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ORDINANCE NO. 4187-
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AN ORDINANCE VACATING AND ABANDONING THAT PART OF
RICE STREET LYING BETWEEN THE NORTH PROPERTY LINE OF WEST
CAPITOL AVENUE AND TEE SOUTH LINE OF CAPITOL VIEW ADDITION.
Whereaa, in the platting of Capitol View Addition
and of Capitol Hill Extension Addition, there occurred an
offset in Rice Street so that it is not a continuous thorough-
fare, and cannot be used as such; and
Whereas Grady Garms owns the East 130 feet of Lot
Seven (7) of Block Twenty—nine (29) of Capitol Hill Extension
Addition, which lies across Rice Street which is paved from
West Markham Street down to the north line of the property
owned by the said Grady Garms, which property of the said
Grady Garms also abuts on that part of Rice Street as platted
in Capitol Hill Extension Addition lying between the north
line of West Capitol Avenue and the south line of Capitol
Viers Addition, and
Whereas the said Grady Garms has dedicated sufficient
property to the City of Little Rook to straighten 'Rice Street
and eliminate the offset hereinabove described
THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKAMAS:
Section 1• This Council doth now find that the City
of Little Rock has a
inhabitants as shown
as now platted, Rice
Street has - an offset
View Addition and Ca-
population of more than fifteen thousand
by the last Federal census; and that,
Street running south from West Markham
on the boundary line between
pitol Hill Extension Addition, which
offset is so great that it prevents the street from being a<
through avenue of traffic; and this Council doth further find
that the said Grady Garms has dedicated to the City of Little
Rock sufficient property to straighten Rice Street to the
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north line of West Capitol Avenue and to eliminate the
offset hereinabove described.
Section 2• The Gouneil Both find that the said
Grady Garms has presented to this Council his petition
pr ying that that pert of Rice Street lying.,between the
north line of West Capitol Avenue and the south line of
Capitol View Addition be abandoned as a city street, and
this Council by resolution adopted on the day of
May, 1927, directed the City Clerk to give notice by pub-
lication once a week for two weeks in soma newspaper pub-
lished in Pulaski County, Arka nsa s, advising the property
owners that on this day this Council will hear the petition
and determine whether the property should be abandoned as
a street, and whether all abutting property owners and other
persons directly interested had consented to such abandonment.
This Council doth find that said notice has been duly publish-
ed as required by law, and tbat this is the time and place
fixed in said notice for this hearing, and after hearing all
abutting property owners and other persons directly interested,
this Council loth determine that the part of Rice Street herein -
above described should be abandoned as a street, and that all
abutting property owners and other persons directly interested
have consented[ to such abandonment; and that the abandonment
is to the best interest of the citizens of the City of Little
Roak and necessary for publie convenience and necessity.
Section 3� That Rio* Street fr= the herth property
line of West Capitol lv *nroa to the south property line e
Capitol View Addition be, and the same is hereby vacated and
abandoned as a street.
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Section 4• That the Mayor and City Clerk are hereby
authorized and directed to execute a deed of conveyance oon-
veying all right, title and interest of the city in and to
that part of Rine Street described in section three hereof
to the said Grady Garms .
Section 5• That thl ®idinauoe Ys fill ", -.sue
and be in force from and after its passage, and all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict herewithare hereby
re pe al ed .
Panes.: June 27 1927.
Ittest:
city Clerk.