The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-08-20
MERRIWETHER ST.
ORDINANCE IS
READ TWICE
Continued from page q

1894 to $3.50; lower the grade line at
center of Fountain and Merriwether
streets from S0.55 and 69.46; lower
the grade line at center of Middle and
Merriwether street from 1929 to
1870; raise the grade line at center of
Frederick and Merriwether streets
from 1898 to 103.60; raise the grade
line at center of Sprigg and Merri-
Wether Streets~from 1888 to 106.40;
all as fully shown and more specifical-
ly described on the plat and profile
prepared by the city engineer and ap-
proved by the City Council on July 10,
1915, and by improving said part of
Merrlwether street by constructing
thereon concrete pavement and
granitoid eurbs and cutters, except
where such curbs and cutters are al
ready constructed, on either side of
said part of Merriwether street; and
that said improvement between by
contract and that special tax bills be
issued in payment therefor, as now
provided by law and ordinance No.
95S, approved July 5, 1911, and that
said work and improvement be let as
a single improvement and in one con-
tract.
Sec. 3. The City Council further
deems, and hereby declares that a
public necessity exists for the separa-
ton of the crossing of the said Merri-
wether street by the Cape Girardeau
Northern Railroad Company at Foun-
tain street, where said railroad crosses
said Merriwether street, and that the
cost of establishing the separation of
the railroad crossing from the street
and from the grade thereof, be borne
by the Cape Girardeau Northern Rail
road Company and the City of Cape
Girardeau, in such proportion as shall
be hereafter fixed and adjudicated by
the Public Service Commission of the
State of Missouri, as is now provided
by law.
Sec. 4. The City Council finds and
hereby declares that the resolution de
claring the necessity to improve that
part of Merriwether street from the
west property line of Aquamsi street
to the east property line of Sprigg
street has been duly published and in
serted for seven consecutive insertions
in the Daily Republican" a daily
newspaper published in the City of
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and doing
the city printing for said city; and
further finds that more than ten days
have elapsed since the last publication
thereof; and the said City Council fur
Their finds and declares that majority
of the resident owners of the lands
abutting on said part of said Merri-
wether street and liable to taxation
for said improvement, at the date of
the passage of the resolution for the
cost of the improvement provided for
in said resolution, and who also own
a majority of front feet owned by resi-
dents of the City of Cape Girardeau,
abutting on said part of said Merri-
wether street to be improved, have not
within ten days since the last publica-
ton of said resolution, filed with the
City Clerk their protest against the
said improvement to be made, as by |
law provided.
Sec. 5. That the said change of |
grade from the Conner Grade" to the |
Silver Grade of said part of said Mer-
riwether street proposed to be improv
ed, shall be done in accordance with |
the profiles, plans and specifications |
and the estimate of the cost of said |
of said part of Mnrri- |
wether street as prepared by the city |
engineer and as provided in said reso
luton and adopted by the City Coun-
Gil of the City of Cape Girardeau, on
July 10, 1915, and now on file in the |
office of the City Clerk, and Ordinance |
No. 95S approved July 5, 1911, and
this ordinance; and no contrast for |
said improvement shall be made and
entered into at a price in excess of
the estimate of the cost of the whole
work made by the City Engineer, and
on file in the office of the City Clerk,
as aforesaid.
Sc. 6. That when said work of i'm
of said part of Merriwether
street has been completed according
to the plans, specifications and the
contract hereafter made therefor, and
accepted by the city engineer and the
Street and Wharf Committee, and
their several reports thereon approved
by the City Council, then the City
Clerk is instructed and hereby ordered
to issue special tax bills in favor of
the contractor doing said work and
against the lots and tracts of land
AUDITING on the said part of Merri-
wether street on either side along the
70 bn /