The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-19
"NOT COMPROMISE"
 BUT SURRENDER
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 Stratford Avenue (said point being marked on map showing U. S. har- Dor line, established, surveyed ami ap- proved by War Department under date of November 19, 19O6) anc ex- tending from said point souther y or southeasterly in exact coincidence with said U. $. harbor line to a point on said U. s. harbor line marked c on said map showing said U. $. h.rbor inc, said point so marked c being a point in the southerly line of South Avenue prolonged S1O feet ea$terly from the east side of Main Street and 317.26 easterly of the intersection of Of said southerly line of South AI enue with the coping on easterly retaining wall of the railroad, said point of in- tersection being 255.32 feet southerly from north end of said coping measur- ed along its grade; thence from said point c southerly in a straight line to point on the southerly line of Henry street prolonged (as Henry Street was laid out on December p, 18S6) said point being marked x on map hereto appended and being 1l95.S feet easterly of the east line of Main Street and being also 4S0 feet easterly from the wall at the head of the Hen- ry street slip; thence easterly OF the southerly line of said Henry Sireet
 
 With said U. s. harbor line which Loint IS marked Y on map hereto appe1 ded, and thence in exact coincidence with said U. $. harbor line to a point due west of the Outer Beacon, which 4,oint is marked G on map above referred to showing U. s. harbor line, apI rov- ed by the War Department under date of November 19, 1906. And it is further provided and ordered +ela- tive to the discontinuance of any har- Dor line previously established and rel- ative to said establishment and d>.sig- nation of the harbor line hereinbsfore described, that (pursuant to the pow- CTS given to said Common CounciI by Section 53 of the Charter of the City of Bridgeport relative to the forms of proceedings in all cases of taking tand for public use in said City) that the matter of said discOntinuance of har- Dor lines and the matter of said es- tablishment and designation of the harbor line above described, be refer red to Commission created for the purpose of appraising, assessing and apportioning all benefits and damages accruing or resulting to any persons, and that said Commission be compos- ed of the Board of Appraisal of Bsne- fits and Damages as now existing and that said Board acting as said Com- mission shall, before making any s.uch dppIdlSdl OL DeiloHIS ana OdIQdSeS, pro- ceed in relation to the discontinuance and establishment of harbor lines in exact conformity with the method of procedure required of the Board of Appraisal of Benefits and Damages by Section 61 of said Charter Gin rela ton to taking of property for other public uses); and that the report of said shall be acted upon by the Common Council in conformity with the provisions of Section 62 of said Charter relative to reports of the Board of Appraisal of Benefits and Damages; and that any assessment of benefits made by said Commissi n shall be made and remain lien upon the land upon which they are respec- lively made; that the provisions of shall apply generally to all proceed ngs of said Commission; to it's reports to said Common Council; to the pro- of said Common Council rela- tive to said reports; to any assess nent of benefits and damages made oy said Commission; to the creation of any liens arising out of the assessment )f benefits. And it is further provid- ed and ordered that the provisions of said Sections 61, 62 and 63, in so far IS they are legally applicable, shall n relation to any taking of property .or public use arising from the discs hereby of any harbor line ,r the designation and establishment hereby of the harbor line hereinabove described, and to the assessment of benefits and damages arising there rom, and to the payment of said ben sfits or to the laying of lines based Ipon the assessment of said damages.