The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-19
SPECIAL ORDINANCE NO. 4o5.

a part OF Concert street and Water
street.
WHEREAS, the Keokuk Water
Works Company are not using for
buildings and machinery a small tri-
angular parcel OF ground situated in
Concert street and Water street and
being part of that part of said Con-
cert street and Water street which
was vacated and conditionally grant
ed TO the Keoknk Water Works COM
pany by ordinance passed April 18th,
1892. and
WHEREAS. because OF the said nom
use for buildings and machinery of said
parcel OF ground by the Keokuk Wat
er Works company, the same is by the
terms and provisions of said ordin-
ance forfeited to the City of Keokuk,
and
WHEREAS. 1t IS necessary. desir-
able and beneficial to the City of Keo-
kuk to re-enter said parcel of ground
for the reconstruction OF Water street
in connection with the building OF
street or roadway upon Water street
for the purpose OF public use, now
therefore
Be It Ordained BY the City Council Of
the City of keokuk as Follows:
Section l. That SO much OF Water
street and Concert street as was va
Gated and granted to the Keokuk Wat
er Works company by ordinance pass
ed April 18th, 1892, which is not used
for buildings and machinery to be
used in furnishing water to the City
OF Keokuk and its inhabitants as is
described as follows:
That certain parcel of land being
formerly part of Concert and Water
streets and located by commencing at
a point in Concert street on the west
erly line of Water street thirty (30)
feet northeasterly from the corner OF
lot six go in block six (6) in the orig
inal City of Keokuk at the intersec-
tion Of Water and Concert streets:
thence extending along Water street
one hundred six d06) feet to the
northerly line produced of the south
erly twenty t20) feet OF lot two (2l
in block seven T) in the original
City Of Keokuk; thence along the
northerly line OF said southerly TWEEN
ty COO feet of said lot two 90 dis
lance OF eighteen Gs) feet; thence
in direct line to the point Of begin
ming distance of one hundred ten
l110) feet. more or less,
be and the same is hereby declared
forfeited to the City of Keokuk in ac-
cordance with the provisions of saiu
ordinance passed April 18th, 1892
Section 2. That the said parcel OF
land described in section one III
hereof be and the same is hereby de-
clared to be part of Concert street
and Water street in the said City of
Keokuk and Is re.opened for public
use in accordance with the original
uses to which said streets might be
put and in accordance with the terms
OF said ordinance passed April 18th,
1892.
Section 8. That all ordinances and
parts Of ordinances in conflict with
the provisions hereof are hereby re-
pealed.
Section 4. That this ordinance
shall be published in The Daily Gate
City" and THE Demo
crat' both being newspapers OF gen
eral circulation in the said City of
Keokuk. and the same shall take eff
feet from and after its publication and
ten (1o) days after its final passage.
Passed and adopted this 14th day OF
August. A. D., 1912.
Roll call:
Ayes, Elder. Hickey, Gray
Total, three.
Nays, none.
]. F. ELDER, Mayor.
Attest:
/ 0. w sANDBERG,
City Clerk.
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