Source:Resolution-1867-washington-ave-widening/content
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 1st 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 19th 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
Recorded July 19th 1867.
