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THE STATE OF TEXAS,} } COUNTY OF TARRANT.} Before me, Clara A. Lane, a Notary Public in and for Tarrant County, Texas, on this day personally appeared J. B. Morris, known to me to be a credible resident citizen of Tarrant County Texas, who subscribed and swore to the following statements:
My name is J. B. Morris. I purchased Lot 1 Block S of the Bellvue Hill addition to the City of Fort Worth, from John Bates in Feb. 1890 and let a contract to Rigdon & Thompson to construct a house on said Lot in December of same year. Work on said building commenced in the latter part of said month of December 1900 and on the 1st day of January 1901 Jno. Bigron the brick mason employed by said contractors to construct the foundation had it about completed and about the same time a defect was detected in the title to said property by Pruit & Smith and further construction was suspended on said building and brick work until some time in Feb. of 1901. I further certify that the material for said building had not been placed on the property until long after Jan. 1st 1901.
J. B. Morris
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of April A. D. 1904.
Clara A. Lane Notary Public Tarrant Co. Tex.
Whe property above referred to was assessed at $3500 for the year 1901. In view of the fact that no construction was done on the lot until some time subsequent to Jany 1st 1901 except the foundation your petitioner asks that the assessment be reduced to $600 the value of the lot plus the probable cost of the foundation and that he be allowed to settle the difference on his taxes for the year on that basis.
J. B. Morris
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We your Finance Com recommend that the within petition be allowed and that petitioner be allowed to settle his taxes for the year 1901 on the basis of $600 valuation.
Wm. G. Newby J. F. Henderson Q. T. Moreland
FILED APR 15 1904 Jno T. Montgomery City Sec'y
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JOHN T. MONTGOMERY, City Secretary.
W. J. ESTES, Assistant.
City of Fort Worth OFFICE OF CITY SECRETARY.
Fort Worth, Tex, April 15 1904
Whereas, on September 3rd 1900, the city executed her two promissory notes to Gutta Percha Rubber Company for $250.00 each, with interest on same at 5% from date until paid, due respect-ively two, and three years after date, and Whereas said two notes have not been paid on account of a defective hose, for which said notes were given, and Whereas, said defections have been good, and so reported by Chief of Fire Department. Therefore, we recommend said notes now paid with interest hereon at rate of 5% as aforesaid and City Secretary is instructed issue warrants to take up said notes but that inasmuch as the city was deprived of the use of the hose for about two years of pending the settlement of the question of the interest on the amount for the full time, the city tender them the face of the notes plus interest at the rate of 5% per annum from the time the hose was accepted by the city, and the City Secy is instructed to issue warrant in accordance with this resolution.
Wm G. Newby J. F. Henderson Q. T. Moreland
