Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-10-27
AN ORDINA CE
TO VACATE A PORTION OF GROSS
STREET. In THE BOROUGH or

TEND "A' STREET IN THE SAID
BOROUGH, UNDER THE TRACKS
OF THE SAID RAILWAY COM
PANY. ON WALNUT STREET, IN
THE SAID BOROUGH, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES.
WHEREAS, a certain petition sign.
ed by the majority i'll interest and
number of owners of property abUtting
on the line of the proposed improve
ment, was duly presented to the Chief
Burgess and Town Council of the Bor-
ed meeting of the said Town Council,
citing forth, among other things, that
the part or portion of Cross street, in
the said Borough, which is crossed at
grade by the tracks of the Pbiladel-
| phia.aud Reading Railway Company
Is dangerous to public travel and is a
constant menace to life and limb in
its present location, and that a much
safer and more practical route for all
| such public travel could be readily OBJ
tanned by ansunder grade crossing of
the said railway at "a" street there
by connecting the latter street direct
ly with Walnut street, in the said Bor-
ough that it was therefore expedient
that such part or portion of Cross
street between its northern intersec-
70 Az.
southern intersection with said Wal
nut street be properly vacated and THAI
in lieu thereof said "a" street be eX-
tended from its intersection with Col
umbia and Nicholas avenues in a
southwar6ly direction, under, and at
right angles with, the tracks of the
said railway company, to Walnut
street aforesaid; that the petitioner
was the sole owner OF all property
thus abutting on the line of the pro-
posed improvement and as such was
the only party entitled to a statutory
notice preliminary and subsequent TO
the enactment of All ordinance in such
bhehalf that the said petitioner there
by and therein waived all such statu-
tory notice 10 which it would be Duh
erwise legally entitled, and respect
fully requested that the necessary and
proper ordinance for the above purpose
be ut once duly enacted without any
other preliminary or subsequent pro-
ceedngs as to such notice being had
in the premises,
AND WHEREAS, the said petition
er thus being a majority in interest
and number of owners of property as
aforesaid, in the said petition therein
expressly waived all statutory notice
preliminary and subst quent to the en-
aCtment of the ordinance thus request.
ed and further asked that such Ordin
anCe be at once duly enacted without
any other--preliminary or subsequent
proceedings as to notice being had in
the premises,
AND WHEREAS, it thus clearly
appears that a majority i'll inereSt and
number OF owners of property abut-
ting on the line of the proposed i'm
provement are in favor OF the said i'm
pIoyement and that such improvement
is of manifest advantage and necessary
10 the safety Of the travelling public
in general and especially to the in
habitanti OF that locality in the said
Borough Of Danville,
AND WHEREAS, the Dauville and
Bloomsbury Street Railway Company,
its successors and assigns. in cOnsid-
Grafton OF certain privileges and fran
Chises TO IT and them hereinafter grant
ed by the said Borough of Danv-le,
have covenanted and agree with the
said Borough of Danville TO make such
extension OF "A' street at its and
their own proper cost and expense, and
to fl lily indemnify and save harmless
the said Borough of Danvile from
any and all damages, individual prop
eTty, or otherwise whatsoever, that
may accrue in, or be in any wise in
cidental to, the construction OF such
extension of "A" street as we'll as to
keep such extension of "a" street,
when thus constructed, in proper con
dision and repair at a l times,
THEREFORE,, be it ordained and
enacted by the Chief Burgess, and by
the Town Council OF the Borough of
Danville, in the County of Montour
and State Of Pennsylvania, in Ooun
Gil assembled. and it is hereby ordain
ed aud enacted by the authority of the
same
SECTION |. That all that certain
part or portion Of Gross street between
its nc. 'er intersection with Nicholas
avenue in he Fourth Ward of the
said Borough OF Dauville and its south
ern intersection with Walnut street in
the Third Ward of the said Borough of
Danvlle be vacated upon the compile
tion and acceptance by the said Bor
ough of of Danville of the said under
grade extension of "a" street to be
constructed in lieu thereof as is in the
next Section of this ordinance more
specifically provided.
SECTION 2. That said A" street,
in the Fourth Ward of the said Bor-
ough of Danville, be extended from
It's intersection with Columbia and
Nicholas avenues in a southwardly
direction, under, and at right angles
with, the tracks IF the Philadelphia
and Reading Railway Company, to
Walnut street, in the Third Ward of
the said Borough Of Danville
SECTION g. That the said exten-
sion at % Az strnnt shall he made hv