Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 17-MAN ORDINANCE GRANTING TO HU TBLE OIL & REFINING C011TANY THE RIGHT TO USE AND B:aINMIN, AS CITY PAPE .FROPERTY, SUBJECT TO THE SUPERVISION OF THE APPROPRIATE CITY AUTHORITY,. THAT CERTAIN PROPERTY ;'1TMITN AS "CITY PARS" AND SITUATED BE- TrVAEEN WILLOW STREET AND ORLEANS STREET, AT THE INTERSECTION THEREOF, SUBJECT TO CERTAIN LIMITATIONS ON SUCH GRANT AND USE, FOR A CONSIDERATION OF $5.00 PER ANNUM, AND DECLARING AN MERGENCY. WHEREAS) the Humble Oil & Refining Company, a corporation with its principal office and place of business. in Houston, Harris County, Texas, has offered The City of Beaumont FIFTEEN HUNDRED (w1.500..00) Dollars in cash for two (2) certain small triangular tracts or parcels of land situated on the City Block in Beaumont, Texas opposite .the United States Post Office and bounded by Willow Street, Orleans Street and Liberty Avenue, and also described as out of the south end of Lot 11, Acreage Plat "E", Ass.essorts Abstract. Brooks, City of Beaumont; and VTHEREAS, in connection with said offer to purchase such land at such price, the Humble Oil & Refining Company has offered to undertake the maintenance, as city park property, under the supervision of the Park Superintendent, the Division of Betterment, and the Department of Public Welfare of The City of Beaumont, of. the balance or north end of said Lot 11, Acreage Plat "Ell, Assessor's Abstract Books, City of Beaumont, such tract being also known and designated as "City Park"' and lying between Orleans Street and Willow Street, at the intersection thereof, excepting, however, the two (2) small triangular tracts, if and when conveyed to the Humble Oil & Refining Company for use in connection with its service station on adjacent premises, and j 71HEREAS , such use and maintenance by said Humble `I Oil & Refining Company of the. property described in the I ' I whereas clause next above as city park property, under the supervision of the aforesaid city authority, will be in no- wise inconsistent with,.nor would it unreasonably impair, the s but on the,other hand such use and maintenance will be to the advantage of The City of Beaumont in materially reducing the City's cost of maintaining city park property and will enhance the revenues of The City of Beaumont to the extent of FIVE ($5.00) Dollars per year, payable in advance, TWO ($2.00) Dollars upon the enactment of this ordinance and FIVE ($5.00) Dollars on the first day of July, 1939 and the first day of July of each and every year thereafter, therefore BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUPIIONT® SECTION 1: That for and in consideration of TWO (02.00) Dollars to be -paid to The City of Beaumont upon the final enactment hereof, and the additional payment of FIVE ($5.00) Dollars in advance on July 12 1939 and FIVE ($5.00) Dollars per year in advance on the first day of July of each and every year thereafter, the Humble Oil & Refining Company be, and it is hereby, granted the right to use and maintain, as city park property, subject to the supervision of the Park Superintendent, the Division of Betterment and the Department of Public Welfare, for a period of thirty-five (35) years from date, the following described property owned by The City of Beaumont:; .That part of Lot Eleven (11), Acreage Plat "E", Assessor's Abstract Books, City of Beaumont, known as "City Park" and situated between Willow Street and Orleans Street, at the intersection thereof, and being also described as the Northern- most end of that block in the City of Beaumont opposite the United States Post Office, said block being bounded by Willow Street, Orleans Street and Liberty Avenue, excepting, however, adjacent property conveyed to and owned by the said Humble Oil & Refining Company, it being understood and agreed that the above grant is subject to the terms and provisions of The Charter of The City of Beaumont and that such use and maintenance of said property by the Humble Oil & Refining Company shall not be inconsistent with, nor shall it unreasonably impair, the public use to which said property may have. been dedicated. It is also understood and agreed that the aforesaid grant of right shall be conditioned upon the use of the property adjacent to, and on the south end of, the property above described as service station property by the Humble Oil &. Refining Company, and that the right above granted shall terminate immediately upon the failure of the Humble Oil & Refining Company to use .said adjacent property for service station purposesfor any continuous period of ninety (90) days. SECTION 2: The fact that the Humble Refining Company has offered The City of Beaumont FIFTEENA($1500.00) Dollars cash for those certain two (2) small triangular tracts of land. first above described, and.that the use thereof by the Humble Oil & Refining Company, in connection with its service station on adjacent property) will increase the public safety on the public, streets adjacent to said service station, the fact that the duration of said offer is unknown, and the further fact that in connection.therewith and as a part thereof the said Humble Oil & Refining Company has requested the right to use and maintain the tractof land described in Section 1 next above: as city park property, under the supervision of" the. proper city authoritie-p, and to pay for such right the sum of TWO (.12.00) Dollars with the final enactment of this ordinance and the further sum of FIVE: ($5.00) Dollars per year in advance on the first day of July of each and every year thereafter, until the termination of the grant, and the further fact that said use and maintenance will reduce the expenditures of The City of Beaumont and that such payment will increase its revenues, creates an emergency and imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the rule that ordinances shall be read at three meetings of The City Commission. Said rule,is, therefore, rj t4 - hereby suspended, and this ordinance is put upon its final reading and passed by a vote of 3 Ayes and `h o Nays. SIGNED and A/P/PR9VED by the T:layor and attested by the City Clerk this the T day of 6L A.D. 19 39.e ATTE13ST Idayor of The City of Beaumont. City Clerk, City of Beaumont. (SEAL) This is to certify that the above and foregoing, ordinance read, put upon its final reading, and p assed by the following vote, this the day of A.D. 1939) at a regular session of The City Commission of The City of Beaumont: Mayor) voting , Commissioner, voting , Commissioner, voting and that the said ordinance was approved by the +mayor and made an ordinance of said City of Beaumont at a regular session of such City Commission of The City of Beaumont on the day of , A.D. 1939. City Clerks City of Beaumont. TO THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT: The Grantee, Humble Oil and Refining Company, does hereby accept that certain ordinance entitled:: AN ORDINANCE GRANTING TO HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY THE RIGHT TO USE AND MAINTAIN, AS CITY PARK PROPERTY, SUBJECT TO THE SUPER- VISION OF THE APPROPRIATE CITY AUTHORITY, THAT CERTAIN PROPERTY KNOWN AS "CITY PARK" AND SITUATED BETWEEN WILLOW STREET AND ORLEANS STREET, AT THE INTERSECTION THEREOF, SUBJECT TO CERTAIN LIMITATIONS ON SUCH GRANT AND USE, FOR A CONSIDERATION OF $5.00 PER ANITM, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY, and all and singular the provisions therein contained. Dated at Houston, Texas, this the _,/4> day of April,, A. D., 1939. ATT43T etary. THE STATE OF TEXAS ) COUNTY OF HARRIS ) HRABLE 6 & REFINING COMPANY, By President. If BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, a Notary Public in and for Ha s County,, Texas, on this day per- sonally appeared _ , known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same as the act and deed of the HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY of Houston, Harris County, Texas, and as the president thereof and for the purposes and consideration therein ex- pressed, and in the capacity therein stated. Given under my hand and seal of office this the day of April, A. D., 1939, Notary Public in and for Harris County, TeE.x /S.