Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-14
The following ordinance was pre-
sented as follows:
AN ORDER.

sented as follows:
AN ORDER.
Detaching certain territory from the
towns of Seneca, Wood, Remington
and Port Edwards and organizing and
creating the same into town to be
known and called the town of Grant.
The County Board of Supervisors
ct the county of Wood in the state of
Wisconsin do ordain as follows to- wit
SEC. 1. All of Sections one Cd
two CD eleven CID twelve (12)
thirteen (13) fourteen (14) twenty
three (23) and twenty-four (24) in
township No. twenty-five (22) north
of range No. three 60 east and all of
sections four IA five (5) six CO
seven CD eight go nine (9) sixteen
(l6) seventeen CID eighteen (18)
nineteen (19) twenty (2O) and
twenty-one (21) in township No.
twenty-five (22) north of range No.
four Cd east is hereby detached from
the town of Seneca. All of sections
one CD two CD three CD four (4)
five CD six co seven CD eight (6)
nine CO. ten (1O) eleven (11)
twelve [12] thirteen [13] fourteen
[14l fifteen Isl sixteen 161 seven
tech TN eighteen ISL nineteen [19l
twenty TOT thenty-one [21] twenty
two [22l twenty-three 1881 and
twenty four [24] in township twenty
two [22] north of range theee T31
east and ali Of sections three rs four
"a five Isl six [6l seven III eight
Isl nine (9] ten [1O] fifteen ISL
sixteen 16] seventeen CID eighteen
(18) nineteen [19l twenty 1901
twenty-one TIL twenty two 90
J in township twenty-five 22l
north of range three [3l east, is
hereby detached from the town of
| Wood.
All of sections twenty-eight, %,
twenty-nine, 20, thirty, 80, thirty
one, 81, thirty-two, 80, and
thirty-three, 33, in township No.
twenty-five north of range No. four,
4, east, is hereby detached from the
town of Port Edwards, in the said
Wood County.
SEQ. 2. All of township twenty
two, %, north of range two, 2, east,
all of township twenty-five, %, north
of range three, 3, east and the west
half of township twenty-five, %,
north of range four, 4, east, is hereby
formed, organized and created into a
new town to be known as the town
Of Grant.
SEC. 3 Said town of Grant is
hereby created and the territory there
of shall be liable for pro rata share
of the present existing Indebtedness,
if any, of each of said towns of
Seneca, Wood, Remington and Port
Edwards, and shall be entitled to and
receive pro rata share of the present
existing assets, if any, of said towns
of Seneca, Wood, Remington and
Port Edwards to be ascertained and
adjusted upon the relative assessed
value that said territory so detached
bears to the aggregate assessed value
of said several towns as shown by the
assessment rolls of said towns for the
year 1885.
Sec. A. The first town meeting in
said town of Grant shall be held on
Tuesday, December 22nd, 1885, at
the school house on section IA, town
ship %, north of range 3 east in the
village of Dexterville, Wis, for the
purpose of electing town officers and
to transact such other business as may
properly come before said meeting.
SEC, 5. The several town clerks of
the towns of Seneca, Wood, Reming-
ton and Port Edwards, shall immedi-
ately after said 22nd, day of Dec,
: 1885, make out and transmit to the
town clerk of said town of Grant, a
5 true and correct statement of the
assessment made upon the territory
hereby detached from said several
towns, both upon real property and
: personal property, as shown by the
several corrected assessment rolls of
said towns for the year 1885, and the
same shall be taken and considered as
the assessment Of said town of Grant
for the year 1885.
SEC. 6. This order shall take
effect an be in force from and after it's
, passage and publication.
Petition of residents and free holds
of the town of Seneca praying for the
adoption of the ordinance creating
the town of Grant, presented, signed
by M. r. Hansen and 90 others.
Petition of residents of town Of
r Wood relating to same. signed by
VIM. Smith and q Others
Petition of residents of the late
town of Dexter relating to the same,
F signed by John James and AZ Others
Petition of residents of town of
, Remington, relating to same, signed
E. j. Erickson and 33 others.
) Moved the ordinance and petition be
referred to the committee on town
Organization.