The Alaska daily empire., 1913-05-20
ORDINANCE NO. t2a.

An ordinance providing for the estaD.
 lishment, opening and improving ol
 Front Street and Franklin Street
 in the City of Juneau, and providing
 for the permanent establishment or
 the street lines and boundaries ot
 said Front Street and Franklin
 Street The City of Juneau doth ordain as fol
 lows:
 Section 1. The Front Street in the City of Juneau is hereby opened as a public street between the point of intersection of said Front Street with Seward Street in said City of Jul neau, and the point of intersection ol said street with Franklin Street in said City, and the boundaries and street lines of said streets are hereDy established as follows
 Beginning at a point marked l, a stone firmly set in ground with cop Der tack at exact point of the inter section of Main and Front Streets from which point the Southwest Cor ner of Block ?, an iron peg said to be one of the original corners Of the City of Juneau, bears N. 40 AT w. 26.S2 feet distant; thence running No. 57 52' E 234 feet to Point Il, stone firmly set in the ground with copper tack at exact point of the intersection of Front and Seward Streets from which point the N. w. corner of Block bounding Front Street on the South bears s. 600 56' E. 57.19 feet distant from said block corner, thence said line shall run s. S10 S5' E. 27O.6 feet; thence s. 430 31' E. 36.25 feet; thence beginning at Point II, the Southwest corner of Block "G" bears N. 40 Al w. 26.S2 feet, from which point the North side of Front Street extends S. S3o 4 F.. 205.3 feet; thence N. S7' 35' E. SS.7 feet to the Southeast cor ner of Block co; thence beginning at Point II, running N. 570 52 F. 5.SS feet to a point intersecting with parallel line laid off at distance 1 of "A feet from said South side of the street: thence S. S1o 35' E. 24S.25 feet to point designated as point of inter- section.
 Section ?. And Whereas, one Oscar Ashby and the firm of Winter and Pond and E. Valentine claim certain possessory rights to certain tracts of tide lands abutting upon said streets and projecting into said street, as the same is above established to the fol lowing, to-wit:
 Oscar Ashby holds possession Of and claims a possessory right to a tract of tide lands extending into and overlapping Front Street as hereby opened and established described as follows:
 Corner No. 1. of said Lot bears S. co l2' E. 6.7 feet from point on line , x. S10 35' w. 10S feet from point designated in above notes as point Of intersection; thence running $. S70 56' F. 36.4 feet to Corner No ?; thence $. O0 12' F. 223 feet to Corner No 3; thence N. Sl0 35' w. 36.S feet to Cor ner No. 4; thence N. 0' 12' w. 1S.2 feet to Corner No. 1, the place of be- ginning, making an area of 736.77 square feet.
 Winter and Pond hold possession of and claim a possessory right to a tract of tide lands extending into and overlapping Front Street as hereby opened and established. described as follows:
 Corner No. l of said Lot bears s. 520 2S' w. 15.9 feet from point on line N. S1o 35' w. 17.7 feet from point designated as point of intersection, in above notes. thence running $. 52' 2S' w. f3.1 feet to Corner No, 2; thence IN. Sl0 35' w. 2S.7 feet to Corner No. Is: thence N. O0 12' w. 22.3 feet to Corner No. 4 thence S. S7' 56' E. l3.S feet to Corner No. 3; thence s. 54' 21' E.. 9O.9 feet to Corner No. l, the place of beginning, making an area of 6S7.20 square feet,
 F. Valentine holds possession of and claims a possessory right to tract of tide lands extending into and over tapping Front Street and Franklin Street as hereby opened and estab- lished, described as follows:
 Beginning at the point of intersec- tiOn herenbefore referred to, thence s. 570 4O' w. 22.9 feet to Corner No. 1, being the Northwesterly corner of a building now being erected by the said E. Valentine at the intersection of said Front and Franklin Streets; thence s. 460 g w. 11.45 feet to Cor ner No. 2, at the point of intersection of the Southerly line of Front Street; thence along said line of Front Street as hereby established s. 430 31' E. 3625 feet to Corner No. 3 of said build
 ing, identical with the Northwest cor ner of the Clark building; thence N. 46' g k. II feet to Corner No. 4, from which said point of intersection bears N. So 35' w. 3S.SS feet; thence N. 43' 51' w. 36.25 feet to Corner Mo- 1, the place of beginning, containing an area of 402.91 square feet, more or less.
 And whereas, it is necessary in or der to open said street and make the same sufficiently wide for the pur- poses of accommodating the traffic carried on on said street by the public, and for the purpose of accommodate ing the public travel thereon, that said street is opened and established to the width hereby established and declared and be freed from all Instructions therein.
 Section 3. Now, therefor be it fur ther ordained, that condemnation pro- ceedings be commenced in the Dis trict Court for the Territory of Alas ka, Division No. l, by the City of Ju- neau for the purpose of condemning the property of the said Oscar Ashby and also the property of the said Win ter and Pond and also the property of E. Valentine, and their possessory or other rights to the tide lands on the shores of the Gastineau Channel to the extent that the same projects in- to the said Front Street and Franklin Street, as hereby established, or in any wise conflict with or overlap the same.
 Section 4. All ordinances or parts of ordinances conflicting herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict
 Section 5. This ordinance shall be published for three successive issues