Source:Ordinance-1849-cliff
"An ordinance establishing and fixing the grade of Cliff street in the seventh ward." Pittsburgh city ordinance. Enacted July 26, 1847. Ordinance Book A, p. 388. In A Digest of the Ordinances of the City of Pittsburgh: To Which Is Prefixed a Collection of the Acts of Assembly Relating to the Corporation, p. 286, W. H. Whitney, Pittsburgh, 1849 (Historic Pittsburgh 31735056288487).
AN ORDINANCE
Establishing and fixing the grade of Cliff street in the seventh ward.
Section I. That the grade of Cliff street shall rise from the grade of Fulton street 4½° or 8.31-100 feet per 100 feet to a point 355 feet from the curb line of Fulton street, thence rise 2° 8½′ or 3.74-100 feet per 100 feet to Gum street, or about four feet below the present surface at Gum street, thence descend 29′ or 0.83-100 feet per 100 feet to Cassat street nine feet above the present surface, and from thence rise 2° 42′ or 4.71-100 feet per 100 feet to a point 116 feet from Cassat street, thence rise 5½° or 9.63-100 feet per 100 feet to Ledlie street, ten feet below the surface.
Ordained and Enacted into a law in Councils, this 26th day of July, A. D. 1847.
Recorded—August 3d, A. D. 1847, in Book A., p. 388.
