The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-05-23

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to have same corrected.
Board then adjourned to meet at 2 pm.
]AFTFRNooy SESSION.
Full board present.
Road petitions were received from Thos.
Gardner and twenty three others, Jacob
Cole and twenty-three others, August Krue
ger and twenty three others, A august Spring
er and twentY-three others, John Cudhie
and twenty-three others, and Commits
sioner Cudhie was appointed a commit
tee to view said roads on June 9th 1889,
at 9 o'clock, a. M, starting from the house
OF August Kruger.
The road petition Of n. Allison and
twenty four others was laid over until the
next meeting as the names ct the owners
of the land through which the proposed
road shonld pass were not in the body Of
the petition.
The road petition of John G. Hare and
twenty.tEree others was received and Com
missioner Cudhie appointed to view the
road OF June 10th, at 2 o'clock p. m. COM
mencing at the house of John G. Hare.
Moved by Cudhie, seconded by LeMay,
that the clerk be hereby authorized to is
sue warrants in payment of statutory fees
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rent OF private houses for polling places.
Carried.
Commissioner LeMay reported on the
road petition of John J. Hunt and others,
recommending the opening of the road
proposed in said petition.
Moved by Niche seconded by Cudhie,
that $500 be struck from the valuation
listed az manufactures in the assessment
of 1883 of NJ. Harris o J., the same having
been overestimated. Carried.
Moved by Turner seconded by Cudhis,
that Commissioner Niche tie hereby in
structed to purchase 500 #. of plank for q
bridge over Oak Creek at Beaton's
Carried.
Commissioner Turner reported on the
road petition of J. Gorder and others, rec
ommending that proposed road be opened
as far as Henry Rnssell's.
Upon motion of Niche and LeMay the
report was accepted.
Commissioners Turner and Dana repor-
ted on the road petition of john Crogen
aud others recommending that the road be
opened according to petition, with the ex-
ception of a variation to the south around
the land of - Gulstad on the section
liue.
Moved by Cudhie and seconded by Le-
May that the report of the committee be
received and approved. Carried.
Moved by Niche seconded by LeMay,
that Commissioners Dana and Turner be
a committee to ascertain what can be done
in the matter OF an instrument for the
county surveyor and report at the next
meeting. Carried.
Moved by Cudhie and seconded by Tur-
ner that in the matter Of the petition of
VIM. Dinwoodie, Duncan Stewart and others
asking for the opening of a road as de-
scribed in said petition, which was pre-
sented at a previous meeting Of this board
and has been laid over from time to time,
Resolved that the road be declared open as
follows:
Commencing SO rods west of town line
between ranges rs and 76 on line between
the mel and sci sec l, t 161, r rs running a
nertheasterly course to the town line be-
tween ranges rs and 76 thence north on
town line to within SO rods of the quarter
stake Of sec SO, 1852, r rs, thence in a
northwesterly direction intersecting the
quarter line at a point % rods west Of the
said quarter stake thence north through
said section SO to nne with Sinclair st.
in the town of Bottineau. Ayes-Turner,
Cudhie and Dana. Nay-Mickie; LeMay
excused.
Commissioner Mickie entered the follow
ing protest:
81 beg to protest against the decision on
the ground Of gross Partially, the petition
of VIM. Clark and others having precedence
and the road asked for by VIM. Clark and
others can only be lawfully opened; and
second. on the ground that there are two ex-
ira bridges on this road that are entirely
unnecessary and will DO a great expense for
all time to come and on these grounds
protest against the opening of road asked
for by William Stewart or any part thereof.
GEORGE MCKEE"
Upon motion the board then adjourned,
and the county clerk called to his aid CON-
missioners Dana, LeMay, Cudhis and
Mickie, who proceeded to open the returns
Of the election Of May IA, 1889, and make
an abstract of the votes as follows: