Source:Ordinance-1920-26/content

No. 26

AN ORDINANCE—Approving the "Ebdy Orchard Plan of Lots," in the Fourteenth ward of the City of Pittsburgh, laid out by Maria L. Ebdy; accepting the dedication of Caton street, Ebdy street, Maria way and Victory way, as shown thereon, for public use for highway purposes, opening and naming the same and establishing the grades on Caton street, Ebdy street, Maria way and Victory way.

Whereas, Maria L. Ebdy, the owner of certain property in the Fourteenth ward of the City of Pittsburgh, laid out in the "Ebdy Orchard Plan of Lots," has located certain highways thereon and executed a deed of dedication, on said plan, of all the ground covered by said highways, to the City of Pittsburgh, for public use for highway purposes, and has released the said City from any liability for damages for or by reason of the physical grading of said public highways to the grades hereinafter established; therefore,

Section 1. Be it ordained and enacted by the City of Pittsburgh, in Council assembled, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the authority of the same, That the "Ebdy Orchard Plan of Lots," situated in the Fourteenth ward of the City of Pittsburgh, laid out by Maria L. Ebdy, May 1918, be and the same is hereby approved, and Caton street, Ebdy street, Maria way and Victory way as located and dedicated on said plan, are hereby accepted.

Section 2. The streets and ways, as aforesaid dedicated to said City for public highway purposes, shall be and the same are hereby appropriated and opened as public highways and named Caton street, Ebdy street, Maria way and Victory way.

Section 3. The grades of Caton street, Ebdy street, Maria way and Victory way, laid out and dedicated in the "Ebdy Orchard Plan of Lots," are hereby established as described in Ordinance No. 427, approved December 29, 1919, and recorded in Ordinance Book, Vol. 31, Page 8.

Section 4. The Department of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to enter upon, take possession of and appropriate the said Caton street, Ebdy street, Maria way and Victory way for public highways in conformity with the provisions of this Ordinance.

Section 5. That any Ordinance or part of Ordinance, conflicting with the provisions of this Ordinance, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same affects this Ordinance.

Passed January 26, 1920.

Pittsburgh, February 9, 1920.

I do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance, duly engrossed and certified, was delivered by me to the Mayor for his approval or disapproval, on January 27, 1920, and that the Mayor failed to approve or disapprove the same, or to return the same to Council within ten (10) days from said date, whereupon the same became a law without his approval, under the provisions of the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided.

E. J. MARTIN,
Clerk of Council.

Ordinance Book 31, Page 111.