy such
streets or any portion thereof and
that one-third G-3) of the cost of
said paving shall be assessed against
all abutting property and the owners
thereof, and that the total cost of
said paving of a strip nine (9) feet
in width through such streets or
portions OF streets to be paving as
they may occupy or use or have a
franchise to occupy or use shall be
assessed against the owners of rail-
roads or streets railroads occupying
or using OIL having a franchise to use
or occupy such streets or any por-
ton thereof: and
Whereas, since the passage and
taking effect Of said ordinance the
City Engineer of said City of Browns
vile has filed with this city council
his written statement relative to
said paving, and improvement in said
Paving District No. One all in man.
ner and form as provided and requir-
ed by Section /, subdivisions az,
CD. (3), (4), and CD of the general
having ordinance of said City Of
brownsville, which was adopted by
the city council of said city on Octo-
her %, 1911, and is now of record
in Book 4, pages 514 ct seq. of the
minutes of said city council, which
engineers statement is in words and
figures as follows. viz:
Brownsville, Tex. Nov. 7th, 1912.
To The Honorable City Council of
the City of Brownsville, Texas.
Gentleman:
|, J. w. Davis, your City Engineer,
hereby beg leave to report that in
compliance with the Paving Ordin-
ance, / herewith submit the follow
ing report assessing the cost of paw
ing in paving district Number One
~, on the AUDITING property in said
District and the owners thereof.
Said assessment is based on a basis
or one-third of the total cost per front
foot as required by said Paving Ord
nance.
Said list contains a list of persons,
FIRMS. estates or corporations, own
ing property abutting on the streets
or portions thereof to be paved, with
7 description of the property by lots
nd blocks numbers, and by number
ct front feet abutting on the streets,
-" portion thereof to be paved be-
longing to each of the owners, an es-
innate or the cost of the improve
"'ent lying between the rails of Rail-
lads and Street Railroads and two
30 feet on the outside thereof. and
tho total cost of the improvements
~ al cStiHIdJe Vi the DeneHt tndt
III be received by abutting property
- by the owners thereof resulting
'Nnm proposed improvement, separ-
0tnly estimated for each abutting lot
Ct part of a lot and set against each
- on the aforesaid lot or lots and
their owners
Respectfully Submitted,
j. w. DAVIS.
City Engineer.
pAVING nICTpInT NO