Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-27
Extension Of City Limits.

At Tuesdays meeting of the City
Council, the special subcommittee
appointed by the Joint Committee on
General Laws and Finance, .favorably
reported the ordinance for the ex-
tension of the City limits.
The matter is of such great i'm
portance that the Gazette publishes
the ordinance in full so that it may
be carefully studied by the public.
An Ordinance.
That the City Of Alexandria
hereby declares that it is desirable to
annex, in pursuance of the act of the
General Assembly of Virginia, ap-
proved March 10, 1904 (Acts 1904,
mage 144), certain territory of the
counties of Alexandria and Fairfax,
Virginia, adjacent to the present
corporate limits of the city of Alex
andria, and to that end the city of
Alexandria doth hereby accurately
describe the metes and bounds of such
territory as follows:
Beginning at a point in mid chan
mel of Hunting Creek, southwark OF
the Alexandria Water Company
pumping station, and in a line with
the east side Of lane commonly
called Roberts Lance, extended;
thence northward along the said line
OF the east side of Roberts Lane ex-
tended, and along the east side OF
Roberts Lane to the south side OF
1.-THE Little River turnpike, thence
across Little River turnpike In a
northward direction to a corner, the
said corner being the extreme west
corner of the Shooters Hill Section
of the George Washington Park SUD-
division as laid out by the Washing
ton Monument Association OF AleXan-
dria, Virginia, thence with the west
ern boundary of the said Shooters
Hill Section of the said George wash
ington Park subdivision, with needle
bearing north l degree, 26 minutes
80 seconds east, 261.89 feet to a
corner, being the corner of the SAID
Shooter Hill Section and Section
No. 2 of the George Washington Park
subdivision, thence with the west
ern boundary of said Section No. 2
of the said George Washington PARK
subdivision, with needle bearing north
is degrees 35 minutes 40 seconds
west, 1905 feet, to corner, thence
with the western boundary of said
Section No. 2 of the said George
Washington Park subdivision, with
needle bearing north 4 degrees Al
minutes 20 seconds east SS9.06 teet
to corner, being on the southern
side of road, commonly called jan
news Road, and so feet westward
from the intersection of the south
side of the said Janney's Road and
the west side of the Leesburg turn
pike, thence with the needle bearing
north 6 degrees 20 minutes 70 Sec
onds east 30365 feet more or less to
the intersection Of the east side OIL
the Braddock Road and the north
side of a road, comonly called Lloyd $
Lane, thence eastward with the north
side of said Lloyd's Lane and the
southern boundary Of the town OF
Potomac and with the said north side
of Lloyd's Lane extended, to the Po-
tomac river, thence with the south
shore of the Potomac river down the
said stream to the mid channel OF
Hunting Creek, and thence with the
meanderings of the mid channel OF
Hunting Creek, up stream to the
point of beginning; excepting from
the territory aforesaid, that part
thereof now within the territorial
limits of the said City of Alexandria,
the metes and bounds of which terri
tory proposed to be annexed and may
be traced and verified on map on file
in the office of the city engineer OF
the city of Alexandria.
.. The city of Alexandria doth
hereby set forth the necessity for and
the expediency of the proposed an
nexation-that is to say:
Cd That the crowded and con-
gested conditions at present prevail
ing in almost every section Of the
city may be relieved by adding suffi-
cient territory to the corporate linn
its of the city not built upon, but
adapted to city improvements, so as
to afford cheap and desirable loca-
lions for the erection of commodious
healthful and beautiful residences.
CO. That the present and pros
pective systems of public improve
ment OF the city, such as the estab-
lishment Of grades of streets and al
leys, the plans of construction OF
sewers, culverts, drains and gas
mains may be designed, adjusted and
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