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Min 03/21/1921 r Morgan Building, Wiohita Fal1s,Texas. March 21st, 1921. The Board of Aldermen of the City of Wichita Falls, Texas, met in regular session on the above date with the following present: W. D. Cline, Mayor W. S. Curlee 0 0 R. E. Shepherds 0 ALDERMEN W. N. Bonner S W. G. Bralley 0 Geo. W. Thorburn, City Clerk Moved by Alderman Curlee that the "Hearing"of the property holders on Ohio Avenue and Brook Street, originally set for 14th March and then post- poned until the 21st March be again postponed until Thursday the 24th day of Maroh 1921, at 3P. M. in the Council Chamber, which motion was seconded by Alderman Bonner and carried. ########### Moved by Alderman Bonner, seconded by Alderman Curlee that the foll- owing Resolution be adopted, whioh motion was carried by following vote:- Yeas: Shepherd, Bralley, Bonner, Curlee. Hayes: Drone. "Be it resolved by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Wichita Falls, Texas;- That whereas, the Board of Aldermen of the City of Wichita Falls, Texas, has heretofore ordered the property abutting:- On Lucile Street:- From East property line Duval Street to 192 feet from West property line Duval Street, improved by raising, grading and filling same and installing concrete curbs and gutters and paving with concrete, and Whereas by Resolution of the Board of Aldermen, adopted on the 14th Feb • w�. 1921, it was ordered that a hearing to all property owners abutting on said portion, of said Street, and all others interested be held in the Council Chamber in the Morgan Building at 7:30 P. M. on the 14th day of March and that notice thereof be given, and WHEREAS, due notice of the time and place of such hearing was given and such hearing held, and all parties, their agents and att- orneys and all others desiring to be heard were fully and fairly heard and at such hearingea the following protests were made:- A) fir t'i protesting against he cos-t of such improvement (1) That all protests and objections, whether herein specifically mentioned or not, be and they are hereby over-ruled. (2) That the Board finds from the evidence before it that no property will be damaged by means of, or as a result of any of said improvements. (3) The Board further finds from the evidence before it that the proper rule of apportionment of the costs of such improvements is that applied and shown on the estimates, reports and statements of the City Engineer, filed on the 14th February 1921, and examined and approved by the Board, and that such produces and effects substantial equality and justive between the various lots and parcels of land shown and effected thereby and the respective owners thereof, and the Board further finds from the evidence that each naroel or lot of land abutting on said por- tion of Lucile Street will be benefitted in enhanced value by means of such improvements on said portion of Licile Street in an amount in excess of the portion of coats to be assessed against same as shown on said esti- mates reports and statements of the City Engineer. That said sums be assessed against said lots or parcels of property and against the owners thereof, aid the City Attorney is here- by directed to prepare form of Ordinance levying such assessments in accordance with the dharter and laws in force in this City and in accord- ance with the ordinances, resolutions and other proceedings of the City applicable thereto. That said hearing be and it is hereby closed as to all part- ies and as to all said improvements. That this resolution take effect from and after its passage. #i#444# ORDINANCE 344 t2 "An Ordinance amending section three of Ordinance 257 entitled "An ordinance giving and granting unto the Wichita Falls Traction Co., its successors, assigns and lessees the right to operate, construct and maintain a street oar line over and along certain streets of the City of Wichita r'alls, Texas, and repealing so much of Ordinances 108 and 187 of the City of Wichita Falls, Texas as requires the Wichita Falls Tract- ion Co., its successors, assigns and lessees to pave any part of the streets of Wichita Falls, Texas, occupied by said Street Railway belong- ing to Wichita Falls 'fraction Co., and so much of said ordinances as requires the payment of a gross receipts tax of two per cent to said City when its population reaches twenty five thousand and providing that a gross receipts tax of two per cent shall be paid by said Wichita Falls Traction Co., its successors, assigns and lessees, when its net earnings exclusite of all taxes paid, shall anoint to eight per cent on the amount of its actual investment. Moved by Alderman Bonner that Ordinance 344be put on its third and final reading, which motion was seconded by Alderman Shepherd and defeated by following vote: Yeas: None Hayes: Shepherd, Bonner, Curlee,91 • ORDINANCE 365 "AN ORDINANCE DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO ADVERTISE FOR BI➢S FOR THE IMPBOVEIENT OF OHIO AVENUE FROM 6TH STREET TO FRONT STREET". Moved by Alderman Curlee that. this Ordinance be placed on its first reading. which motion was seconded by Alderman Bonner and carried by following vote:- Yeas: Curlee, Shepherd, Bonner, Bralley. Mayes: None. ########### Moved by Alderman Curiae, that the Mayor be authorized to sign and execute the easements for Sanitary Sewer across the Fort Worth and Denver Ry Co., and the Missouri Kansas & Texas Ry. Co's tracks, which motion was seconded by Alderman Bralley and carried. ######### On request of property owners on Brook Street, and Ohio Avenue, Alderman Curlee moved that the hearing of property owners on Ohio Avenue, and Brook Street be further adjourned until March 2tth, 1921, at 3:00 P. M. at Council Chamber in the Morgan Building. ########## Morgan Building, Wichita Falls, Texas. March 24th, 1921. The Board of Aldermen of the City of Wichita Falls, Texas, met in regular adjourned session on above date with. following present:- W. D. Cline, Mayor W. G. Bralley 0 W. S. Curlee 0 W. N. Bonner 0 ALDERMEN R. E. Shepherd 0 Geo. W. Thorburn, City Clerk ######## ORDINANCE 365 "AN ORDINANCE DIRECTING THE CITY CIOdtK TO ADVERTISE FOR BIDS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF OHIO AVENUE, FROM 6TH STREET TO FRONT STREET". Moved by Alderman Curlee that this Ordinance be placed on its second reading, which motion was seconded by Alderman Bonner and carried by following vote: Yeas: Curlee, Shepherd, Bonner, Bralley. Mayes; None. ########### Mr Boone, Attorney for Fort Worth & Denver Ry. Co., as well as cer- tain other property holders on Ohio and Brook, requested an adjournment of the hearing on Ohio Avenue, until Staurday March 26th 1921, and Alderman Curiae moved that the Meeting be adjourned until 3 P. M. Saturday March 26th, A. D. 1921. which motion was seconded by Alderman Bonner and carried. The Council then adjourned until Saturday at 3 P. M. March 26th,A. D. 1921. • ##4414##1144# 19 t