Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-05-12
ORDINANCE NO. Sc, 1911.

AN ORDINANCE charging the boun-
diaries of the City of Macon, Miss,
defining with certainty the territory
proposed to be included in the corporate
limits and defining the entire boundary
as changed.
Section l. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the
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 Oh
dinance entitled IAN 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 4.40 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
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standing on the west bank; thence south
70 degrees west a distance of 2.46 chains,
crossing the levee 62 feet west of the
abuttment of the iron bridge to another
short bend in the creek marked by a
fOrked blackberry tree standing on the
west bank of the creek and south of the
street; Themes along the west bank of
Cedar Creek to the northeast corner of
Lot No. %; thence south to the south
east corner OF Lot No. 20; thence in a
westerly direction along the south side
of Lot No. 80 to the vast b"nk of T"dnr
Creek; hence south along the west bank
OF Gear creek To J.c -,o>uD1c Il4ter;
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 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. l, to a point 1855
chains west of the west side of West
street; thence 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 33, Township Is,
Range II, it being at the intersection of
Second and Eighth streets; thence west a
distance of 2.S5 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
che=.sed being as follows:
Beginning at a point on the old survey
described ss the southwest corner of the
southeast quarter of Section 33, Town
ship Is, Range II, and running north
One-fourth mile; thence west a distance
of 1885 chains; thence north a distance
of 20 Chains; thence west I'd a point 90
feet east of the section line, between
80 and 33, Township Is, Range
II east; thence north a distance of 81
chains to a point 90 feet east of the
west boundary line of Section %, Town
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 %; thence east a distance of
60 chains to the northeast corner of the
northwest quarter of the southwest quar-
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II; thence south a distance of 1850
chains to a point on the west bank of
Cedar Creek 4.4O chains north of the
line OF Section 33, Township Is,
II; thence southwesterly along
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 90 feet west of the abuttment of
iron bridge across the creek, and
thence to another bend in the creek
by a forked blackberry on bank
Of Cedar Creek; thence along the west
of Cedar Creek to the northeast
corner of Lot No. 90; thence south to the
southeast corner of Lot No. 20; thence in |
westerly direction along the south side
IF Lot No. 20 to Cedar Creek; thence
along the west bank of Cedar
creek to NoXubee River; thence in a
westerly direction along the north bank
If the Noxubee River and on the south
,ide of River Lots Nos. 3 and 4 to a
point at the intersection of Washington
street with the river; thence west 1876
set stakes 10 feet north of the
Ibut"ment of the iron bridge; thence
to the NOXubee River go Inks
hence along the northern bank of the
IoXubee River around River Lot No. 1.
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