Source:Ordinance-1816-22
"An ordinance respecting sundry new streets in the eastern addition to Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1816, no. 22. Passed Sept. 28, 1816; re-enacted by ordinance no. 114, passed Apr. 14, 1828; recorded Mar. 13, 1828. Ordinance Book A, p. 125. In By-Laws and Ordinances of the City of Pittsburgh, and the Acts of Assembly Relating Thereto: With notes and references to judicial decisions thereon, and an appendix, relating to several subjects connected with the laws and police of the city corporation, pp. 127–128, Johnston and Stockton, Pittsburgh, 1828 (Google Books sfxOAAAAYAAJ, 3n9hAAAAcAAJ).
An Ordinance respecting sundry new streets in the eastern addition to Pittsburgh.
I. That Third-street extending from Grant-street to Try-street, and Fourth, extended in a direct line from Grant-street to Try-street; and Diamond-street extending from Ross-street to the lane leading eastwardly from the end of Fourth-street, and Ross-street extended from Third-street to Diamond-street, and Try-street extended from Third-street to the lane leading eastwardly from the end of Fourth-street, be and they are hereby accepted and declared to be public streets and highways of the city, and to remain of the width designated and expressed in the diagram annexed to this ordinance, and more particularly described in the deed of James O'Hara and James Ross subjoined to said diagram; and all those streets shall be kept, repaired and maintained for public use, at public expense forever hereafter, in the same manner as other public streets and alleys within the city.
II. That it shall be lawful for the said James O'Hara and James Ross respectively to enclose the old lane leading from the end of Fourth-street eastwardly, according to the plan delineated in the before mentioned diagram, and hold and improve the same as their own property forever, in consideration of their having given their own ground to render straight and direct the streets herein before accepted and confirmed; and whenever the said parties, their heirs or assigns, shall agree to extend Diamond-street in a direct line to Try-street, it shall be lawful for them to shut up and appropriate to their own use so much of the old lane as will thereby be supplied, being the whole of the lane between Diamond-street continued to Try-street; and Diamond-street when thus extended by agreement of said parties, shall thenceforward become a public street throughout to Try-street, to be kept, repaired and maintained for public use, at public expense, as other public streets and alleys in the city; and the part of the lane aforesaid, situate between Diamond-street and Try-street, shall thenceforth cease to be a highway, and may be shut up and appropriated according to the agreement of the parties aforesaid, if they do hereafter agree for that purpose.
Passed 28th September, 1816; re-enacted by chap. 114, passed 14th April, 1828, and recorded 13th March, 1828, in Book A. page 125.