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. <br />LEONA'WH1TE <br />404 NATIONAL BANK BUILDINGSHORTHAND REPORTER <br />OR 403 EAST. BOWMAN STREET - <br />- SOUTH.BEND; INDIANA <br />PHONEi 4=8141.:8-4407 - - <br />`-. <br />respeet to ,future arrangements, and it i s, and should be, <br />largely Dolit, t:ca1 matter. The city in its governmental <br />capacity, well, here -is William street, within t% memory of <br />you people.. Here was avast amount of traffic com:ing._ nto' <br />Portage Avenue, and when it gat down to Navarre Street it was <br />diverted, there was _no street open to. get darn to the city. <br />Everybody thought there ought to be'a; continuation down <br />into the city, so the quests on _then was, shall we just condegLi <br />right through to the ceh.terl.,of .the city? And in the <br />political capacity the Board ,s-aidIf we do that it is going <br />to 'cost a mint of money.` ..There are,,. streetsthat do` fairly <br />well continue to the center of the city and;which'we can u si <br />n,.� <br />They then decided to take' the=st?eets that` were already: in. <br />When you get � the right-of-way put through, - and the benefits <br />or damages assessed, then comes the questi on of the improveme <br />t , <br />of that street. Than is all taken- t are of by the. law if they <br />decade to improve. <br />MR. ROPER: I tho ught we were not assessing c osts of , impravem <br />nt? <br />MR. MILLER: Yes. <br />TAR.. ROPER: We are not, though. <br />MR. MILLER: Just a minute. I" will get to the point where' <br />you were a. moment, ago, when you to st your patience, if. :you <br />refuse to see the absurdity of saying you are._wt a.ssessang <br />the propertyowners for the cost of the improvements, when <br />_ <br />you simply attempt to include in the condemnation proceedings <br />all the costs of the improvements. <br />MR.;' ROPER: You have changed' your po si tion s inc e the l ast <br />- 14 <br />