Show SOMETHING G TH THE CIT CITY CANNOT OT DOf DO According to Opinion of the As City Attorney and Eu En II 1 C Ielse CANT WIDEN EIGHTH SOUTH for the Reason Former Council Ae Ac the thc Thoroughfare the fray 1 It Is Now ow According to the opinion of Assistant City Attorney W C Shoup Shoun and City I C Kelsey elsoy the city has hils not the power to widen willen Eighth th South Bouth street between Tenth and Thirteenth East streets to conform to the tho width ot of that street on the west On the tho three blocks III ht question the tho street is 18 only oily 06 6 feet wide and on 1111 was sturt started d dby by II a member of the tho city council to see 10 If Ie It Il veto not Mt possible to widen willen the The opinion on that matter tol fol tollo folio lo io Upon NIl Nov 16 1 1903 03 your our honorable body adapted II a resolution directing tM the city elly engineer er antI and elt city attorney to loJ eJ port to thin tho council all facts they can with to the platting or of the south malt of Eighth South street Ninth and Thirteenth streets and the tho taking ot of till the sumo by who bpd no rIght or title tithe to said street We wish to report its follows the portion ot of I Eighth SoUth sheet which tins hils been platted is III the tho north halt bet between wee II Tenth raid I streets and is IH now shown ask n purt ot of Heights subdivision Tho rho platting of the part o lit Eighth street appears to have 1110 heem first called 11 11 to tie tho attention of oC the city council lIy by n a petition of Kelsey Gillespie III which they ask the tho coup COUll ell to their of at Tremont Hearth hues has been made In tutu tho recorders but huL the tho petition cannot hI be found we se pre that the e essential part ot at the petition w as simply hup the tho request of thus hints pints of of the tor Fremont remont approval is of sub their shoo Apparently the Iho wall first reo re referred Cerrell to the ell city engineer for tor there hero appears In ht the records ot of the city coun council cil on Aug 4 1891 n a letter from A F 1 Doremus city engineer to the council the attention to the tact that thuL the petition re red d g the tho width of Eighth South Hauth auk the tho oilier othel streets lie Also recommended that the matter ho he re terrell to the thc city attorney rh coon COUll ell concurred In the of the tho engineer III as indicated hy by It a letter addressed to lu the city engineer from the city r Slated Aug l 18 I The matter to have been carefully by W itaI city I attorney and his report reported etI ed to the city Ity council nt at n a n meeting Held Sept 29 tOOl 1101 The city elLy after nn an examination of the abstract and certain states staleR In iii hits that the tho title to the loud laud embraced III said plat pInt all on the thc lIo day ot of March 1891 w ns In Gillespie lIple tint the tho original streets street embraced III the tho pint Illat luul never Been Jeen opened or traveled by bythe bylie the lie public Subsequently at n meet lug of oC the council hell held Oct Olt 6 0 1891 18 1 the council further considered the or of Jel ey together with other I including nl 11 I thin report from the city attorney and authorized the tho ell clI engineer to approve lire tho map ot of I Fremont heights re fi feared to In said sall and other tine Tho city ell engineer acting upon tiro tho received from the council approved mho tho plat pInt all as submitted by hey showing 1 a redUction lion tion of DC South street to a 11 street This plat the tho survey surveyor surveyors or ors the tho owners owner dedication and acknowledgment nud the tho approval or of the lie city now on Silo In Inthe inthe the city engineers Wo We have attached hero hereto to copies of the tho totters lotters and minutes ot of the tho council above aboe mentioned The facts are aro that we are able to discover from the tho r records cords Very Vary respect tully fully L C City Engineer GEORGE L NYE City Attorney per Shoup |