Council Proceedings: February 3 and February 17, 1905: Part 1 of 2

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We your Finance Com beg to report that we have no authority in law to make the change asked for in the within peittion. We therefore recommend that the petition be recd and filed.

Wm G Newby Q.T. Moreland

FILED FEB 17 1905 Jno T. Montgomery City Sec'y

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FILED JAN 30 1905 Jno T. Montgomery City Sec'y

Ft. Worth,Texas,11/11"/1903.

To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of the City of Fort Worth, Texas.

We, the undersigned citizens and taxpayers of the Second Ward many of whom reside and own property adjacent to West Fifth Street,most respectfully petition you honorable body to authorize the cutting down of West Fifth Street on the hill just East of Robinsons Branch and beginning at about where West Second Street runs into Fifth Street.

The attention of the Council is drawn to the fact that the said Fifth Street is an extensively traveled thoroughfare and is a good street with the exception of said hill.

That, the said hill is now veyr steep and in bad condition, and that by cutting down or grading down the said hill about two or three feet and using the material that may be taken there from in widening and filling up the said street near Robinsons Branch, that the said street can be made one of the best streets in the City, and,

That such improvement will not cost a great deal as the material of which the said hill is composed,is largely loose rock and gravel and will require but little additional material to make the same a good street when cut down.

And they further show that this improvement is one that is much needed and can be put through at a moderate cost.

They further show that the Second Ward is one of the most populous Wards of the City in which reside many of the largest taxpayers of the City, and, that in justice to this Ward this improvement should be ordered and made without delay.

Respectfully submitted.

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PETITION OF CITIZENS OF THE SECOND WARD TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR CUTTING DOWN AND IMPROVING WEST FIFTH STREET.

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FILED DEC 4 1903 Jno T Montgomery City Secy.