The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-05
To-DAYS' ADVERTISEMENTS.
AN ORDINANCE
IN RELATION TO STREETS.

Be IL Ordained by the City Council Of the City Of
Rock Island.
SECTION l. That the names of the streets of said
city hereinafter mentioned running north and SOUTH
be and are hereby changed, and in lieu of their
present said streets shall be and hereby are
designated and named as follows towit:
The name OF Pike street is hereby changed to
First street;
The name of ST. Clafr street is hereby changed to
Second street,
The name of Monroe street is hereby changed to
Third street;
The name of Carroll street is hereby changed to
Fourth street;
The name OF Huron street is hereby changed to
fifth street;
The name of Main street is hereby changed to
Sixth street;
The name of Pearl street is hereby changed to
Seventh street;
The name of Ontario street is hereby changed to
Eighth street;
The name of Exchange street is hereby changed
10 Ninth street:
The name of Ohio street is hereby changed to
Tenth street;
The name of Swan street is hereby changed to
Eleventh street;
The name of Otter street is hereby changed to
Twelfth street;
The names of Beaver and Short streets are hereby
changed to Thirteenth street:
The names of Deer and Stoddard streets are here
by changed to Fourteenth street:
The name of Cutter street is hereby chsnged to
Fourteen and-a half street;
he name of Elk street is hereby changed to Fiji
teenth street;
The name of Buffalo street is hereby changed to
The name OF Eagle street is hereby changed to
Seyel teenth street;
The name of Washing, on street is hereby changed
TO eighteenth street;
The names of jefferson and Cherry streets are
| hereby changed to Nineteenth street:
The name of Madison street is hereby changed to
Twentieth street;
The name of Adams street is hereby changed to
Twenty first street;
The name of nock street Is hereby changed to
Twenty second street;
| The name of Broadway street is hereby changed
| TO Twenty third street;
The name of Arsenal street is hereby changed to
Twenty fourth street;
The names of Davenport and Keokuk streets are
| hereby changed to TWEEN fifth street;
The names of Stckney and Railroad streets are
hereby changed to Twenty-sixt street:
The name of Howard avenue is hereby changed
| to Twenty seventh street;
SEC 2 That TIE names OF streets of SAID city.
hereinafter mentioned, running in the general di-
rection of east and west be and hereby changed
and in lieu of their present names shall be and here
| by are designated and named as follows to-wit:
The name Of Water or Mississippi street is hereby
| changed to First avenue;
| The name of Illinois street s hereby changed to
Second avenue;
The name of Orleans street is hereby changed to
The name of Rock River street is hereby changed
to Fou-th avenue;
The names Of Canal street, Highland street and
Moline avenue are here by changed to Fifth avenue
The names of Commercial street. Pleasant street
Green street, Cable street and Grove street are
hereby changed to Sixth avenue;
! The names of Toledo street. Spencer street and
Second avenue are hereby changed TO Seventh av
enue
The names of Union street,South street and Gnyel
street are hereby changed to Eigth avenue;
The names of Indian Boundary street and Pros
pect street are hereby changed TO Ninth avenue;
| The name of Fourth avenue in Hae's addition, il
hereby changed to Old Fourth avenue;
Tue name of Fifth avenue, in said addition il
hereby changed to Old Fifth avenue:
The name of the street now known as Sixth ave
nue is hereby changed to OLD Sixth avcnuc:
SEC. 3. That the following be and hereby il
adopted as the plan of numbering the dwellings
business houses and other buildings of said city
to-wit: The numbering of streets running nortt
| and south shall commence at First avenue and thu
mum from TO one hundred inclusive, 80 far a
necessary shalbe used consecutivelyfor the disanc
of the first block fractional block, fifty number
for each side of the street. the numbers for tn
right hand west side of the street, and odd mum
bers for the left hand or east side of the street
one number shall be left for and applied 10 eac
twenty feet of distance and III any case where
building or place of business occupies less tha
twenty feet a fractional number shall he used
The number from one hundred and one to tw
hundred. inclusive shall in like manner be use
s for the succeeding blocks consecutively.
: The numbering of streets running east and Yves
n street.
: SEGA. The names of streets, herein pre-
vided for shall be painted upon slips of tin thr,
inches wide and twelve inches long; such sliI
shall be fixed upon the corner buildings of eac
d block uponle street fAnd the numbe OF build
= ings herein provided, shall be painted strip
of tin eight inches long and three inches wide,
, TO be numbered
. Passed, Sept 4,1Ss6. Approved.
d Attest: W. Z. BUTLER. Mayor.
= s. +. COOKE. City Clerk. 5d1t.