The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-05
COUNTY ADVERTISEMENTS.
Annexation Notice.


a sd NEW HERE II APPEARING
kA to the Mayor aud Common Council
OF the City of Evansville, that the follow
ing described territory, contiguous to said
city, and not plated or laid off into lots,
a map whsre of has been duly made and
verified by affidavit accurately describing
the same by metes and bounds, and which
said territory is described as follows, to
wit:
Commencing at the southwest corner of
Bray'S EnIarz ement OF the city of EvaEs-
Vile, and thence running north 369 feet to
the southeast bank of the Wabash and
Erie Canal: thence northeaSterly along
said canal 788 feet to the half-section line,
passing north and south throuRh the GEN.
ire of Section 70, Tom 8 south, Range 10
thence north along said haIt-sectton line
500 feet to the quarter quarter section COR
neF; 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
958 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 southwesteIly along said canal
bank I75 feet to the haif-sectfOn 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
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-
LOWING reasons, 10 WILL F1ISb. BlaE SAID ter
rftory is contiguous to, and to a large ex-
tent surrounded by, said city; second, that
said territory shares in the benefits of sew
rage 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
ilaIIy situated and now within the corpo-
rate limits of said city; and, third, that the
Jurisdiction of said city over said territory
is necessary 10 enable the Common COun-
Gil of said city 20 open and lay ont 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 viii, on the 18Th day of
December 1853, present to the Board OF
Com mtssioners OF Vanderburgh County
petition Tor the annexation, as a part of
said city, the territory herein before de-
scribed. A. III. MCGRIFF, Clerk,
BY r. "A. MCGRIFF. Deputy.
City Clerks ONCE, October q, 1869.
To Joseph P. Elliott, Samuel Orr, Dewitt
@. Keller, William Baker, Thomas Z.
Garvln, ID: j. Day, and the heirs of Hugh
Ronolds, deceased:
~ Office Is EEREBY GIVEN, that
1SN the petition referred to in the above
notice was presented to the Board OF
County Commissioners of Vanderburgh
County, on the 18th day OF Deem Der, 1869,
and that the same was received and con-
sidered; and it is ordered by said Board,
that the further hearing and c0nsidera-
ton of said petition be continued until
the 18th of January, 1870, and that notice
be given by the County Auditor. by publf-
cation in the Evansville Daily Journal,
that said application IS now pending be-
fore said Board, and that IL wifi be heard
and decided on the said 18th day OF Janu-
any, 1870. VICTOR BISCH,
Auditor YandeTbulgh County.
Evansville, Deeemb Der 18Th, 1859.
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