The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-11-19
Board of Supervisors Proceedings, October
Session, 1897.
Continued from last weekly
DRAIN COMMISSIONERS REPORT.


| visors: Gentlemen
In accordance with the provisions OF
section $ of chapter of act No. 227 of
the session laws of 1885 as amended.
have the honor herewith to submit
my annual report as county drain COM
missioner covering the period from Oct.
1896, to Oct l, 1897.
The following named drains were left
unfinished at the date of my last report
The Anterior, Alder Creek, Burns and
Antrim, Caledonia and Venice, Chapman,
Copas, Gla don, Hurrell, Jorden, Mish-
tegiac Creek, Obtossin, Onion Creek,
Porter Creek, Quay, South Looking Glass,
Travis, Thomas, Webb Greek and Huck-
leberry.
The following named drains have been
begun by me and are only partly COM
pleted
Alder Creek, Caledonia & Venice, Cra-
wins, Fauth, Mishtegiac Creek, North
Creek, Ockerman, Onion Creek, Olney,
Perry No. 2, Rush Creek, South Looking
Glass, Travis, Town Line and Webb
Creek.
The following named drains have been
flushed by me during the year:
The Anterior, Burns and Antrim,
Chapman, Copas, Caledonia Park, Glad.
den, Hurrell, Huckleberry, Jorden. Mid.
dlebury county, Obtossin, Porter Creek,
Quay and Thomas.
The work finished during the year in
clearing out old drains and constructing
new ones is 1880 rods or little over 80
miles.
There is 60S6 rods or over 10 miles of
drains sold that are not yet completed.
But within sixty days when the last con-
tract for this work expires, with as favor
able weather as we have had in the past
few months we think this work will be
nearly or quite completed.
We have had no law suits nor any ap.
peals from assessments during thesyear.
l have nine applications for drains in
my Office that no action has been taken
on for want of time. One in Bennington,
one in Owosso township, one in New
Haven, one in Sciota, one in Caledonia
and New Haven, one in Fairfield and Du-
plain, Clinton Co., one in Antrim and
Perry. one in Bennington and Sciota
The total amount Of drain tax reported
to be raised for the year 1897 is $Sl75O0,
of which Antrim has $2340O, Benning-
ton $4,000, Burns $4l60O, Caledonia
$l3100, Corunna City $14OO, Fairfield
$42500, Hazelton $4,000, Middlebury
$685. Owosso township $1045O, Venice
$4S70.OO, total $S1750O.
On the following drains no orders have
been drawn since October l, 1896, and
the following are the balances in the
same Oct. 1, 1897:
Drains-Baker $14.91, Bates &c. 6, Bod
amer $2.55, Bear Swamp 1851, Briggar-
man $l6.15, Bear Creek $77.09, Burns &
Vernon 1898, Cripps S "a, Curtis S lSO,
Cooney $l.5O, Clinton & Shiawassee $780,
%, Caledonia $11. 40, Cass s1475, Darling
& Bennett $3.50, Davenport SLIP, Dim
mick $1,000, Edgar $63.47, Farley 1910,
Fairfield & Rush 1912, Fuller & Finn
s., Grubb s., Gates $3.50, Gallag-
her $S1.44, Cute $20.33, Galloway 1886,
Hyde 5 AS, Hudson 1924, Hopkins $l5.-
%, Heart $10.44, Jones $3.50, Johnson
$42l, Jones Creek 5, Jennings $lSO7,
Kay $12.S3, Looking Glass River $299SO,
Linzie $4497, Love 1907, Lodge $4.19,
McCann $9025, Morrice s., Mitchner
$40 20, Mckenzie & Dryer $47.55, Magee
1904, Northway (over-drawn) 5 "a,
Osburn $4.60, Osser $7.35, Obert lover
drawn) 1921, Perry $3.50, Parkhurst
$10.23, Peddington $4.34, Purvis 1892,
Porter $3.50, Perry No. 2 (over-drawn)
$32.63, Ridge (over-drawn) $3.50, Ream
$l.SO, State road extension (over-drawn)
$5.47. Smith $9.05, State road $S2.9S,
Shotwell $3.50, Shepherd $13.16, Totam
1895, Tawnson $22.79, Wagner lover
drawn) $766, West $4.l9, Wilkinson 1892
Wright $l204, Wait 1872, Wheeler lover
drawn) 1894, Waters $1O.54, Walter $s.-
81, Woodruff (over-drawn) 1896, Woolf
Creek $500, Total in drain funds on
which no orders have been issued during
the year $137S13.
The total amount of drain orders issued
during the year is $9265.07.
Financial Statement OF Alder Greek Drain.
Alder Creek Drain Fund.
Date No. DIR
1896 Order Amt
Oct 81 To j. Breaugh, con. sec 8, 1872 8 70 20
20 To G z Mason, comms'r 20u 10 80
Feb rs To H A Mason. aiidavits 22os rs
Dec 81 To Geo Hathaway con secs 1877 1900
Jan II To G Mason, comms'r 200 o 90
July 20 To j Breaugh, con sec IL 214 10 90
"a (" To M Manner, con sec z 2l5 A 90
Aug % To WE Merrill, serv not's 221 100
Sept 30 To Geo Hathaway, bridge 247 20 90
y To Erik Henspetr con secs 248 % 90
{" To Ezra Miller, con sec 249 IS 90
Oct 1 To balance 100 s5