The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-16
Council Chamber
City of Virginia, Mimi,
nokobor e 1914

OCTOBER D, 1914.
Resolution ordering and directing the lay
ing Of water main in the six-foot sewer
now being constructed from Cook street to the
point where said sewer mterSectS the MUD
Lake road
By Alderman Murray.
Resolved, by the city council of the city OF
Virginia, that the Virginia Rainy Lake com,
pany and Louis M. Osborn having petitioned
this council to have six-inch water pipe
laid and installed from Cook street in the city
of Virginia in the six-foot sewer now being
constructed to the point where said sewer in
tersccts the Mud Lake road in said city, ant
| this council having decided and hereby does
decide, that said water main should not be
laid wholly at the expense of the city that
the public need therefore does not justify the
| laying of said water main wholly at the ex
pense of the city-and the said six-foot sewer
being now laid out and staked and proposed
to be built through the lands and lots be
longing to one of the petitioners, the Vir
ginia & Rainy Lake company, and the city
not having procured the right of way across
said lands for the construction of said sewer,
and the said Virginia & Rainy Lake company
having agreed in connection with their petit
| ton filed with the city clerk to furnish the
right-of-way to the city for the construction
of said sewer and water main across all of
the lands described in said petition as belong.
ing to said company, to-wit:
Lot nine (s) of block fifty-two (52). lot
lot nine 60 of block forty-one (41) in the
city of Virginia, according to the recorded
plat thereof, and the northeast quarter of the
northeast quarter (NE1-4NE1-D of section
! eighteen (l8) in township So, range II, in St
Louis county, Minnesota,
and the said company having agreed to execute
to the city such conveyance will give to the
city a proper easement for such sewer and for
the perpetual maintenance of the same, said
easement to be across and through a strip of
land fifty feet in width. being twenty five feet
on each side of the center line of said sewer
as now laid out and staked out across said
1.n do CoiH TO ho c1h hour Tn
| the right of the said Virginia & Rainy Lake
| company to the surface rights Of the land so
| conveyed by the said easement for any pur-
poses consistent with the cty's convenient
use of said strip of land for the purpose of
laying, altering, repairing, maintaining the
said sewer and the water mains therein to be
laid, and subject also to the easement which
| the Duluth Missabe & Northern Railway
company has acquired across portion of said
| lands for its brewery spur track,
1t Is Therefore Resolved, that said agree
ment by the petitioner, the Virginia & Rainy
Lake company, to convey said easement for the
putting in of said sewer and water main be
and the same is hereby accepted as full com.
pensaton for the portion of the expense of
| laying said water main which might otherwise
be taxed up to said company or its lands.
And the said Louis M. Osborn, who is one of
| the petitioners signing the petition herein re-
! ferred to- having decided that the installing of
said water main between the points above
mentioned would be beneficial to his lands.
described as follows:
The southwest quarter of the northeast
quarter (SW1-4NEl-4) and the northwest
quarter of the southeast quarter (NWl-4SE1-4)
OF section eighteen Q8) in township So, range
| II, in st. Louis county, Minnesota,
| and in consideration of such benefits has
agreed to pay towards the expense of putting
IN and installing said water main Three Hun.
dred and Fifty Dollars (s350.OO). and to secure
the payment of such sum has agreed in said
petition signed by him that said amount Of
Three Hundred and Fifty Dollars may be levied
tax against all Of the lands of said
Louis M. Osborn above described and that the
same be levied to be paid in three equal an
nual installments with six per cent interest
! thereon from the time when said water main
shall have been installed until such time as
said tax shall have been paid. provided that if
said three hundred fifty dollars be paid prior
to the time of levying said tax that no tax
| shall be levied therefor,
| 1t Is Further Resolved that said water main
be installed between the points above set out
and that the same shall always be for the use
of the general public as the city or the Water
and Light commission of said city may
determine, and that the same be installed in
such manner as the Water and Light commits
sion may direct, and the work in laying and
installing the same be done under the super
vision and direction of said Water and LIGHT
commission and not otherwise; and the said
Water and Light commission are hereby author
| lied and directed to lay said water main and
to use therefor the six-inch water pipe which
was ordered to be used for the six-inch fire
| protection pipe to be installed in connection
with the Virginia & Rainy Lake company
mains. and that other pipe be ordered to take
| its place when required; and said commission
is required and directed to make a report to
this council of the entire cost of laying and
installing said water pipe, including the cost
of the pipe SO used; and when the amount has
been ascertained by the council all of the ex-
penses of laying and installing said water
main, except the Three Hundred and Fifty
Dollars to be assessed against the Osborn
lands as above provided for, shall be charged
to the expense of putting in said six-foot
sewer;
And the mayor and city clerk are hereby
authorized and directed to enter into an
agreement with the Virginia & Rainy Lake
company by which said company shall, for the
consideration above referred to and set out
| execute and give proper easement for said
sewer and water main with all the rights
! above specified to the city, and that such ease.
ment be perpetual. and that the same be taken
| in lieu of any payment or tax which might
otherwise be an obligation against said Vir
ginia & Rainy Lake company or which might
become tax against their lands for the con
struction and laying of said water main, and
that in said agreement the city be Obliged tt
restore the surface of the ground where sale
sewer shall be put in to its original condition
as nearly as practicable
Moved by Alderman Heritage supported b,