08/24/1915 Board of Public Works Minutes

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530 Tuesday August 24th.,1915. Continued. The follo%ng was certified to by the Board and turned over to Controller and Treas. To U. G. banning, City Controller, and Fred W. Martin, City Treasurer. We, the undersigned, Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana., hereby certify that heretofore one John M. Studebaker appealed to the St. Joseph Circuit .Court and asked to have appraisers appointed tore -assess the benefits assessed against Lis real estate for the constructio of sewers oh Eddy, Parry, Francis and. Division Streets in said City. That in ,purusuance to his petition so filed, appraisers were duly apointed by the Court t nd returned their appraiserient to said court. That by their return they assessed as benefits accruing by reason of the construction of said sewers the sum `of $1926.25 as the benefits and assessments against the real estate of John M. Studebaker in the City of South Bend, St.. Joseph County, Indiana described as follows. That part o-P the west three-guarters of the south one-half of Section Seven, Township thirty seven (37) North, Runge .Three (3) east, bunded by a line' rtuming as follows:: Beginning at the intersection of the east line of Eddy Street and the south line of the right of way of the Grand Trunk Western Railway Company, thence south along the east line of Eddy Street seventeen hundred twenty and one -tent, (1720.1).feet to the northerly line of Mishawaka Avenue; thence east one hundred and fifty (150) feet; thence north, parallel with and one hundred and fifty feet east of the east line of Eddy Street to the south line of the rikjnt of way of the _grand trunk Western Railway Company, thence westerly along; the southerly line of the -said right of way to the place of beginning:." THEREFORE- you and each of you are hereby directed to courect the assess- ment against said real estate, so that the same shall be the sum pf $1926.65. E.M. MOrris A.H. Rice John B. Weber STREET OFt ALLEY IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 405. Be It Resolved by the Board of Public Works of the City of South'Bebd,. St. Joseph County, State of Indiana, that is is desired and deemed necessary to improve Leeper Avenue from the north line of Howard Street to the Northeline of Angella Avenue, as . follows, to; wit : - By grading and macadamizing the roadway, by grading and macadamizing the roadway of all intersecting and entering streets and alleys lying within the property lines of said avenue; by constructing, the nec- essary cement curbs by constructing cement walk on the west side of said Avenue from Howard Street to Angella Avenue, and on the east side from Howard Street to Niles Avenue; also ,icy constructing all necessary storm water drains "and marginal curb, all as shown on the plans and innaccordance with the profiles, detail draw- ings and specifications on file in the office of tlLe department of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana. The cost of t1le improvement herein provie.ed for, except Street and Alley intersections, shall be paid by special assessment to be levied upon the property specially benefited, to the amount that the same may be legally assessed therefor, in accordance with an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. entitled "Ari Act Concerning Municipal Corporations," approved March 621905, andin accordance with and purusant to the provisions of all acts amendatory and supple- ment al thereto. The cost of all street and alley intersections, including one-half of the width of the improvement opposite street and alleys which run into,- but do not cross said roadway herein proposed to -be improved and that portion of suc, street or alley abutting upon property be longing to said city, or upon property not subject to such assessment , shall be paid by the City in cash out of its general fund, if able to do so, or from a fund created by a special assessment to be levied under the provisions of Section 108 of the above entitled Act.