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J. H. MADDOX CHIEF
LEM E. DAY ASS'T CHIEF
Police Department CITY OF FORT WORTH
Fort Worth, Texas, August 27th, 1907. 190 ____
Hon. Geo.Mulkey, Police Commissioner.
Dear SirI would respectfully recommend the appointment of Mr. J. H. Mahen, Jr. as special police officer for Dallas News branch office, and J. M.Higgins as special officer for Valley View addition, both officers to serve without pay from the city.
See attached requests and recommendations.
Yours very truly,
J. H. Maddox Chief of Police.
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State of Texas, Tarrant County.
I, Bert Honea, cashier of The Star Publishing Company, publishers of The Fort Worth Star, hereby certify on oath that The Fort Worth Star is a daily newspaper, printed in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and that the notice, of which a copy, with bill, appears on the attached paper hereto, was published in same newspaper on Aug. 29-30-31 Sept. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 1907.
Bert Honea
Subscribed and sworn before me on this 3 day of Oct., 1907.
J. P. Bancroft Notary Public, Tarrant County, Texas.
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ORDER OF BOARD OF COMMISSION [text behind newspaper account] SSIONER ON STREETS AND PUBLIC GROUNDS CONERNIN [text behind newspaper account] Street from the east side of Main Street to west [newspaper clipping covers text] and Fourth Street from the west side of Main Street [newspaper clipping covers text] on Street, and Tenth street from the east side of [newspaper clipping covers text] west side of Main Street and Tenth Street from east [newspaper clipping covers text] west side of Rusk Street and Eleventh Street from th [newspaper clipping covers text] rton Street to west side of Rusk Street and r [newspaper clipping covers text] rty owners to comply therewith.
[newspaper clipping] LEGAL NOTICES
ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ON REPORT OF COMMISSIONER ON STREETS AND PUBLIC GROUNDS CONCERNING THE PAVEMENT OF THIRD STREET FROM THE EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET TO WEST SIDE OF RUSK STREET, AND FOURTH STREET FROM THE WEST SIDE OF MAIN STREET TO EAST SIDE OF HOUSTON STREET, AND TENTH STREET FROM THE EAST SIDE OF HOUSTON STREET TO THE WEST SIDE OF MAIN STREET, AND TENTH STREET FROM THE EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET TO WEST SIDE OF RUSK STREET, AND ELEVENTH STREET FROM THE EAST SIDE OF THROCKMORTON STREET TO WEST SIDE OF RUSK STREET, AND REQUIRING ABUTTING PROPERTY OWNERS TO COMPLY THEREWITH.
The report of the commissioner of streets and public grounds recommending that Third street from east side of Main street to west side of Rusk street, and Fourth street from west side of Main street to east side of Houston street, and Tenth street from the east side of Houston street to the west side of Main street, and Tenth street from the east side of Main street to the west side of Rusk street, and Eleventh street from the east side of Throckmorton street to west side of Rusk street, not including intersections of said street with Houston and Main streets, should be paved with bitulithic pavement coming on to be heard and the board of commissioners thereupon and also upon their own motion having carefully considered the necessity and advantage of paving said sections of said streets in the manner requested, and it appearing to the board of commissioners that there is a public necessity for having said streets paved with said material, and it further appearing that so paving said section of said streets will increase the value of the property abutting upon said sections of said streets respectively in a sum equal to or greater than the cost of constructing said pavement in front of the respective properties abutting on said streets,
It is therefore hereby ordered that the owners of property abutting on said sections of said streets be and they are respectively called upon to construct said improvement in front of the several properties respectively and that they construct said pavement in accordance with the said specifications referred to in said recommendation, which specifications are recorded on pages 505-6-7-8-9 of book R of the minutes and proceedings of the board of commissioners of the city of Fort Worth; the said call upon said property owners is intended to embrace all that part of said sections of the said streets in front of their several properties respectively from the curb to the center of the said respective streets.
And it is further ordered that this order, not including said specifications referred to, be published in the official newspaper of the city of Fort Worth, to-wit: The Fort Worth Star, once a day for ten consecutive days in order that the persons owning property on said sections of said streets, or any of them, may have due notice thereof, and in order that if any person owning property on said sections of said streets, or any of them, be unwilling to pay the cost of constructing said improvement in front of the property owned by him or her that such person may file or cause to be filed his or her objection or protest thereto on or before the next regular meeting of the board of commissioners after the final publication of said order and in order that any other person, company or corporation desiring to do so may file his or her or their protest or objection to the construction of said pavement.
I hereby certify that the foregoing order was duly presented and unanimously passed by the board of commissioners of the city of Fort Worth at a session held August 27, 1907. W. J. ESTES, City Secretary
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