Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-03-03
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. MARCH 3, 1877.
CHEBOYGAN COUNTY.

: Changed to Town of inverness
in 1S5O-COnsolidated with ths
County of WyandOI i'm 1S53-Or.
ganization of the Different Town.
ships i'm the County.
In the year 1910, all that portion of the
Estate lying north of the line between
towns 36 and 81 north, and east of the
line between ranges A and 5 west, was
laid off as separate county to be known
and designated as the county of Cheboy-
gan, and attached to Mackinac county fol-
judicial purposes. In the same year all
that portion of the state in towns 33, "a,
80 and 36 north, ranges l east, and /,
and west, was laid off as separate
county TO be known and designated as
the county of Wyandot, and attached to
Mackinac county for judicial purposes.
MADE A TOWNSHIP.
In the year 1s49 the county of Che
boygan was, by the Legislature, organ
lied into township to be known as the
township of Sheboygan. In 1850, by an
act of the Legislature the name of the
township of ShebOygan was changed to
that of Inverness.
CONSOLIDATED WITH WYANDOT.
In 1858 the counties of Cheboygan and
WyandOt were consolidated and organ
lied into one county to be known as
Cheboygan county, and so much of range
west as had been included in Che
boygan county was detached from the
same and annexed to Emmett county.
TOWNSHIP OF DUNCAN.
In the same year, 1853, all that part of
the township of heboygan, or Inverness,
as named by the Legislature in 1850, then
| lying east of the middle of the main
channel of Mullet lake and Cheboygan
river, and line extending due north
from the mouth of said river to the north
bounds of the county was, by the Legis-
lature, organized into separate town.
ship to be known as the township of
Duncan. These two towns, Inverness
and Duncan, continued to be the only
organized towns in the county until the
year 1850 whan the
TOWNSHIP OF BURT
was organized, by the Board of Super
visors, comprising so much of Cheboy-
gan county as was embraced i'm townships
33, "a, 30 and 36 north, ranges east, and
l, 2 and 3 west. Such action of the
Board of Supervisors was published in
the session laws of 1873. In 1862, town.
ship 36 north, range l west, was detach-
ed from the township of Burt and at
tached to the township of Duncan by
the Board of Supervisors, and in the
year 1869, township SO north, range 1
east, was also, by the Board of Super
visors. detached from the town of Burt
and attached to the town of Duncan.
TOWNSHIP OF GRANT.
In the year 1870, all that part Of town
ship 3S north. range 1 west, lying east of
the Cheboygan river, township 3S north,
ranges l and east; sections l to II, in
elusive, i'm township 81 north, range 1
west; sections / to II, inclusive. in town.
ship 81 north, range east, and sections
to 10, inclusive, in township 81 north,
range east, was, by the Board of Super
visors. erected into new township to be
named and known as the township Of
Grant. The action of the Board of
Supervisors i'm organizing this township
was published in the session laws of
1871.
Evidently there was a mistake in the
organization of this town. The action of
the Board of Supervisors, if it did any
thing, organized the township of Grant
from the the territory above mentioned
which, of course, would have the effect
of leaving the balance of the territory
embraced in the old town and not in
cluded in the above description, under
the same organization as before, i'm the
township of Duncan. The action of the
Board would also have the effect to take
from the town of Inverness those parts
of sections 6, z and i'm township 81
north, range 1 west, that lie west of the
ChebOygan river. 1t would seem, how
ever, that it was not the intention of the
Board of Supervisors to accomplish fanny
such thing, as the officers of the town.
ship of Duncan as it had previously ex-
listed, continued to and have ever since
exercised the duties Of their several
offices in the territory organized into the
township of Grant, and the citizens of the
other portion of the territory Of the old
town of Duncan proceeded to and did, as
they supposed, complete the organization
of the township Of Grant, by the election
of the proner officers and still continue
to work under such organization; and
neither the townships of Duncan or
Grant have attempted to exercise any
control over that portion Of Inverness
above referred to, which, by the action OF
the Board, was made to constitute part
of the township of Grant.
TOWN OF BENTON.
In the year 1871 fractional township 80
north, range west, in Cheboygan county,
was. by an act of Legislature, organized
into separate township by the name OF