Council Proceedings: September 1, 1907

City of Ft. Worth __________________ WITH THE WESTERN NATIONAL BANK OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS

Interest Acc't for August 1907

PLEASE EXAMINE AND REPORT WITHOUT DELAY. City Treasurers' Balances Dr. Cr. Sept. 1st 1907 TEXAS. THE WESTERN NATIONAL BANK OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS 1907 190_____

FILED Sept 12 1907 W. J. Estes City Secretary.

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State of Texas, Tarrant County.

I, Bert Honea, cashier of The Star Publishing Company, publishers of The Fort Worth Star, hereby certify on oath that The Fort Worth Star is a daily newspaper, printed in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and that the notice, of which a copy, with bill, appears on the attached paper hereto, was published in same newspaper on Sept. 6-7-8-9-1011-12-13-14-15th 1907.

Bert Honea

Subscribed and sworn before me on this 3 day of Oct., 1907.

J. P. Bancroft Notary Public, Tarrant County, Texas.

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Order of Board of Commissioners on Report [text behind newspaper account] Streets and Public Grounds concerning the cons [newspaper clipping covers text] ings on Hemphill Street from the crossing of a [newspaper clipping covers text] line of Magnolia Street to the south boundary [newspaper clipping covers text] Fort Worth and requiring shutting property o [newspaper clipping covers text]

east and west side of Hemphill St[newspaper clipping covers text] a public thoroughfare from a point where the [newspaper clipping covers text]nolia Street crosses Hemphill Street south [newspaper clipping covers text] south boundary of the corporate limits of the [newspaper clipping covers text]osses the said Hemphill Street and it appearing [newspaper clipping covers text] issioners after a carefull consideration of [newspaper clipping covers text]ntage of such improvements that curbings of the [newspaper clipping covers text] of construction , etc., as recommended by said [newspaper clipping covers text]er Davidson, should be made on each side of [newspaper clipping covers text] the said Hemphill Street and it appearing to t[newspaper clipping covers text]oners that the enhancement in value of the prop[newspaper clipping covers text] street by the construction of the said cur[newspaper clipping covers text]d respective properties will be equal to or [newspaper clipping covers text] of the construction of the construction of the [newspaper clipping covers text] in front of the said respective properties. It is [newspaper clipping covers text]ered by the Board of Commissioners that the own[newspaper clipping covers text] on said portion of said street be and they [newspaper clipping covers text] to construct the said curbings in front of the [newspaper clipping covers text] owned by them respectively save and except [newspaper clipping covers text]rty

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ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ON REPORT OF COMMISSIONER ON STREETS AND PUBLIC GROUNDS CONCERNING THE PAVEMENT OF THIRD STREET FROM THE EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET TO WEST SIDE OF RUSK STREET, AND FOURTH STREET FROM THE WEST SIDE OF MAIN STREET TO EAST SIDE OF HOUSTON STREET, AND TENTH STREET FROM THE EAST SIDE OF HOUSTON STREET TO THE WEST SIDE OF MAIN STREET, AND TENTH STREET FROM THE EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET TO WEST SIDE OF RUSK STREET, AND ELEVENTH STREET FROM THE EAST SIDE OF THROCKMORTON STREET TO WEST SIDE OF RUSK STREET, AND REQUIRING ABUTTING PROPERY OWNERS TO COMPLY THEREWITH.

The report of the commissioner of streets and public grounds recommending that Third street from east side of Main street to west side of Rusk street, and Fourth street from west side of Main street to east side of Houston street, and Tenth street from the east side of Houston street to the west side of Main street, and Tenth street from the east side of Main street to the west side of Rusk street, and Eleventh street from the east side of Throckmorton street to west side of Rusk street, not including intersections of said street with Houston and Main streets, should be paved with bitulithic pavement coming on to be heard and the board of commissioners thereupon and also upon their own motion having carefully considered the necessity and advantage of paving said sections of said streets in the manner requested, and it appearing to the board of commissioners that there is a public necessity for having said streets paved with said material, and it further appearing that so paving said section of said streets will increase the value of the property abutting upon said sections of said streets respectively in a sum equal to or greater than the cost of constructing said pavement in front of the respective properties abuttting on said streets,

It is therefore hereby ordered that the owners of property abutting on said sections of said streets be and they are respectively called upon to construct said improvement in front of the several properties respectively and that they construct said pavement in accordance with the said specifications referred to in said recommendation, which specifications are recorded on pages 505-6-7-8-9 of book R of the mintues and proceedings of the board of commissioners of the city of Fort Worth; the said call upon said property owners is intended to embrace all that part of said sections of the said streets in front of their several properties respectively from the curb to the center of the said respective streets.

And it is further ordered that this order, not including said specifications referred to, be published in the official newspaper of the city of Fort Worth, to-wit: The Fort Worth Star, once a day for ten consecutive days in order that the persons owning property on said sections of said streets, or any of them, may have due notice thereof, and in order that if any person owning property on said sections of said streets, or any of them, be unwilling to pay the cost of constructing said improvement in front of the property owned by him or her that such person may file or cause to be filed his or her objection or protest thereto on or before the next regular meeting of the board of commissioners after the final publication of said order and in order that any other person, company or corporation desiring to do so may file his or her or their protest or objection to the construction of said pavement.

I hereby certify that the foregoing order was duly presented and unanimously passed by the board of commissioners of the city of Fort Worth at a session held August 27, 1907. W. J. ESTES, City Secretary