The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-18
PAVING

Fulton street from Washington
street to Jackson street; Palace
street from Fulton street to Cot
ton street; Walthall street from
Henry street to johnson street;
Main street from Henry street
to Carrollton avenue; johnson
street from Main street to Wal
thall street; Pearl street from
Lamar street to Y. & NJ. V. Rail-
road; Avenue A from Carrollton
avenue to the Southern Railroad
Track, and declaring same to, be
a special improvement and adopt
ing plans and specifications for
said necessary special improve
ment.
Be it resolved by the Council of
the City of Greenwood:
Section 1: That in the judgment
Of the Council Of the City of Green
wood, it is necessary that that part
of Henry street from Dewey street to
Walthall street; Fulton street from
Washington street to Jackson street.;
Palace street from Fulton street to
Cotton street; Walthall street from
Henry street to Johnson street; Main
street from Henry street to Carroll
ton Avenue; johnson street from
Main street to Walthall street; Pearl
street from Lamar street to Y. & M.
V. Railroad; Avenue A from Carroll
ton Street to the Sou. Railroad track
in said City of Greenwood, be grad
ed, paved, curbed and guttered.
Section q: That said grading, paw
ing, curling 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 an
Asphalt Macadam as therein provid-
ed, which said plans and specifica-
lions are hereby adopted and ap-
proved, and shall be considered as
a part hereof as if the same were
copied herein in full, reference there
to being hereby specially made.
Section 4: That said Special I'm
provcment 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
cost of same will be required to be paid
by the owner or owners, Of the prop
erty abutting on said parts of said
streets; that is to say,-the abutting
owner, OF owners, of said property
on one side of said streets will be re-
quired to pay one third of the cost of
said special Improvement, and the
abutting owner, or owners, OF the 9TH
err side of said streets will be requir-
ed to pay one third of the cost of
said special improvement.
Section 5: That any property own
er, 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, O. their protest, IN writing,
against said proposed special i'm
provement at any time within ten
days after the completion of the pub
LEGATION of this resolution as required
by law, and if a majority of such
! property owners 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 Tuesday, May Goth, 1919, said
Council will hear and consider the OBJ
lection, or objections of all interested
parties or property n who shall
appear and present the same, whether
the property owner, or owners, act
ually occupy his, or their, property
adjoining said parts of said streets
proposed to be so improved or not, and
regardless of whether said property
owner, or owners, be resident or nom
resident property owner, or wners.
Section 7: That each and every
property owner, with property abutt-
ing 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 specifica-
ton now on file in the office of the
Clerk Of said City, hereinbefore re-
ferred to and hereinabove adopted and
approved. But, failing therein, said
Council will cause said special i'm
provement to be made as provided
by law, and the cost of said special
improvement will be assessed against