Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-05-19
ORDINANCE NO. Sc, 1911.

OCu11uH Will AIdAAAty IA ISA4ALO11
proposed to be included i'll the corporate
limits and defining the entire boundary
as changed.
Section L. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the
City of Macon, Miss, that Ordinance
No. Sc, 1905, of record in the office of the
City Clerk of Mayor and Board of Alder
men of the City of Macon, Miss, in
Minute Book d, page 152, being the or
dinance entitled "an ordinance charging
the boundaries of the City of Macon,
defining with certainty the territory pro-
posed to be included in the corporate
limits. Also defining the entire boun-
dairy as changed" be and the same is
hereby amended to read as follows:
New Survey.
Beginning at a point on the Cedar
Creek 4.4O chains north of the middle
line of Section 33, Township Is north,
Range IL east; thence running in a
southwesterly direction along the west
bank of Cedar Creek to a short bend in
the creek marked by a forked cedar tree
standing on the west bank; thence south
20 degrees west a distance of 2.46 chains,
crossing the levee 60 feet west of the
AOuLLmouG OF the iron OTlQR0 10 duOCuc1
short bend in the creek marked by a
forked blackberry tree standing on the
west bank of the creek and south of the
street; thence along the west bank of
Cedar Creek to the northeast corner of
Lot No. 80; thence south to the south
east corner of Lot No. 20; thence in a
westerly direction along the South side
of Lot No. 20 to the west bank of Cedar
Creek; thence south along the west bank
OF Cedar Greek to the 4>OAuDee River;
thence in a westerly direction along the
north bank of the Noxubee River and on
the south side of River Lots Nos. 3 and
4, to q point at intersection of Wash
ington street with the river; thence west
436 chains and set stakes 10 feet north
of the abuttment of the iron bridge
~(across the river) thence south so links
to the Noxubee River; thence along the
north bank of the Noxubee River and
around River Lot No. 1, to a point 1.85
chains west of the west side of West
street; hence along the east side of
Noxubee River and on west side of Lot
No. IA, to the southwest corner of the
southeast quarter of Section 33, Town
ship IS, Range II east.
Then I began at the northwest corner
of the northeast quarter of the southwest
quarter of Section 50, Township Is,
| Range II, it being at the intersection of
Second and Eighth streets; thence west a
distance of 2.95 chains set a stake on
north side of street leading to ice plant;
thence south 20 chains to a point 2.65
chains west of the northwest corner of
the southeast quarter of the southwest
quarter of Section 33, Township Is north,
Range II east.
The entire boundary of the corporate
limits of the City of Macon, Miss, as
changed being as follows:
BEGINNING at a point on the old survey
Gscribed as the southwest corner of the
southeast quarter of Section 80, Town
ship Is, Range II, and running north
one-fourth mile; thence west a distance
of 1885 chains; thence north a distance
of 30 chains; thence west to a point 80
feet east of the section line, between
Sections SO and 33, Township Is, Range
II east; thence north a distance of 81
chains to a point 80 feet east of the
west boundary line of Section %, Town
ship Is, Range II east; thence east
parallel with the north line of Section
33, Township IS, Range II east, to a
point on the middle line of Section %;
thence north 1920 chains to the center
of Section 2S; thence east a distance of
81 chains to the northeast corner of the
northwest quarter of the southwest quar-
ter of Section 81, Township Is, Range
II; thence south a distance of 1850
chains to a point on the west bank of
Cedar Creek 4.4O chains north of the
middle line of Section 33, Township Is,
Range II; thence southwesterly along
the west bank of Cedar Creek to a short
bend in the creek and marked by a forked
cedar tree; thence south 20 degrees west
a distance of 2.46 chains, crossing the
levee 60 feet west of the abuttment of
the iron bridge across the creek, and
thence to another bend in the creek
marked by a forked blackberry on bank
of Cedar Creek; thence along the west
bank of Cedar Creek to the northeast
corner of Lot No. %; thence south to the
southeast corner of Lot No. 20; hence in
a westerly direction along the south side
of Lot No. 20 to Cedar Creek; thence
south along the west bank of Cedar
Creek to NoXubee River; thence in a
westerly direction along the north bank
of the Noxubee River and on the south
side of River Lots Nos. 3 and 4 to a
point at the intersection of Washington
street with the river; thence west 4.36
chains set stakes 10 feet north of the
abuttment of the iron bridge; thence
south to the Noxubee River $50 links);
thence along the northern bank of the
Noxubee River around River Lot No. 1,
to a point 1.85 chains west of the west
side Of West street; thence along the
east side of Noxubee River and west
side of Lot No. IA, to the southwest
corner of the southeast quarter of Sec
ton SO, Township IS, Range II, to point