The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-21
City Ordinances.

AN ORDINANCE to amend an ordinance
dividing the city of Tupelo into
wards and defining the meets and
bounds of such wards, so as to take
into said wards the territory recently
added to the city of Tupeio, Miss:
Sec. l. Be it ordained by the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen of the city of
Tupelo that the said ordinance, which
is recorded in the Ordinance Book No.
1, at pages Sc, 81 and So be and the
follows:
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Board OF Aldermen of the city of Tu-
gelo, that from this time said city. of
Tupelo shall be and is hereby divided
into four wards which shall be known
as Nos. l, 2, 8 and 4, and each ward
shall be composed of the follow
ing territory embraced within
the corporate limits of said city, to-
wit:
Ward No / shall embrace the follow
ing described territory: Commencing
at the center of Main Street. on the
west line of the corporate limits of said
city and running east to the center of
Church street and thence north along
the center of Church street to the cor
porate limits or the north and thence
to the northwest corner of the corpor-
ate limits, thence along the west line
of said corporate limits to the begin
ming point.
Ward No 2 Shall be composed of the
following territory towit; Commenc-
ing at the center of Main Street on the
west line of the corporate limits of the
city of Tupelo and running east along
the center of said street to the center
of Church Street and thence north
along the center of Church Street to
the center of Jefferson Street thence
east to the center of Greene Street,
thence south to the south line of the
corporate limits of said city thence
along the north sida of Kings Creek
ditch, in a n~orthwester)y direction to
the starting point.
Ward No. 8 Shall be composed of
the following territory, towit; Com
melclng at the center of } efferson and
Greene Streets and at the intersection
thereof and running thence east along
the center of Jefferson Street to the
east line Of the corporate limits of said
city and thence south along the eastlins
of said corporate limits to the south
east corner of said corporate limits
thence in a westerly direction along the
cooperate limits OF said city to the
center of Greene Street, thence north
along Greene Street to the starting
point.
Ward No. 4. Shall be composed Of
the following territory, towit: Com
menclng at the intersection of Church
and Jefferson Streets and at the center
thereof and run thence north along the
center Of Church Stree t to the north
line Of the corporate limits and thence
east along the corporate limits in east
erly direction to the north east corner
of said corporate limits and thence
south along the east line OF said cor
porate limits to the point where the
center of Jefferson Street if extended
would cross said line, thence west along
the center Of Jefferson Street to the
beginning point.
Sec. 2 For reasons satisfactory tothe
Mayor and Board of Aldermen it is
ordered that this ordinance take effect
from date.
The above ordinance was reduced to
writing previously to being voted upon
and read, considered and voted upon,
section by section at a public adjourned
meeting of the Mayor and Board of
Aldermen held on the 7th day Of Nav
1909 and was unanimously passed, ali
voting yea.
D. w. RoBINs Mayor
i. NJ. IRICE Clerk
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