The Grit-advocate., 1902-02-28
NOTICE.


hereby given that at IA meeting of the
board of county commissioners of the
county of Sedgwick and state of Color
ado to be held in the county clerks
office in Julesburg, Colorado, on Satur-
day the lst day of March, 1902, the
petitioners signing the irrigation dis
trict petition which is printed follow
ing this notice will at the hour of II
o'clock on said day present said peti-
tion to said board of county commits
sioners, at which time any and all par
ties interested may appear and pre-
sent their claims for or against the al
lowance of the prayer of said petition.
To The Board of County Commits
sioners of The County of Sedg-
wick, Colorado.
The persons whose names are SUBJ
scribed to this petition would respect.
fully represent that your petitioners
are DESTROYS of organizing the land en-
braced within the following boundary
lines to-wit.
The east boundary line. the east
boundary line Of the Fort Scdgwick
Military reservations: the north line
the South Platte river and the south
Reservation ditch as far east as the
section line in section 9 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.
the south lines of sections II, and S
and the south lines of the north half of
sections Is, 10, II and H. in township
II north of range 40 west, into an irri-
gaticn district.
That each of the persons signing
this petition are qualified electors and
free holders 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
legged in this petition and those con
nectcd 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 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 is 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 all act entitled 'Au act
to provide for the organization and
government of irrigation districts and
to provide for the construction of ca
mails 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-
quire 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 n sys-
TEN of revenue to be raised by taxa
tiOn upon the property in said irriga-
tion districts and tolls to pay the inter
est and principal of said bonds, and to
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