The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-04
Annexation Notice.

a ND NOW HERE H APPEARING
= to the Mayor and Common Council
IN tde terory Contiguous S to said
city, and not plated or laid Off into lots,
map whereof has been duly made and
verified by affidavit accurately describing
the same by nnetes and bounds, and which
said territory is described as follows, to
wit:
Bray's Enlargement of the city of Evans
willie, and thence running north $50 feet to
the southeast bank of the Wabash and
Erie Canal; thence northeasterly along
said canal 7SS feet to the half-section line,
passing north and south through the CEN
tire of Section %, Town south, Range 10
west, in Vanderburgh County, Indiana /;
thence north along said half-section line
500 feet to the quarter quarter section COR
ner; thence 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. of said city thence along said north
east side of Tenth Street 81 feet to the
northwest bank of the canal aforesaid (;
thence southWesterly along said canal
bank It's feet to the half-sectfon line, pass
ing east and west through the centre of
Section % aforesaid, and from thence east
500 feet along said half-section line to the
place of beginning, ought to be annexed
10 the said city of Evansville and made a
part thereof; and the said Mayor and Com
mon Council of said city, being DESTROYS
that said territory should be annexed to
and made part of said city, for the fol-
ritory is contiguous to, and to a large ex-
tent surrounded by, said city: second, that
said territory shares in the benefits of sew
erage and other improvements now made,
and necessary to be made, and should be
annexed, so as to shane in the burdens of
taxation equally with other property SIM
1laTIy 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 for 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, 1865, that they will, on the 18th day of
Commissioners OF Vanderburgh County q
petition for the annexation, as a part of
said city, the territory here sL1 before 2e de-
By e. A. MCGRIFF. Deputy.
City Clerks ONCE, October 3, 1865.
To Joseph P. Elliott, Samuel Orr, Dewitt
@. Keller, William Baker, Thomas K.
Garvin, B. J. Day, and the heirs of Hugh
Ronolds. deceased:
RYOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that
~ the petition referred to In the above
notice was presented to the Board OF
County Commissioners of Vanderburgh
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 given by the County Auditor, by publ
cation in the Evansville Daily Journal,
that said application is now pending be-
fore said Board, and that IL will be heard
ana DECIDED on the saId 18th day Of Janu-
airy, 1870. VICTOR BISCH,
Auditor Vanderburgh County.
Evansville, DecemBer 18th, 1869.
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