Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-05
PUBLIC ADVERTISING
OrdInnnce No. t2nat

New Serfes)
An Ordinance dedtcating certain
lands for street purposes, and prOvid-
ing for the opening of a certain street,
~ v BARANCA STREET.
whereas ny map Of certain lands
recorded in Book 2S, page / ct sea Mis-
cellaneous Records of Los Angeles
County. there was delineated thereon a
certain strip of land extending from
Avenue is (formerly Water street as
shown on said map) to Avenue Twenty
(formerly Walnut street as shown on
said mapl, and which said strip was
designated thereon by the words Pro
posed street, and
Whereas, The city of Los Angeles has
permitted the public to use said strip
of land as a highway for the purpose of
public travel for many years, and has
sold and conveyed lots and parcels of
lands abutting upon and along said
parcel Of land by reference to said map
showing the same as n proposed street,
as aforesaid and the City of Los An
geles has always claimed and does now
claim to he the owner of said parcel of
land subject to the rights of the pub
lie therein for street purposes, and has
never assessed the same for municipal
Whereas, The City of Los Angeles has
not heretofore. by ordinance or resolu-
tion of its city Council, formally dedi-
Gated said parcel of land to the public
for street purposes:
Now therefore. In order to make the
dedication Of said parcel of land for
street purposes a matter of public rec
ord. and in order to complete by formal
action of the City of Los Angeles any
irregularity or tnsufficiency that may
now or hereafter be claimed to exist I'm
the dedication of said parcel of land for
street purposes;
The Mayor and Council of the City of
Los Angeles do ordain as follows:
Section /. That the public interest
and convenience require that a street
sixty feet in width be opened from
Avenue Eighteen to Avenue Twenty IN
the City of Los Angeles which shall
comprise that certain parcel of land de-
lineated upon that certain map of the
Subdivision of City Lands in East Los
Angeles and the Arroyo Seco, as per
man recorded in Book %. page / ct
seq Miscellaneous Records of Los. An.
geles County. as proposed street eX-
tending from Avenue Eighteen for,,
merly Water street as shown upon said
map) to Avenue Twenty (formerly wal
nut street as shown upon said map
which said parcel of land is hereinafter
moro particularly described
Sec g. That the following described
parcel of land, situated in the City OF
Los Angeles, and being the same parcel
of land designed upon the aforesaid
map as proposed street, be and the
same is hereby dedicated to the public
use for street purposes.
Said parcel of land is more partlcu-
larly described S follows:
Beginning at the most easterly cor
ner Of lot /, block d, of the Subdivision
of City Lands in East Los Angeles and
the Arroyo Seco. as per map recorded
in Book 2S page ct seq. MiscellaneouS
Records of Los Angeles County; thence
southwesterly in a direct line to the
most southerly corner of lot 10, block
c. of said Subdivision; thence. south.
ca sterly along the northerly line of
Avenue Eighteen fofmer1S RI r1sn wdSfy sixtY
feet to a point; thence northeasterly to
a point in the southerly line of Avenue
Twenty formerly Walnut street as
shown on said map distant sixty feet
southeasterly from the most easterly
corner of said lot 1, block D, OF the
aforesaid Subdivision of City Lands;
thence northwesterly in a direct line
sixty feet to the point of beginning:
Sec g. That the name of the street
hereby opened shall be Baranca street,
unless hereafter changed by ordinance:
and that from and after the passage OF
this Ordinance said parcel OIL laho sndli az
be and remain a public street, of the
City of Los Angeles, and said street
shall be opened from Avenue Eighteen
to Avenue Twenty as herein provided.
required for the immediate preserva,,
safety; Ee " and nd the City CLERK shall certify
to its passage by a two-thirds vote OF
published once in the Los Angeles Her
aid. and thereupon and thereafter it
shall take effect and be in force.
1 hereby certify that the whole mum .
ber of members of the City Council of
the City of Los Angeles is nine. and
that the foregoing. Ordinance, was
passed by a two-thirds vote of said
Council at its meeting of June %, 1906,
by the following vote. to wit:
Ayes-Messrs. Ford. Hitler. HouSh-
ton Kern, Smith and Summerland (6).
Noes-None.
H. ]. LELANDF,
City Clerk.
Approved this 2nd day of July, 1906.
OWEN McALEER,
Tx If Mayor.