HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 69-39ORDINANCE N0.
ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE VACATING AND ABANDONING
THAT PORTION OF MULBERRY STREET FROM THE EAST
LINE OF CYPRESS. STREET EASTWARD TO THE NECHES
RIVER; VACATING AND ABANDONING THAT PORTION
OF TEVIS STREET FROM THE EAST LINE OF CYPRESS
STREET EASTWARD TO THE NECHES RIVER; AND VA-
CATING AND ABANDONING THAT PORTION OF HICKORY
STREET FROM THE EAST LINE OF CYPRESS STREET
EASTWARD TO THE NECHES RIVER, AS MORE PARTIC-
ULARLY DESCRIBED HEREIN; PROVIDING THAT SUCH
ABANDONMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO THE RIGHTS OF
EXISTING UTILITIES IN SAID STREETS AND SUBJECT
TO AN EASEMENT FOR A. RUNNING TRACK CONVEYED TO
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY AND THE ATCHISON
TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY DATED
JUNE/71 1969.
WHEREAS, on the 5th day of February, 1969, The City of
Beaumont entered into a contract with Southern Pacific Company,
The Kansas City Southern Railway Company, Missouri Pacific
Railroad Company, The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Company, and The Port of Beaumont Navigation District of Jef-
ferson County, Texas, said agreement being referred to as The
Port Exchange Yard Agreement; and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to said agreement and in order that
said agreement may be fulfilled, the City Council deems it
necessary and in the best interest of the City that those
portions of Mulberry Street, Tevis Street and Hickory Street
from the east line of Cypress Street eastward to the Neches
River be vacated and abandoned subject to the rights of existing
utilities and subject to an easement for a running track to
Southern Pacific Company and The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe
Railway Company dated Junell', 1969;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY -OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS:
That those portions of Mulberry Street, Tevis Street and Hickory
c+ -root f - nm tbp Pest line of Cypress Street eastward to the
subject to the rights of existing utilities in said tracts and
subject to an easement for a running track from The City of
Beaumont to the Southern Pacific Company and The Atchison
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company dated Junes't, 1969, and
that title to said portions of said vacated and abandoned
streets shall revert to and become the property of the person
or corporation entitled thereto as provided by law. Exhibit
attached hereto and incorporated by reference shows the
portions of the three above named streets vacated and abandoned
by this instrument.
PASSED by the City Countil this 3=& day of June, 1969.
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Mayor -
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Attest'
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BEFORE, ME, the undersigned authority, on this day
personally, appeared:'games D. McNicholas, Mayor of the City of
Beaumont, and Myrtle Corgey, Deputy City Clerk of the City of
Beaumont, known to me to be the persons whose names are sub-
scribed to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me
that they executed the same for the purposes and consideration
therein expressed and in the capacity therein stated,
GIVEN UNDER HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, this the
"' day of 1969.
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