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Ilk . . I. ORDINANCE NO. 3658 AN ORDINANCE providing for the acquisition by con- demnation of land necessary and convenient for the proper construction, control, maintenance and operation of one or more water supply lines for the furnishing of a supply of fresh water into the City of Everett, together with the construction and maintenance of a telephone line or lines for the use of the City in connection with its municipal water system and municipal communication system and directing the City Attorney to institute condemnation proceedings for the purpose of acquiring said land and declaring an emergency to exist. WHEREAS, the City of Everett is in the process of building a fresh water supply line from Lake Chaplain to the City of Everett for the purpose of supplying the City of Everett with fresh water from its storage basin at Lake Chaplain, and it is anticipated that additional lines will be built over said land, and WHEREAS, it has been determined that it is necessary and convenient that the City of Everett take the fee simple title to the land hereinafter described for the purpose of constructing, operating, replacing, repairing and maintaining a water supply line system and communications system under, over and across the property hereinafter described, NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1 : That public necessity demands and requires that the fee simple title to the land hereinafter described be condemned, taken and appropriated for public use and the same is hereby condemned, taken and appropriated for a public object and public use and necessity as follows : For the purpose of con- structing, operating, maintaining, replacing and repairing one or more water supply lines for the purpose of furnishing into the City of Everett a supply of fresh water, together with the construction and maintenance of a telephone line or lines for the use of the City in connection with its municipal water system and municipal communications system. Section 2: That the City of Everett condemn, acquire appropriate and take the fee simple title to the following described land now in the ownership of and owned by Harold S. Ofstie : That part of Government Lot 1, Section 28, Township 29 North, Range 5 East, W.M. , lying North and West of former Northern Pacific Railroad right-of-way, EXCEPT East 200 feet thereof; EXCEPT 50 foot strip along entire south shore of Snohomish River in Government Lot 1 as conveyed to Pacific Tow Boat Company by deed recorded under Auditor' s File No. 1026259, records of Snohomish County; EXCEPT State Highway No. 15; EXCEPT right-of-way of Chicago-Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad; and EXCEPT right-of-way of Diking District No. 1 of Snohomish County, Washington.