The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-17

Clerk OF Council
By Committee on Streets and Lanes
An ordinance for the Improvement
OF : Bryan street, from the west prop
erty line of Abercorn street to the west
property line of East Broad street, in
the city of Savannah Georgia, under
the terms and provisions of an act of
the Legislature of Georgia, approved
Oct. l, 1887.
Section l. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and Aldermen of the city of
Savannah, in Council assembled under
the terms and provisions of an act of
the Legislature of Georgia, approved
Oct. 1. 1887, that the director of pub
lie works for the city of Savannah, and
the Committee on Streets and Lanes
of said city, be- and they are hereby
authorized and directed to build and
construct on Bryan street, in the city
of Savannah, from the west property
: line of Abercorn street to the west
property line of East Broad street a
roadway of vitrified brick twenty-one
CID feet between the curbing, said
, pavement at all street and lane inter-
sections to extend over the full width
of said Bryan street, that is to say, to
lines coincident with the respective
property lines, except on the intersect-
ing street. Price, which said last
named street has been heretofore
paved; and they are authorized and
directed to lay the necessary curbing
! and to do all the work in the way of
grading, the placing of catch basins,
drains, crossings, and all other things
incident to the construction and COM
| pletion of said roadway on said por-
ton of Bryan street.
Sec. 2. Be 1t further ordained that
street railroad company having
tracks running through said portion OF
Bryan street to be improved under this
| ordinance, is hereby required to pave
the width of its tracks and two feet
| on each side of every line of the tracks
/ of said street railroad company with
vitrified brick, as the said work pro-
| crosses, and in the event this is not
done by said company, the said direc-
! tor of public works and the said COM
mittee shall see to it's being done at
! the expense of said railroad company.
! Sec. 8. Be it further ordained that
after the total cost of said work, ex-
elusive of that done by or for a street
| railroad company, shall have been as
certained, one-third of such total cost
shall be paid out of the city treasury,
and the other two-thirds by the per-
sons owning at the date of the adop-
ton of this ordinance the real estate
abutting on said portion of Bryan
street to be improved under this ordi-
nance, according to frontage, and the
| pro rata amount of the cost of such
work is hereby assessed against the
said abutting real estate and its own
ers, as aforesaid, according to 'front.'
! age.
The frontage of interesting streets
and lanes is assessed as real estate
abutting on said portion of Bryan
street to be improved, and the Mayor
and Aldermen of the city of Savannah,
shall be for all intents and purposes
of this ordinance, the owner of the
| \ II.
from the city treasury it's just pro
rata as such owner of the cost of such
work, according to frontage, in addi-
ton to it's one-third C-3) of the entire
cost as hereinbefore provided.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained that
after the improvement hereinbefore pro-
vided for has been completed, the said
director and the said committee shall
prepare and submit to the Council of
the city of Savannah a statement
showing the cost of the Improvement
herein provided for, and also an assess
ment roll showing as to two-thirds
| (2-3 of the cost TO be apportioned. how
1t is apportioned among the several
abutting parcels, including the street
and lane intersections, and giving the
sum chargeable to each parcel, with
the name of the owner.
Upon the consideration and adoption
of said statement and assessment roll
Dy the council OF the city or SdNdn-
nah ii shall then become the duty of
the city treasurer to send to the abut-
ting property owners their proper bills
for the same, as 1t may be ascertained
by the City Council, and II such bills
so sent be not paid within thirty 600
days after the presentation or send
ing of the same, 1t shall then become
the duty of the city treasurer to issue
executions for the amount, together
with the costs, against the persons
and property aforesaid. which execu-
lions shall be made and levied out OF
the property described therein. as are
executions for city taxes. The said
statement and assessment roll shall
also show the amount payable by a
I street railroad company, and should
such compGNy fail or refuse to pay
bill for the ilime thirty 800 days after
the presentation or sending OF the
same, II shall be the duty OF the city
treasurer to issue execution against
said company and its property for said
bill, together with costs. which shall
be made and levied as are executions
for city taxes.
Sec. 8. BE II further ordained that
all ordinances and parts OF ordnance
IN conflict with this ordinance are here
by repealed.
Ordinance read In Council for the
first time Nov. ?. 1904. and published
for information.
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