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• Southern Pacific property. Accordingly, the City Commission of the City of La Forte has vacated, closed, and abandoned the easement for street purposes for North "L" Street INSOFAR as the same exists under, upon and over the surface of the classification yard and mainline tracks to a height 22.5 feet above the top of rails completed and installed by Southern Pacific. Southern Pacific recognizes the present necessity for the continuance of the plan of North "L" Street as a major street and thoroughfare; and hereby confirms and grants an easement for street purposes for North "L" Street across the 23.3557 acre tract and its mainline right-of-way (as aligned and described above•) Such street is to be constructed only upon • an overpass bridge, and such easement begins only at a height 22.5 feet above the top of rails as such rails are finally completed and constructed. To make the intention of both parties clear, North "L" Street does not now exist in the described location below a plane of 22.5 feet above the rails in the yard and mainline, but an easement for North "L" Street to be built upon an overpass bridge (carrying with it all other reasonable and proper street purposes and uses) shall hereafter exist on a plane 22.5 feet above such surface grade. As part of the consideration for the compromise and settlement involving North "L" Street, Southern Pacific hereby DONATES AND DEDICATES an additional 120 feet easement for the widening of North "L" Street at the same elevation, 22.5 feet above such 23.3557 • acre tract and above such mainline right-of-way, the same being • two 60 -foot strips on either side of and parallel to the above - established 80 -.foot easement for a total width of 200 feet. Southern Pacific's only obligation, with respect to the surface and with respect to the space 22.5 feet above the top of rails under such 200 -foot easement, shall be to provide, at suitably -5-