Source:Ordinance-1916-53
"An ordinance approving a 'Plan of Lots, laid out for George Wittmer Estate,' in the Twenty-seventh ward of the City of Pittsburgh, accepting the dedication of Belgium street, Cambronne street, Chellis street, Oswald street, Perrott avenue and Wittmer street, as shown thereon, for public use for highway purposes, opening and naming the same and establishing the grades thereon." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1916, no. 53. Passed Feb. 21, 1916; approved Feb. 26, 1916. Ordinance Book 27, p. 401. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the year 1916, appendix, p. 30, Eureka Printing Company, Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1916).
No. 53
AN ORDINANCE—Approving a "Plan of Lots, laid out for George Wittmer Estate," in the Twenty-seventh ward of the City of Pittsburgh, accepting the dedication of Belgium street, Cambronne street, Chellis street, Oswald street, Perrott avenue and Wittmer street, as shown thereon, for public use for highway purposes, opening and naming the same and establishing the grades thereon.
Whereas, The Commonwealth Trust Company, administrator, d. b. n. c. t. a., of the estate of George Wittmer, Sr., deceased, and Albert Wittmer, Lena Thomas, Laura Wittmer and Ida G. Schomaker, individuals of the City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, the owners of certain property, in the Twenty-seventh ward of the City of Pittsburgh, laid out in a plan called "Plan of Lots, laid out for George Wittmer Estate," have located certain streets and an avenue thereon and have executed a deed of dedication on said plan of all the ground covered by said streets and avenue to the said City for public streets or public highways and have released the said City from any liabilities for damages for or by reason of the physical grading of said public highways to the grades hereinafter described; 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 "Plan of Lots, laid out for George Wittmer Estate," February, 1909, situate in the Twenty-seventh ward of the City of Pittsburgh, laid out by the Commonwealth Trust Company, administrator, d. b. n. c. t. a., of the estate of George Wittmer, deceased, and Albert Wittmer, Lena Thomas, Laura Wittmer and Ida G. Schomaker, individuals, be and the same is hereby approved, and Belgium street, Cambronne street, Chellis street, Oswald street, Perrott avenue and Wittmer street, as located and dedicated in the said plan, are hereby accepted.
Section 2. The streets and avenue, as aforesaid dedicated to said City for public highway purposes, shall be and the same are hereby appropriated and opened as public highways and named Belgium street, Cambronne street, Chellis street, Oswald street, Perrott avenue and Wittmer street.
Section 3. The grades of Belgium street, Cambronne street, Chellis street, Oswald street and Wittmer street, laid out and dedicated in said "Plan of Lots laid out for George Wittmer Estate," are hereby established as described by Ordinance No. 448, approved December 24, 1914, and recorded in Ordinance Book, Vol. 26, page 419.
Section 4. The Department of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to enter upon, take possession of and appropriate the said Belgium street, Cambronne street, Chellis street, Oswald street, Perrott avenue and Wittmer street, for public highways, 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 21, 1916.
Approved February 26, 1916.
Ordinance Book 27, page 401.