The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-11-07
Notice Of Confirmation by the Common Council
of the Award of Commissioners.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN
WHEREAS, upon a petition duly signed
and presented by persons interested in
the Common Council of the city of Ke-
nosha, Wisconsin, praying for the lay
ing out of q certain street or highway
in said city of Kenosha, in said petition
described, which petition is in the Ian
guage following, namely:
To the Common Council Of the City Of
KeNOSb0:
GENTLEMEN:
We, the undersigned residents, prop
erty owners and tax payers Of the city
of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and being in
terested in the street extension herein
after set forth respectfully petition your
honorable body to lay out d street in
continuation of JENNIE street from Maple
to Ridge street in the city of Kenosha,
under the provisions of Chapter VII Of
the Revised Charter of the city of Ke-
nosha, entitled " Of highways and pub
lie grounds" And thus your petition
ers will ever pray.
Dated Sept. %, A. d. 1885.
And which petition is signed by the
following named parties:
Chas G.. Theleen, Mrs. Mary Grant,
Carl Petersen, L. Plummer, Sarah M.
Fluskey, John jacob, Geo. H. Kroncke,
VIM. Goergen, j. B. Parks, T. Haugh-
ton, Philip Baum, Mary Anderson, Mrs.
Eva Sandergreen and Rebecca George;
the said Common Council of the city OF
KenOsha Gid duly choose and appoint
five disinterested freehOlderS residing
in said city TO ascertain and determine
in reference to the laying out of said
proposed street or highway SO described
in said petition.
1st. The necessity of taking any
private property for laying out said
highway or street, so duly petitioned
for.
I'd. The damages and recompense
due the owners respectively Of any such
private property necessary to be taken.
Sd. What persons will be benefited
by such improvement and the laying
out of said street or highway, and to
assess the damages and expenses of
such improvement and the laying out
of said street or highway on the real
estate of persons SO benefited in
proportion as nearly as may be to
the benefits resulting to each, and
WHEREAS, the said Commissioners
did within the time and in the manner
provided by Chapter VII Of the Revised
Charter of said City Of Kenosha, make
return to said Common Council under
their hands Of the matters and things
above mentioned and so referred to
them,
Now, THEREFORE,, you are hereby
notified that the award Of said Com
missioners, as shown by said return, is
as follows:
That said Commissioners award
neither benefits nor damages. THAT
that part of their report referring to
the benefits and damages reads as fol-
| lows:
THAT we are of the opinion, and it
is our judgment that the damages in
each and every case hereinDefore men
toned in which private property is to
be taken for such public use are equal
! to and do not exceed the amount Of
benefits, determined by us to each of
| the persons who are owners Of said
property so to be taken.
We therefore hereby respectfully re-
port to the Common Council of said
City of Kenosha that we have deter
mined and ascertained that it is neces-
sary to lay out said proposed street and
to widen the same as hereinbefore de-
scribed, and that we have ascertained
and determined that the benefits and
the damages resulting from such lay
ing out and widening of said street to
each of the parties whose private prop
erty is taken for such purpose are
equal, and we SO assess the same"
You are further notified that the re-
port of said Commissioners hereinbe-
fore referred to is on file in the Office of
the City Clerk in and for the City of
Kenosha, Wisconsin, and may be seen
and examined by you at any reasonable
hour.
And you are further notified that on
the 18th day of November, A. D. 1895,
at eight o'clock p. m. at the Council
Room of the said Common Council, in
the City Building, in the First ward OF
the said City of Kenosha, which time
and place has been fixed by said Com
mon Council, the award of the said
Commissioners in said matter will be
confirmed by said Council unless OBJ
ljections to the same are made to the
said Common Council in writing by
some person or persons interested, pre-
vious to or on such day specified.
Dated Kenosha, Wisconsin, Novem-
Der 4th, A. D., 1895.
GUSTAV JACOB, City Clerk.