Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1857-03-21
BOROUGH ORDINANCE.

| a N Ordinance to provide for the paving
IA Of the sidewalks and crossings in Shamo-
kin or Market street in the Borough of Suubury ::
BE IT ORDAINED, by the BurgesstS, Assistant
B,rgesseS and Common CounciImen Of tie
Borough Of .Sunburg in Common Council
met, and il is hereby Ordained By autaori q
Of the same.
SECTION i, That the owner or owners Of lots
lying ON the northern and southern sides OF
Market or Shsmokin street, between Broadway
and the channel known as The Gut in said Bo.
rough, shall before the first day of September
1887, lay down and construct opposite their lot
or lots fronting on said street called Market or
Shamohin, good and substantial pavement
Lid in a workman like manner, of bricks, flag
stones or planks, in the mssner hereinafter PIE.
scribed.
SECTION 2, That the width of the pavement
shall be as follows: in Market Square they shall
extend twelve feet from tie line ar front Of the
lot, and in the other part OF said street, they
shall extend ten feet iIem the line or front afore
said. except where there is no building erect ed
The width shall be five feet measuring from the,
outs'de line of ether pavenents inwards, and if
hereafter building is erected on said excepted
part. the pavement shall be of full width.
SECTION 3, The grade of the pavement shall
be liked by the Regulators Having regard to
the paveinents now laid the grades OF which
shall not e changed while they are ia good or
der, and any person who shall lay down pave
ment withou. having the grade and dimensions
fixed by the Regulators. or having them SO Fixed.
shal! depart from the same, shall be liable 10 a
penalty of Twenty Dollars, to he sued ior and
recovered as debts OF like amount are by law now
recoverable 0 be paid to tue Borough Treasurer.
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to tear Up such pavement and relay it according
to the grade and dimensions SO fixed as afors.
said, at tie expense Of the party SO offending.
SEcTIoS d. That if the owner or owners of
the aforesaid lot or lots or any Of them shall fail
to comply with he requirements OF this Or,li-
nance, 1t shall be the duty Of the High Consta-
hlc and he is hereby authorized and directed, 10
make or cause tc be made, the said pavc.ncnts
IN The manner Aforesaid, and 10 keep an accurate
account, %hich acconnt shall be verified hy him
under oath OF the costs of the same and cause
said account 10 be filed in the Court of CONT ON
Pleas OF Northumberland county, in the name Of
the Burgesses and inhabitants Of the Borough of
Sunbury, aganst said lot or lots and the owner
cr owners or rePuted owner or owners respective
iY, std shall give notice TO the owner or Ieputcd
owner OF the same, and it such owner can not he
found, upon his agent, attorney OF tenant, and
II 'he saIu amount win costs, Is not PAID within
ten days after such notice it shall he the duty of
the Chief Burgess TO collect the same by law
SEcrIrN 5, Any person or persons who shall
neglect or refuse to pave in compliance with The
provisions Of this Ordinance, shall be subject to
penalty Of Ninety Dollars, to lie for and rccov
cred as debts of life amount are now by law re.
coyerable, the amount of such penalty TO be
paid to the Borough Treasurer for the use of said
! Borough, and it shall he the duty Of the Chief
| Burgess to bring Putt for the same, PnovIuED,
That no person shall he liable to the above
penalty, against whom a lien has been filed and
enforced under the provisions of the 4th section
OF this Ordinance.
SECTION 6, That the Supervisors Of said
Borough are hereby authorized and directed at
the points where the sidewalks on each si,le of
Marke: street, aforesaid intersect River Deer aud
Fawn streets, and also at the intersection OF said
sidewalks with alleys to raise the crossings and
pave the same with stone of not less than one
foot in thickness hy six inches in the square,
said crossings to lie tour feet wide on the top
and sufficient slope on each side for the easy
passage ofvehcles, and the Supervisors are here
by authorized and directed to pave in the man
ner above directed, the crossing at Market and
broadway, the crossing on Market street at the
western end OF Market square the crossing at
the eastern end OF Market square, and the eros.
sing at the intersection of Market aud Fawp
streets, the whole TO be completed before The fst
day of September, A. d. 1857.
On motion. This Ordinance passed by the
following vote:
Yeas-Messrs Fryling, Haupt, Stroh, Donncl,
Arnold, Shindel Marin, Bruner and Bucher.
Nays-George Rohrbach.
NOTICE
There will a meeting of the citizens Of the
Borough of Sunbury held in the Court House on
Wednesday Evening, March 25, 1857, the object
of which is their approval or rejection of this
Ordinance.
By order OF the Chief Burgess
JOHN S. BRIGHT,
Sunbury, March IA, 1857 2t yown Clerk.
rATENT WHEEL GREASE.
EENIIIS Grnase is recommended To the notice o.