The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-06-12
COUNTY BOARD PROCEEDINGS.
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appointed to examine road petition
of Fred Mccall and others for shorten
ing and improving road in town of
South Bend, make the following re-
port: The improvement asked for
will cost more than the county fund
will warrant this board in eXpend-
ing on that one place; that the new
improvement is virtually parallel
improvement with Matthews and
! keenan, hills improvement, which is
as yet uncompleted. We also object
to the cost and damages that will be
caused by starting the new road at
the point described in petition. We
also find that the county board has no
right to lay a new road that does not
run to more than one town without
vacating the present road. The town
board has authority to lay such road
that is entirely within the township.
We therefore recommend that the
petition be not granted.
ROBERT ROBERTS,
CHAS. GRAF,
ROBT. S. HUGHES,
Committee
On motion the above report is &C.
copied and adopted and, upon motion,
the road petition not granted.
Be it resolved by the board of coun-
+u oopo icoioparS of pluo Hort n CONN
ty, Mimi, that all Russian thistles
growing or standing on any land with
in the county of Blue Earth in the
state of Minnesota shall be destroyed
by the persons, companies, corpora
tions owning or occupying any land
in the said county of Blue Earth on
which any Russian thistles are stand
ing or growing, on or before the 10Th
day of July, A. d. 1896, and if the
same are not destroyed on or before
that date, the same shall be destroy
ed by public authority as provided by
law. This resolution is passed pursu-
ant to the provisions of chapter 274,
General Statutes of the State of Min
nesota, of 1895. Dated at Mankato
June sd, 1896.
RoBT. S. HUGHES, chm,
CHAs. GRAF
ROBT. ROBERTS,
A. M. HANNAY,
JAMES MOUNTAIN,
County Commissioners of Blue Earth
county, MINI.
On motion, board adjourned to meet
June Sd, 1896.
June Sd. 1885, board met persuant
to adjournment, all members present.
Moved that the county attorney is
hereby authorized to procure the
right of way for a road in the Sc
of sec. 36, town Of Rapidan, accord
ing to the proposition of the owners
of said land, and further that the
contract for building said road and
culvert on said road be awarded to r.
HI. Buttimer at his bid, and that the
! work be done under the direction of
committee consisting of James Noun
tain and A. M. Hannay, the total sum
expended for right of way and build
ing Of road and culvert not to exceed
1891.
Application of Mankato Gas and
Electric Light Co. for refunding of
1895 personal property tax, city of
Mankato, was received and upon
motion the reduction recommended
to The state auditor for his approval.
| Moved that the building of the
Severson bridge in the town of Medo,
the stone piers secs. % and "a town
of Butternut Valley, and the road
/ and culvert in sec. SO town Of Rapi-
dan, be done under the supervision Of
| Brooks & Thompson.
| STATE OF MINNESOTA, sS
| County Of Blue Earth. 90
At the meeting of the board of
county commissioners of said county,
held June lst, A. D., 1896, the report
of the committee appointed by us at
our last session to examine the road
hereinafter named have reported that
they met at said highway on the
thirteenth day of May, A. d. 1896, and
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