Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-09
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

Council Room, Sept. I, 1897.
| Council met in regular session, Mayor
| Baker in the chair.
Aldermen present: Wipperman, Row.
land, Nilsson, Briere, Huban, Nash and
Shredder
Minutes of LAT meeting read and ap-
proved.
Finance committee recommended that
bill of Grand Ra Ids Foundry Co., dated
| July 31st, of $3.50, be allowed at $50. Is,
the $1,000 deduction being for defective
| dies. Also their bill ofSept. 6, of $52.09
be allowed in full.
Committee on sewerage districts re-
ported their division of the city in four
sewerage districts and above report was
accepted.
A petition of Z. Lanouette asking the
street committee or Board of Public
Works to ascertain the damages that he
sustained by the change Of grade pre-
sented. and on motion the above petl-
ton was accepted and referred to Board
of Public Works.
Dan Case gave city deed of piece
of land 90 #. wide across lot Ga part of
G street extended) in section 1925
east, according to Sargents plat, for
highway purposes and, on motion, the
deed was accepted and ordered re-
corded.
The following resolution for dividing
the city into sewerage districts was read
and, on motion, adopted, ayes and noes
| being taken:
BE IT RESOLVED, By the common coun-
ell of the city of Grand Rapids be and
the same hereby is divided into sewer
age districts as described in the annexed
and foregoing report.
To His Honor the Mayor and Common
Council of the city of Grand Rapids:
Your committee appointed at the
regular meeting of the common council
of the city of Grand Rapids, held at the
council room on the 3rd day of August,
| 1897, for the purpose of dividing the
city Of Grand Rapids into sewerage dis
tricts and report such division to the
common council at its next meeting,
would respectfully report as follows:
That said committee has met and duly
made such division, and do hereby re-
| port the same to your honorable body:
l. The committee has divided the
| city inta Jour (4) sewerage districts.
2. Sewerage District No. to consist
of ard include all that territory in said
city Of Grand Rapids lying north of the
section line between Sections s and II,
in Township % north, of Range east,
being the same territory which low
constitutes the first ward of said city of
Grand Rapids, and which shall here
after be known as Sewerage District No.
l of said city of Grand Rapids.
8. Sewerage District No. 2 to consist
of and include all that territory in said
city of Grand Rapids lying south of the
section line between Sections and II,
in Township 22 north, of Range east,
and north of Oak street in said city, and
east of fractional lot No. 2 in said Sec
ton II, being the same territory which
now constitutes the second ward of said
city of Grand Rapids, and which shall
hereafter be known as Sewerage Dis
trict No. of said city of Grand Rapids.
4. Sewerage District No. 8 to consist
of and include the following described
territory: Commencing at the southwest
corner Of Lot No. 8 of Block No | of
subdivision of the southwest quarter of
southwest quarter of Section II, in
Township % north, of Range 6 east, as
shown by Sargent's plat of the city of
Grand Rapids, recorded in the office of
the register of deeds in and for Wood
county, Wisconsin; running thence
north parallel with the east line of said
southwest quarter of southwest quarter
to the northwest corner of Lot. No. of
Block No. of subdivision Of northwest
quarter of southwest quarter of Section
l7-22-6; running thence east parallel
with the south line of said northwest
quarter of southwest quarter to the west
line of the northeast quarter of the
southwest quarter Of said Section II;
thence north on the west line of said
northeast quarter of southwest quarter
and the southeast quarter of northwest
quarter and of fractional lot No. in
Section II, to a stone monument OH the
easterly bank of the Wisconsin river;
thence in a southwesterly direction
meandering the Wisconsin river to
point where the west line of fractional
Lot intersects with the easterly bank
of the Wisconsin river; thence south to
the southwest corner of said Lot 8;
thence east on the south boundary line
of said fractional Lot 6 and the south
west quarter Of the southwest quarter
of said Section II to the point of begin
| ming, which shall constitute and be here
after known as Sewerage District No. 3
of the city of Grand Rapids.
). Sewerage District No. to consist
of and include all that territory lying
east of the east boundary line of said
Sewerage District No. 3, and south Of
Oak street in said city of Grand Rapids,
| which shall constitute and be hereafter
known as Sewerage District No. of the
| city of Grand Rapids.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
II. WIPPERMAN,
Z. |. PHILLEo, }Committee.
CHAS. BRIERE,
Street committee reported about the