The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-03
Notice of the Proposed widening Of
Water or Front Street between
Leet Street and the Alley, o which
divides the Fourth Enlargement t

from LamaSc0. fiGfeEDp9 TBO dTut
1866, December N.---On motion of CounI
Gilman Reitz, seconded by Councilman
Miller, the following order was tunani-
mously adopted and passed: .f,taA al.
n Ordered, that SIX weeks public notice, by
advertising in the Evansville Daily JOUR.
NAL, be given, that on the 18th day of Feb
ruary, 1857, 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
Street to commence at the most southerly
point of Lot Is, Hornby'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 Hcrnby'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 GOodseIl Street, at point
on said side of said Goodsell Street, thirty
two feet and forty-two hundredths of a
foot (82.42) northwardly from the most
westerly corner of Laughlin's Addition,
thence north fifty-two degrees (52o) 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
(S29.SSl southwardly from the southwest
southwest side OF said Water or Front
Street, to commence at the point where the
southwest side OF Water Street as laid out
In front of the Lower or Mc(fary's Enlarge
ment Of Evansville, intersect- q continue
ton of the southeast side of Leet Street,
and running thence enthusiastically
sixty 1907 feet to point sixty COY feet
enthusiastically from the most southerly
point of Lot Is. In Hornby's Enlargement,
said point being in the line of a contrac-
ton of the northwest side of said Leet
Street; thence north fifty-nine degrees and
ten minutes 1892 l0) 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 Lannasco and
should any person aggrieved, at any time
within six weeks, apply to the Com mon
Council for redress by petition or remon-
STRANGE in writing, left with the Clerk
of the Common Council, and con-
tanning q 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, 1857; and 1t Is
further ordered, that the Clerk record in the
Minute-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. T. Whittlesey, City Surveyor.
dec3l DIV Clerk.