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CHARLES KASSEL ATTORNEY AT LAW 4133 FORT WORTH NATIONAL BANK BUILDING FORT WORTH, TEXAS
Feby.19,1908
To the Honorable Commissioners of City of Ft Worth, City
Dear Sirs:
During last October the City of Fort Worth sold to A.O. Harvey, who in turn sold to A.G.Ilseng whom I represent, the upper fifty feet of the lower eighty feet of Block W, Bellvue Hill Addition to Fort Worth, having prior thereto, namely, on October 1st, 1907, created an extension of Boid D'Arc Street out of the lower thirty feet. It appears from actual measurement that after allowing, the thirty foot strip as actually laid by the City Engineer only forty eight feet remain between the north edge of the street and the south line of the property of Dr. Lloyd Pollock, whose corners, as he informs me, were marked for him by an Assistant to former City Engineer Hawley. It seems that all parties north of the lot sold by the city to Mr. Ilseng have no more than the proportions of land to which they are entitled, and it would seem clear therefore that the newly created portion of Bois D'Arc Street has been laid out so as to overlap by two feet the property conveyed to Mr.Ilseng, and this is turn may be due to the fact that the proprietor immediately south of the new portion of Bois D'Arc Street has encroached to a like extent upon the land of the City.
In view of the conveyance and warranty of fifty feet by the City and its creation of the street at this point, I trust the Commissioners will order made a careful survey and an exact determination of the street lines. The City Engineer seems of opinion that his office is without the data which will enable
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him to fix accurately the location of the street lines in this locality and advises it may be necessary that the city employ the County Surveyor for this purpose.
Very Respectfully, Charles Kassel
"Stake Set" Lloyd Pollock lot as fenced is 1ft 2 or 3 inches too far south.
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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 Mch 19-20-21-22-23-24 25-26-27-28 1908
BHonea
Subscribed and sworn before me on this 2 day of Apr 08
MB Levy Notary Public, Tarrant County, Texas.
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ORDER OF BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ON REPORT OF COMMISSIONER ON STREETS AND PUBLIC GROUNDS CONCERNING THE PAVEMENT OF FOURTEENTH, FIFTEENTH AND SECOND STREETS AND REQUIRING ABUTTING PROPERTY OWNERS TO COMPLY THEREWITH.
The report of the Commissioner of Streets and Public Grounds recommending that Fourteenth Street in the City of Fort Worth, Texas from the west line of Main Street to the east line of Houston Street and Fifteenth Street in the said City from the west line of Main Street to the east line of Houston Street, and Second Street in the said City from the west line of Main Street to the east line of Houston Street,should be paved with Rock Asphalt coming on to be heard and the Board of Commissioners there upon 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 sections 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 owne rs of the property abutting on said sections of said streets be and they are respectively called upon to construct said improvement in front of their 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 5494and 550 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 on Fourteenth Street is intended to embrace all that part of the said section of the said Fourteenth Street and said Second Street in front of their several properties thereon respectively from the curb to the center of the said streets. respectively and said call upon the property owners on Fifteenth St., and is intended to embrace all that part of the said section of said Fifteenth Street in front of their several properties thereon respectively from the curb to a line 18 inches on the outside of the Street Railway rail nearest such curb.
And it is further ordered that the Citizens Railway & Light