04/10/1917 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Tuesday April 10th..1917. Betition received read and placed on file for pipe sewer on Chestnut Street from yapier Street to Lake Shore & kichigan Southern Ry. Co. Renewal certificate of Bond No. 875606 of Charles Pavey filed by the American Surety Company and approved by the Board. The following reported presented by the City Engineer and placed on file. April 10,1917 -The Honorable Board of Public Works, South Bend, Indiana. Gent lemen: - The attached petition calls for a pavement two blocks longj` The street is in very bad condition and is greatly in need of a pavement. ° Mr Duncan is the only resident free - holder living on t-he Street. The approximate cost to the City for paving this street would be Park Board.....`..................$1°,300.0'0 Street'and alley intersections.2 790.00 ° Total .......... 20090.00 ° Respectfully submitted, Frederick J. Anderson City Engineer. The following eas;&ment approved by the Board. EASE BENT. J THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, That Mabel Treanor Wood and Harry K. Wood her husband, of'St. Joseph County, State of Indiana, give, grant and convey to the City of South Bend, Indiana for the sum of One ($1.00� Dollar and other valuable considerations, the right, privilege and easement of building in the City of South Bend, Indiana a trunk sewer over the real estate of the grantor herein described, which trunk sewer shall be ccnstructed over and along the following line: - Beginning at a point on the east side of the St. Joseph River located south 51°44jeast a distance of 530.8 feet from a 1-8 stone boca.ted 1320 feet more or less east of the north west corner of section 35 Township 138 N. range 2 East, thence south 700 40' west 675.5 feet; thence to the left 46 0 on a curve of 50 foot radius a distance of 40.2 feet; thence to the right 28*0' on a 16°0' curve a d-istance of 200 feet; thence to the left 46*40' on a 6°40' curve a distance of 700 feet; thence on a tangent to the 6*40' curve south 38*0' west a distance of 175.5 feet; thence to the right 52*0' on a curve of 50 foot radius a distance of 48.2 feet; thence west a distance of 199 feet to a point 1346 feet south of the north line of section 34 Twwnship 38 N. Range 2 East and 76.5 feet°east of the cents of Portage Avenue; thence west to the easterly line of Pottage Avenue. And the said City of South Bend and its contractor shall have the right and privilege of going upon said land and using the same for a space of ' twenty five (25) feet eaeb side of the above described line for the purpose of con- structing such trunk sewer, which right or easement shall be temporary and shall exist only until such sewer is constructed; but the City shall have a right and easement to go upon said land to repair the sewer and keep it in good working order de_�long as it desires to maintain a sewer bullet over said land, and.along said line as above described. The above grant or easement is made for the further consideration that the grantors here are the owners of the lands lying at the western -most terminus of the above described line on which a sewer is to be constructed, and that the construction of such trunk sewer will be of great value and benefit to the grantors and to their real estate, in that it will afford a proper sewer outlet for their said land; and this grant and easement is made upon the csnsddera,tion and condition that said city will, during the year 1917, cause such sewer to -be -constructed, all of which shall be done in good and workmanlike manner, and in the f#mm and manner that such sewers are usuallycenstructed in said City. .JN WITNESS WHEREOF, they have hereunto set their hands this 6th. day of April ,1917. STATE OF INDIANA ) SS ST. JOSEPH COUNTY ) UABEL TREANOR WOOD HARRY A. WOOD Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, this 6th. day of April,1917, personally appeared Mabel Treanor Wood and Harry A. Wood, her husband, and acknowledged the execution of the above and foregoing easement. WITNESS my hand and offical seal. My Commission expires 10/20/1918. CHESTER L. DUCOW. Notary Public