Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-22
OFFICIAL-PITTSBURG.

| mo. 59l
| A N ORDINANCE = PROVIDING FOR
| n the purchase of real estate by the city OF
! Pittsburg for the proper care and maintenance
| of the poor If said city.
Section 1-Be it ordained and enacted by the
| city of Pittsburg, in Select and Common Coun-
enacted by the authority of the same, That the
| Chief of the Department of Charities of the
| city of Pitt-burg shall forthwith upon the
passage and approval of this ordinance adver-
tise for period of ten QO) days in the news
papers now publishing the official adver-
tisements of the city OF Plttsburg, that
sealed proposals for the sale to the city of
Pittsburg or tract or tracts Of land. farm or
| farms within twenty-five (25) miles of the city
of Pittsburg, upon a river, and having suff-
cient railroad facilities for use by the said city
in the proper care and maintenance OF the
poor of the city of Pittsburg, which proposals
shall be sealed and filed with the Controller
of said city. accompanied by due legal and
binding agreements in writing by the owner or
owners thereof to sell the same to the city of
Pittsburg in fee simple, free from all incum-
brances for cash price to be therein stated.
Section 2-The said proposals shall be re-
ceived and safely kept by the said Controller,
who shall transmit the same to the Chief of the
Department of Charities at the time fixed for
the consideration of said proposals (which time
shall be set forth in said advertsements). and
the said Chief of the Department of Charities
shall at the said time, in the presence of the
Mayor, the Chief of the Department of Public
Safety and Chief of the Department of Public
Works, or majority Of them, open all the said
proposals and cause them to be publicly read,
and the said city officials, after having heard
the said proposals publicly read, shall visit all
of the said tract or tracts of land farm or
farms. SO offered for sale, and either reject all
of said proposals or select such one of them as
in their judgment 1t may be for the best inter-
est of the city to purchase for the purposes
aforesaid.
Section 3-such selection, however, shall not
become binding upon the said city until after
the same has been by said Chief of the Depart
ment of Charities reported to and approved by
the Select and Common Councils of the CITY of
Pittsburg, said Councils also having the un-
qualified power and authority to reject any
proposal SO selected and reported to them as
aforesaid.
Section 4-That if the selection made by the
Chief of the Department of Charitles be duly
approved by Councils as aforesaid, then the
deed or deeds for such property, together with
all other necessary papers. shall upon demand
OF the city be at once made, executed and de-
l1vered, but if such selection be not approved
by said Councils, then the said Chief of the
Department of Charities shall forthwith read
vertise under this ordinance the same as if no
prior advertisement had been made.
section 5-That any ordinance or part of or
d1nance conflicting with the provisions of this
ordinance be and the same is hereby repealed
SO far as the same affects this ordinance.
Ordained and enacted into law in Councils
this l1th day of July A. D., 1890.
II. P. FORD, President of Select Council.
Attest: GEO. BOOTH, Clerk of Select
Council. 6. L. HOLIDAY, President of
Common Council. Attest: E. ]. MARTIN
Clerk of Common Council
b. L GoURLEY. Mayor. Attest: koBT.
OSTERMAIER. Mayors Clerk,
Recorded in Ordinance Book vol 7, page AL,
18th day of July, A. II. 1890.