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ORDINANCE NO. 227 AN ORDINANCE VACATING THE OLD ROAD OR HIGHWAY FROM NORTHWEST CORNER OF BOULDER ADDITION TO THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, SOUTHERNLY THROUGH BLOCKS ONE (1), TWO (2), THREE (3), FOUR (4), FIVE (5) AND SIX (6) OF SAID BOULDER ADDITION, AND EXTENDING SOUTHERLY ACROSS THE-SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION (3), TOWNSHIP TWENTY ONE (21) SOUTH, RANGE SIXTY ONE (61) EAST, M.D.B. & M. TO SOUTH FIFTH STREET, EXTENDED. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas Do Ordain as follows! Section 1. WHEREAS for several years prior to the filing of the plat of Boulder Addition to the City of Las Vegas, on September 28th, 1926,the general public had used as part of the traveled highway from the City of Las Vegas to the City of Los Angeles, a road from Standard Corner of Sections Three (3) and Four (4), Township Twenty One (21) South, Range Sixty-One (61) East, M.D.B. & M. southerly through what is now Blocks 1,2, 3,4,5, and 6 of said Boulder Addition to the City of Las Vegas and southerly across the Southwest Quarter (S.W.¼) of said section three (3), on the same course to a point where the present main highway from Las Vegas to. Los Angeles, or South Fifth Street, extended is located, and whereas upon the filing of the said plat of said Boulder Addition and the dedication to public use of the streets and alleys thereon shown, no mention or reservation of said old traveled road was made by the owners of the land comprising said plat, and WHEREAS, South First Street an said Boulder Addition is now a public street, maintained by the said City of Las Vegas and is nearly parallel to said old road and there is no longer any occasion for the use of said old road by the general public or any of the owners of land or lots in said Boulder Addition, and WHEREAS, without acknowledging or admitting that a prescriptive right to the use of said old road has been acquired by the general public, the said City of Las Vegas is desirous of relieving itself of the necessity of maintaining said old road and believes that no useful purpose can be served by so doing, and that said old road, if now a a public road or street, should be vacated, now therefore, THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS DO ORDAIN that that certain old road or street which was formerly part of the old highway from the City of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, to the City of Los Angeles, State California, to the full and entire width thereof, and within the bounds hereinafter described, be and the same is hereby vacted; and the old road or street thus vacated is described as follows: BEGINNING at the Northwest corner of Boulder Addition to the City of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, as shown by the plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the County Recorder of said Clark County, Nevada, in Book 1, of Plats, page 52, which said corner is also the standard corner of Sections Three (3) and Four (4), Township Twenty One (21) South, Range Sixty One (61) East, M.D. B. & M., and extending southerly through Blocks numbered One (l), Two (2), Three (3), Four (4), Five (5) and Six (6) of said Boulder Addition as shown on the said plat, and extending southerly across the Southwest Quarter (S.W.¼) of said Section Three (3) on the same course to the point where it intersects the present Los Angeles Highway or south Fifth Street in said City of Las Vegas, extending, excepting , all streets and alleys as shown upon said plat of said Boulder Addition. Vote on the passage of the ordinance was Commissioners Krause, Marble, and Ronnow, and His Honor the Mayor L.L. Arnett, voting aye. Noes, none. Absent Commissioner Perry. Approved L.L. Arnett, Mayor. Attest: Viola Burns, City Clerk First reading, July 6th, 1937 AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA) ss. County of Clark) C. P. Squires being duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is Publisher of LAS VEGAS AGE, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed and published at Las Vegas, in the County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that the attached Ordinance No. 227 of the City of Las Vegas, was published in said newspaper for a period of two weeks from July 9, 1937 to July 16, 1937 inclusive being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: July 9 and 16, 1937 That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. That the legal charge for publishing said legal notice was $37.80. Signed: C. P. Squires Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of July 1937 C. D. Breeze, Notary Public in and for Clark County Nevada My Commission Expires June 7, 1939 (Seal)