626
ORDINANCE NO. 626
AN ORDINANCE VACATING A PORTION OF FRONT
STREET IN HULBERT HEIGHTS, CITY OF WEST
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MEMPHIS, ARKANSAS.
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WHEREAS, a petition was duly filed with the City Council
of the City of West Memphis, Arkansas, on the 8th day of January,
1970, asking the City Council to vacate and abandon a certain -
portion of Frorit:Street as shown on the plat of "A Revision of
Blocks 58 and 62 showing Block 63, Hulbert Heights, Hulbert,
Arkansas, by C. H. Bond, Marion, Arkansas, dated 4-13-30, filed
for record on April 15, 1930, and recorded in Plat Book 1 at page
45"of the Records of Crittenden County, Arkansas, in the office
of the Circuit Court Clerk and Ex-Officio Recorder within and
for Crittenden County, Arkansas, such street being known as Front
Street, the portion of such street sought to be vacated being
specifically described as follows, to-wit:
Lots Eight (8), Nine (9) and Ten (10) of Block
Sixty-One (61) as shown by a plat of record in
Plat Book 1 at page 45 of the records of Crittenden
County, Arkansas
and
A tract of land situated in the Northwest Quarter
of the Northeast Quarter (NW~ NEB) of Section Twenty-
four (24), Township Six (6) North, Range Eight (8)
East, in Crittenden County, Arkansas commencing at
a point on the center line of the main track of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company
one-hundred eighty-seven feet (187') easterly
measured along said center line from its intersection
with the north and south center line of Section
Twenty-four (24), Township Six (6) North, Range Eight
(8) East; thence northerly at right angles to center
line seventy feet (~0') to the point of beginning;
thence easterly parallel with said center line and
distant seventy feet (70') northerly therefrom for
a distance of two hundred feet (200'); thence
northerly at right angles one hundred thirty feet
(130'); thence westerly, parallel with said center
line, two hundred feet (200'); thence southerly at
right angles one hundred thirty feet (130') to the
point of beginning.
2.
WHEREAS, of ter due notice as required by law, the Council
has, at the time and place mentioned in the Notice, heard all
persons desiring to be heard on the question and has ascertained
that the said street or the portion thereof, as hereinbefore de-
scribed, has heretofore been dedicated to the public as a street;
has not been actually used by the public generally for a period
of at least ten (10) years; that all of the owners of the property
abutting upon the said portion of Front Street to be vacated have
filed with the Council their written consent to such abandonment
of such portion; and that the public interest and welfare will not
be adversely affected by the abandonment of such portion of Front
S treet .
NOW, THEREFORE, be it ordained by the City Council of the
City of West Memphis, Arkansas:
SECTION 1. The City of West Memphis, Arkansas, hereby re-
leases, vacates and abandons all its right, together with the
rights of the public generally, in and to the portion of Front
Street as designated and described as follows:
Lots Eight (8) , Nine (9) and Ten (10) of Block
Sixty-one (61) as shown by a plat of record in
Plat Book 1 at page 45 of the records of Crittenden
County, Arkansas
and
A tract of land situated in the Northwest Quarter
of the Northeast Quarter (NW~ NE's) of Section Twenty-
four (24), Township Six (6) North, Range Eight (8)
East, in Crittenden County, Arkansas, commencing at
a point on the center line of the main track of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company
one-hundred eighty-seven feet (187') easterly
measured along said center line from its intersection
with the north and south center line of Section
Twenty-four (241, Township Six (6) North, Range Eight
(8) East; thence northerly at right angles to center
line seventy feet (70') to the point of beginning;
thence easterly parallel with said center line and
distant seventy feet (70') northerly therefrom for
3.
a distance of two hundred feet (200'); thence
northerly at right angles one hundred thirty feet
(130'j; thence westerly, parallel with said center
line, two hundred feet (200'); thence southerly at
right angles one hundred thirty feet (130') to the
point of beginning.
SECTION 2. A copy of this ordinance when duly certified
by the City Clerk shall be filed in the office of the Circuit
Court Clerk and Ex-Officio Recorder within and for Crittenden
County, Arkansas.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in
full force and effect from and after its passage.
APPROVED:
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Mayor
ATTEST:
City Cle