Town of Columbus Ordinance of 1827
At a fall
meeting of the Board of Trustees of the town of Columbus in said town on the 30th
day of October one thousand eight hundred & twenty seven. The subject of
Suitable Regulations for the Government of the town & the preservation of
the property & lots owned by the Trustees the following ordinance was
adopted:
1st
Resolved that hereafter any person who may build on any lot in the Town of
Columbus shall not bild on any street or all in said town and in case any person
or persons shall do build in violation hereof the house or houses se erected
shall be considered a nuisance and shall be abated by Order of the Trustees.
2nd
Resolved that the owners of houses already built on the Streets or allys in said
Town be allowed twenty four months to remove such houses so built out of the
streets and alleys and to place them within the bounds of their lots and in case
any person or persons shall fail to comply herewith within the time aforesaid
any such house or houses already built and remaining in an street or alley after
the expiration of the time aforesaid shall be considered a nuisance and may
abated and pulled down by any person or persons.
3rd
Resolved that the survey of lots on water street be allowed to improve
fifteen feet fronting their respective
lots for sidewalks and that the owners of lots on another street be allowed to
improve twelve feet fronting their respective lots for sidewalks but in no case
shall the building extend over the line of the streets.
4th
Resolved that the owners of lots fronting the river on water street be allowed
to use of the ground opposite their lots on the bank of the river for wood yards
but no person shall pile or pack wood upon the bank upon a greater extend than
would be incurred by excluding the side living of his or her lot to the River
nor shall any person occupy more ground in the street on the river for a wood
yard then sixteen feet in width.
Resolved
that these who are about to Improve any iron lot in the Town of Columbus are
privileged to take as much timber in the bounds of the tract or lots which have
not been sold (?) will be Sufficient to erect their building and other
Improvements but in no case shall any person cut or use timber for sale or cut
fire wood to sell to steam boats unless the timber or fire wood so cut be upon
their own lots or land or streets and all and every person or persons
trespassing on the unsold lots
contrary hereto shall be immediately sued for their trespassing
on the unsold lots contrary hereto. Provided however that nothing herein
continues shall be construed so as
to restrict family from getting firewood for their family but under the protest
of getting wood they are not to destroy useful timber.
Resolved
that the ferry across the Mississippi shall be annually leased out on the second
Monday of November at public auction for the highest price that can be had the
lease giving hand and security to the Trustees for the payment of the money and
alas conditioned that he will give all practible dispatch to (?) and others who
may wish to cross the river with their (?) and stack the money arriving from the
ferry shall be appropriated by the trustees or a majority of them to improving
the streets building market houses and other public improvements.
Resolved
that the treasure of the board set up copies of this ordinance at two of the
most public places in Columbus for the information of the citizens and others
and that he preserve the original after having it recorded in the clerks office
according to law.
J R
Underwood
Hugh Nelson
D L McKee
Wm Cook
Richard Taylor Jr
Hickman
County November 1st 1827
I Henry L
Edrington clerk of the court for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the
within regulation for the Town of Columbus was this day produced to me by J R
Underwood, Hugh Nelson, DL McKee, Wm Cook and Richard Taylor Jr for record in
testimony that I have recorded the same together with this certificate I have
hereunto set my hand.
H L
Edrington CHCC