04/30/1912 Board of Public Works Minutes

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IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 161. MICHI GAN., STREET TRUNK SEWER, RESOLVED, BY the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bern d.St. Joseph CountylIndiana, that it is desired and deemed, necessary- to construct a sewer in Michigan Street and. LaSalle Avenue, said cit y.,whi ch, from its size and character is not onl intended and adapted for use by property owners whose property abuts, along the dine of saig sewer but is also -intended and adapted r foreceiving sewage from collateral drains already constructed or, which maybe hereafter'. constructed., and the same is hereby ordered construct- ed 4h.%and along Michigan Street and LaSalle Avenue, beginning at a point -in the center of LaSalle Avenue where the same* intersects with the westerly bank of the St. Joseph Riverin the said City ofSouthBend; thence running west along said LaSalle Avenue. to Michigan Street with a sewer sixty, (60) inches in diametei; thence south along Michigan Street to the center of Washington Avenue with h a sewer sixty (60) inches in diameter; thence still south along Michigan -Street to the center of Jeffe rson Youlevard with a sewe.r, fifty-four- (54) inches in� diameter; thence still south along Michigan Street to Division Street, with a sewer forty-eight (.48) inches in diameter, together with all the necessary house and store cm- nections to the curb line along the whole length, of said improvement,, and to be built in accordance with the profile, specificationsdet ail plans ,maps and estimates now on- file in the office of the"Departmentof Public Works of said City,, which includes an estimate of the proportion thiit the cost of an adequate local sewer, built along the above line, bears to the cost of the main sewerto-be built as follows: The cost of an adequate local sewer.buill along. the line above describedis hereby estimated and fixed to be of the cost of the main sewer to be built along said line as above set forth2which propor- tion, as herein estimated and fixed, hhall be to en and adopted in all computations requir- ing a knowledge of the cost of such local sewer if built along the line where the main sewer is to be built. The cost of the construction of said sewer shall be divided as follows: 1..So much of such cost as shall be equivalent to the construction of an adequate local sewer not adapted to receive 'sewage from, collateral -drains I or sewers, if built along the proposed line as hereinabove set forth.shall be paid by the abutting pro- perty holders and the said City of South Bend., if it be I determined that the said City.is benefited by said sewer in the same manner and to the same extent as local sewers, are paid .for by them, under the Statutes in such cases made and provided. 20 The excess of cost over and above what would be equivalent to the cost of a local sewer, if built along said line, shall be assessed against each piece of property .in the district or area to be drained and against the City, if it be determined that the .9aid City is benefited by the said sewer,, according to the manner and method prescribed by law, all of vhich said property beneficially affected lies within the following described territory in the City of South Bend, County of St. Joseph, and State* of Indiana,,to-wit:- Beginning at the center of LaSalle Avenue and the first alley west of Michigan Street,, in the said City of South Bend; thence south along the center line of said alley and said alley produced and extended, to the center of Ewing Avenue; thence east a- long the center of Ewing Avenue to the first alley east of Michigan Street; thence north along the first alley east of Michigan Street to the first alley south of Calvert Street; thence east along said alley to the center of Witwer Avenue; thence north along the center of Witwer Avenue to the first alley south of Dubaifivenue; thence east along said alley to the center of Carroll Street; thence north along the center of Carroll Street to the Alley south of Pennsylvania Avenue; thence west along said alley to the center of Witwer Avenue; thence north along Witwer Avenue, and through the alley between lots eighty-three (93) and Eighty-four (94) Elder Place Addition, to the first alley north of :Pennsylvania Avenue; thence east along said alley to the first alley west of Carroll Street, thence north along t e center of the first alley west of Carroll Street to a point one hundred fifty (150) feet south of the south line of Sample Street; thence west parallel and one hundred fi fifty(150) feet south of the south line of Sampiq Street to a point one hundred sixty-five (165) ' feet east of the east line of Michigan Street; thence north parallel with and one hundred sixty-five (165) feet east of the east line of Michigan Street to a point one hundre fifty (150) feet south of the southt.1ine of Tutt Street; thence east parallel with and one hundred fifty (' 150) feet mouth of the south line of said Tutt Street to the Southerly - line of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company's right of way; thence north. across lot Twenty -nin�29) Denniston and Fellow's Addition to the north and South alley between Columbia Street and Fellows Street; thence still north following the center line of said alley and said alley produced to Mohroe Street; thence east along the center of Monroe Street to a point One hundred (100) feet east of the east line of Columbia Street to the center of Division Street) thence east along the center of said Division Street to Vistula Avenue; thence west along the center of Washington Avenue to a point one Hundred sixty-five (165) feet east of the east line of Michigan Street ; thence north parallel with- andv6ne hundred sixty five (165) feet east of the east, line of Michigan Street to the wester n bank of the St. Joseph River,, thence northwtsterly following the westerly bank of the St. Joseph River to a point one hundred sixty five (165) feet north of the Korth line of LaSalle Avenue to the first alley west of Michigan Street; then c- h slazig s ai d