Source:Ordinance-1873-308
"An ordinance locating Fifty-third street." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1873, no. 308. Passed Dec. 15, 1873. Ordinance Book 4, p. 47. In The Municipal Record: Containing the proceedings of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Pittsburgh, together with the ordinances, &c.: With an index, vol. V, p. 133, Pittsburgh Daily Gazette, Pittsburgh, 1873 (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecord1872).
AN ORDINANCE—Locating Fifty-third street.
Section 1. Be it ordained and enacted by the City of Pittsburgh, in Select and Common Councils assembled, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the authority of the same, That Fifty-third street be and is hereby located as follows, to-wit: Starting at a point of intersection of north side of Butler street and line of McCandless avenue, deflecting to right 10 deg. 8 min., running thence to Allegheny river, a width of sixty (60) feet.
Ordained and enacted into a law, in Councils, this 15th day of December, A. D. 1873.
A. H. GROSS,
President of Select Council.
Attest: E. S. Morrow,
Clerk of Select Council.
W. B. NEGLEY,
President of Common Council.
Attest: Geo. Booth,
Clerk of Common Council.