Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-08-30
AN ORDINANCE

( the northern boundary line of
the said Borough, and further
authorizing and empowering
the said Borough to contract
with the said State for such
purpose, also requiring the
owners OF property fronting
on such portion of suchs treet to
change the fOOtwalkS and TO
set the CurbS thereof so as to
conform thereto and presCrib-
ing the penalty for such own
er'S failure or refusal so tO
do, and for other purposes in
the premises.
WHEREAS the Borough of Danvillo
through its Town Council, by proper
ordinance in such specific behalf duly
enacted, purposes to grade, pave and
macadamizc that portion of Mill street
in the said Borough from the northern
building line of Center Street to a
point where the Township of Mahon-
ing forms the northern boundary line
of the said Borough and to require the
owners Of property fronting on such
portion of such street to change the
sidewalks and to set the curbs thereof
so as to conform thereto,
AND WHEREAS the said Borough
OF Dauvillc is about to enter into a
certain proposed contract with the said
State Of Pennsylvania for such grad
ing, paving and macadamizing, at
such grade or grades, in such proper
tions or sections, at such proportinate
joint expense and in accordance with
such maps, plans and specifications
respectively as may be by them deter
mined upon in the respective premises,
AND WHEREAS the said Town
Council of the said Borough has al
ready given due and legal public not
ice of its aforesaid purpose. has heard
all objections thereto at a place and
time fixed therein and therefor and
has also in all other respects fully
complied with the law preliminary to
the enactment of legal ordinance in
the premises,
SECTION l. Therefore, be it or
dained and enacted by the Chief Bur
CESS and by the Town Council of the
Borough of Danville, in the County of
Montour and State of Pennsylvania,
in council assembled, and it is hereby
ordained and enacted by the authority
of the same: That all of that certain
portion Of NJ II street in the said BOr-
ough of Danville, in the said County
of MontOur and State of Pennsylvania
from the northern building line of
Center Street in the Third Ward of
the said Borough to that certain point
in the said Street where the Township
of MahOning in the said County forms
the northern boundary line of the said
Borough, including street and alley
intersections eastward and westward
to the eastern and western building
lines of said Mill Street within the
limits and termini aforesaid, through
out is entire width, be properly grad
ed, paved with vitrified paving bricks
and macadamized, respectively, and
that the SAID Borough of Danvilla, by
and through its Chief Burgess and its
Secretary shall enter into a written
contract with the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania by and through its
State Highway Commissioner and his
Chief Clerk, for the said Common
wealth of Pennsylvania to thus grade,
pave with vitrified brick and macad
amize, respectively all of that said
portion of the said street at such grade
or grades. in such proportions or sec
tions, upon such foundation, at such
prOportionate joint expense of tho
said Borough and Commonwealth and
in accordance with such maps. plans
and specifications, respectively, as
may by them, the said Borough and
Commonwealth be determined upon in
the respective premises.
SECTION 2 That for the purpose
of further effectuating the aforesaid
purposes and completing the above de
scribed improvements, the respective
owner or owners of lot or lots Of
ground, property or properties front
ing on the said portion of the said
street are hereby required solely at
their own individual and personal cost
and expense to widen, raise or de-
press. grade, pave, repave and repair
the respective sidewalks III front of
such respective lot or lots of ground,
property or properties and to place,
replace, set, reset, construct, repair
and maintain the respective curbs at
the edge of such respective sidewalks
next to the said portion of the said
street with good, solid, hard free
stone, and which said curbs for uni
formity of effect and utility of purpose
shall be precisely the same color and
kind of stone as that which is now
used for such purpose on the improved
portion Of the said street; such curbs
shall also be five inches in thickness
at the top, at least twentyfour inches
in depth, at least four and one-half
feet in length per stone, shall be
smoothly dressed on the top and on
the outside therefrom at least eight
inches, shall be pitched off on the in
side to- a neat line to "A uniform depth
Of three inches so as to permit the
adjacent sidewalk to fit up closely to
such curbing and that all of such
curbing shall be firmly imbedded i'll a
concrete foundation of at least eight
inches i'm thickness, and shall be so