05/13/1924 Board of Public Works Minutes

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368 a Service ,.i Connectionsth Mains No: 1383. WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works on the ............. day of ... ..... 192 . . did alopt a resolution ordering and requiring the permanent improvement of Warren. Stroot . ...... ... .. Street from .... Division' Street to Dunham to.. Dunham Street Street, by paving the roadway the same, and WHEREAS, the City Civil Engineer has prepared and filed in the office of this Board a report showing the number and location of the service pipes— mains, conduits, laterals, and connections which are, or will be necessary to accorrmcebte the abutting property and the owners thereof with gas, water, sewer, and other conveniences and neccssaries: and also said City Givil Engineer has prepared and filed in said office specifications showing the material to be used and the maner of laying said service pipes mains, conduits, ^Taherals and connections from the mains to the points in- C side the curb lines. . THEREFORE, be it resolved by the Board of Public. Werkes of the City of South Bend, Indiana, -that the report of the City Civil Engineer is adcpted, and sa.'d report and the specificatiors prepared and f:1Pd by him are made a part of this resolution as fully and effectually as if copied herein at full length; and it is fur- j jthen ordered that all of such private connections with the sewer, gas, and water .mains be made' in said street by bringing them inside the curb lines thereof. I,I And be it further resolved that notice by piblication for two successive days in South Bend News Times & Tribunes newspaper of general circulation rinted aril p publ shed in the City of South Bend ' ; Indiana, be given to the owners of the property abutting upon said street to be. improved directing them to make such sewer and water connections on or before the day of 192 —, and that if said connections are not made on or before said time and in accordance with the speci- fications and report on file in the office of the Board of the Public Works, then said Board will cause the same' to be made and will asses the cost thereof against the property abutting Lpcn said street, and shall do all other things pertaining thereto according to the provisions and reouirments of Ordinance - No. 1842 adopted by the Common Council of the City of South Bend on July 24, 1916, and cf all othr r crdinances and law relating thereto. And, be it further resolved • and ordered that after the 20 day period has elapsed for the making cf said :1 connection by the property owners, a notice shall be published for two weeks, once each week, in the South Bend Tr&bune & News Times a newspaper of general circulation publ'shd in said city, requesting ' bids from contraetora for the making of such connections as have not been made by the property ow ners, and such notice shall fix a day, not earlier than ten days after the first of such publications, when bids shall be opened and a contract let for the doing of said work, i And be it further ordered that the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Cerrpany, which holds a fran- chise from, and is a n»were l . by said city to furnish artificial gas to the citizens thereof, . and is engaged in said b33ia!33 is sriI city, is h:re')y directed to mike and install all service connections with its mains in. said Z i Street in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance No. 1555 : adopted June 27 1910 and such other ordi- Danees or laws applicable thereto; which eonnecticns are -hewn tpcn the rcFcrt of t}e City Civil Engineer, and which are hereby declared to be necessary in supplying gas to the owner of property abutting upon said street. 13th. may 1924. Adodted this dray of ,192