. Journals of the Common Council, Board of Aldermen, and the joint conventions of said bodies, from …. proposition of John W. Ray to sell to the city certain piece of groundor proposed straightening Massachusetts avenue for five hundred dollars. Re-ommend said proposition be accepted, providing said conveyance be made forour hundred and fifty To change the name of Biddle street to Walnut street. Recommend saidhange be made. 6 Is the matter of opening and widening of the first alley east of the Belt rail-oad from Walnut street to the first alley, so as to intersect with the street th


. Journals of the Common Council, Board of Aldermen, and the joint conventions of said bodies, from …. proposition of John W. Ray to sell to the city certain piece of groundor proposed straightening Massachusetts avenue for five hundred dollars. Re-ommend said proposition be accepted, providing said conveyance be made forour hundred and fifty To change the name of Biddle street to Walnut street. Recommend saidhange be made. 6 Is the matter of opening and widening of the first alley east of the Belt rail-oad from Walnut street to the first alley, so as to intersect with the street thatTraub has opened. We recommend that the money appropriated some time agoor opening a street on the bank of the river be used, or so much of said appropri-ttion as may be necessary for the opening of this street, the property owners in-erested binding themselves to pay all further expenses in opening and improvinglaid street. Respectfully submitted, M. M. Reynolds, J. W. Wharton,Julius F. Reinecke, Committee on Streets and Alleys. Councilman Smither was excused for the remainder of this 592 Journal of Common Council, [Regular Sessi- By consent, Councilman Newcomb presented the following petitiorwhich was referred to the Committee on Streets and Alleys: To the Mayor, Common Council, and Board of Aldermen : Gentlemen:—The undersigned, owners of real estate fronting on Madison avenuand East, street, oetween Lincoln Lane and Nebraska street, respectfully petitioifor the passage of an ordinance providing for the vacation of the plat of groun<known as Woodruffs subdivision of Morris addition, as recorded in Plat Book 4page 45, in the Recorders office of Marion County, in which small strips of groum30 feet in width were left in the streets, making the streets 90 feet and 116 feewide respectively, in order to substitute therefor the plat herewith submitted, wbiclmakes the streets more nearly uniform in width with streets in the vicinity, an*of much less expense, shoul


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