The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-14
C0TNlY lDEERTIgEMENT8.
Annexation Notice.

a ED NOW HERE At APPEARING
-. to theM Mayor and CommOn Council
of the City of Evansville, that the follow
city, and not plated or laid or MO lots,
a map whereof has been duly made and
verified 10y ah1daFlt accurately describing
the same by raetes and bounds, and which
said territory is described as follows, to
wit:
Bray's Enlargement OF the city of Evans
Vile. and hence running north $50 feet to
the southeast bank OF the Wabash and
said canal 783 feet 10 the half-secJion line,
passing north and south through the CEN
ire OF section ., To @n o SOUTH, Range 10
west, in Nanderourgh County, Indiana;
thence north along said half-sectiOu line
500 feet to the quarter quarter section cor
/ ner; thenc west on the quarter quarter
section line S34 feet TO the southeast line of
Chestnut Street OF said city; thence south
westerly along the side of Chestnut Street
95S feet to the northeast side of Tenth
/ Street ofsald city thence along said north
| east SIDE Of Tenth Street S2I feet TO the
northwest D6nk OF TIE canal Aforesaid;
thence southWesterIy along said canal
| bank l75 feet to the nalT-SectlOn line, pass
ing east and west through the centre Of
Section % aforesaid, and from thence east
! $50 feet along said half-section line to the
place of beginning, ought TO be annexed
part thereof: andfhe said Mayor and Conn
mon Council of said city, being DESTROYS
that said territory should be annexed to
ard made a part OF said city, for the fol-
lowing reasons, to wit: First, that said ter
ritory Is contiguous 10, and to a large eX-
tent surrounded by, said city second, that
said territory shares in the benefits of sew
eERge and other improvements now made,
and necessary to be made, and should be
annexed, so as to shane in thu burdens Of
taxation equally with other property sim.
ilaTIy situated and now within the cOrpO-
rate limits of said city and, third, that the
! Jurisdiction of said city over said territory
is necessary to enable the Common Coun-
Gil of said city to open and lay out suitable
streets and alleys, and also to provide
necessary and proper drainage lor SAID
territory. 1t is therefore ordered that the
Mayor and Common Council of said city
give due notice, according TO the require
ments of an Act OF the General Assembly
of the State of Indiana, approved March
9th, 1860, that they will, on the 18th day of
December 1859, present TO the Board OF
commissioners OF Vanderburgh County a
petition for the annexation. as a part OF
said city, he territory hersinbefore de-
scribed. A. III. MCGRIFF, Clerk,
By e. A. MCGRIFF, Deputy.
CITY Clerks O1Ece, October q, 1869.
To Joseph P. Elliott, Samuel Orr, Dewitt
G.. Keller, William Baker, Thomas f.
Garvin, b. j. Day, and The heirs of Hugh
Ronolds, deceased:
az Office rs HEREBY GIVEN, that
N the petition referred to in the above
notice was presented to the Board OF
County mmissionerS of VanderDurgh
County, on the 18th day Of December, 1863
and that the same was received and con-
sidered; and it is ordered by said Board
that the further hearing and cOnsidera.
ton of said petition be continued until
the 18th of January, 1870, and that notice
be gtven by the County Auditor, by publ
cation IN the Daily JoufnaI
hat said application Is now pending be-
fore said Board, and that IL Will be heard
and decided on the said 18th day OF Janu'
airy, 1870. VICTOR BlSCH,
Auditor V~andeTbulgE County.
Evansville, December 18Th, 1863.
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