The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-28
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. /. Be it ordained by the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen of the city o.
Tupelo that the said ordinance, which
is recorded in the Ordinance Book No
l, at pages Sc, 81 and So be and tn,
same is hereby amended to read a
follows:
Be it ordained by the Mayor an,
Board Of Aldermen of the city of Tu-
pelo, 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 A, and each ward
shall be composed of the follow
ing territory. embraced within
the corporate limits of said city, to-
wit:
J Ward No l 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 on 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
citysso 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 side of Kings Creek
ditch, in a .northwesterDy direction to
the starting point.
Ward No. 3 Shall be composed of
the following territory, towit; Com
mellcing at the center of j eferson 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 east line
of said corporate limits to the south |
east corner of said corporate limits
thence in a westerly direction along the
corporate 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
meme Ing at the intersection of Church
and Jefferson Streets and at the center
Their eof and run thence north along the
center of Church Street to the north
lin e of the corporate limits and thence
asst 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-l
limits to the point where the
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
and Board of Aldermen it IS
that this ordinance take effect
rom date.
The above ordinance was reduced to
previously to being voted upon
md read, considered and voted upon,
section by section at a public adjourned
Meeting of the Mayor and Board Of
Aldermen held on the 7th lday of May
9O9 and was unanimously passed, all !
yea.
D. w. ROBINS Mayor
J. M. TRICE Clerk