Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-08
NEW STREETS ANDLANES.
PLAN OF THE CITY SOUTH OF
ANDERSON STREET.

ANDERSON STREET.
How the Present Streets viii be Ex-
tended and New Ones Laid Out
Another Plan of Assessment-Alder- /
man HamiItOn's Ordinance Providing |
for One Assessor-The Quarantine |
Regulation Ordinance Amended-A |
Chimney Contractors Troubles.
The session of the City Council last |
night was occupied with the usual rou-
tine business, and with the exception of |
the Introduction of an ordinance relative |
to laying out new streets and lanes in the
limits of the city south Of Anderson street,
and another providing for the appoint
ment of City Assessor, were without es-
pecial interest. A full board was present,
with the Mayor presiding.
The ordinance providing for new streets
and lanes was introduced by Alderman
Thomas. By the act of the General As
sembly, approved Sept. 81, 1888, providing
for the extension of the city limits, it was,
among other things, enacted that any one
who should build across any projected
street or lane after it had been surveyed
and laid out should, when the City Council
should condemn it, be entitled to cOmpen-
satiOn only according to the value of the
property at the time when the survey was
made.
The streets have now been surveyed,
and it was deemed advisable to lay them
out so that they might be known. The
plan of the extension of the streets rum
ming north and south provides that Lin
coin, Abercorn, DraytOn, Whitaker, Bar
nard, Jefferson, Montgomery, West
Broad and Burroughs shall be extended
south to the extreme limits with a width
Of 80 feet for Lincoln street, AbercOrn 70
| feet. DraytOn 10, Whitaker 40, Barnard
| 70, Jefferson 50, Montgomery 70, West
Broad 100, and Burroughs go feet.
! Bull street will be extended with a width
Of seventy-fiye feet. The eastern, middle
and western streets, as now laid out in
! Brownsville, will be extended north to
the Ogeechee road, with a uniform width
of fOrty-fve feet.
The streets and lanes running east and
west will be laid out from the western
| line Of Habersham street, through to the
| Ogeechee road. The first lane south of
| Anderson street will run parallel with it,
| and 105 feet south of it, and will be twenty
feet wide. The first street will be 105 feet
south of the first lane. and will be
IS feet wide. The second lane Will be
| l2711 feet south of the first street and will
| be Of the same width as the first lane.
| The second street will extend between
| Habersham street and the first extended
| street of Brownsville, and will be 121%
| feet south of the second lane and will be
| 30 feet wide. The next streets and lanes,
| included the third street south of Ander-
son, will extend between the same eastern
and western limits, and will be l33 feet
| from the second street, and 40 feet wide,
and the third lane will be 115 feet from
| the third street and the same
width as the other lanes. The
remaining streets and lanes up to the
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| apart and of the same uniform width
sixty feet for the streets and twenty feet
| for the lanes, except the seventh street,
| which will be 100 feet wide. The ordinance
does not provide for the laying out of
| squares.
Alderman Hamilton introduced an
| ordinance providing for a new method
| Of assessment and for the appointment of
a City Assessor. The ordinance provides
| that the Council shall elect at its first
meeting in July an assessor, who shall re-
| ceiYe a stated annual salary, to hold office
until the first meeting in 1885, when his
| successor shall be elected for three
| years, each subsequent assessor to
| be elected for the same time. The
assessor shall be required to give a
| satisfactory bond, and once in every year
shall appraise the real property OF the
! city, keeping a complete record of the
assessment, ''setting forth the location,
| value and description of all lands and
buildings Liable to taxation" and an
| alphabetical list of all real estate owners
within the city limits, showing the APP
| praised value of each piece of property,
| the width and depth and number of each
| lot, and the kind Of building if any, lOca-
ted upon it, with the assessed tax. He
| shall also publish for the information of
| the people the time at which the returns
| for taxes are to be made, and
returns
! expired none shall be received, except
the time be extended by the Council, but
he shall make returns and assess all de-
| fauters, and deliver his returns to the
| City Treasurer and shall mark every re-
turn to the Treasurer with the date upon
which it was made and the period when
| it should have been made. The ordinance
| further provides that the assessor shall
| keep a careful record of all changes of
| real property by improvement, injury or
destruction, with a view to the equitable
| increase or decrease gifts appraisement.
Every person and corporation owning
real property in the city on a certain date
shall be liable to be taxed under the tax
| ordinance, except stocks in banks, and
organizations under the laws of the State
or United States, shall make a return
within a certain time. A list of all per-
sons and corporations making such re-
| turns to be published as in the case of
| citizens; the President or officers at the
| head of these organizations to make a re-
turn of all stockholders, with particulars
| as required; and every person doing busi-
| ness in the city to make a return of his
| business within a certain period. The
ordinance also provides for the return of
property, both real and personal, much
| the same as under the old ordinance.
Alderman Minis offered an ordinance
| amending the present ordinance relative
to quarantine regulations, which provides
| that any vessel having picked up at sea
any seaman from a wrecked vessel from
an infected port, shall, during the entire
year, be compelled to anchor at the quar-
| antine station until released by the officer
in charge, under penalty of fine not
exceeding 800, or Imprisonment for more
than thirty days.
Alderman Hamlet also offered an ordi-
nance providing that no sidewalk wider
than six feet shall be laid in River street,
and that no sidewalk at all shall be laid
north Of the Planters rice mill.
Alderman Thomas submitted resolu-
ton authorizing the publication of the
ordinance providing that no building or
repairs to the amount of 500,
shall be made without a
permit from the Clerk of Council, for the
benefit of the residents and owners OF
property south of Anderson street, which
is exempt from taxation, and the persons
VINO, IN improving IL, 90 not Te9dru Tue OF-
dinance as intended to regulate
their actions, with the statement
that its provisions operate as well
in that locality as elsewhere and will be
enforced.
The committee to whom was referred
| the communication of DR.. j. L. McFar-
| land. Health Officer, asking for an am
bulance and supplies for the surgical and
medical department of the police barracks,
| reported adversely to acting in cOmpl-
ance with its suggestions.
The committee to whom was referred
| the petition of Edward Power for re-
Enumeration for moving powder from the
old to the new magazine, reported adj
versely.
| The Water Works Committee reported
| fayorably upon the petition for new mains
| on Gwinnett and Bolton streets.
| The committee considering the applica-
ton of Mrs. Milestone and Bailey for a
! lot for the erection of a building for edu-
cational purposes, reported adversely,
| having no available lot.
| Two repOrts-a majority and minority
repOrt-were submitted upon the petition
| off. r. Eason, asking for the purchase of
| city lot No. SO Brown ward. The minority
report was adopted, and provides that the
| lot be sold at auction to the highest bid
l der, the minimum bid to be $1,000. pro-
| viding that improvements to the amount
| of one-half the purchase money be placed
upon it within year.
Several applications for sewer cOnnec-
tiOns were referred to the Street and Lane
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