The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-09-23
PAVING RESOLUTION.

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Market Street to Carroliton Ave
nue., and that part of Market
Street from Main Street to Pelu,
cia Bayou Bridge to be necessary.
declaring the same to be a Spec
ial Improvement, and adopting
plans and specifications for said
necessary Special Improvement
Be it Resolved by the Council OF
the City of Greenwood:
Section /. That in the judgment of
the Council Of the City of Greenwood
it is necessary that that part of Mar
ket Street from Main Street to Pelu-
cia Bayou Bridge, and that part OF
Lamar Street from Market Street tt
Carroi!ton Avenue, in said City OF
Greenwood, be graded, paved, curbeG
and guttered.
Section 2. That said grading, paw.
ing, curbing and guttering is deemed
a special improvement, for the max
ing of which the General Improve
ment Fund should not be used.
Section 3. That said special i'm
provement shall be made in accord
ance with the plans and specifications
now on file in the Office Of the Clerk
of said City, said paving to be of as
phaltic concrete as therein provided,
which said plans and specifications
are hereby adopted and approved, and
shall be considered as a part hereof
as if the same were copied herein in
full, reference thereto being hereby
specially made.
Section a. That said special i'm
provement will be by the Council of
said City of Greenwood ordered to be
made, and one-third of the cost Of
said special improvement shall be
paid by said City, and two-thirds Of
the cost of same will be required to
be paid by the owner, or owners, Of
the property abutting on said parts
of said streets; that is to say, the
AUDITING owner, or owners, of said
property on one side of said streets
will be required to pay one-third of
the cost of said special improvement.
and the abutting owner, or owners
on the other side of said streets will
be required to pay one-third of the
cost of said special improvement.
Section 5. That any property own
err, or owners, actually residing on or
otherwise occupying property owned
by him, or them, and included within
that part of said streets to be spec
tally improved, may file with the
Clerk of the Council of said City his.
or their, protest, in writing, against
said proposed special improvement at
any time within ten days after the
completion of the publication of this
resolution as required by law, and if
shall so file such protest, said special
improvement shall not be made.
Section 6. That at the regular
meeting of the said Council, to be
held at the City Hall of said City, the
same being their usual place of meet
ing, on the 18th day of Oct., 1916,
said Council will hear and consider
the objection, or objections, of all in
terested parties or property owners
who shall appear and present the
same, whether the property owner,
or owners, actually occupy his, OF
their, property adjoining said parts of
said streets proposed to be so i'm
proved or not, and regardless of
a majority of such property owners
whether or not said property owner,
or owners, be resident or nonresident
property owner, or owners.
Section 7. That each and every
property owner with property abut-
ting on said parts of said streets shall
have the right to make said special
improvement for himself, within the
time and as provided by law and this
resolution, but for the sake of uni
formity in said work, said special i'm
provement must be made in accord
ance with the plans and specifications
now on file in the Office of the Clerk
of said City hereinbefore referred to
and hereinabove adopted and approx
ed. But, failing therein, said Council
will cause said special improvement
to be made as provided by law, and
the cost of said special Improvement
will be assessed against each proper
ty owner as prescribed by law and
this resolution.
Section 8. That this resolution.
and the proceedings hereinabove con-
templated, are under, and by virtue of
and pursuant to Chapter 26O of the
Laws Of 1912, as amended by Chapter
I'll Of the Laws Of 1914, of the State
OF Mississippi, reference to which
said laws is hereby specially made.
Section Q. That for cause shown.
this resolution take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved this Sept. 10, 1915.
G. L. RAY, Mayor.
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