Source:Resolution-1867-washington-ave-widening

"Resolution to widen Washington Avenue." Allegheny city resolution, 1867. Enacted July 11, 1867. In ordinance book of Allegheny City, 1840–1868, p. 537/538 (https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_97c25faa-af4d-4826-99ba-011d5d2f68e5/).

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Resolution to widen Washington Avenue. Resolved by the select and common councils of the city of Allegheny That Washington Avenue from the P Ft W & c Railroad to Pasture lane be & the same is hereby widened to be of the same width as said Avenue from Sedgwick st to the Ohio River and that A C Alexander Robert Stewart & James Graham freeholders be and they are hereby appointed viewers to view & assess the damages & benefits in accordance with the provisions of the act of assembly approved May 1^st 1861 & that the clerks of councils notify them of their appointement [sic] Ordained & enacted into a law this the eleventh day of July Anno Domini one thousand Eight hundred and Sixty seven

Attest D Macferron clerk of the Select council	James McBrier President of the select council
Robert Dilworth clerk of the Common council	Geo D Riddle President of the common council

I do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was published in the Daily Dispatch and in the Daily Gazette on Tuesday Wednesday & Thursday the sixteenth seventeenth and Eighteenth days of July 1861 & in the Freedoms Friend on Wednesday Thursday and Friday the seventeenth Eighteenth and nineteenth days of July 1867 respectively D Macferron

City of Allegheny ss.

personally appeared before me John Morrison Mayor in & for said city this 19^th day of July 1867 David Macferron who being duly sworn according to law saith that the foregoying [sic] is true & further saith not

J Morrison
Mayor

seal of Allegheny City

Recorded July 19^th 1867.