Sec. 453. - Closing of certain streets and alleys for use of Arkansas & Memphis Railway Bridge & Terminal Company confirmed.
The action of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Memphis, Tennessee, by the terms of a certain ordinance passed upon third and final reading February 4, 1913, entitled "An Ordinance granting certain rights, privileges and franchises in the City of Memphis, Tennessee, to the Arkansas & Memphis Railway Bridge & Terminal Company, its successor and assigns, for the purpose of constructing, operating and maintaining within the corporate limits of said City, passenger stations, freight depots, warehouses, railway tracks, terminals and other railway facilities," insofar as it declared closed the following streets, alleys and public places in said City, namely:
Webster Avenue between the east line of South Fourth Street and a projection across Webster Avenue of the west line of Lot 164 of Block 33 of John Overton's Subdivision of his 181 acre tract; Clay Avenue between the east line of South Fourth Street and a projection across Clay Avenue of the west line of Lot 84 in Block 32 of John Overton's Subdivision of his 181 acre tract, and all of the existing public and private alleys between Calhoun Avenue on the north, and Georgia Avenue on the south, and between South Fourth Street on the west and a projection of the west line of Lot 237 in Block 33 of John Overton's Subdivision of his 181 acre tract from Georgia Avenue to Calhoun Avenue;
Corinth Place between Kansas Street and Pennsylvania Street and north of a projection of the east and west center line of Blocks twenty (20) and twenty-one (21) of what is known as Fort Pickering across Corinth Place;
Louisiana and Arkansas Streets between the north line of Virginia Avenue and a line parallel to and thirty-five (35) feet north of the south line of Broadway or Railroad Avenue; Indiana Street between the north line of Virginia Avenue and a line parallel to and fifty (50) feet north of the south line of Broadway or Railroad Avenue;
Delaware Street between the north line of Virginia Avenue and the south line of Carolina Avenue; that portion of Broadway or Railroad Avenue described as follows, to-wit:
The south thirty-five (35) feet of said avenue from the west line of Pennsylvania Street to the west line of Arkansas Street; the south half of Broadway or Railroad Avenue lying between a projection of the west line of Arkansas Street and the west line of Indiana Street; all other streets lying north of Virginia Avenue and the property of the Kansas City & Memphis Railway and Bridge Company, on the south and west, and west line of Pennsylvania Street to the west line of Indiana Street on the north and east; and all public and private alleys between Kansas Street on the east and the Mississippi River on the west and between Virginia Avenue on the south and Lanham Place and Broadway or Railroad Avenue on the north,
be and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed; and that said streets, alleys and other public places hereinbefore described, be and they are hereby declared now and as of February 4, 1913, closed, vacated and abandoned, and the rights therein of said Arkansas & Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company, its successors and assigns, are ratified and confirmed, subject to all the terms and conditions of said ordinance.
(Priv. Acts 1929, ch. 503, § 1)
