7195 VACATING A PORTION OF A STREET AND A PORTION OF TWO ALLEYS (RAILROAD AVENUE)

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-a- in the Recorder's Office of Macon County, Illinois, thence North 26 feet to the Southeast corner of said Lot 12 , thence West to the Southwest corner of said Lot 12 , thence North to the Northwest corner of Lot 9 in Block 2 of said E. B. Durfee' s lst Addition to the City of Decatur, thence West to the Northeast corner of Lot 10 in said Addition, thence South to the Southeast corner of Lot 11 in said Addition, thence West to the Southwest corner of Lot 12 in Block 2 of said E. B. Durfee 's 2nd Addition to the City of Decatur, thence North to the P.O.B. , be, and the same are hereby, vacated as public street and alleys inasmuch as the same are no longer required for public use as street and alleys and the public interest will be subserved by such vacation and the public will be relieved from any further burden or responsibility of maintaining the same, said portions of said street and alleys being shown on the plat thereof hereto attached and hereby made a part hereof. Section 2 . That there is hereby reserved in, over, along and under the above-described portion of said street and said alleys , to the City of Decatur, Illinois, and to the public and to those utilities and companies as the case may be owning public service facilities, mains, sewers , telephone and electrical or other public utilities, such property, rights-of-way and easements as are or may be necessary or desirable for continuing public service by means of such facilities and for the maintenance, renewal, and reconstruction thereof with the right of ingress and egress for such purposes . Section 3. That the benefits which will accrue to the owner ' of abutting property by reason of the vacation aforesaid is determined to be in the judgment of the Council equal in value to the sum of $4 , 242 .00 .