Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-11-23
WEDNESDAY, $50, A. NJ.


Boasd called to order by chairman
Roll call Quorum present.
Journal resd. corrected and on mo-
ton of Mr.. Thomas. approved.
MIR. Meyer presented petition re-
lating to the opening of highway in
the town of Mt. Hope.
To the Honorable, the County Board of
Supervisors of and for the County of
Grant and State of Wisconsin:
| WHEREAS. A certain highwsv lying
and being within the limits of the town
of Mt Hope, in said Grant County,
which is regularly laid out and es-
tablished highway aud which highway
was regularly laid out and established
more than forty years ago and which
highway has been regularly and con-
ilnuously, each and every year since,
used and travelled by the public, as a
route OF travel, and which highway
within the limits of said town so far as
this action is concerned the same is
particularly described as follows:
Said highway entering the limits of
said town of Mt. Hope at a point or
place on the north line of said town, at
or about the center of the north line of
/ the north west quarter of the south east
quarter, of Section number II in said
towr, thence in a south westerly dl-
rection across said forty to about the
center of the west line of said forty,
thence in a circuitous south-westerly
direction to the south east corner of the
north west quarter, of the north west
quarter, of said Section number II,
thence west on the south line of said
last described forty to the north east
corner of the south east quarter OF the
nerth east quarter Of Section number ] /
! in said town, thence in circuitous
south-westerlv direction across said last
described font to the south west corner
/ thereof, thence in a westerly direction
| to a point or place about the center of
| the south line of the southeast quarter
of the northwest quarter of said section
number eleven. thence onward, and
WHEREAS. Said highway, or a great
portion of said highway. as above des-
| crbed, has for more than one year last
past beer, and is now, badly out of re-
pair, and unfit and unsafe for public
/ travel, and dang, rous to the life and
limb of persons travelling moreover. and
| WHEREAS. said highway is the only
outlet to market and church of residents
and freeholders within said town and
the town adjoining on the north, and
through which said highway passes. and
WHEREAS, The town of Mt. Hope
has for mole than one year last past,
failed, negle ed and refused, and the
said town board of sa d town of Mt.
Hope. has for more than one year last
past, failed. neglected and refused, to
repair or cause to be repaired the said
highway, though they have frequently
within said time, and fully one year
since. been notified of the dangerous
and impossible condition of said high
way.
Now therefore. the undersigned, resi-
dents and freeholders of and within said
town of Mt. Hope, feeling themselves
aggrieved by the failure, neglect and
refusal of the said town of Mt. Hope
and of the said town board of the said
town of Mt Hope to repair said high
way so that the same shall be 1T and
safe for public trave', do hereby appeal
from such failure, neglect and refusal
of said BOARD of said town of Mt. Hope
to repair said highway as aforesaid, to
the county board of said county of
Grant for such determination by said
county board, as in the premises they
shall deem just and proper, OF which
appeal, the said town board OF the said
town of Mt. Hope, and the said town of
Mount Hope will please take notice.
The following names were signed to
the above:
j. NJ. Mulroney, Henry Gull. Maria
Monlietb, Peter Quinn, Thomas o.
Shaughnessy. JAMES O'Brien, John
Corcoran, John Seaman. John McKich-
an, Jr, Mary Walsh, A. Trapp. Oar
by Mulronev John Mulroney, Thomas
Roseman. VIM Roseman, nj Gull,
John Gull, f. F. Walsh, Mathew Ertz,
James NJ Gull, Frank Collins.
Annexed tothe petition is the affidavit
of Peter Quinn, setting forth that the
above petition and notice of appeal was
served on James McCuskey, chairman
Of the town Of Mt Hope.
Referred to Committee on Highway s.,
Bridges and Ferries.
Mr.. McCluskey presented a remon-
STRANGE to the petition presented by Mr..
Never.
REMoNsTRANCE.
To the Honorable, the Town Board of
Mt Hope, Wis.
Your petitioners, resident freeholders
of said town, would respectfully remon-
strate against the laying or establishing
or maintaining highway on or near
the line now in contemplation, known
as the Quinn road, better described as
follows: Starting at a point about 10
rods west of the center of Section No.
III. town No. 6. range 4, and running
north-easterly to town line near the
north. east corner of section No. y,
town 6. range No. west. Praying
the prayer of your petitioners be grant
ed, we ever pray.
Dated June 20th, 1898.