06/1901 Board of Public Works Minutes

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June,27. 1901. Engineer instructed to prepare description of -property Peliminary to condemnation for -the widening of South Lafayette street from Ewing Avenue to Elmira street, the street to be made 60 feet wide between such points. Engineer reported a description for the vacation of part of St. Joseph street between Vistula Avenue and Washington street. Engineer reported specifications for grading Niles Avenue from Howard street to Leeper Avenue. IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 32. Resolved by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend,IndianaThat an improvement bg made of the kind, size, location and terminal points as,.follows Grading Niles Avenue from the north line of Howard street to the east line of Leeper Avenue. Said improvement shall be known and designated as "Upper Niles Avenue" and shall be constructed according to the plans and specifications prepared by the City Civil Engineer, filed herewith. Notice of this resolution and proposals for bids for the execution of the above work shall be published on the 28 day of June and on the 5 day of -July 1901•, in the South Bend Daily Tribune and in the South Bend Daily Times. This Board will give a hearing on this resolution at its office in the City Hall on the 9 dad of July 1901, at 7:15 P.M. and will receive bids up to 10 A.M• on the 10 day of July, 1901-. VACATION RESOLUTION N0. 4: ResoLved by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana: That i is desirable to vacate the following: All that part of St. Joseph street lying between the south line of Washington street and the north line of Vistula Avenue, excepti: a strip eight and one half (8&1/2)feet wide along the east line of said St -Joseph street between said terminal points. The following property may be injuriously or beneficially effected by such vacation; All of lots one(1)two(2)and three(3)in Vinson's Subdivision of lot J in the City of South Bend. The property of Charles Vinson. Part lot twenty-four(24)in'South Bend Manufacturing Comp anys Addition to the City of South Bend, Beginning at Northwest corner, thence South to Southwest corner, thence East two(2) chains, thence Northwest to beginning., also beginning at Northwest corner -thence east fifty-six(56)feet, thence South twenty-eight(28)feet, thence North 63 degrees 26 minutes West to beginning, owned by the Muessel Brewing Company. Part lot One hundred and two(102)and part lot Onehundred and one(101)in the Original Plat of the town (Now city)of: South Bend, owned by the Muessel Brewing Company. Notice of this resolution shall be published on the 28 day of June and on the 5 day,of July