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REPEALING ALL PROCEEDINGS, RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES, AND
CANCELING ALL CONTRACTS WITH REFERENCE TO THE PAVING OF WIESS STREET
FROM EAST LINE OF GRAND AVENUE TO WEST LINE OF PINE -STREET; AND DE-
CLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, by resolution dated the 17th day of December, 19293,
Wiess Street from east line of Grand Avenue to west line of Pine
Street was ordered paved, and thereafter plans and specifications
were duly approved and bids were advertised for and received and a
contract was duly awarded to Uvalde Rock Asphalt Company for the
paving thereof, said contract being dated J aunary 7th, 19303, and a
hearing was thereafter held and an ordinance passed dated March 11th,
1930,.assessing the cost of such paving against abutting property
owners along such street;;and
WHEREAS, said paving Company was thereafter unable to -secure
contracts from a sufficient number of property owners abutting on
said street to justify said paving and it has become impractical to
proceed therewith, and said Uvalde Rock Asphalt Company has requested
that it be relieved from said contract and contractorps construction -
and maintenance bonds given thereunder:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION
OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONIT:
Section 1.
That all resolutions, ordinances and proceedings heretofore en-
acted or passed with reference to the paving of Wiess Street from east
line of Grand Avenue to west line of Pine Street be, and the same are
hereby repealed insofar as the same apply to or affect the paving of.
said portions of said street, and that certain contract between the
City of Beaumont and Uvalde Rock Asphalt Company dated January 7th,
1930, for the paving of said street, together with contractor's con-
struction and maintenance bonds executed thereunder, be and the same
are hereby canceled and annulled insofar as they apply to the above
named street, and are declared to be of no further force and effect.
Section 2.
The fact that the above mentioned paving proceedings have,creat-
ed an apparent lien on the property abutting the above named street,
and the fact that the paving contractor is desirous of being relieved
from its obligations under said contract and under the construction and
maintenance bonds executed -thereunder, creates an imperative public
necessity and emergency requiring the suspension of the rule
requiring ordinances to be read on three (3) several days before
their passage, and said rule is hereby suspended and this ordinance
shall take effect from and after its passage. .
Passed by the affirmative vote of all members of the City
Commission, this the 1. day of July, 1931 A. D.