Source:Ordinance-1907-1909-735
"An ordinance approving and accepting the dedication of Pittock street, from the line dividing the properties of Hallet [sic] and Sneathen to Phillips avenue." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1907–1909, no. 735. Passed Mar. 15, 1909; approved Mar. 17, 1909. Ordinance Book 20, p. 224. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the [Select and Common Councils] of the City of Pittsburgh for the Years 1907–'08–'09, appendix, pp. 378–379, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1909 (Google Books gMBEAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust chi.096598897; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecordselect1907, Pghmunicipalrecordcommon1907; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_88fcf2e6-8930-4b97-bb30-9304c2bdec25/; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_74745bca-2dd9-49c4-966c-b425de211c1e/; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_d0d559de-551a-4f89-83f2-bea82b4f18f7/).
No. 735
AN ORDINANCE—Approving and accepting the dedication of Pittock street, from the line dividing the properties of Hallet [sic] and Sneathen to Phillips avenue.
Section 1. Be it ordained and enacted by the City of Pittsburgh in Select and Common Councils assembled, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the authority of the same, That the following dedication of Pittock street, from the line dividing properties of Hallet [sic] and Sneathen to Phillips avenue, shall be and the same is hereby approved and accepted:
Dedication of certain land for a public street to be known as Pittock street, extending from the line dividing properties of Hallet [sic] and Sneathen to Phillips avenue.
The undersigned, being the owner in fee simple of all the land hereinafter described, does hereby dedicate and set apart for public use, as a public highway, forever, all the following: A strip of ground 50 feet in width, extending from the line of properties of Hallet [sic] and Sneathen to Phillips avenue and within the lines of Pittock street as located by an Ordinance approved July 13, 1908, O. B. vol. 19, page 534.
And I do hereby waive any and all claims for damages which I may have, or which may accrue to me by reason of the taking and apporpriating [sic] of the said ground for street or highway purposes, as shown upon a plan hereto attached and made a part hereof, and I do hereby authorize the City of Pittsburgh, through its proper officers, to take possession of the said land hereinbefore described and treat it the same as though opened and acquired by and under an Ordinance of Councils duly approved.
JOHN C. SNEATHEN, (Seal)
WM. B. SNEATHEN. (Seal)
Witness:
W. T. HUSTON,
B. L. SPENCE.
State of California, County of Alameda, ss:
On this 21st day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, before me, B. L. Spence, a Notary Public in and for the County of Alameda, State of California, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Wm. B. Sneathen, known to me to be the person described in and whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and he acknowledged to me that he executed the same.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, at my office in the County of Alameda, State of California, the day and year in this certificate first above written.
B. L. SPENCE,
(Seal) Notary Public
In and for said County of Alameda,
State of California.
My commission expires September 11, 1912.
County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh, ss:
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned authority, J. C. Sneathen, who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say that the signatures attached to the foregoing dedication are the genuine signatures of the persons represented, and that they are the owners of all the property therein dedicated.
J. C. SNEATHEN.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 12th day of January, A. D. 1909.
E. J. MARTIN,
City Clerk.
Passed March 15, 1909.
Approved March 17, 1909.
Ordinance Book 20, page 224.
