Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15
Au Ordinance to anend an ordinance
entitled Sidewalks" being 0rdi-
nance No. 40 Of the Revised 0rdi-
nances Of 1910.

nance No. AZ oil the Revised Ordi-
nances Of 1910.
Be it ordained by the Council of
the City of Mexico as follows:
Section |. That Section 3 Of Or
dinance No. 40 of the Revised Ordi-
nances Of 1910 entitled sidewalks"
be amended so that said section when
amended shall read as follows;
Sidewalk District No. l is hereby
laid out, provided for and described
as follows: All that part of the City
OF Mexico, Missouri, within the
following boundaries, beginning at
the intersection of the East building
line of Coal Street with the south
building line of Love Street run
west to the intersection of the
South building line of Love Street
with the West building line of Olive
Street, thence South along the West
building line of Olive Street and
with an extension of said line to the
South line of the Wabash Rail
roads right-of-way, thence in an
Easterly direction along said South
line of the Wabash Railroads
right-of-way, to a point directly
South of the intersection of
the North curb line of Liberty Street
with the East building line of Coal
Street, thence north TO and along the
East building line of Coal Street to
the point of beginning. 1t shall be
unlawful for any property
owner or owners, contrac-
tors or other person, to con
struct or reconstruct or cause to be
constructed or reconstructed any side
walks, with or without curling, in or
upon or along any public street or av-
enue or part thereof in said sidewalk
district No. of any other M rrial
than concrete and the curbing where
necessary shall lie made of concrete.
Every such sidewalk shall be LAD up
on prepared foundation of cin'"rN,
sand, gravel or crushed stone or com
bination of these materials solidiy
tlmped down to thickness of six
Inches. And on this foundation pre-
pared n concrete mixture four inches
thick shall lie placed which shall he
tqmped TO a surface the thickness OF
the wearing course below the estab-
llshed grade of the walk. The wear
inp course shall be three-fourths of
an inch thick. The concrete body of
the walk shall he of Portland cement
and crushed stone that has passed
thru three-fourths inch sieve with
the excessive dust taken out The
mixture shall be one of cement to six
of stone. If crushed stone and sand or
gravel is used the proportion with &C.
lment shall be such as will give rs
strong concrete as the above. The
topping or wearing course shall be of
Portland cement and sand or crushed
stone screenings in the proportion Of
one cement to two sand. The walk
shall he cut in blocks having not over
SO square feet surface. The materials
shall be mixed, placed and the walk
finished in a workmanlike manner
And every such walk shall be 10 feet
lin width and the surface thereof shall
have a gradual slope from its inner to
its outer edge of one-fourth Of an inch
to the foot. Provided that where the
public necessity does not require a
walk 10 feet in width, the Council
may on application of the property
owner permit the construction of a
sidewalk of the character prescribed
Iof not less than five feet in width. All
sidewalks in District No. | shall eX'
tend to the property line of the prop
erty abutting thereon or along which
such sidewalk is built; and it shall be
unlawful for any property owner OF
contractor to construct or reconstruct
or cause to be constructed OF
reconstructed any Sidewalk
. ia said District No. of a differ
ent character or extent or in differ
ent manner than is herein aforesaid
provided.
Section2. This ordinance shall b'
in effect from and after its passage
approval and publication.
Passed this 18th day of October
1914.
j. w. DRY,
President of the Council
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