Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-02-20

by reason of such paving, and that the
amount of the special benefits to- such
apportiOnment of the cost Of said paving
in said District among said property
owners, as made by this ordinance, in ac-
cordance with the special benefits so re-
ceived by each separate lot and the Own
or thereof;
SECTION l. The cost Of said paving
in said Paving District No. Two, of the
City of Brownsville, Texas, shall be borne
and paid by said City and the said own
ers of said railroads and street rail
roads, respectively, occupying or using
or having a franchise to occupy or use
streets or portions of streets in said Paw
ing District, and such railroads and
street railroads, and said owners of prop
erty abutting on any of said streets
within said Paving District, respectively
in the shares and proportions set forth
in the above and foregoing preambles.
and as shown below. viz:
Said City shall peal and pay the cost
of paving and intersections of said
streets, and owners of railroads and
street railroads occupying or using or
having a franchise to occupy or use any
of said streets or portion thereof in said
Paving District, and such railroads and
street railroads, shall Deal and pay the
total cost of such paving ola strip Nine
(9) feet in width through such streets or
portions of such streets in said Paving
District as they may occupy or use or
have a franchise to occupy or use, and
the residue of the aggregate cost of such
paving i'll said District shall be borne
and paid for by said City and by the
owners of tracts or lots of land abutting
OH such streets in such paving district
in the shares and proportions, set forth
and shown in this Ordinance, and not e4-
ceeding, in any instance the amount of
special benefits derived to such lot and
the owner thereof, from such paving. and
all in manner and form required by and
provided for in said General Paving Or
dinance.
SECTION 2. The aggregate amount
and cost of such paving, which shall be
so borne and paid by said City for said
street intersections is hereby declared
and fixed at Five Hundred and Twenty
five and ne-hundredth ($525.01) Dollars,
Five Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty.
two and twenty one hundredths 49,
G52.20) Dollars, the total amount to he
so borne and paid by said City being Six
Thousand One Hundred and Seventy
seven and t%wenty-one one hundredth
($6,177.21) Dollars.
SECTION 3. The aggregate amount
and cost of such paving which shall be
borne and paid by such owners Of rail
roads and street railroads and such rail
roads and street railroads, respectively,
paid by said City on other paving in said
District is hereby declared and fixed at
said railroads and street railroads. re
occupying and using Or having a fran
chiSe to occupy or use said streets or
spectively, are hereby severally declared
and the aggregate amount and cost of
any portion thereof, within said Paving
District, as below stated. is hereby de-
elared and fixed at One Thousand Four
Hundred and Ninety-eight and sixty-one
hundredth dollars S 1,49S.61.)
And the specific mounts which shall be
so borne and paid by said owners of said
such paving which shall be so borne and
railroads and street railroads, and by
and fixed and are hereby assessed and
taxed against them, respectively, as fol
lows:
S. i. B. & NJ. r. r. Co. go 81. yds. $745.20
Brownsville st. & Intcrurban II. II. Co.
Z73 so. yds. $Io3.4S
And in addition to the personal liabil-
ity of said respective owners of said rail
roads and street railroads for and on
such assessments the several amounts so
apportioned to and assessed, and taxed
against said owners, respectively, and
against said railroads and street rail
roads respectively, shall be secured by
and shall constitute a valid first lien
upon such railroad, or street railroad,
and its road bed, ties, rail, fixtures, roll
ing stock, rights and franchises.
SECTION 4. The aggregate amount
and cost of such paving which shall be
borne and paid in the shares and pro
portions and in the separate amounts
herein stated, by said respective owners
Of tracts or lots of land abutting OF such
streets respectively, in said Paving Dis
trict is hereby declared and fixed at
Four Thousand Two Hundred and Sew
enty-six and sixty-five hundredths dol
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