, 1904-10-26

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Whereas, in laying out Blocks Nos. Thirteen
(3) and Fourteen Q4) on a plan of lots of the
Wildwood Beach Improvement Company,
made by Marcus Fry, Engineer 1893, and duly
filed in the Clerks Office ofCape May County,
at Cape May Court House, New Jersey, a plot
of land in Block mber Thirteen Q3), bounded
by Cedar and Oak avenues and by Lots Nos.
10, 20, 81, %, %, "a and 25 in said block, and a
plot of landin Block number Fourteen IA,
bounded by Oak, Philadelphia and Wildwood
block, were laid out and designated for the
public use as parks, and
Whereas, BY reason ofdeep np tural depress-
ions in parts of the respective areas in said
plots which are filled with stagnant water,
causing them to become deleterious' to the
public health, it is necessary that the same
shall be filled and graded at considerable cost
to the public, now
Therefore, In pursuance of the provisions
of an Act of the Legislature of the State of
New Jersey entitled A Act relative to the
vacation by the governing body of any city,
town, township, borough or other municipal
municipality and wholly or partially dedica-
ted or devoted to the public use and the en-
tinguishment of all public rights therein,''
approved March 30, 1904,
BE it ordained and enacted by the Council
of the Borough of Wildwood:
Section |. That the said plots of ground are
in their present condition not suited to the
public use OF parks, and that to put them in
such 'ondition as they should be would be
burdensome TO the municipality of the Bor-
ough of Wildwood.
Section 2. That in consideration of the
holder of the legal fee thereof, at the expense
of the said holder filling and grading to the
established grade the low places in the said
plots of ground, and of covering with top
earth and seeding the same in grass, the
rights of the public and of the municipality of
the Borough of Wildwood, and of all persons
or corporation claiming any rights, or inter-
est in said lands, other than the holder OF the
legal fee. be and they hereby are vacated and
eXtlngulshed in and to the following parts of
No. IL, included between Cedar and Oak ave-
nues and between Lots Numbers 10, 20, 81,
y, %, p, and % in said block; and ali
that certain strip of land in Block Number
IA, lying adjacent to the southeasterly
side line of Lots Numbers | and 2 in
said block, containing in front or breadth on
the Northeasterly side of Oak avenue one
hundred and twenty 400 feet; and ex-
tending of that width at right angles
to said Oak avenue between parallel
lines in length or depth ENTHUSIASTICALLY a
distance of Two Hundred GOO feet to the
Southwesterly side of Wildwood avenue; and
that the same be and hereby are restored to
the holder OF the legal fee thereof freed and
and discharged from all public rights therein,
as II such public rights therein had never
existed.
Section 3. That the proposition contained
in the two preceding sections ofthis ordinance
shall not operate to effect said vacation and
eXtlngulshmen of thepublic rights in the said
last described lands, until the sames shall have
been submitted to and approved by the
majority of the qualified voters ofthe Borough
or Wildwood voting at the general election
Tor members of the Assembly to be held on
the Sth day of November A. ID. 1904, public
notice OF submission of which proposition
shall be given by advertisements signed by
the Clerk of the Borough of Wildwoo and
Borough, and also published in two neWspa.
pers printed and circulating in the said Dor.