The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-02-21


amined and said clerk shall endorse
thereon the date of the expiration of
the leasehold interest of said appli-
cant in said property, and the amount
of any a.rearage, if any, in the rental,
or axes or liens of any description
due the said Mayor and Council, and
the amount to be paid for said quit
claim conveyance; said last
amount to be determined as
follows: on leases expiring within fif-
teen years, from July 1, 1911, the
sum of Is per cent; leases expiring
from over fifteen to thirty years, 10
per cent; leases expiring from over
thirty to sixty-five years, 2 per cent;
and leases expiring from over sixty
five to ninty nine years. IL per cent.
said percentage to be based upon the
city assessment of the value o. said
real estate for the year 1911. When
said application shall have been in
vestigated as aforesaid, and verified,
the said committee shall report said
application with their approval, back
to council who shall adopt said re-
port, and thereupon, the clerk shall
make up the deed of conveyance, upon
printed forms, prepared by the city
attorney; said deeds to be signed by
the mayor and attested by the city
clerk.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained that
there shall be kept in the office of the
city clerk a register, in which shall
be recorded the date of the applica.
ton, name Of applicant, the original
leases, the last transferee prior to ap-
plicant, the expiration of the lease, the
city assessment for 1911, arrearage
or liens, description Of the property
conveyed and to whom, date of the
deed and amount paid therefor.
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained that
should the person applying for quit
claim conveyance, be other than the
person returning said property for
taxation, by said city records in 1911
Or 1912, or not the successor in title
records, Or should there be two appli-
cants, from a dispute in title, or 9TH
erwise, whereby the committee is I'M
able to determine who is properly en-
titled to said conveyance, then and
in that event said committee shall
report adversely to both applications
and council shall refuse to make a
grant until the title has been adjudi-
Gated in the court, but, both applica
lions shall be recorded in the afore-
the grant to the person so entitled.
&C. 6. Be it further ordained that
- time within which applications
for fee simple titles may be filed shall
expire on the 31st day of December
1912. a.
Sec. 8. Be it further ordained that
all ordinances and parts of ordinances
in conflict herewith are hereby re-
pealed.
(Note.-Paving ordinance will ap-
pear Thursday morning.-Ed)
The following ordinance was placed
on first reading and referred to the
ordinance committee
(By Alderman Calnan)
AN ORDINANCE to amend ordi-
nance No. 265, adopted August 2,
1911, entitled "an ordinance to require
each owner Of any lot or part of a
lot, AUDITING or bounding on F street,
in the city of Brunswick, Georgia, to
! nave fbo cidaua1lyc oil
part Of the lot on said F street from
Bay street to Norwich street, and lay
curbing along said sidewalk, to pro-
vide q penalty, and for other pur-
poses"
Section l. Be it, and it is hereby,
enacted by the mayor and aldermen
of the city of Brunswick, Georgia, in
council assembled, that ordinance No
265 adopted on the 2Sth day of Au-
gust, 1911, providing for tee laying
Of sidewalks on portions of F street
be and the same is hereby amended
by adding the following language after
the words land such sidewalks shall
be eight feet wide to-Wit, save and
except on the northern side of
street between Newcastle and Bay
streets where the same shall be four
teen feet wide so that said section
thus amended shall read as follows:
Be 1t further ordained by the author
ity aforesaid that such paved side
walks shall be constructed of heXagoc
tile, Vitrified brick or monoithic ceA
ment and such sidewalks shall be
eight feet wide, save and except on
the northern side of F street between
Newcastle and Bay streets, where the
same shall be fourteen feet wide; and
it shall also be the duty of each own
er or owners to lay curbing along
said sidewalks. Sidewalks now in eX-
istence in said streets, not construct
ed of said material shall be replaced
with such material as herein specified
unless the city engineer and the pub
lie works committee shall otherwise
decide in any given case; all side
walks laid under this ordinance and