The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-27
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
OF Ordinances Passed and ResOJu-
lions Adopted by the Common
Council of the City of st. Paul.
5647-Ordinance No. 2172-

public levee in the City of st. Paul
Whereas, The St. Paul Union Depot
Company is the owner of lots seven to
twelve inclusive in block twenty-nine of
ST. Paul proper, and lots seven to twelve
inclusive in block three, and lots four.
five and six in block four of Hopkins
addition, also a strip of land thirty Eight
feet wide adjoining said lots in blocks
three and four on the southerly side
thereof, formerly being a part of the
public levee which was vacated by res
olution of the Common Council of the
City of St. Paul, approved January Sth. :
1880 all in the City of st. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minnesota. and said property
constitutes more than one-half of the
frontage of all the land abutting on the
public levee in the City of ST. Paul, be-
tween the east line OF Sibley street and
the east line of Broadway street and
lying between said three blocks and the
Mississippi River, and did, on the sew
enth day of June, 1900, duly petition the
Common Council of the CITY of ST Paul
to yacate that part of said public leHee
above described, which petition set forth
the facts and reasons for such vacation,
and was accompanied by plat of the
portion of said levee proposed to be va
Gated, and was duly verified by the oath
of one of the officers of said petitioner
which petition was duly filed with the
named, and,
Whereas, The Assembly of the city
of st. Paul, one of the branches of the
Common Council thereof, on said sew
said petition be heard before the Com
mittee on Streets, which is one of the
standing committees of said Assembly,
on the sixteenth day of July, 1900, at
four o'clock in the afternoon of that
day, in the Council Chamber in said
City of St: Paul, and that notice there
of be published in the official paper of
said city III the manner required by law,
and,
Whereas, Due notice was published in
the Daily Pioneer Press. the official pa
once in each week, commencing on
the eighth day of June, 1900
and ending on the twenty-ninth day
of June 1900, to the effect that said petit
ton has been filed with said City Clerk,
stating in brief it's object and that the
SAME would be heard and considered by
the Committee on Streets of said Assem-
bly,, on said sixteenth day of July, $500.
at o'clock in the afternoon of that
day, in the Council Chamber, in said
city; and,
Whereas, Said Committee on Streets of
said Assembly, at the time and place
last mentioned. did meet hear and con-
slider said petition, and have continued
and adjourned the hearing of said petit
ton and the subject matter thereof from
time to time, until the fourth day of Feb
ruary. 1901, at the Council Chamber. in
said city, upon which last mentioned date
said committee decided to grant the
prayer of said petition upon certain
terms and conditions, hereinafter set
forth and to that END has reported to
the Common Council its recommendation
in the premises, including a recommended
ton that the following ordinance be
adopted
Now therefore, the Common Council OF
the City Of st. Paul, ordains as follows:
SECTION I.
That so much of the public levee in
the City of st. Paul as lies between the
east line of Sibley street and the east
line of Broadway street in said city, and
between block twenty-nine of st. Paul
Proper, and blocks three and four of
Hopkins Addition to ST Paul and the
Mississippi river, be, and the same 10
hereby vacated and discontinued, and the
Mayor, Comptroller and City Clerk are
hereby authorized and directed to make,
execute and deliver a Quit Claim Deed,
conveying and releasing all right, title,
interest of the City of st. Paul, in the
above described premises, to the st. Paul
Union Depot Company, said vacation.
however, to take effect and said deed to
be delivered upon the condition that said
company within the time and in the
manner hereinafter specified shall COM
ply with all the terms, conditions and re-
quirements hereinafter contained, and
not otherwise.
SECTION II.
In consideration of the vacation by tho
municipal authorities of the City of st.
Paul, of the portion of the public
levee hereinbefore described, the St
Paul Union Depot Company within eight
months after the passage and publication
of this ordinance, shall procure to
be conveyed to the City of St Paul by
good and sufficient deed, all OF lot thir-
teen of block thirty of St Paul Proper,
| now owned by the Chicago Milwaukee
Il st. Paul Railway Company, for tbs
! purpose of an enlargement of Sibley
street, and SHALL within the period of
eight months from and after the passage
and publication of this ordinance, remove
the buildings now standing upon said
lot, grade the surface of the ground and
pave the same to correspond with Sibley
street, now located in front of said lot,
and shall put down upon the northerly,
westerly and sOutherly sides OF said lot,
as SO graded and paved, or in lieu there
of, at such point as the City Engineer
of said city shall direct, a proper and
suitable stone sidewalk of the same gen.
eral design and construction as the pres
ent sidewalks on said SibIey street in
front of said property, using so much of
the material now in use as may be suit
able therefor, all of said work to be dons
under the dire 1tion of the City Engineer
of the City Of ST. Paul, to his satisfdc-
ton and approval, and without expense
TO sail city.
SECTION Ill
In further consideration of the vacation
of said levee, said Union Depot Company
shall proceed forthwith to procure river
harbor line, to be established by the Unit
ed States government, beginning at the
rortherly shore ebutment or pier of the
Chicago Great Western Railway bridge
crossing the Mississippi river west OF said
Sibley street, and extending easterly
along the east side of said river to some
point below the easterly line of said
Broadway street, to be designated by the
government authorities, and said st. Paul
Union Depot Company shall fill i'll the
river to the line so esta bltshed as far
down the river as the east line of Broad
way street, at least, bringing the Same
UP to the present grade % the abuttnS
property constructing all necessary
walls or piling and thoroughly riprap-
Eing the shore wherever unprote-t by
pilng or stone walls. and shall extend
the present deck facilities upon the porcc
ton of the levee above the east line Of
Sibley street to the established river line,
putting i'll solid masonry walls at the
foot of Jackson street and Sfbley street
similar tC those now maintained, ana
shall reproduce at the water line the
present pile and timber construction be-
tween the Chicago Great Western Kali
way bridge and jackson street, and be
tween jackson ST. eet ard said east line
of Sibley street, and shall cause the two
freight houses, one located Just west, or
Jackson street and one between jack
soil and Sibley street, and now used for
the discharge and receipt OF river freight,
to be moved as near the water line as
they now are, and rebuilt, ana Shall also
cause the space acquired by filling IN to
the water line to be established with the
consent of the United States Government,
as hereinbefore provided. and between
the end of the present paving ut the 1oOt
of Sibley street and at the foot of. jack
son street, and between said jackson ami
Silley streets. to be paved with granite
blocks laid in sand, except such portions
of said space as shall be taken tip by
buildings and timber platforms: I'll OF
said shore extension, sling. walling. pill
ing, riprapping, paving, moving Of build
ings, timber construction, and other
necessary and requisite construction of
that portion of the levee abuve the cast
line of said Sibley street, to be done by
said Union Depot Company under the
direction of and to the satisfaction and
approval of the City Engineer of the City
of St Paul, without expense to said city,
and the City of ST. Paul hereby consents
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