The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-24
cHANCERY SAL;

BY VIRTUE Of q decree made in the Cir
cult Court for the County OF Van Buren, in
chancery IN q certain cause therein pend
ing wherein Thomas l.. Stevens is Com
Lee are defendants, bearing date the ninth day
of February, A. D., 1871, shall sell at public
auction to the highest bidder, on Monday, the
first day Of Nav, A. D., 1871, at one o'clock in
the afternoon, at the front door Of the Court
House, in the village OF Paw Paw, in the conn-
~ of Van Buren, and State OF Michigan, the
following described land and premises, viz: all
OF the undivided one half of that tract OF land
aud water power in the village OF Paw raw IN
town three go south OF range fourteen (1i)
west, IN the county OF Van Buren, and State or
Michigan, and known and described as follows,
to-wit commencing at a stake standing in the
north line OF block tfty-two coz in said village
of Paw Paw, according to the recorded plat OF
said village, and on the south line or Main
street, and eleven chains west OF the north
east corner of said block fifty-two (52) thence
running east along the north line OF said block
three 90 chains to a stake, thence south at
right angles with said north line OF SAID block
fifty-two to the east margin of the Paw Paw
river, thence down and along the easterly side
Of said river to the east line OF lands on the
easterly side Of said river heretofore decided
by sad Isaac w. Willard to Ismon Il Manning,
thence northerly along the easterly line OF land
so as aforesaid decided to Ismon X Manning,
to the place OF beginning in the north line OF
sad block. together with all the right OF water
power and OF erecting and maintaining dam
across said river, and connecting the dam
with the lands upon the westerly margin OF
said river described in deed made by said
Willard to Ismon and Manning June s. 1865.
and recorded in the Office Of the Register OF
Deeds for the county Of Van Buren,, in Llber
M" Of deeds on pages 418 419 and 420 but
above the mills now standing upon the westerly
side Of said river, also the right Of flowing the
waters Of said river upon the lands adjoining
and contiguous to said river to any height
which shall not interfere with or in the least
obstruct the free discharge Of the waters in
the same stream now used for driving the Paw
Paw Mills, or 30 high as to form an obstruc-
ton IN the least degree with any improved or
unimproved water power above the lands here
by conveyed, reference being had so far as any
further limitations and rights and privileges
are concerned or reserved to the reservations
contained in said deed from said Willard 10
said Ismon and Manning also the right OF
constructing tan race across said land so as
aforesaid decided by SAID Willard to said lsmon
~ Manning, said race to enter the river at any
point above or south OF the mills upon the
west side OF said river and Of constructing the
same across said land to any depth, reserving
the right OF passage way along the west line OF
tue lands hereof conveyed for the passage Of
carriages over the same, together with all the
appurtenances and machinery aud mills there
on and attached thereto at the date of said
mortgage. Dated March IA, A. D., 1871.
JOHN KNOWLES, Circuit Court Comr
STEPHENSON * BARNUM, COmplt's SOlr's. S33t7