The Cairo evening bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1868-1870, 1870-01-21

should be filled to the grade established by ordi
Just before herein reeted And your petit oner fur.
ther represents that by an ordinance numbered 81,
approved June 9th, 1863 entitled IAN ordnance 70
povide for hllng aud grading Washington avenue TO
Eighteenth street and adjacent streets, Approved
u the city of Cairo, that Washington avenue from
the Mississippi Levee to the northwest side OF Esii-
eenh street shout be hle9 TO TIE craze OF IN. cry
The WIDTH of seSenty-hve Ieet on TOP, thriy seven
and half feet each side Of the center me OF sald
svonue AMI that Poplar street, ifsm its Junction
with said Washington avenue to sad northwest zoe
81 iaid Eghee4 street ana mat fs h,, 9f Na
Tenth, Eleventh., Tweihh, Thirteenth, Fourteenth
stee es' from avenue to Washington ave-
nue.. should be also filled to the same grade all OF
said streets which sixty feet vide 70 be filled 70
the width Of forty feet on top twenty feet on eaeii
side OF the center line oil each OF said streets. And
your petitioner would further represent, that 1t was
aunce nSn Ie IS spproSed November 9TH sS
entltled ian ordinance to provide for the filling OF
street that that portion Of Poplar street. lying be;
I tween the northwest side of Eighteenth street and
hed the grade OF the city established by ord,
nance numbered 81 said hng to be of the width OF
forty feet the top twenty feet on each side vi the
center line Of said street.
And your petitioner further represents that under
and by virtue of the ordinance herelnbefore citea
aud others passed at various times by the sald Ciiy
CoLnc ofthe city of Cairo, pursuant to the powers
granted to said city in the act OF its Incorporation
and the various acts mandatory thereof saiu streets
and avenues hereinbefore mentioned and described,
we're filled and and graded AZ follows, to-st'
Commercial avenue from the line Of it's ntersec.
49, tv , s. r VI Wv, wy. -, ,hn nor,hwast aide OF
Twentieth street, the grade to which the same was
rn ~ @ ~ .ie sna ana .. th street and
eighty-fou thousand, six hundred and si1ty.nlne
cube yards of earth having been lntroduse aims INTO
he sa,, T.. wear she ont. n,ant;nnsd and at cos,
to said city Of Cairo Of tiny three thousand one nun
Wssh,ns,nn .yysnns rom y no,nt one hundred and
h es. n m ss.sn,h street, he grad. to
bioh a, n ~ 2 sI'aa ran. The sam. A. Thai
Oh me hgnes. natural ground o. hs sb,r ihn.s
on. bunared M cnhi, Yards OF earth hay-
,, bna, in,adnaad ~, said aynnc and distr,eut.d
ny oeen INTO saa Law hene e .Ss non,s
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inptou avenue the grad. TO which said streets were
nied benc the sam. as that OF the highest natural
ground at the corner OF Commercial avenue and
Sixth street and there been intr, dused into
the streets and In the process OF filing the
came between the points mentioned, the following
named quantities az earth and az the following cost
10 aid civ OF .airo to.vlti
Into First street. seventeen hundred and forty -hve
cubic yards OF earth, and At sco.t to said city VI
twelve hundred and ninety dollars aud thirty zone
cents into Third street, four hundred and forty
eli cable yards Of EARTH and At cost TO said city OF
three hundred and thirty dollars aud seventy eight
cents into Ffth street, -four thousand, nine hundred
and for,y.one cubic yards OF EARTH and at cost 70
said city Of three thousand, SIX hundred and hiiy.sI
dollars and thlrtyfO cents into Ninth street. two
thousand eight hundred aud uikty.sx cubc yAru- OF
earth and nj cost 10 said city oil tw. one
hundred and twenty dollars and eighty -four cents
and Second, Fourth, Sixth, Eighth aud reuth streets,
from the west line Of Leyee street TO the east line 81
Commercial avenue, and from tho west line Of Com
neTcia avenue to the east line or washington ave.
nue.. the grade to which said streets were filled being,
between the west line Of Levee street and the east
line of Commercial avenue, such that the descent
from Leyee street 10 Commerce.! avenue should be
the grade Of said streets the point Of lntersec-
ton herewith and between the west line Of Com
avenue, the grade being tie same ~ that OF the
highest natural ground nj the corner Of CONNER.
ciM avenue and sixth street aud the following
qan,ue, Of earth having been introduced into said
street. and distributed ia the process Of rlns, the
to said city OF Cairo OF the following named
amounts, io-wit; Into Second street, three thou.
sand, seven hunsted aud isel,e cube yards OF
earth, at cost TO said city Of tao thousand seven
hundred and twelve cubic y~rss .a'h. and cost
10 SAD SIty oi wo thousand seven iory-
sl1 dollars anu eyhty-eight Sen!si INTO four.h
street, sN thousand, two hundred and thiry.four
cube yards OF earth, and cost to said city Of four
thousand, Fix hundred and thirteen dollars aud six
teen cents into K1h street, one thousand, hive hum
dred and eighty-h'e cube yards OF EARN, aud at
cost 10 SAID eity OF one thousand, one hundred and
seYculy.iw dullaTs and ninety cents into Eighth
street Tour thousand seven hundred aud hfieen cubic
yard, of EARTH and alta cost 10 said city Of three thou.
| .and four hundred anu elghty.nine dollars and ten
| cents nnd INTO Tenth street, ten thousand eight
"hd AZ c"st 10 sad oiy oi eight thousand and ireB
N-hNe dollars anu thlIiy cents Poplar -tert, from
the hoth side 81 smith street Ia the south side Of
Eighteenth street, the grade 10 which said street
hNcd being the sumea that VI the highest natural
ground, AT the corner Of Commercial avenue and
sixth street, and Nenty nine thousand, eight hun
bred and sixy',wo cubic yards of earth having been
introduced into said street and distributed IN Tie
process OF filling aud grading, the same betweeu the
points named, aud at cost 10 said city ~ twenty.
thousand and nneiy.seyen dollars and eighty.eight
cents; Eleventh. Thirteenth, Fifteenth, siitecnth
and seventeenth st. eets, from the west side OF Com
mcrcial avenue 10 the east side OF Poplar street
aud from the west SIDE Of Poplar street 10 the east