Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-11-14


upon said railroad or street railroad
and its roadbed, ties, rails, fixtures,
rights and franchises superior to
other liens and claims except State,
county and municipal taxes; and
that said lien and liability shall be
enforced either by suit in court hav-
ing jurisdiction or by sale of the pro-
perty assessed, in the same manner
as may be provided by law for the
sale of property for ad valorem city
taxes.
SEVENTH: That when ever any
such improvement shall have been
made in said Paving District No.
One there shall be first deducted
from the entire cost of such improve
ments the cost of improving all in
tersections of other streets with the
street proposed to be improved, no
part of which shall be chargeable
against the owners Of property abut-
ting on the street. And there shall
also be deducted cost of such part of
the improvement as shall be payable
by railroads and street railroads or
the owners thereof, and the remain
der of the entire cost of the improve
ment, after making the deductions
aforesaid, shall be apportioned be-
tween the city and the owners Of
AUDITING property in such manner
that the abutting shall not
be required to pay more than three
fourths of the net cost after max
ing deductions.
EIGHTH: That said city council
may al the time of passing such as
sessment ordinance or ordinances or
at any time thereafter cause to be
issued, in the name Of the city, as
~signable certificates, declaring the Ii
ability of such wner and their pro-
perty for the payment of such as
sessment, and fixing the terms and
conditions of such certificates.
If any such certificate shall recite
that the proceedings with reference
to the making Of such improvements
have been regularly had in compli-
ance with law, and that all prerequi-
sites to the fixing of the assessment
lien against the property described
in said certificate and the person
al liability of the owner therefor
have been performed and complied
with, such certificate shall be prima
facia evidence of the facts so recited,
and no further proof thereof shall be
required in any court.
And the said property owners,
their agents and attorneys and any
and all other persons who may be
interested in the premises are there
fore hereby notified to be and appear
before 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,
on the fourteenth C14th) day Of De-
cember, A. D., 1912, at ten o'clock
A. NJ, and to then and there pre-
sent to said city council their OBJ
j%ections, if any they have to any of
said proceedings or to said assess
ments or any other objections, if
any, which they may desire to make
in the premises.
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 (11) day Of
November, A. d. 1912.
A. B. COLE,
Mayor.
CRISANTO VILLARREAL 80.
City Secretary.
Filed November II, 1912,
CRISANTO VILLARREAL,
City Secretary.
(Seal)
/, Crisanto Villarreal, City Secre-
tary, of the City of Brownsville,
Texas, do hereby certify that the
above and foregoing is a true and
correct copy Of a resolution which
was duly adopted by the City Council
of said City heretofore on the elev-
enth day of November, A. d., 1912.
And the said property owners there
agents and attorneys and any and all
other persons referred to in said re-
solution who may be interested in
the premises are hereby notified to
be and appear before said City Coun-
Gil of said City Of Brownsville, Texas,
in the chambers of said City Council
in the City Hall of said city, in
Brownsville, Texas, on the fourteen
G4th) day of December, A. D., 1912,
at ten o'clock A. NJ, and to then, and
there present to said city council
their objections, if any they have, to
any Of said proceedings or to said
assessments or any other objections,
if any, which they may desire to make
in the premises.
Witness my hand and the seal Of
said City at Brownsville, Texas on
this the Eleventh day Of November,
AID, 1912.
CRISANTO VILLARREAL
City Secretary.
(Seal)
Resolution Concerning a Hearing Be-
fore the City Council Of the City
Of Brownsville, Texas, Relative
to Paving, etc, in Paving Dis
trict No. Two Of Said City.
Whereas, the City Council of the
City of Brownsville has heretofore
by ordinance du1v ractricfad tho lin