Ord. 1914-148 - railroad franchise

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-- v e e e , . ORIHNANcE 148. f.1::f1:;'k;''=!'4!=.''-4~.'~ "~.~~ '!::!~/~~~'=!'=f.~ An Ordinance granting the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company, its successorS and assigns, the right, privelege ad and easement of constructing, maintaining and operating its line of Railroad within and through the corporate liMits of the Town of La Porte; regulating the exercise of the rights granted heroby, and de- claring an emergency. Be it ordained by the Town Council of the Town of La Porte:- Section One. That the right, privelege and esacmm t of constructing, maintaining and operating a line of single track, standard guage railroad, with its appurtenances into and through the Town of ~a- Porte, in Harris County, Texas is hereby granted to the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company, its successors and assigns, the center of said track to be as follows, to wit,- Beginning at a point where said line of Road intergects the West 1ino of South ~. ~treet, which is also the South line of Donald son Avenue, and the North line of the Town of La Porte; thence in a Southerly direction crOSSing South E. Street, and upon and along Park Avenue 59 foet from the West line thereof to a point opposite the North-east corner of Block No 11, at tho corner of Brownell and Park Avenues; thence continuing in a Southerly direction along Park Avenue to the beginning Q,f a curve of approximately 2 degrees to the left, which point is 67 feet from the West line of said Park Avenue; thence continuing in a Southerly direction with said curve ~ to a point of tangent near where the East ~ La Porte branch of said Company connects with the said line of road herein referred to; thence continuing Southerly along Park Avenue, and 35 feet from the West line thereof, to the South boundary line of the Town of La Porte, at or near the North line of South L. Street. Section Two. Said line of Railroad shall be so constructed and maintained as not to un-necessarily impair or interfere with the use of the streets in and upon which the same shall be constructed, and said Railway Company, its successors and assigns, shall con- struct and maintain the nece~sary culverts and sluices for the pur- pose of carrying surface water beneath said tracIe. ~ect.on Three. Sai8 Railway Company, its successors and assigns, shall construct and maintain all necessary crossings over said track where the same shall be crossed by existing streets of said Town of L~ Porte. Section ?our. That the Ordinance adopted on the 9th day ot April A. n. 1913 be, and the same is hereby repealed. Section ~ive. It being deemed to the best interest of the Town of La Porte that said Railway track be constructed and placed in operation as soon as possible, that an emergency and imperative necessity exists, that the reading of this Ordinance at three meet- ings of the Council be dispensed with, and that this Ordinance therefore shall be in rull rorce and effect rrom and after its pas- sage and approval by the l~ayor. Approved this 8th day of June A. D. 1914. A. N. Mc Kay Mayor of Town of La Porte Texas. Attest E. J. Sullivan Secretary. ,