Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-12-03

10 all other liens AID claims except
state, county and municipal taxes.
and that the amount thereby as
sessed against any railroad or street
railroad, or part of same, or the own
er thereof, shall be secured by an6
constitute a first lien upon said rail
road or street railroad and its road
bed, ties, rails, fixtures, rights ano
franchises superior to other liens and
claims except state, county and mum
iclpal taxes; and that said lien anL
liability shall be enforced either BY
suit in any court having jurisdiction
or by sale of the property assessed
in the same manner as may be pro
yided by law for the sale of property
for advalorem city taxes.
Seventh: That whenever any
such improvement shall have beer
made in said Paving District No. Two
there shall be first deducted from
the entire cost Of such improvements
the cost of improving all intersec-
tions of other streets with the street
proposed TO be improved, no part O.
which shall be chargeable against
the owners Of property abutting or
the street. And there shall also be
deducted the cost of such part OF the
Improvement as shall be payable b.
railroads and street RAILROADS or the
owners thereof, and the remainder
OF the entire cost Of the improvement
after making the deductions afore
said, shall be a~ppOrtioned between
the city and the owners of abuttin2
property in such manner that the
AUDITING owners shall not be requir
ed 10 pay more than three-fourths o.
the net cost after making such de.
auctions.
Eighth: That said city council
may at the time of passing such as.
sessment ordinance or ordinances OF
at any time thereafter cause to be is
sued, in the name of the city, assign
able certificates, declaring the liabil-
ity Of such owners and their proper
ty for the payment of such assess
ment, and fixing the terms n con
ditions Of such certificates.
If any such certificate shall recitcl
that the proceedings with reference |
to the making of such improvement
have been regularly had in compli |
ance with law, and that all prerequl
sites to the fixing of the assessment
lien against the property described
In said certificate and the persona
liability of the owner therefor have
been performed and complied with, |
such certificate shall be prima facla
evidence of the facts 80 recited, and
no further proof thereof shall be re-
quired in any court. |
And the said property owners.
their agents and attorneys and any
and all other persons who may be in
terested in the premises are therefore
hereby notified to be and appear be-
fore the city council of said city OF
Brownsville, Texas, in the cham
bers of said city council in the City |
Hall of said city in Brownsville, Tex |
as, on the fourteenth (l4th) day OF
December, AID, 1912, at ten O'Clock
a. m, and to then and there present
to said city council their objections. |
If any they nave TO any OF said pro-
ceedings Or to said assessments or |
any other objections, if any. which
they may desire to make in the prem
Uses.
And the City Secretary is hereby
instructed to publish and mail due
notices of such hearing in manner
and forms and for the length of time
required by law and by said general
paving ordinance.
Approved this eleventh day OF No
vember, AID, 1912.
A. B. COLE,
Mayor. |