The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-06-14
An ORDINANCE
To Prescribe the Mode of Constructing Side
and CrOss-WaIks. Hf Ir ..sI..ss

To Prescribe the Mode of Constructing Side
and CrOss-Walks. ~ IH -sIsa
SEC. /. Be il 0rdai,acd 6y The CiLy Council
| ofthe Chg Of Fremont, That all side and cross
walks hereafter ordered to be constructed
unless provided for by special ordinance,
shall be laid on lines and levels and incIina-
tions to be determined and fixed by the City
Civil Engineer, and shall be ofsound square,
edged two inch pine or oak plank not less
than eight inches wide, laid transverse the
street on four inch square sound white or
burr oak stringers and secured to striugers
by two twenty penny nails in each plank
whenever the same rests on stringers. Plank
walk four or six feet wide to be laid on two
stringers eight or ten feet wide to be laid
on three stringers twelve feet wide on four
stringers; sixteen feet wide on five striDgers.
SIC. .. Wherever said walks cross any
street, six rods wide, thirty two feet thereof:
sixty feet or four rods wide, twenty -four feet
thereof; in the center of such street, and in
alleys two rods wide, sixteen feet in the
center thereof; one rod or twelve feet wide,
eight feet in the center thereof, shall be laid
with sound square edged, three inch, white
or burr oak plank resting on five inch square
bearers, of the same material, placed not over
five feet apart, and secured to the bearers
with six inch wrought spike, wherever the
same rests on a bearer, The center bearer
to be four by eight inches, wherever two
planks meet on any cross-walk. If any
timber or other work is required to bring
the walk to proper level or to prepare a
proper bed for said walk the same shall be
deemed to be a part Of the walk herein order
ed to be made. Gas
SEC. 8. The costs o. all cross and side
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assessed upon and collected from the owners
of the lots and lands and upon the lots and
lands bounding abutting said improvement,
in proportion to the feet front. -a -,,
SEC. 4. If the owner or owners OF any lot
or land in front of which said walk is re-
quired to be made shall complete walk in
front of his her Or their premises of the
proper width, materials and mode of con-
struction, to the acceptance of the City
Engineer and Street Commissioner before
that part of the work shall have been COM
menced or materials for the same be obtained
by contractor, under this ordinance such
owner or owners shall be exempt from as
sessment under this ordinance, except for
cross-walks, excavations and embankments
in other parts of the walk. But To- avail
themselves Of this exemption owners must
file notice in writing with the Civil EDgi-
neer before the work is let, specify ing the
location and extent of walk which they re-
spectively Claim the right TO make, and the
time within which they viii make the same,
and within one day after the awarding of a
contract to any bidder, deliver to him a copy
of said notice. But if the Engineer should
consider the time required by such owner to
be unreasonable, or, it being by the Engineer
considered reasonable, if the work so pro-
posed TO be done by such owner is not COM
pletcd within the time specified then the
work shall be done by the contractor, and |
the exemption shall not attach.
Passed May 49, 1861. ~ ''l- .iT