§ 6-1. Grounds of Pontiac Cemetery.  


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  • The tracts, parcels or lots of land named in the deed from Henry Stevens and wife to the president and trustees of the Town of Pontiac, Illinois, recorded in the recorder's office of the county in Deed Book S on pages 372 and 373, and platted in Plat Book 1 at page 49, in the recorder's office; together with block 97 in the original town of Pontiac, as such block and each tract, lot and block thereof is platted and laid off into lots by numbers and of record in the recorder's office in Plat Book B at page 298; together with the following described tract or addition: Beginning at "A," a point in the middle of block 97 in the original town of Pontiac and on the south line of South Street, and running east along the south line to the west bank of the Vermillion River, thence down the west bank of the river to the north line of Henry Street, thence west to the middle of block 80, thence south across Henry Street to the point of beginning, as shown in the recorder's office in Plat Book 2 at page 14; together with part of the west half of block 84, of the original town of Pontiac, known as the Mausoleum Addition to the Pontiac Cemetery, as shown in the recorder's office in Plat Book 5, page 21; and also a tract of land described as lot 6 of the subdivision of the east half of the northeast quarter of Section 27, Township 28 North, Range 5 East of the Third Principal Meridian, also commencing at the northwest corner of lot 7 of such subdivision and running thence east 322 feet, more or less, to the land sold Bentley for icehouse purpose, thence south 100 feet, thence west 322 feet, more or less, to Locust Street, thence north 100 feet to the place of beginning, also known as Davies Addition to Pontiac Cemetery, is hereby established as a place for the interment of the dead, under the name and style of Pontiac Cemetery.

(Code 1966, § 14.01)