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TO THE HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH:-

Your petitioners Sam Rosen and Fort Worth & Rosen Heights Street
Railway Company to which he has assigned the privileges granted to him by
this Council, respectfully represent.

That in the ordinance granting to said Rosen and his assigns certain
rights and privileges for the construction of a line of street railway in
the City of Fort Worth, there is a provision that the construction of said
line shall be commenced within six months from the date of the acceptance
of said Ordinance by said Rosen, and that said period of six months from
the date of the said acceptance will shortly be completed.

That the said Rosen and the said Fort Worth & Rosen Heights Street
Railway Company to which he has assigned said rights and privileges, have
in good faith diligently prosecuted the construction of a line of street
railway from North Fort Worth to Fort Worth, Texas, with a view to the com-
pletion of same into Fort Worth under the terms and provisions of said Or-
dinances, and that said line is now graded to a point at or very near the
city limits of Fort Worth.

That said Ordinance provided that said line might be constructed over
North Fifth street and Houston street and other streets there mentioned,
or in the alternative over North Main street within the limits of the City
of Fort Worth if said other streets were not opened by the city and made
available to said Rosen or his assigns.

That said work of grading has progressed to a point where it is now
necessary to have said North Fifth street and Houston street now opened in
order that the work of constructing said line may continue, and that said
streets are not now opened.

That in view of the present obstruction arising out of the fact that
said streets are not open, and the further fact that some technical conten-
tion might arise under the circumstances as to the commencing of work within
six months as provided in said Ordinance, your Honorable body is respectfully
requested to pass the attached resolution or ordinance granting to the said