Source:Ordinance-1931-46
"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 Hempstead street and establishing the grade thereon." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1931, no. 46. Passed Feb. 2, 1931; approved Feb. 5, 1931. Ordinance Book 43, p. 445. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh: For the Year 1931, appendix, pp. 31–32, City Printing Company, Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1931).
No. 46
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 Hempstead street and establishing the grade thereon.
WHEREAS, John P. Moss and Lulu G. Moss, his wife, C. C. Crawford and Nora O. Crawford, his wife, S. M. Levinson and Rose R. Levinson, his wife, S. C. Gibson and Ida Gibson, his wife, Scott A. White, Jr., and Alice D. White, his wife, William C. Hasley and Margaret Hasley, his wife, Joseph F. Casale and Adelina Casale, his wife, Herman Kamin and Bessie Kamin, his wife, and Kamin Realty Company, a Pennsylvania Corporation, owners of the property hereinafter described have executed and delivered to the City of Pittsburgh, their certain deeds of dedication bearing date of January 9, 1931, now on file in the office of the Bureau of Engineering of said City, wherein they have conveyed said ground to said City for public use for highway purposes 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; therefor [sic],
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 said deeds of dedication be and the same are hereby accepted and the Bureau of Engineering is hereby authorized and directed to place the same on record in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for the County of Allegheny.
Section 2. The ground 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 Deeds of dedication and shall be known as, Hempstead street, the same being bounded and described as follows, to-wit:
Beginning on the easterly line of Wightman street at a point distant south 1° 13′ west 208.0 feet along the easterly line of Wightman street from its intersection with the southerly line of Hobart street; thence extendnig south 88° 47′ east 510.61 feet, parallel to and at a perpendicular distance of 208.0 feet south of the southerly line of Hobart street to the westerly line of property of the Board of Public Education; thence along the westerly line of said property south 1° 13′ west 40.0 feet to a point; thence north 88° 47′ 00″ west 510.61 feet, parallel to and at a perpendicular distance of 248.0 feet south of the southerly line of Hobart street to the easterly line of Wightman street; thence along the easterly line of Wightman street north 1° 13′ east 40.0 feet to the place of beginning.
Section 3. The grade of the southerly curb line shall begin at the easterly curb line of Wightman street at an elevation of 390.92 feet; thence rising at the rate of 3½% for the distance of 522.61 feet to the westerly line of property of the Board of Public Education to an elevation of 409.21 feet.
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 2, 1931.
Approved February 5, 1931.
Ordinance Book 43, Page 445.
