Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-01-28
AN ORDINANCE.

by an Ordinance 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 abutting OH streets or parts of
streets to be so paved within said Paving
District, respectively, for such paving
and declaring and fixing the amount per
abuttlng 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 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-
ting prODerty 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
connection with such paving, the reason
able attorneys fees of said City in de
Tending 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 abutting
property, and upon any and all such
railroads and street railroads, respec-
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 LA
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.
Within said City. with the boundaries
tksrein 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 crcOSOted wood blocks as pro
Nided 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
tersectIOnS of said streets, and that own.
efS 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 (5) feet in width
through such streets or portions of such
streets III said paving district as they
may occupy or use or have a franchise to
occupy ~ use, aldthat the residue Of the
aggregate cost of such paving in said
district shall be borne and paid for by
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 and form required by and pro
vided 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
III compliance with the requirements of
said General Paving Ordinance. and was
duly approved by this City Council.
which thereupOn ordered a hearing in
the premises to be given on December
II, A. ID. 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 OWL
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,
WHEREAS, due notices of such hear
ingS have been given in the manner and
form ana for the length of time required
bv said General Paving Ordinance, and
said hearing has been duly given and
held, accordingly. beginning at the time
and place so designated therefor, adj
i0urnment of said hearing from day to
dav and from time to time having Oc-
Cured to suit the convenience and upon
the requests Of certain interested pro
testing abutting property owners; and,
WHEREAS. upon full hearing and ma
ture consideration in the premises this
CITY Council now here finds and declares
that the assessments hereinafter made
i'm his Ordinance are i'll all respects III
accordance with the requirements and
provisions of said General Paving Or
dinance. and are here now made in all
RESPECTS as contemplated by that Ordl-
nance. and that no assessment made by
This ordinance against any owner or ms
nroperty is in excess of. but i'll each IN
stance is i'm accordance with the amount
of the snecial benefits TO such property
in the enhanced value thereof by reason
of such paving, and that the appOrtl0n.
mcnt of the cost of said paving IN SAID
district among said property owners, as