4 - City of Oxford

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MINUTE BOOK No. 24, CITY OF OXFORD
Section 1. Improvements have been proposed consisting of opening, grading,
paving, the laying or constructing of curbs and gutters, water connections, san-
, itary sewers, surface drains or drainage systems, and other work incidental to
the construction, of that part of the street known as Pegues Street in the City
of Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi, described as follows:
A 50 ft. wide strip being situated in the N3 ,11- of Section 27 and
the S'IA17.1 of Section 22, T8S, P3W, Lafayette County, Mississippi,
said property being further described as follows: Starting at
the point of intersection of the centerline of Mississippi Highway
No. 6 with the west line of said Section 27, proceed thence
along said centerline for 2442.46 ft. to Sta. 55+75.46, thence
N17°7373'E for 50.38 ft. to the point of beginning. From said
point of beginning, said 50 ft. strip is heretofore described
as being 25 ft. on either side of a line proceeding thence
N17°7373'E for 102.22 ft., thence N6°14'F for 285.05 ft., thence
NO°14'W for 720.95 ft., thence N4°00'W for 7362.4 ft., thence
N6°08'E for 43.64 ft. to the end of the project.
Section 2. The improvements set forth in Section 1 are hereby declared
o be necessary.
Section 3. The plans and specifications heretofore prepared by the Engi-
neer of the City of Oxford and submitted to this meeting are now on file in the
office of said Engineer, and such plans and specifications are hereby approved
and adopted.
Section 4. The grades and materials and manner of construction with which
the said improvements are to be made are those set forth in the aforementioned
plans and specifications, and the curbs and gutters involved shall be construct-
ed of concrete and the surfacing of asphalt, or of such other material as is
deSignated in said plans and specifications.
Section 5. The cost of making such improvements require an unusual outlay
H of expense for which the general improvement fund of the City of Oxford is not
sufficient and for which purpose the said general improvement fund should not
be used. Therefore, the entire expense and cost of such improvements, includ-
ing all of the items of cost referred to in Chapter 495 aforementioned, shall
be a charge upon the property benefited and be paid by assessing the entire cost
of such improvements to the abutting property and property owners on each side
of that part of Pegues Street to be imposed, according and in proportion to
the entire front footage thereof in the manner provided by the aforementioned
Chapter 495 and amendments thereto and paid by the owners of such abutting pro-
perty. The area to be benefited by all the aforementioned improvements is
defined as that property owned by the persons who own property abutting that
part of Pegues Street proposed to the improved.
Section 6. It is found and determined by the Board that the cost to he
assessed against each of the respective abutting lots abutting upon the part of