Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-02-05
AN ORDINANCE.

Relating to street paving in Paving
District No. Two of the City of Browns
vile, Texas, as created and established
by an ordinance of said City, adopted,
Nov. eth 1912, and payment therefor. de
claring and fixing the amounts to be paid
by said City and by owners of railroads
and street railroads, respectively, and by
such railroads and street railroads, re-
spectively, and by Owner of property
abutting on streets, or parts of streets
to be so paved within said Paving Dis
trict, respectively, for such paving, and
declaring and fixing the amount per
abutting front foot of each lot or parcel
of land and the total amount of the cost
of such paving to be paid by each of
the owners of property abutting on such
street or portion thereof to be so paved,
and assessing sam against such respec-
tive owners of said railroads and street
railroads, respectively, and against such
railroads and street railroads, respec-
lively, and their respective rOadbeds,
ties, rails, fixtures, rolling stock, rights
and franchises, and against such abut-
ting property owners, respectively, and
against their said lots oP parcels of land,
respectively, and providing for the time
and terms of payment of said assess
ments together With interest on deferred
payments, and for the collection of all
amounts IS assessed, together with the
cost Of making such assessment, includ-
ing tie cost of notice to the owner, and,
in the event of suit by any such owner
against said City growing out of or in
connection with such paving, the rea-
sOnable attorneys fees of said City in
defending such suit, and the costs of
such suit, which shall become a part of
the assessment against such owner and
his property; and declaring and fixing
a first lien upon any and all such abut-
ting property and upon any and all such
railroads and street railroads, rcspcc-
lively, and their respective rOad beds,
ties, rails, fixtures, rolling stock, rights
and franchises; to secure payment OF
such assessments, respectively, and pro
viding for the enforcement of such liza
bilities and liens.
BE it ordained by the City Council of
the City Of Brownsville, that,
WHEREAS, by an Ordinance adopted
March IS, 1912, this City Council created
and established Paving District No.
Two, within said City, with the bOundar-
les therein designated and shown; and
WHEREAS, it was determined by said
City Council to pave certain streets and
their intersections in said Paving Dis
trict with creOSOted wood blocks as pro
vidcd by the Contract between said City
and the CreOsOted Wood Block Paving
Company, and said City Council has by
ordinance declared that said City shall
bear and pay the cost of paving the in
tcrSectiOns of said streets, and that the
owners Of railroads and street railroads
occupying or using or having a fran
chise to occupy or use any of said streets
or portions thereof in said Paving Dis
trict shall bear and pay the total cost
of such paving of a strip Nine 90 feet
in width through such streets or portions
Of such streets in said Paving District as
they may occupy or use or have a fran
chiSe to occupy or use, and that the
residue of the aggregate cost of such paw
ing in said District shall be borne and
paid for by said City, and by the own
ers of tracts or lots of land abutting on
such streets in said Paving District, re
spectively ia the shares and proportions
set forth and shown in this Ordinance,
the portions of such cost to be borne and
paid by such property owners. not ex-
cecding in any instance, the special bene
fits and all in manner and form required
bv, and provided for in the General Paw
ing Ordinance, which was adopted by
this City Council, on October %, 1911;
and,
WHEREAS. in due time the City En-
gineer of said City prepared and filed
with this City Council, his written state
ment concerning said Paving i'll said Dis
trict, which statement was in all re
spects in compliance with the require
ments of said General Paving Ordinance,
and was duly approved by this City
Council. which thcreupOn ordered a hear
ing in the premises to be given on De
cembcr II, 1912, beginning at 10 o'clock
A. NJ. of that day in the Council Cham
Der of the City Hall of said City of own-
ers of property abutting on any of said
streets in said District and to the own
ers of said railroads and street railroads,
respectively. and of all other interested
persons. and also ordered that due no
tees of such hearing be duly given: and.