Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-26
NO. 70

Ole Skratass, City Auditor.
ORDINANCE NO. 70.
An ordinance adopting an official
city plat Of the City of Devils Lake,
naming the streets and avenu of the
said city and numbering parts of the
said city for the purpose of free deliv-
cry of United States mail in the said
city.
Be it Ordained, By the City Coun-
Gil of the City of Devils Lake. That
the plat made of Devils Lake by the
surveyor John Grondall which was
filed in the Office Of the register of
deeds upon July 28th, A. D. 1888, at
ten O'Clock a. M. and recorded in
Book one, page 81 and IS, is the o1igi-
nal recorded plat of said Devils Lake,
be and the same is insofar as the
same covers and includes the territory
embraced within the present corpor-
ate limits Of the City of Devils Lake
adopted as the official plat of the said
city.
Section IL: That the--names,
boundaries, designations and descrip.
lions Of the streets, and al
leys of the present City of Devils
Lake be and the same are hereby de-
fined by ordinance to be the same as
are described, named and designated
in the official plat herein adopted and
defined by ordinance under section I
hereof.
Section III: That for the purpose
of convenience of the free delivery of
mail under the rules and regulations
of the United States postal depart
ment and also for the purpose Of OBJ
tanning such free city delivery within
the territory hereinafter described of
the United States postofice of Devils
Lake, the following portions of said
city be numbered in the manner here.
matter described of that portion of the
said city north of Railway avenue N.
and east of Minnewaukan aevnue N.
the same embracing the present full
blocks and parts of blocks designated
by the following numbers:
Blocks g., 8, 10, II, 10, 10, 16, II,
IS, 10, 20, 81, %, %, ~, 25, 26, 81,
80, 81. 80, 33, "a, IS. 81, 3s, 80, 40,
al, IL, 45, 46, AZ, 4s, 40, SO, 81, and
So, 80, 80, 81, and also that those
parts Of Maher and Locks addition to
the City of Devils Lake which are in
cluded within the corporate limits of
the said city the same being south
portions Of block l, 2, and 3 of the
said addition and also that portion
of Ruger's addition to the said City
of Devils Lake, the same being south
part of blocks /, 4, 5, and s of said
Ruger's additions.
Section ": The numbering Of
buildings, dwellings lots and other
places required under the provisions
of this ordinance shall be in the fol-
lowing manner and according to the
following system each street COM
mencing with 18th street at it's juno
ton with Minnewaukan avenue shall
be numbered from west to east
allowing 100 numbers between the in
terval between n or fractions
thereof, beginning upon the west
end of the street and extending to
its intersection with More
That the numbers shall be so ar
ranged that all even numbers shall
be upon the south side of the street
and all uneven numbers shall
be upon the north side of such street
and that the numbers shall extend
continuously along such street and
that each street shall be NUMBERED in
the same manner which lies north
of 18th street aforesaid, inc ludine
4th, 5th, 9Th, and 18th streets, and
that all streets south of 18th street
and north of Railway avenue north
shall be numbered in the same
manner, commencing with their in
tersection with Railway, avenue
north. That the avenue of Tie said
city shall be numbered in the same
manner, commencing with their in
tersection with 18th street lad extend
ing south to their intersesa with
Railway avenue north, and tl.v ~ the
numbering of the said 100
numbers shall be allowed and fixed
for each interval between Streets
and each avenue have a separate
series Of numbers and that the
numbers of said shall be so
arranged that all the aver numbers
shall be upon the west side of the