as shall be mortgaged to the city of Chicago, as hereinafter provided, or the owners of which, or some other person or persons on their behalf, shall cause to be paid or secured to the city, in such manner as shall be approved by the mayor or acting mayor of said city, the amounts required to be secured to said city by mortgage or otherwise, or paid to said city, as hereinafter provided, be, and the same are hereby, discontinued and vacated. 16. MORTGAGE TO BE EXECUTED.] SEC. 2. Before the vacation and discontinuance of any part or portion of said street, as herein contemplated, shall take place, a mortgage of such parts or portions shall be executed, to said city, by the respective owners of the parts or portions of land or town lots, in said blocks, which are opposite to, or front on such parts or portions of, said street as are proposed to be vacated, to secure the payment of the sums set opposite to the following lots respectively, or in that proportion for any part or portion of a lot fronting said street; said mortgage to be drawn and executed in such form and manner as shall be approved by the common council, or the mayor, or the acting mayor, and to be deposited with the clerk of said city within such time from the date hereof as shall be determined or required by the common council, and said mortgage to be so drawn as to contain, in substance, the provisions of the twelfth section of the proposition for settling the wharfing privileges on South Water street and East Water street, north of Randolph street, passed in common council February 11, 1848, or said sums shall be otherwise secured or paid to said city, in such manner as shall be approved by the mayor or acting mayor of said city. [Here follows an assessment of the prices or value of the lots referred to.] 17. WHEN ORDINANCE VOID.] SEC. 3. In case it shall be judicially determined, upon a bill to be filed under the act entitled, "An act to adjust and settle the title to the wharfing privileges in Chicago and other purposes," approved February 27, 1847, that, upon the discontinuance or vacation of said parts of said streets, the fee of the land now contained in the same is in some other party or parties than the city of Chicago, or the said respective owners of the various portions of land or town lots aforesaid, fronting the same, then this ordinance shall be null and void. 18. WHARF.] SEC. 4. Ten feet next and adjoining the river of said wharves shall be and always remain an open wharf, upon the same conditions and restrictions as contained in the settlement of the wharfing privileges on the south side of the Chicago river. An ordinance vacating parts of East Water, Old North Water and East Carroll streets. [Passed February 14, 1856.] Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago: 19. CERTAIN PARTS OF STREETS TO BE VACATED.] SECTION 1. That so much and such parts of East Water street as lie in front of blocks seven and fourteen in the original town of Chicago, and so much and such parts of Old North Water street as lie in front of blocks fourteen, fifteen and six in the original town of Chicago, and such parts of East Carroll street as lie in front of lots two and three in block six in the original town of Chicago, and only such parts of said streets as shall be mortgaged to the city of Chicago, as is hereinafter provided, or the owners of which, or some other person or persons in their behalf, shall cause to be paid or secured to the said city, in such manner as shall be approved by the mayor or acting mayor of said city, the amount required to be secured to the said city, by mortgage or otherwise, or paid to said city, as hereinafter provided, be and the same are discontinued and vacated. 20. MORTGAGE TO BE GIVEN.] SEC. 2. Before the vacation or discontinuance (as herein contemplated) of any parts or portions of said streets shall take place, a mortgage of such parts or portions shall be executed, to said city, by the respective owners of the various parts or portions of land or town lots, in said blocks, which are opposite to, or front on such parts or portions of said streets as are herein proposed to be vacated, to secure the payment of the sums set opposite the following lots respectively, or in that proportion for any part or portion of a lot fronting on said streets, for such sums as are more specifically hereinafter set forth; said mortgages to be drawn in such form and manner as shall be approved by the common council, or the mayor or acting mayor, and to be deposited with the clerk of said city within such time from the date hereof as shall be determined or required by the common council; and said mortgages to be so drawn as to contain, in substance, the provisions of the twelfth (12) section of the "proposition for settling wharfing privileges on South Water street and East Water street, north of Randolph street," passed February 14, 1848, or said sums shall be otherwise secured or paid to said city in such manner as shall be approved by the mayor or acting mayor of said city. [Here follows a list of the sums assessed as the amount of mortgage upon each lot referred to.] 21. ORDINANCE TO BE VOID, WHEN.] SBC. 3. In case it shall be judicially determined, upon a bill to be filed under the act entitled "An act to adjust and settle the title to the wharfing privileges in Chicago, and for other purposes," approved February 27, 1847, or upon proceedings had under an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'an act to adjust and settle the title to the wharfing privileges in Chicago and for other purposes, approved February 27, 1847, and in relation to wharves and docks in said city," approved February 11, 1853, that upon the discontinuance or vacation of the said parts of said streets, the fee of the land, now contained in the same, is in some other party or parties than the city of Chicago, or the said respective owners of the various portions of land or town lots aforesaid fronting the same, then, and in that case, this ordinance shall be null and void, otherwise to remain in full force and effect. 22. OPEN WHARF TO BE RETAINED.]. SEC. 4. Ten feet, next adjoining the river, of said vacated premises shall be and always remain an open wharf, upon the same conditions and restrictions, as contained in the settlement of the wharfing privileges on the south side of the Chicago river. 23. NEW STREET TO BE OPENED.] SEC. 5. Before the vacation or discontinuance (as herein contemplated) of any such parts or portions of said East Water street as lie in front of lots four (4) or five (5) in said block seven (7) shall take place, a new street, sixty feet wide, from East Kinzie street to East Carroll street through said block seven (7), the east line of which new street shall be on the east line of said lots four (4) and five (5), shall be laid out and opened by the owners of said lots four (4) and five (5), without expense or cost to the city of Chicago. An ordinance establishing certain dock lines. [Passed February 14, 1856.] Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago: 24. DOCK LINES ON NORTH BRANCH.] SECTION 1. That the dock line from the south line of East Kinzie street to the west line of North Franklin street, in front of blocks seven, fourteen, fifteen and six in the original town of Chicago be, and the same is hereby, established as follows, to-wit: Commencing at a point in the south line of East Kinzie street, one hundred and seventy-two feet west of the northwest corner of said block seven; thence, in a straight line, southeasterly to a point twenty feet west of a point in the west line of lot five in block fourteen, which is seventy-four feet south of the northwest corner of said lot five; thence southeasterly to the southwest corner of lot six in block fourteen; thence along the south line (produced) of said lot six, one hundred and twenty-eight and one-half feet; thence northeastwardly in a straight line towards a point in the center line of Old North Water street, eighty-eight feet west of the west line of North Franklin street, five hundred and ten and onehalf feet (more or less) to a point whence a line, perpendicular to the last mentioned line, will intersect the north line of lot three in said block fifteen, at ten feet east from the northwest corner of said lot three in block fifteen; thence, northwestwardly, at right angles to the last described line, seventynine feet (more or less) to a point in the west line (produced) of said lot three, and twelve feet (more or less) north of the northwest corner of said lot three; thence north twenty-eight feet (more or less) on said west line of lot three (produced), to the center of East Carroll street; thence east on the center line of East Carroll and Old North Water streets, to the west line of North Franklin street, as will more fully appear by reference to the map herewith submitted. 25. REPEALING CLAUSE.] SEC. 2. That so much of any and all previous ordinances, defining dock lines, as conflict, or are inconsistent, with this ordinance, be, and the same are hereby, rescinded. |