Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-07-23

20 I5Qf t the seventh day q
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board for their consideration and
among other things prayed that the
land embraced in said section five
% be organized into, and duly in
corporated into town to be known
as, and by the name of Beresford.
And the said board of county COM
missioners having taken said appli-
cation up for consideration, upon a
hearing thereof find upon due proof
by affidavit to them made, that an
accurate survey and map has been
made of the territory embraced in
said section five 90 by a practical
survey or showing the courses and
distances of the boundaries thereof,
the quantity of land contained there
in, the accuracy of which survey and
map is verified by affidavit, by
such surveyor written thereon, and
also that an accurate census was
taken Of the resident population of
said territory at date not more
than thirty days previous to the
pesentation of said application to
this board and due proof by afii.
davit having been made to this
board that said survey. map and
census after completion thereof and
their verifcation were left at a con-
vcnient place within the limits of
said section 60 for examination by
those having an interest in said
for incorporation of said
territory for a period ofnot less than
thirty days next preceding the pre-
to this board of said ap-
plication, and that due notice there
of was given to said inhabitants of
the territory included within the
limits Of said section five 60 and
this board being satisfied that all
the requirements of chapter "a of
the political code of the revised
codes ofthe laws Of Dakota Terri
tory of 1877, have been fully COM
piled with, it is therefore
Resolred, by the board Of county
commissioners of Union county, Da-
kota territory, in regular session on
this 18th day of July, A. d. 1884,
that an order be and is hereby made
that the territory described in said
petition, map, and sur
vey, to-wit: Said section five (5) in
township ninety-ive (95) Of range
fifty (50) in Union county, Dakota
territory, shall with the assent of
the qualified voters thereof, as pro-
vided by said chapter "a of said
laws of Dakota, henceforth be an in
town to be known as and
by the name of the town of Beres-
ford, and it is further ordered that
a meeting or an election of and by
the qualified voters resident in said
proposed town be held on the 3lst
day Of July, A. ID. 1884, at the store
OF Jerome Mangan, convenient
place within said proposed town to
determine whether said territory
shall be an incorporated town. That
the voters at said meeting shall first
elect three of their number inspect
ors and one OF their number being
by said inspectors chosen from
among themselves to act as clerk
which said inspectors after having
been duly chosen and qualified by
taking an oath to perform their duty
pertaining to said election and there
after elected one Of their own num-
Der clerk, shall without delay pro.
claim to the meeting of said qualiti
ed voters that "the poll is now open
and that they are ready to receive
the ballots Of the voters" which
poll shall be opened at nine O'Clock
in the forenoon Of said day and
shall be kept open until four o'clock
III the afternoon Of said day, whcr
they shall be closed. That the hal
lots used at said election shall have
thereon, "For Incorporation, yes" ol
"For Incorporation. no." Its fur.
ther ordered by said board that ter
days notice of such meeting or cleo
ton shall be given to the voters d
said proposed incorporation by pub
fishing the Same in the Beresfort
Nsars, newspaper published il