Council hereby declares it necessary and conducive to the public health and general welfare to establish a municipal hospital of the City to be known as The Lakewood Hospital of Lakewood, Ohio, and hereby authorizes the Mayor to take all necessary steps to acquire by gift, in the name of the City, the real estate of The Lakewood Public Hospital Company described as follows:
Parcel 1. Situated in the City of Lakewood, County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio and known as being part of original Rockport Township Section No. 22, and bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the intersection of the westerly line of land conveyed to Joseph Hall, by deed recorded in Volume 31, page 686 of Cuyahoga County Records, with the southerly line of Detroit Street; thence southerly along said westerly line, 200 feet; thence westerly parallel with Detroit Street, 100 feet; thence northerly parallel with the westerly line of land so conveyed to Hall, 200 feet to the southerly line of Detroit Street; thence easterly along the southerly line of Detroit Street, 100 feet to the place of beginning, be the same more or less, but subject to all legal highways.
Parcel 2. Situated in the City of Lakewood, County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, and known as being part of original Rockport Township Section No. 22, and bounded and described as follows:
Beginning on the southerly line of Detroit Avenue at the northwesterly corner of land conveyed to C. Lee Graber by Adam J. Knopf and Nellie Knopf, husband and wife, by deed recorded in Volume 1116, page 267 of Cuyahoga County Records; thence southerly along the westerly line of land so conveyed to Graber, 155 feet to the northeasterly corner of Sublot No. 132 of the "Belle Avenue Allotment" as shown by the recorded plat in Volume 41 of Maps, page 23, of Cuyahoga County Records; thence westerly along the northerly line of such Sublot No. 132, about 74-16/100 feet to the easterly line of Belle Avenue; thence northerly along such easterly line of Belle Avenue, about 148-37/100 feet to the southerly line of Detroit Avenue; thence easterly along said southerly line of Detroit Avenue about 75-9/100 feet to the place of beginning, be the same more or less but subject to all legal highways.
Parcel 3. Situated in the City of Lakewood, County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, and known as being all of Sublots Nos. 129, 130, 131 and 132 in the Belle Avenue Allotment of part of original Rockport Township Section No. 22, as shown by the recorded plat in Volume 41, page 23, of Cuyahoga County Records of Maps.
The Mayor is also authorized to take all necessary steps to acquire by gift, in the name of the City, the equipment and personal property of such Company used and useful in connection with the operation of the hospital of such Company, and to take all necessary steps within a reasonable time for the acceptance by the City of such property. Documents pertaining to the title shall be approved by the Director of Law.
(Ord. 3136. Passed 9-2-1930.)