The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-23

Meridian in Lee County, Iowa, and ex-
tending from said point In a south
easterly direction to a point on the
northerly line of the land now owned
by James G. Davis, said point being
four hundred sixty-one (461) feet east
of the east line OF Grand Avenue
measured along said Davis northerly
line; thence along said line, easterly
twenty-nine (29) feet to monument
| number seventy-one CID Of said Mis-
sissippi River Power Company;
thence southerly along a line four
hundred ninety (490) feet distant
therefrom and parallel to the east
line of Grand Avenue through said
Power Company's monuments number
seventy (70) and sixty-nine (69) to
the Anschutz Hill Road, and
WHEREAS, said relocated high
way extends through lands owned by
the Mississippi River Power Com
pany and the same Is to be sixty-six
feet in width where the said Power
Company owns enough land to make
the said highway of that width, and
the same is to be conveyed by said
Power Company to the City of Keo-
kuk in consideration of the vacation
OF the streets and highways herein
after described, and
WHEREAS, The Mississippi River
Power Company has acquired all
rights of the property owners AUDITING
upon the streets, alleys, roads and
highways hereinafter described in and
to the same, and
/ WHEREAS, the streets, roads and
highways hereinafter described are
not now and cannot be made desir-
able and suitable for public streets
or highways and the interests Of the
said city require the vacation of the
streets, alleys and highways herein.
after described, all of the same being
unnecessary for the purposes for
which they were originally acquired,
now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY
4 COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KEO-
KUK:
i Section l. That the City OF Keokuk
hereby vacates Taylor Street, Pope
Street, Samuel Street, and the alleys
In blocks fourteen Q4) and fifteen
1 (15), all in Wolcott's Bluff Addition
to the City of Keokuk, and all that
part of Anschutz Hill Road or River
Road extending from the north cor
poration limits of the city of Keo
kuk southerly to the west line of the
relocated right of way of the Chicago
Burlington and Quincy railroad Com
pany, subject to the reservations In
section four ca hereof.
Section 2. That the City of Keokul
hereby grants and conveys unto the
said Mississippi River Power Com
pany, a corporation duly organized
and existing under and by virtue Of
the laws of the State of Maine, its
grantees, successors and assigns, the
streets, alleys and highways situated
, as described in Section one "a here
OF, subject to the reservations in Sec
ton four az hereof.
Section g. That the City OF Keokul
hereby gives, grants and authorizes
the Mississippi River Power Com
pany, its grantees, contractees, sue
cessors and assigns, the right to re
locate the right of way of the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy Railroad Com
!. pany across the Anschutz Hill Road
Or River Road, Pope Street and Sam
uel Street described in Section one
% hereof; said right OF way so 10
Gated shall not exceed forty-sever
t4D feet in width, and shall be sub
1ect to the reservations in Sector
four (4 hereof.
Section 4. The City of Keokul
makes the following reservations:
First: Should public necessity. pub
lie benefit or welfare at any future
time require access to the new waite,
level resulting from the construction
operation and maintenance of the
dam, lock and dry dock across the
Des Moines Rapids in the Mississippi
river, then the said city by resolution
or otherwise may require that SamueI
street, Pope street and the Absolute
ifill Road, either one or all, be open
ed TO the public from the westerly
SIDE OF the relocated right of way fol
said railroad, across said railroad
right Of way and extending TO said
new water level.