Source:Ordinance-1913-51
"An ordinance accepting the dedication of certain property, in the Fourteenth ward of the City of Pittsburgh, for public use for highway purposes, opening and naming the same 'Severn street,' and establishing the grade thereof." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1913, no. 51. Passed Feb. 4, 1913; approved Feb. 10, 1913. Ordinance Book 25, p. 26. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1913, appendix, p. 29, Arlington Printing Co., Pittsburgh, 1913 (Google Books WngzAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust uiug.30112108223881; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1913; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_75faa9dd-e89e-449e-bcdd-87438e57b67c/; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_6870e9af-6615-4354-acd2-0913a68d38fe/).
No. 51
AN ORDINANCE—Accepting the dedication of certain property, in the Fourteenth ward of the City of Pittsburgh, for public use for highway purposes, opening and naming the same "Severn street," and establishing the grade thereof.
Whereas, George H. Abel, Jr., and Roscoe H. Smith both of the City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, owners and Nellie A. Graver, mortgagee of a certain mortgage given inter alia on ground hereinafter described, have executed and delivered to the City of Pittsburgh, their certain deed of dedication bearing date the eighth day of November, A. D., one thousand nine hundred and twelve, now on file in the office of the Bureau of Surveys of the said City, wherein they have conveyed said ground to said City for a public street or a public highway and have released said City from any liability for damages for or by reason of the physical grading of said public highway to the grade hereinafter established; 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 said deed of dedication be and the same is hereby accepted, and the Bureau of Surveys is hereby authorized and directed to place the same of record in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for the County of Allegheny.
Section 2. The ground so, as aforesaid, conveyed to said City for public highway purposes, shall be and the same is hereby appropriated and opened as a public highway in accordance with the terms of said deed of dedication and shall be known as "Severn street," the same being bounded and described as follows, to wit:
Beginning on the southerly building line of Wilkins avenue at a point distant 270.00 feet eastwardly from the eastwardly building line of William-Pitt boulevard; thence south 9 degrees 50 minutes east, parallel to and at the perpendicular distance of 570.00 feet eastwardly from the easterly building line of William-Pitt boulevard, for the distance of 694.4 feet to the northerly building line of Northumberland street; thence along the said northerly building line of Northumberland street north 80 degrees 20 minutes east 50.00 feet to a point; thence north 9 degrees 50 minutes west 694.23 feet to a point on the said southerly building line of Wilkins avenue; thence along the said southerly building line of Wilkins avenue south 80 degrees 07 minutes west 50 feet to the place of beginning.
Section 3. The grade of said Severn street, from Wilkins avenue to Northumberland street is hereby established as follows, to-wit.
The grade of the east curb line of Severn street, from Wilkins avenue to Northumberland street shall begin on the south curb line of Wilkins avenue at an elevation of 357.67 feet (curb as set); thence rising at the rate of 4.114 feet per 100 feet for a distance of 722.19 feet to the north curb line of Northumberland street to an elevation of 387.38 feet (curb as set).
Section 4. The Department of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to enter upon, take possession of and appropriate the said described ground for a public highway in conformity with the provisions of this ordinance.
Section 5. 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 February 4, 1913.
Approved February 10, 1913.
Ordinance Book 25, page 26.
