09/05/1923 Board of Public Works Minutes

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0 Petition received read and placed qn file to vacate all the alley lying south of lot 20 Creod's.Second Addition to 'the City of South Bend which alley xtends west from Lafayette Street one hundred fourteen vend°three quarters feet in length. Sheets and Canfield Contractors on the Lafayette Street Trunk sewer cubtract granted an extension of tine to November 1st.., 1923,in which to complete contracir , The City Engineer having reputed an tabluation of bids preliminary order ware.entered as follows;- Improvement Resolution No. 1240 for concrete pavement on alley nortli of ha Monte Terrace from Park Avenue to Forest Avenue. The Board now designates concrete as the kind of pavement with which.said street is to be improved and further action herein is continued until Sept. 18th.9 1923 at 10:00 A.M. Contract with Grant McCready for grade, curb and walk on Vassar Avenue from College Street to Adams Street under Improvement Reselutien-No. 1173 adopted April 4th., 1923 signed and construction bnd attached:.jiherete in the sure of $634.6o with United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company of Baitim®re, Maryland as sureties approved. Contract and bond orderod filed., y. 'The following vacation resolution adopted. Vacation Resolution No, 78: 1923. _ - Re>so1vo4 by the Board of Public Werks -of the City of South Bend, Ijidianal That it is -`desirable to vacate the following:- Beginning, at the inter--'. section of the west line- of Klley Street a:Yd the east and west. oenter line of Section Fifteen (15) Twp 37 N. R. 2 E. thence south 400 feet; thence east sixty '(60) feet to the east line of said Klley Street; thence north four hundred (400) feat . to said east and west center line; -thence west sixty (160) feet to' the vlaeo*f beginning. The fallowing property may be injureusly or-beenficially affected by such vacation:-, Beginning ,at the southwest corner of Section 15 Twp..37 N. R. 2 E. thence north along said west line of said section to the southerly line of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad'; thence northeasterly along the southerly line of"said Drant Trunk Western RailR*ad to the center line of Sample Street; thence east_ along the center line of Sample Street to the center line of Olive Street; -thence south along the cent*sr line of Olive Street to the south line of Section 15 Twp, 37 N. R. 2 E. thence-w6"at along said section line to the place of beginning. Notice of this resolution shall be, published on the 13th. daffy of Sept. 1923 and.°on the 20th. day of Sept. 1923 in the South Bend Tribune and News Times, This Board, at its office in the City Hall on the loth, day of October 1923 at 7:15 P.M.,will hear and receive remonstrances fra all persons inter- ested in or affected by these proceedings. Adopted this 5th. day of Sept., 1923, - BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. L. B. SLAUGHIER Attest: L. P. HARDY: Veronica C. Sweeney AL,BERT F. HONER Clerk of the Board. Claims as evidenced by vouchers numbered frok; 989 .to 1000 inclusive allowed. Attest: - Clerk of the Board.