The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1916-04-20
SIDEWALKS
ORDERED.
Board of Aldermen to Have Con-
crete Walks on Principal
Business Streets.

II The Board of Mayor and Alder
men met Wednesday night, Apri
10Th, 1916, at 7:so O'Clock. Pres
ent-Mayor Smith; Aldermen Per-
son, Manns, Bailey, Jones, Guth-
rie and Gordon; and Town Attor-
ney ]. T. Drake.
1t was moved and seconded that
the resolution In regard to the
construction of certain sidewalks
In the town be adopted. This
motion was carried, Alderman
Jones dissenting. Mr.. Jones stated
to the Board that he was opposed
to the construction of the walks,
as he believed this an inopportune
time for the taxpayers to be furth-
er buTdened, and that he did not
believe the general taxpayers
should hear the expense of the
interest on the bond issue that will
have to be foated to build the
walks, but that the interest should
be borne. as well as all other ex-
penses connected with the matter,
by the parties along whose prop
erty the sidewalks are to be con-
structed
Be 1t Resolved by the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen of the Town
of Port Gibson. Mississippi, as
follows:
SIDEWALKS to be built on the
east and west side of Market street;
beginning at a point about twenty
feet north of the centre of the
front door of the Court House, on
the north to Carroll street on the
south.
The sidewalk to be ten feet wide
on the west side, and nine feet
wide on the east side of said Marx
ct street.
The measurements for the walk
on the west side to be obtained as
follows:
At point two feet from the
property corner at the north. west
intersection of Market and Walnut,
on the Market street side, measure
eff ten feet In an easterly direction
and parallel with Walnut street.
The measurement for the walk
on the east side to be obtained as
follows:
At point two feet from the
corner at the northeast
of Market and Walnut,
on the Market street side, measure
of ten feet in a westerly direction
and parallel with Walnut street.
Using these two points as above
located with west and east sides of
Market street. the outside lines of
the sidewalks are to run parallel
to each other from the Court |
House on the north to Carroll
street on the south.
SIDEWALKS upon east side ofl
Farmer street, between Carroll
and Walnut streets, to be of a
width of SEVEN feet.
SIDEWALKS upon each side of
Farmer street, between Walnut $
and Fair street, to be of width of
FIVE feet.
SIDEWALKS upon each side of
Carroll street from Main to Cotton
street, to be of width of seven
feet on the north side and seven {
feet on the south side from Mair Z
to Farmer street, and from Farmer
to Cotton street on said south side,
to be of width of six feet. K
SIDEWALKS on both sides of
Walnut street from Market to Cot
ton street; on the south side of
said Walnut, between Market and
Farmer streets, the walk to be of a l
width of nine feet, and from Farm
er to Cotton street to be of a width |
of FIVE feet. On the north side of {
said Walnut street, between Mark
ct and Farmer streets. abe walk to
be six feet, four inches wide, from I
a point on the property line at the
intersection of Main +
and Market streets, the outside Of
the walk to run In an easterly d. a
rection parallel to the outside line n
of the opposite walk on the south E
side of said street-aud all of the
walk between this said parallel f
line on the north side ard tha 4