The Grit-advocate., 1901-12-06
NOTICE.

board OF county COmmiSsO rs of the
county of Sedgwick and Sta of Color
ado to be held in the col y clerk s
Office in Julesburg Colorado on Mon
day the 9th day of December, 1901, the
petitioners signing the petition which
is printed following this notice will at
the hour of II o'clock on said day pre-
sent said petition to said board of
county commissioners. at which time
any and all parties interested may APP
pear and present their claims for or
against the allowance OF the prayer of
said petition.
To The Board of County Commits
sioncrs of The County Of Sedgwick.
Colorado.
The persons whose names are sub
Scribcd to this petition would respect
fully rcpl csent that your petitioners
are dcsirous of organizing the land en-
braced within the following boundary
lines tO-wlt:
The east boundary line, the east
boundary line of the Fort Sedgwick
Military reservation: the north line
the South Platte river and the south
Reservation ditch as far east as the !
section line in section 8 in township Il
north of range 40 west, and then the
South Platte river east to the east
boundary line as stated: the west line
being the west boundary line of said
reservation: the south line being the
south line Of the north half of section
IA, township II north Of range 46 west,
ni
and the south lines of the north half of
sections l6. 10, II and 13, in township
II north of range 45 west, into an irri-
cation district.
That each of the persons signing
this petition are qualified electors and
freeholders residing in the limits of
said proposed district, and all of the
signers to this petition together make
a majority of the resident freeholderS
who are qualified electors of the said
proposed district, and jointly own Il
majority of the whole number Of acres
OF land belonging to the resident elect
ors of said proposed district.
Your petitioners therefore pray that
upon final hearing of the matters al
leSedin this petition and those con-
nected with the matter, that the land
within the boundary lines of said pro
posed district as above described may
be organized into an irrigation district
as provided by law in such cases.
That your honorable board fix a name
for such proposed district, and that you
will fix and define the boundary lines
of said district and divide said district
into three divisions as nearly equal in
size as practicable and number the
same.
That this board will cause to be is
sued Notice Of an Election TO be held
in such proposed district for the pur-
pose of determining whether or not
the same shall be organized under the
provisions of an act entitled AN act
to provide for the organization and
government of irrigation districts and
to provide for the construction of ca
nails and reservoirs and the acquiring
of canals already constructed or partly
constructed: for the acquiring of the
rights of way to construct irrigation
bitches, canals, reservoirs, and to ac-
qure other property: and for the di-
Viding of the state of Colorado into
irrigation districts. and for said irri-
cation districts to vote bonds for the
purpose of constructing irrigation ca
nails or reservoirs: for the purpose of
buying or purchasing by said irrigation
districts of irrigation canals or reser-
voirs already constructed, or partly
constructed, and other property. pay
ing for the same: providing for a sys-
TEN of revenue to be raised by taxa
tion upon the property in said ir'riga-
tion districts and tolls to pay the inter
est and principal of said bonds, and to
pay current expenses and for property
acquired, and the manner in which the