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

to all other liens and 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 and
constitute a first lien upon said rail-
road or street railroad and it's road.
bed, ties, rails, fixtures, rights and
franchises superior to other liens and
claims except state, county and mum
lc1pal taxes; and that said lien and
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-
vlded by law for the sale of property
for advalorem city taxes.
Seventh: That whenever n
such improvement shall have been
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 of
which shall be chargeable against
the owners of property abutting on
the street. And there shall also be
deducted the cost of such part of the
improvement as shall be payable by
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 apportioned between
the city and the wne of abutting
property in such manner that TIE
abutting owners shall not be requir.
ed to pay more than three-fourths OF
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 or
any time thereafter cause to be is
sued, in the name of the city, assign
able certificates, declaring the liahil-
Of such owners and their pr00er-
ty for the payment of such a S.
ment, and fixing the terms and con-
ditions Of such certificates.
If any such certificate shall re6te
that the proceedings with reference
to the making of such improvements
have been regularly had in compli-
with law, and that all %prerequi-
sites to the fixing of the assessment
lien against the property described
in said certificate and the personal
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 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
hers of said city council in the City
Hall of said city in Brownsville. Tex
as, On the fourteenth G4th) 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 have to any of said pro-
ceedings or to said assessments DR.
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
yember, AID, 1912.
A. B. COLE,
MayOr.