Source:Ordinance-1937-158
"An ordinance approving the Plan of 'Homehurst' in the 27th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, laid out by Evans and Newhams, accepting the dedication of Newhamshire Drive, as shown thereon, for public use for highway purposes, opening and naming the same, and establishing the grade thereon." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1937, no. 158. Passed May 3, 1937; approved May 10, 1937. Ordinance Book 48, p. 113. Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 13, 1937, p. 28 (Newspapers.com 89657547), and May 14, p. 13 (Newspapers.com 89657599); and in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, May 14, 1937, p. 48 (Newspapers.com 523306824).
NO. 158.
AN ORDINANCE—Approving the Plan of "Homehurst" in the 27th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, laid out by Evans and Newhams, accepting the dedication of Newhamshire Drive, as shown thereon, for public use for highway purposes, opening and naming the same, and establishing the grade thereon.
WHEREAS, George E. Evans and Thomas T. Newhams, the owners of certain property in the 27th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, laid out in a plan of lots called "Homehurst" have located a certain street thereon and executed a deed of dedication on said Plan for all the ground covered by the said street to the said City of Pittsburgh for public use for highway purposes, and have released the said City from liabilities for damage occasioned by the physical grading of said public highway 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 Plan of "Homehurst," situate in the 27th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, laid out by Evans and Newhams, March, 1937, be and the same is hereby approved and Newhamshire Drive as located and dedicated in said Plain, is hereby accepted.
SECTION 2. The street, as aforesaid dedicated to said City for public highway purposes, shall be and the same is hereby appropriated and opened as a public highway named Newhamshire Drive.
SECTION 3. The grade of Newhamshire Drive, laid out and dedicated in the Plan of "Homehurst" is hereby established as described in Ordinance No. 337, approved June 20th, 1931, and recorded in Ordinance Book, vol. 44, page 64.
SECTION 4. The Department of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to enter upon, take possession of, and appropriate the said Newhamshire Drive for a public highway 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 in Council May 3, 1937.
Approved May 10, 1937.
CORNELIUS D. SCULLY, Mayor.
Recorded in O. B. 48, Page 113.