The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-06-19
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS.
Ut the Board Of County Commission.
ers, Yellowstone County.
Fourth Day.

The board met pursuant to adiour,
ment at 10 o'clock a. M, all membe,
being present.
The minutes of the last meetin
were read and duly approved.
1t being brought t o he notice {
the board that that part of road N.
100 AUDITING the premises of Mrs. Mar
Hill in township l south, range rs eas,
had been completed and opened TO
travel, and that the amount that ha,
been set aside in payment of damage
to said premises by reason OF sal,
road was now due, the clerk was in
structed to Draw a warrant on roas
fund for $4,000 as payment in full TO
such damages and to take in thu
county's name a quit-clalm deed TO,
the r~ight-of-way for such road.
A petition dated May ~, 1908, sign
ed by Albert Butler and others, pray
ing for the following change of county
road No. b9, in road district No. %:
Beginning at the ha~lf-section corner
between sections 1 and ~ in town.
ship 2 south, of range "a east, at the
turn leading towards the Northern
Pacific r~ight-of-way, and making the
course of said road when it begins
to bear east, along and near to said
r~ight-of-way to a point where the pres
ent road crosses the east line of said
township, there to join the present
road and continue as before" was
presented to the board. "8
A petition dated February 81, 1908,
signed by Albert Butler and others.
vas presented to the board asking for
the vacation of a part Of county road
No. 3 as follows: Commencing at the
northeast corner OF section II, town
ship 2 south, range "a east, running
thence due west to a point where
county road on north of railroad track
ilntersects said road petitioned to be
vacated. Said portion of road has
never been Travelled and is of NO bene-
fit to the public"
A. A. Norris, county surveyor, M.
w. Craner and D. A. Ramp were dr.
pointed viewers on both the above
petitions, and it was ordered that they
e at the ranch of Albert Butler
on Saturday., June ~, 1908, at 10
o'clock a. m, and view such proposed
changes Oh county roads, and report
thereon September 10, 1903.
A petition dated May 8, 1903, sign
ed by E. p. Searles and others, pray
ing for an extension OF road No. 4,
ETC., was read and ordered filed.
Upon motion, the board, acting un-
der the authority of house bill No.
145 OF the Eighth legislative assembly,
passed a resolution as IoIlows:
Whereas, 1t comes to the knowl-
edge of this board that a certain wa
gon route diverging from county road
No. 4 and intersecting the road No.
80 from Laurel, running UP Red and
Kings gulcn to the Lake Basin dis
trict, has been travelled for years by
the ranchers OF the valley and is a
necessity to them as a route to the
hills,
Resolved, that such travelled route
above described be, and the same is
hereby declared a public highway and
county road.
"The county surveyor is hereby in
structed to plat and record the road
just described, and the said road shall
be under the jurisdiction of the super
visor of road district No. H."
Upon motion the boaru, acting I'M
der the same authority and for the
same reasons as governed their action
regarding the road last mentioned,
ordered that the road now travelled,
from the point where it leaves Half
Breed creek about the mouth of Saw
mill coulee" and leads in a northeast
erly direction, crossing PARROT creek,
until it reaches Fattig creek, be and
hereby is declared a public highway
and county road.
The county surveyor Is hereby in
structed to plat and record the road
just described, and said road shall
be under the jurisdiction of the super
visor of road district No. IL.
The petition of A. G. Rich and
others, dated May /, 1903, was upon
motion laid over for consideration un-
til Thursday, Sept. 10, 1903, at 2::30
m. 4
A petition dated May 10, 1903, sign
ed by E. T. Grimm and others, pray