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Home My WebLink AboutORD 11-A-3No Text ..ORO, designated, as Sewer ,73onds:.in._.the..sum�':of Fifty:' Thousand 0501000) Dollars, _payable forty (40) years after. date with the `option of redeeming , s.am.e..,,'at any time ;af t,er.:: twenty (20 ), Y.6-ars.7 from date, bearing interest at the rate of five per cent per annum, payable semi,-a.nnually,,' , and to -levy a tax sufficient= to pay' the interest .on- the said bond's _-_and _creae,_ a sinking_fund sufficient to, -redeem same at maturity; :'.for the purpose of constructing public Sewers; and ;nec,essary. Laterals within :the. -City hof; Beaumont,,, the' Sewers and.=Laterals to be' constructed as follows: Sabine .Pass' Avenue ,Sewer to, be -.extended to Cartwright Avenue. Royal Street: Sewer ; to .be extended to Avenue E. Broadway St e et; S,e.wer oto b;e :6xteh'CL .within. three. hundred ( 300 ) f.eet, .of, the `'Ci -ty.'Limts.` Third Street 'Sewer ''to be; extended from-,Bro' dway Stre,e.t to Pecos. Wall' Stre'et'Sewer ;to.-be`°extended_ rom__Holmes Avenue.._to'Rai_lroad... Shamrock Street. Sewer to. be extended from Sabine Pass Avenue.. to. Irving Avenue: 'Mary Street Server froom Sabine Pass Avenue. 'to Irving Avenue. College Str-eet from Avenue D.:to Avenue F. . Avenue A= Sewar to Cedar 'Street. to VcFaddin-Wiens-Kyle Rice Milling ,Company. . Magazine Street- from,Brake'.s Bayo"u.r' :to..Magnolia Avenue.'. Long Avenue frort Brake's Bayou .West t.o Center Street. Ax�d._sad Laterals -,to -be constructed as.,may he'r-eafter:-be= determin- ed -.to serve "the best, ihteres:t :to the 'City., Third: Shah the City Council of the 'City of Beaumont be author i:�ed to issue the .bonds: of the said' City, hereinafter designated as, Str'eet�, Impr`o�r.Pm6n't; and Repair Bonds in ,,the sum of --Ten Thousand ('p10,,000.00) Dollars; .payable in, forty, .(40) years after date with the�option.of�'redeeming same.'it any time after,, -2- No Text No Text No Text No Text • F=F•�,t'�'j ! 1 ref .%� p 1 7t i ! : �J` & F• �!_.•�.c ' .', P_:#_. /1 F ! e ' "A IT ORDINANCE" Or derir_g an,election to be held in the City of Beaumont to determine -..if ,the bonds of 's aid. City shall be' issued for the purpose of making certain ,publid improvements, naming the time and plaices of holding said election and appointing officers thereof, and providing for the manner' of holding.said election and, the giving of notice thereof. . BE IT ORDAINED BY THE.. C I TY COUNCIL OF THE C ITY -OF BEAUMONT : That an election .be held. in •the ' City.• of • Beaumont, Texas, on ,.th'e 28th. dap' of= September, A.D., 1909 , a t . which election the follo.v=ing propositions shall -be,- submitted:'. First:' Shall the City Council''of the City of Beaumont be. authorized, to. issue the bonds 'of. -the said City, hereinafter designated as School. House Building arid.Repair :Bonds 'in the .sum of .One; Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) Dollars, payable . in forty (40) years after date with the option of redeeming same at any time after. twenty (20) years from date, bearing` interest .at the rate.'of five (5°0) per' cent per•'annum, payable semi-annually, ' and to levy -a .tax sufficient to . pay the interest on said bonds end create. a sinking fund sufficient to redeem same, at maturity,. foi the purpose of constructing certain public School Buildings and making certain repairs. on School Buildings in the City' of Beaumont . Second: Shah: the City Council of the City. of Beaumont be authorized, to issue bonds of the said City, hereinafter_ designated as .Sewer ;Bonds in the sun of Fifty .Thousand (502000) Dollars, payable forty (40) years after date with the .option of tedeemin'g same at any time . after twenty . (20) years from date, / 1 A,B bearing- int erest at. the.. rate of ';five', (5�) per cent . per annum, payable- semi-a=nnually, .-and, to levy a tax ,-.sufficient to pay the . interest.. on the,, said`Uxids- arid= create a sinking fund sufficient. to redeem same at 'maturity, f,q r ,the purpose of constructing nee hthepublic Sewars. '-t s . City of Beaumont-,, the.;Sewers axed .Lateralis 'to be constructed as follows: Sabine Pass. Aver_ue Sewer to be`extended"to Cartwright Avenue. Royal., Street- Sewer to be` extended, to ' Avenue E. Broadway Street Sevier ,to- 'be. extended within three hundred -(300) feet' of the 'City Limi't's. Third. Street Sewer to .be extended from Broadway Street to Pecos... Wald Street Sswer' to be extended from Holmes Avenue to Railroad.. Shamrock Street`Sewer to be extended from Sabine Pass Avenue to Irving Avenue..,. Mary Str e e Sevres. f rum, Sabine Pass Avenue to I rving Avenue, College Street from Avenue D to Avenue -P. Avenue A Sevier to Cedar.'.Street 'to McFaddin-Wiess-Kyle Rice Milling Company* : Magazine Street from Brakets Bayou to Magnolia -Avenue. Long Avenue from Braket's Bayou West to .Center Street. And said Laterals to be constructed, as, may hereafter' be determined to, serve the best interest to • .the City. . IV,. Third: Shall. the City'Council of the City. of. Beaumont be authorized to issue the bonds: of the .said City, .hereinafter designated as Street Improvement and Repair Bonds in the' -sum of - Ten •(10,000..00) Dollars,- payable in -forty (40) years after.'date: with: the option of redeeming same at -any time .after twenty : (20) years after date'., bearing interest at the rate of five- (5a) per' 'cent per axinun pdyr,Abl'e semi-annually and. to. A -3 create' a sinking fund sufficient to redeem same at maturity°, for the purpose olo::. Stre`et improvements and Repairs. That said'.;election shal..l. be 'held at the following place's; to -wit: In the First Ward -'at ;the' Beaumont City Hall. In the Second Ward at Salvation Army.. Barracks ori- Wal]. Street. in the Third Ward .at the Jefferson County Court Hous.e., via That- the follovaing named persons are appointed officers of said election: In the First Ward: H.D.Fletther. Presiding Judge-, -John L. Keith Assistant Judge. In 'the Second Ward: H.C. Schwaner . Pre siding Judge, Ras Landry Assistant Judge. In �th e Thi'r'd Ward: A.3. Pipkiiz Presiding Judge, Kyle Ward Assistant Judge. Vii . . The ..said election shall be held under the: prov,lLsions of Chapter 149, Acts of the 26th Legi,slat.ure, Jaws 1899,, and only qualified voters who are property tax payers. of said. .City of Beaumont shall.be allowed to. -vote all voters desiring to support the proposition to issue -School -House Building and ` Repair. Bonds, shall have printed on their. ballots the .words.. "For_. the issuance of School House Building and Repair Bonds," and those opposed to the issuance of School House Building and Repair Bonds shall have printed on. -their ballots the words, "Against the issuance of School. House Building` and Repair Bonds," and'those desiring, to support the proposition to issue.Sewerage . Donds shall . have printed on their ballots the words, "For the issuance of Sewerage .Bonds," and those opposed to the issuance is \ -3- 17, /9 (09 of Sewerage Bonds shall. have .printed on their ballots the words, "Against the issuance of Sewerage Bonds," and all voters desiring to support the p-roposit:i.on to issue Street Improvement and Repair Bonds, shall have printed on their ballots "For the issuance' of Street. 'Improvement and Repair Bonds," and those opposed to the issuance of ' Street Improvement and Repair Bonds' shall have printed on their ballots the words "Against the issuance of Street Improvement,and Repair Bonds." The. manner of holding said election shall ,be governed by the lags of the State of Texas, regulating general elections. VIII. That*q, copy of this or dinane e signed by the Mayor of the City of 'Beaumol'n and attested by ythe City Secretary shall serve as proper notice of said, election and -the Mayor is direct- ed -to cause . said notices to be posted up at each of the places designated for holding .said electionat least ,thirty (30) days prior to the date of .said election. Approved this the 17th day of August, 1909: 1Seal) Attesti x t' se e t ark. - - M yor. . 1,94i THE STATE OF TEUXAS COUNTY. OF 'JSFI+' SON Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared J. H. Stewart, Chief of Police ' of. the City of Beaumont, Texas, who being by me,duly, sworn , says on oath that he posted a true copy of the notice.of election hereto attached at each of the, places designated for holding said electim to -wit: The City Hall ,in the First Ward; the Salvation Army Barracks on Wall Street in the, Second Ward; and'the Jefferson County Court House in the Third Ward, each of which places are public places in the ,.precincts in vvhich they are located, and that . said notices of election were posted at each of said places, on the -;4of August, A.D. , 1909 , which was more, than thirty days prior . to the date for holding said 'election'. Chief of Police,,, City of Beaumont, Texas. u, ; Sworn to and subscribed before Lqe'� ,has the day of G�L/�y A.J. ,r X909 . It Not Pu lic, Jeffe ssn C 11 tv, Texas. �a !� (Form 1607 Standard.) t Santa Fe. e Beaumont, Texas, May 20, 1909. ---To. The--Honorable-May-ow .-and-_City. Council -of _Beaumont=,---_. Beaumont, Texas, Gentlemen:- This is to advise you that the Beaumont Wharf & Terminal Railway Company over certain parts of .Long Avenue about 220 feet west of east line of Pine Street. Yours very- truly, JAG -P Di 6CLOaee IL Ile THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON � TO THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF'THF CITY OF BEAUMONT.. Your committee to whom was referred -the a�o'lication of the Bealzmont Wharf & Terminal Company, requesting that it be granted the right and roriviledge to lay, maintain, and -operate a switch track springzn-�,- from the North side of its main lire on Long Aven.12e, about 220 feet West of t -he'. imt.ersection of Lon%` -Avenue with the West line of Pine Street, beg t -o -report that it has duly considered -said application and mans hereto'attached,.marked"Exhibit A", and made a part hereof, and recommend the following, to wit: -, -�-- �, quest In.. said application -be (b) That the ordinance hereto attached, granting the franchise, marked "Exhibit TO and made a part hereof be and the same is -hereby adopted by- the City Council. (c) That the .construction.of said switch track and the grading of the street about same be made under the direction of the City Engineer.. Respedtfully submitted" on this the 6th day of A-cril, -A. n. 1909 ORDINANCE COIF, UTTEE. A N' 0 R. D .I _N: A N C._:E GRANT I71 G" TO TAE°BEAUMONT:' WHARF & TERMINAL "COMPATIY, its..succp4-sors and assigns, the right to lay -a switch track, a.pritging! from "the North nude of. its main line. _. on "Long "Avenue,. about --220: "fset West of the Ea'st line of Pine, -Street in the City of Beaumont; to operate its cars thereon, and,imnosina; certain conditions in•respect thereto BE `IT ,ORDAINED BY THE'CIT-Y .COUNCIL OF'- THE CITY OF BEAT ORTT; Section -1- That the "Beaiunont Wharf &,.Terminal Company in .its own right -and in.* the right.of its successors and assigns is hereby. Jant�d the •right of w'`�r authority to orQ Ong verlxe, ° public street ity of Beailnont, spring- ink .from a point on the -Korth side, of. -the main line ' of. the sa-id Beawnont Wharf & Terminal .Company, in Long Avenue ".and about 220 --feet West.of the intersection -of the West Line of--Pine-Street and Long. - Avenue'; thence in a. north-easterly direct ion - to a. -'point on -the North boundary line of said Long Avenue, -.at": or'. near the corner,of.- a tract_ of land frontALTi Pine or Null Street and Long Avenue;" "deeded t.o -William Wies:s by, George-" W., Smyth by a deed . re -corded in Volume - 19, page -:529•;: of -the 'Deed Records of Jefferson. Co1�nty, Texas, to have and to-"ho.ld "the .same-,untothe. Beaumont. Wharf. & Terminal Company-. the said. right to. construct and operate said switch- tract,- as shown by the main -ar..plat attached to application:,'of said Beaumont Wharf &" Terminal: C:oinpariy. Section-. . The obligation is hereby imposed upon, the said Beaumont Wharf & Terminal -Company, as . required "by the City Council" from time to time; to 3jr.'ace said switch"tragi _laid on any part .of Long Avenue" to the .grade: level .af. -the''street 'with, sand: crushed rock, shell or any,. other :suitable material as _the City Council -may direct;;, and,':in the event that at any time: the: City of Beaumont may undertake to- construct -a public- under ground sewer, intersecting any part of said switch tract-,- the- Beaumont Wharf & Terminal= Company- shall' be - bound to pay,- for-- the. cost of- so .much "-of said .sewer as. 'underlies --such _ switch track"intersected by such sewer.; and shall. be- liable, and shall make and maintain such ditches-, drains, or culverts,as may be ,"directed -by the City Council of the City of Beaumont. -Section- -3- The-.said Beaumont Wharf. & Terminal: Coitnany, its successors . and assigns, -'shall take the rights and franchises herein granted, subject to the.provisions of -the 'Charter -of the Cit of Beaumont and :subject to all 'the ordinances of the . City -now. in -force-. or which may be here.iri after adopted.., regulating t -he const "ruction of railroad t •acks and the operation of railroad engines and, "cars in the -City The rights,.. "authoriti.es,_-And`privileges hereby granted to the Beaumont'- & -Terminal Combany, _�it.s successors and assigns, shall subsist and be- :vested` in said Company, its. successors and. assigns, .for a period - of thir_ty years., from the -date of ,its final passage ._by the Counc'i1:. : Section -5 The said BeAumorit Wharf'-& Terminal Company, its successors or`tassigns, shall-file-with:ethCity Secretary an instrument. in -writing accepting the terms of this .franchise _.ordinance within thirty -days after its final passage, -and shall construct., lay, and complete said switch trac-'k within sixty days after . its written :eptance has :been -duly filed. _VED -ori this the ` . day -of 1909. MAYOR-. cce :: -