Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-01-30
AN ORDINANCE.

~ an ORDNANCE OF said City, adopted
march Is, 1912, and payment therefor
declaring and fixing the amounts to be
PAD by said City and by owners of rail
roads and street railroads, respectively.
and by such railroads and street rail
roads, respectively, and by owners OF
property abuttlng on streets or parts of
streets to be SO paved within said Paving
Dlstrict, respectively, for such paving
and declaring and fl Qg the amount per
aDuttlng front foot on 9ch 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 same against such respec-
tive owners of said railroads and street
railroads, respectively, and against such
railroads and street railroads, respec-
lively, and their respective road-beds,
ties, rails, fixtures, rolling stock. rights
and franchises, and against such abut-
ing property owners, respectively ana
. against their said lots or 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 so assessed. together with the
cost of making such assessment, lnclud-
ing the cost of notice to the owner, and
in the event of suit by any such owner
against said City, growing out of, or in
4 connection with such paving, the reason
able attorneys fees of said City in de
, Tending such suit and the costs Of such
I suit, which shall become a part of the
assessment against such owner and his
property. and declaring and fixing Il
first lien upon any and all such abutting
: property, and upon any and all such
railroads and street railroads, reSpec-
.tlvely, and their respective ~rOad-bcds,
ties, rails fixtures, rolling stock, rights
n 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. One.
whhin said City, with the boundaries
thsrein designated and shown; and,
WHEREAS, it was determined bv said
City Council to pave certain streets and
their intersections in said paving dis
trict with creosOted wood blocks as pro
vlded 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
tersectlons of said streets, and that own
Prs of railroads and street railroads Oc-
cupying or using or having a franchise
TO occupy or use any of said streets or
portions thereof in said Paving District
shall bear and pay the total cost of such
paving of a strip nine o. feet in width
through such streets or portions of such
streets III said paving district as they
may occupy or use or have q franchise to
occupy or use, and that the residue of the
aggregate cost Of suck paving in said
Ndlstrict shall be borne and paid for bv
said City and by the owners of tracts or
lots of land abutting on such streets in
said Paving District, respectively. in the
proportions and shares set forth and
shown in this ordinance by such respec-
tive owners, not exceeding in any in
stance, the special benefits and all in
manner n form required bv and pro
l vlded for In the General Paving Ordi-
nance 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 in said dis
trict, which statement was in all respects
in compliance with the requirements of
said General Paving Ordinance, and was
duly approved by this CITY Council.
stl1 IhNlNNl al IGalI IL Ill
/ the premises to be given on December
IA, A. ID. 1912, beginning at 10 o'clock
a.. Nj. of that day in the Council Cham
N,er of the City Hall of said city. of own
gcrs of property abutting on any of said
in said district ana to the own
crs 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.
WHEREAS, due notices of such hear
ings nave been given in the manner and
form and for the length of time required
Iv said General Paving Ordinance, and
said hearing has been duly given and
held, accordingly, beginning at the time
and place so designated therefor, ad-
;ournment of said hearing from day to
day and from time to time having Oc-
Cured to suit the convenience and upon
Tho requests of certain interested pro
testing abutting property owners; and,
WHEREAS, upon full hearing and ma
ture consideration in the premises this
civ Council now here finds and declares
. tbat the assessments hereinafter made
Nh This Ordinance are in all respects In
loccOrdance with the requirements and
visions of said General Paving Or
tlinance. and are here now made in all
} Sospects as contemplated by that ordi-
Ance. and that no assessment made by
HIS ordinance against II 0Wner or ms
AroDertv is in excess OF, but III each IN
nance is in accordance with the amount
;he special benefits to such property
the enhanced value thereof by reason
Af such paving, and that the appOrtion-
i vent of the cost of said paving in said
tlistrict among said property owners, as
Wade by this ordinance. in accordance
,r;tb the sDecial benefits so received bV