The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-18
from Magazine Street to the South

that required to be laid on the Yves
side of Church Street from Mai
Street to Magazine Street and those
required to be laid on both sides OF
Madison Street, commencing at Wal
nut Street and running So 18th to Jeffer.
son Street, shall be laid four az feel
wide, and those on West side Of Rob.
ms Street from Main Street to Jeffer
son Street shall be laid five (5) fee
wide.
Section w. The Mavor and Board OF
Aldermen will have done at the expense
of the City, whatever grading and fill
Ing in WITH dirt may be necessary to
establish said sidewalk on the proper
grade, preparatory to the putting down
or construction of said side walks.
Section V. 1t shall be the duty of
the contractor or person who puts
down or builds any Of the sidewalks
above required to be built. to fix or re-
place all water-boxes or meter boxes
back to grade with said sidewalks when
completed.
Section vi. Said sidewalks shall be
laid and constructed as follows; and
out of the following material: Of the
width above directed and shall have a
base of three and one-fourth (34) inch
es and shall have a cover Of three
fourths az of an inch and shall have
one-fcurth "a inch fall to the foot to-
ward the street or curb and shall have
one a. i nch expansion joints every
fifty feet and also where the walk
abuts the curb and where laid
five feet wide shall be cut in five
foot blocks and where four feet wide,
in four az foot blocks, except across
driveways. The base of such walks
shall be built or constructed out of four
parts gravel, stone or broken brick or
Stag, and three.parts clean sand and
one part best quality of Portland CO.
ment, and the top of such walks shall
be composed of one part sand and one
part best Portland cement and no stone
or brick or other material used about
building said walk shall be more than
two inches in its longest dimensions
and no concrete or mortar that is set
shall be used in said working. and no re-
tempered concreteo or concrete that has
been mixed over forty-fve minutes
shall be used.
The ingredients for the base shall be
mixed as follows; The sand. cement
and gravel or other aggregate shall be
thoroughly mixed dry by shoveling and
turning not less than twice. then water
added and mixture turned twice more
to secure q perfect mass. The mass
shall bedeposIted in the frame prepared
to receive it and thoroughly tamped
until free mortar f1ushes to thes urface
and the surface is exactly three-fourth
inch below the finished grade r1of the
walk. Immediately after the su ace has
been prepared and not exceeding forty
five minutes thereafter, there shall be
be placed thereon the finished coal or
wearing surface, this shall be brought
to a grade by a straight edge and then
thoroughly compaeted by troweling
three times or more, No patches or
ragged edges will be allowed and the
work must be finished in a neat, work.
manlike manner,
Walk Reinforced for Driveway:
Shall consist of a one a. inch finished
GOAT or wearing surface laid on a three
and one-half (3D inch concrete base
prepared as heretofore specified.
Protection-The finished walk shall be
protected from the direct rays of the
sun and shall be kept moist in hot, dry
weather by sprirkling frequently dur
ing the first twenty-four hours. Moist
sand, earth, straw. or sawdust may be
used for this purpose. The walks shall
be protected from freezing during cold
weather. The walks shall not be
thrown open for travel for al least
three days after completion and it shall
be the duty of the contractor to pro,
tect the walk from any injury for three
days from the completion. The con-
tractor shall erect barricades across
said walk and also place lanterns and
other danger signals thereat while in
course of construction,
Sec IF any owner or owners Of anv lot
or lots lying along frontin-: or abutting
said streets or sldewa ,ks required to BE-
aid and paved or any contractor or
otner netson who attempts to do such
WORK for such owner or owners shall
build any of SAID sidewalks in a differ
ent manner or out of different material
from the kind above required to be
| used or in a different manner from that
above required, he or they shall be
guilty of a misdem :anor and shall be
fined not less than ten dollars nor more
than n hundred dollars.
Sec. VIII. If any owner or owners of
any lot or lots lying along, fronting or
abutting said streets or sidewalks above
required to be paved or built, shall fail
or refuse to construct such sidewalks
as is herein required, within twenty
days after this ordinance becomes
operative that is on or by July 10Th,
1909, then the Street Commissioned
shall, upon order of the Board, after
| giving such notice to theowner or occu-
pant of each piece of the property to be
assessed or in case of unoccupied pro-
perty, by posting a written notice there
on OF the kind an for such time as is
required by Section Ball of the An
notated Code of 1906 of the necessity
therefor, make the repairs, or construct
the improvements or cause it to be
done, keeping an accoun of the costs
Mayor and Board of Aldermen at its
next regular meeting thereafter for
assessments, and each lot on piece OF
gropnd abutting On any of said streets
alleys or sidewalks or parts thereof
shall be liable andbound for the pay.
ment of the costs of making such i'm
provements and laying such sidewalks
as is provided for in said Section 341z
of the Code of 1906 and such proceed
ings against said property i'm front o
which the City may have had to &c
such improvement under this order fol
the collection of the amount due tbs
city shall be taken in the name ant
form as laid down in said section Of
said Code.
Sec. TX. This ordinance is passed by
the Moyor and Board Of Aldermen oil
the city of Tupelo by virtue of the
authority conferred on it or them bs
Sections Ball and 34l2 Of the Annotat
ed Code of 1905. which Sections are