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ORDINANCE NO. 1783
AN ORDINANCE VACATING A PART OF AVENUE E
WHEREAS, it appears the City Council of the City of Canton, Illinois, that 65
ILCS/5/11-91-1 provides impertinent part that whenever the Corporate authorities of
any municipality in the State of Illinois determine that the public interest will be
subserved by vacating any street or alley, or part thereof, within their jurisdiction and
any incorporated area, that said municipality may vacate that street or alley, or part
thereof, by ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the Corporate authorities of the City of Canton, Fulton County,
Illinois, have determined that the public interest will be subserved by vacating a portion
of Avenue E, being 155 feet North and South by 9 feet East and West adjacent to and
immediately to the West of Lot 11 in Block 12 in Bacock's Quality Hill Addition to the
City of Canton, Fulton County, Illinois.
WHEREAS, the portion of street described herein and the properties contiguous
thereto are wholly within the jurisdiction and corporate limits of the City of Canton,
Illinois, and;
WHEREAS, the Corporate authorities of the City of Canton, Illinois, have
determined that the relief to the public from further burden and responsibility of
maintaining the portion of the street described herein constitutes a public use or public
interest authorizing the vacation; and
NOW THEREFORE, AND BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CANTON, FULTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
That the City Council of the City of Canton, Fulton County, Illinois, hereby
finds the foregoing recitals to be fact.
2. That the following street shall be vacated by the City: Part of Avenue E
being more particularly described:
Beginning at the Southwest corner of Lot Number11,
Block 2 of Babcock's Quality Hill Addition to Canton,
Illinois; thence northerly along the West line of said
Lot 11 a distance of 155 feet to the Northwest corner
of said Lot 11; thence westerly a distance of 9 feet to
a point; thence southerly a distance of 155 feet to a
point; thence easterly a distance of 9 feefi to the point
of beginning all in accordance to the accompanying
plat and lying in Canton and Fulton County in Illinois.
3. That the City Clerk of the City of Canton, Illinois, is hereby directed to
cause a certified copy of this Ordinance to be filed with the office of the Fulton County
Recorder of Deeds immediately upon the passage and approval of this Ordinance.
4. This Ordinance shall be full force and effect immediately upon his
passage by three-fourths (3/4) majority vote of the alderman holding office in the City of
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Canton, Fulton County, Illinois, at a regular meeting thereof on the 18th day of
November , 2003, upon role call vote is follows:
AYES: Aldermen Reed, Fillim.s? am, Harn, Sarff, West, Iybll~ck, Hartford.
NAYS: None.
ABSENT: Alderman Carl.
APPROVED:
Mayor Jerry Bohler
ATTEST:
Nancy Whites, City Clerk
Civil: Worlvnan Ordinate Vacating 10-31-03