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line as hereinbefore defined and specified, distant ten feet from, and outside 

 of each line of said road from Fulton street to Western avenue, and 50 feet 

 from and outside of said road from Western avenue to the new or extended 

 city limits, and also the grading and macadamizing said road or the middle 

 part thereof, to the width of at least 30 feet, and a viaduct or viaducts for 

 carriages, teams and foot passengers, over all railroad tracks now laid or 

 hereafter to be laid across said road. The several township load officers and 

 the Cook County Drainage Commissioners, and all other officers now or 

 hereafter authorized to open roads on said line outside of the city limits, in 

 making any assessment for widening said road, are authorized and required 

 to include the establishment of said building line fifty feet distant from and 

 outside of said road, as aforesaid The name of the said " Whiskey Point 

 Road, " both within and beyond said city limits, shall be and is hereby 

 changed, and shall be known forever hereafter as " Grand Avenue." The 

 Southwestern avenue, from Madison street to the city limits, shall also be 

 macadamized, with the consent and approval of the Common Council. 



Sec. ir. In case the said commissioners cannot agree with the owner 

 or owners, lessees or occupants of any of the said real estate, selected by 

 them as aforesaid, they may proceed to procure the condemnation of the 

 same in the manner prescribed in the act of the General Assembly of the 

 State of Illinois, entitled, " An act to amend the law condemning right of 

 way for the purpose of internal improvements, approved January 22, 1S52," 

 and the acts then in force amendatory thereof; the provisions of which said 

 act, and the several acts amendatory thereof, are hereby extended to the 

 boulevards, parks and Park Commissioners, to be created by virtue of this 

 act. 



Sec. 12. When the title of the land selected for boulevards, ways, ease- 

 ments, parks and building lines as herein provided, shall have been acquired 

 by the Commissioners, by gift, condemnation, or otherwise, it shall be the 

 duty of such Commissioners to make, acknowledge and file for record, in 

 the office of the Recorder of Deeds for Cook county, a map showing the said 

 land, with a correct description, including section, township and range. 



Sec. 13. As soon as the amount required for the condemnation of the 

 grounds selected for said purposes shall have been ascertained by said 

 commissioners, with reasonable certainty, they shall apply to the judge of 

 the circuit court of Cook county, for the appointment of three disinter- 

 ested freeholders, as assessors, one of whom shall reside north of Division 

 street, one between Division and Harrison streets, and one south of Harrison 

 street, all in said West Chicago. The commissioners shall give notice in 

 three or more of the daily newspapers published in the city of Chicago, and 

 by posting written or printed notices in three public places in said West 

 Chicago, of the time when such application will be made, and all parties 

 interested may appear and be heard by the said judge, touching such 

 appointment, at the time fixed for such application. The court, after 

 hearing such persons as shall desire to be heard touching such appointment, 

 shall nominate and appoint three assessors, qualified as aforesaid, for the 

 purpose provided in this act. The said assessors shall proceed to assess the 



