The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-16
Notice of the Proposed Widening Of
Water or Front Street between
L9et Street and the Alley, which
divides the Fourth Enlargemel t
from TamaSco .a7


from LamaScO.
1856, December Zion motion of Coun
Gilman ReitZ, seconded by Councilman
Miller, the following order was unani-
mously adopted and passed: 80 pg. 3 Eet
Ordered, that SIX weeks public notice, by
advertising in the Evansville Daily JOUR-
NAL, be given, that on the 18th day of Feb
ruary, 1867, the Common Council of the
City of Evansville will make an order to
widen Water or Front Street of said City,
so as to embrace in said street all the
ground embraced and contained in the
following lines, to wit: The. line on the
northeast side of said Water or Front
point of Lot Is, Horhby's Enlargement of
the City of Evansville, being The same
point where the northwest side OF Leet
Street interSectS the northeast side of Wa
ter street, as said Water Street Is now laid
out in front of said Hornby'S Enlarge
ment, and running thence north, fifty
nine degrees and ten minute (59o 10Y west
from the the magnetic meridian to the
southeast side of GOodsell Street, at a point
on said side of said Goodsell Street, thirty
two feet and forty-two hundredthS, OF a
foot (S2.42) northwardly from the most
westerly corner Of .Laughlin's Addition,
thence north fifty-tyyo degrees l52o) west
from the magnetic meridian to a point
in line with the middle of the Alley which
divides said Fourth Enlargement from
Lamasco, three hundred and twenty-nine
feet and eighty-three hundredths of a foot
(329.83l southwardly from the southwest
side Of First street and the line on the
southwest side OF said Water or Front
Street, to commence at the point where the
southwest side of Water Street as land out
in front of the Lower or McGary's Enlarge
nent of Evansville, intersects a contiUua-
ton of the southeast side of Leet Street,
and running thence ENTHUSIASTICALLY
sixty i(60) feet to a point sixty l60i feet
southwest Mardly from the most sOuthefly
point of Lot Is. in Hornby's Enlargement,
said point being in theJine of a continual
ton OF the northwest side of said lLeet
Street; thence north ,flfty-nine degrees and
ten minutes 1892 1917 west from the magnet
ic meridian until said line intersects
the southerly side of Water or Front Street
as the same is now laid out; thence along
the Southerly side of Water or Front Street
as now laid out to point opposite the
middle OF the Alley which divides the
Fourth Enlargement from LamaSco; and
should any person aggrieved, at any time
within sixweeks, apply to the Common
Council for redress by petition or remon-
STRANGE in writing, left with the Clerk
of the Common Council and con-
tanning a statement of the injuries
complained of, and the amount de,
manded therefor, said petition or remon-
STRANGE will be considered heard, and
determined by the Common Council on the
said 18th day OF February, 1867; and it is
further ordered that the Clerk record in the
Minure-Book of the Council the plat of the
said Water or Front Street, as proposed to
be widened, which plat has been prepared
by A. L. Whittlesey, City Surveyor. n-nafa
Ell I'll o5 li A. NJ. McGRIFF,1
dec3l DIV no Clerk.