Source:Ordinance-1911-june-dec-138
"An ordinance accepting the dedication of certain property for public use for highway purposes to be known as Leath alley, from Hobart street to Covode street, in the Fourteenth ward of the City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, and appropriating and opening the same for public use for highway purposes." Pittsburgh city ordinance, June–Dec. 1911, no. 138. Passed July 25, 1911; approved Aug. 3, 1911. Ordinance Book 23, p. 269. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh from Beginning of Appointed Term June 10, 1911 to End of Appointed Term December 31, 1911, appendix, p. 48, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1911 (Google Books ClQxAQAAMAAJ, D7pEAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust chi.096598740, uiug.30112108223865; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1911part2; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_ff5444dc-4556-44c9-9e62-869d7fae5da8/; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_f855d6e5-0a88-4b5a-802c-1dbf6d859a3c/). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, Aug. 5, 1911, [p. 7] (Newspapers.com 87355686), Aug. 7, p. 11 (Newspapers.com 87355726), and Aug. 8, p. 5 (Newspapers.com 87355732).
No. 138
AN ORDINANCE—Accepting the dedication of certain property for public use for highway purposes to be known as Leath alley, from Hobart street to Covode street, in the Fourteenth ward of the City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, and appropriating and opening the same for public use for highway purposes.
Whereas, Morris Kaufman [sic] and Barney Dreyfuss being the owners of all the property hereinafter described, as being appropriated and opened for public use for highway purposes, have executed and delivered to the City of Pittsburgh their certain written indenture, bearing date the 15th day of July, A. D. 1911, now on file in the office of the City Clerk; and,
Whereas, The said owners by said written indenture have dedicated the property hereinafter described for public use for highway purposes, and have authorized and directed the City of Pittsburgh to take, enter upon and appropriate the same for said purposes, and have forever released and discharged the City of Pittsburgh from any and all claims for damages which they, or either of them, may, or might have, by reason of the appropriation and opening of the same for said purposes, and have petitioned the City of Pittsburgh to pass an Ordinance for the opening of the same, and have further waived the right to ask for the appointment of viewers or to institute any suit for or by reason of the appropriation and opening of the same for said purposes, therefore,
Section 1. Be it ordained and enacted by the City of Pittsburgh, in Council assembled, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the authority of the same, That the dedication of [sic] by said owners of Leath alley, from Hobart street to Covode street, in the Fourteenth ward, of the City of Pittsburgh, for public use for highway purposes be and the same is hereby accepted, and the said property is hereby appropriated for and opened to public use as a public highway as hereinafter described.
Beginning at a point on the center line or [sic] Hobart street as located by an Ordinance approved May 3rd, 1901, said point being 289.52 feet eastwardly from the eastern line of Schenley Park, measured along the center line of the said Hobart street; thence extending eastwardly along the center line of the said Hobart street for the distance of 20.96 feet to a point; thence deflecting to the right 107° 24′ and in a southerly direction for the distance of 318.55 feet to a point on the center line of Covode street as located in the Partition Plan of John R. Murdoch et al., of record in the Department of Public Works, Bureau of Surveys, in Plan Book, Vol. 6, pages 46 and 47; thence deflecting to the right 72° 36′ and in a westerly direction along the center line of the said Covode street for the distance of 20.96 feet to a point; thence deflecting to the right 107° 24′ and in a northerly direction for the distance of 318.55 feet to the place of beginning, as shown on plan hereto attached and made part hereof.
Section 2. The Department of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to cause said Leath alley, from Hobart street to Covode street, in the Fourteenth ward, of the City of Pittsburgh, to be opened, in conformity with the provisions of Section 1 of this Ordinance.
Section 3. That any Ordinance or part of Ordinance, conflicting with the provisions of this Ordinance, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same affects this Ordinance.
Passed July 25, 1911.
Approved August 3, 1911.
Ordinance Book 23, page 269.
