Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-07-19
SIDEWALK SPECIFICATIONS, CITY
OF MACON, MISSISSIPPI.

All sidewalks shall be laid Dy
lines furnished by the City Engi-
neer, or other person appointed by
the Mayor and Board of Aldermen,
for the purpose Of locating grades
and lines and shall be in accordance
with the grades established and
adopted by the Mayor and Board of
Aldermen on file in the office Of the
Clerk of the City of Macon, Missis-
sippi.
All sidewalks in the residence part
of town shall have a slope or drop
toward the gutter or ditch of one
fourth inch to the foot. In special
places this order may be changed by
the Mayor and Board of Aldermen.
All sidewalks shall be constructed
four feet in width unless otherwise
ordered by the Mayor and Board of
Aldermen.
EXCAVATION.
The walk way shall be excavated
to a depth of four inches below the
finish grade Of pavement and thor
oughly tamped until the surface of
the subgrade is solid. Soft and
springy places shall be dug out and
refilled with approved material,
thoroughly tamped. This subgrade
shall be rammed and tamped to a
hard surface. o nthe top of this sub
grade shall be spread and thoroughly
tamped three inches of concrete and
on this shall be laid the finishing
coat of one inch of cement mortar,
thoroughly coated and trowled to a
smooth surface. The finish must fol-
low the concrete as rapidly as pos
sible and in no case must the finish
coat be put on more than one hour
after the concrete has been placed.
All sidewalks shall be divided into
four-foot blocks and shall have an
expansion joining cut entirely
through the concrete at the end of
each block and sand line. All joints
shall be cut true to line at right
angles to the center line of the pave
ment and one-inch expansion joints
every forty feet, filled with pitch. all
joints shall be neatly finished with
, proper finishing tool. The edge or
, corner of the pavement shall be
neatly rounded with a proper finish
ing tool.
:. All walks of other widths shall be
finished in the same manner except
, the blocks shall be of such dimen-
sions as the city may decide best in
r each particular pavement.
The surface of the completed walk
shall be protected from the SUI for
( three days by a coat of sand one
inch deep kept moistened or by any
other suitable method.
All fills over six inches in heighi
{ shall be put down in six-inch layers
t dampened and well tampc,.
The contractor shall do all grad
ing under four inches and all 81
. not W. four inches at no eXpens'
: to the property owners. All grading
: in eXces of the above shall be pait
for by the property owners at 81
much per cubic yard.
All retaining walls, where required
shall be paid for by the lineal foot
The gravel shall be worked back on
inch from the face to give it a goo
It smooth surface. All concrete walk
shall be made one foot from the prop
e erty line.
I'll CONCRETE.
e All concrete to be used in walk
n shall consist of M part Portlan
d cement, good pit run gravel in tn
proportion of two parts sand and fiv
5 parts clean gravel as near as pos
sible. thoroughly mixed with hand o
| machine, sufficient water being add
II ed to give it a moistened surfac
when thoroughly rammed.
If MORTAR.
Is The mortar shall consist of on
If part Portland cement and two part
le good clean sand, no sand screenin
,e larger than %one-fourth inch. TIL
d cement and sand to be thorough
st mixed and dry and then made int
IN mortar by adding sufficient wate'
t. CEMENT.
vel All cement in the work shall b
le Portland or some standard; nc dan
lie aged cement will be allowed in tn
" work. :
Of GRAVEL.
All gravel used in this work sha
be clean, flint gravel and be free frol
le loan or clay and not larger than wi
~ pass through a two~inch ring.
lg SAND.
10 All sand shall be clean, hare
id coarse grit, entirely free from an
h. foreign matter.
as The above and foregoing plans an
N specifications having been adopte
n nv the Mayor and Board of Alderme
of the City Of Macon. Mississippi. the