The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-19
CITY ORDINANCES.
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IA To Authorize the Purchase of certain
Lols of Ground in the Fiflh Ward.
section l. The Select and Common Oounctls
OF the CITY OF PhilauelphiA do ordaiu, That the
City Solicitor be and he is hereby authorized
aud directed to examine the title TO all that lot
thereon erected No 800 Lombard street, situate
on the north side of Lombard street, between
Third and Fourth streets; containing in front
on Lombard street twenty feet, and In length
or d depth seventy.seven feel; subject To tue pay
ment OF an annIial ground rent or sum of sixty
two dollars and hny cents and, If he approve
of the same, that he cause conveyance of said
lot of ground and premlses TO be made To the
city OF Philadelphia IN fee the confederation
therefor to be the payment of an annual ground
rent or sum OF four hundred end eighty dollars,
TO be reserved theTeOui; subject, nevertheless,
to the payment OF the 8fores aid ground rent of
sixty. Two dollars and fifty cents
Section 2, The City Solicitor is hereby also
directed TO examine the tiJle TO all that certain
three story brick messuBge, coach. h.h0use aud
stable, No. 42O South Third street, and Two CON
tiguous lots or pieces of ground situate on the
west side of DelaWar Third street, between
Pine and Lombard streets, in the city Of Pnila-
delphia-containing together In front or
breadth on said Third street forty feet (eaCh lot
twenty feeD, and extending In length or deoth
on the east by Tnird street, on the north and
west by ground OF Saint Peters Church, and on
the south by ground formerly of Ed ward Snip
pen; and If he approve OF the same, that he
cause 8 conveyance of the said lots of ground
ana premises 10 be made TO the city OF Pnila-
delphia In fee, tue consideration therefor to be
the ayment of an annual ground rent of one
thousand and twenty dollars, TO be reserved
Section 3. The City Solicitor is hereby also
directed to examine the title to all that lot OF
ground, with the threestory brick messuage
thereon erected, No. 426 $. Third street, situate
on the west side of Third street. at the distance
OF hity'seven feet nine Inches nOrthward from
the north side OF Lombard street, in the Fifth
Ward of the CITY yofPhiladelphia, containing in
mont or breadth on the said Third street nine
teen feet three inches and extending of that
width IN length or depth westward, be-
tween lines parallel with said Lombard
street, sixty'eight, feet; thence wide
width or twenty feet, and extending thence
westward OF that width the further depth of
street, southward partly by ground now or
late OF Joseph button, partly by the end of
certain four feet wide alley, laid out and
opened at the distance of slxty-four feet west
ward from the west side of said Third street
and leading southward into said Lombard
street from the south line of the said lot, and
partly by ground now or late of William Fran.
els carpenter, westward by ground granted to
AieXsnder t,nI t Huston, northward partly by
ground now or late Of the estate OF Joseph
Sims; and If he approve of the same that he
cause q conveyance OF the said lot of ground
and piemises TO be made to the City of Phiia
delphia in fee. the consideration therefor To be
the pay ment OF an annual ground rent of five
hundred and forty dollars, to be reserved
thereout
Section 4. The Mayor OF the city is hereby
authorized to afiix the corporate seal of the cty
OF Philadelphia to such deeds as may be neces.
Sary TO reserve the several ground rents mem
lloneq IN the foregoing sections 10 DE reserved
oht Of the respective lots of ground above
described to the gran tors thereof respectively.
JOSEPH +. MARCER
President Of Common Council.
BENJAMIN H. HAINEs,
Clerk OF Select Council.
WILLIAM S. STOKLEY
President of Select Council.
Approved this seventeenth day of February,
Ammo Domini one Thousand eight hundred and
DANIEL NJ FOX
zlS II Mayor of philadelphia.