The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-22
PROCEEDINGS
Board Of County Commissioners
Equalization Term.
First Day.

Billings, Mont, July IL, 1904.
The board met this day at 10 O'Clock
m. as a board of equalization as
required by law. There were present
Chairman w. %. Parker, Commissions
er S. X. Qeverill and Clerk j. w. FISH.
The minutes of the last .meeting
read and duly approved.
The forenoon was taken up with
consideration of various county mat.
tiers.
Afternoon Session.
Notice having been given by pub
LEGATION that certain road petitions
would be received and considered at
2 o'clock p. m. this day, the follow
ing petitions were presented and
read, the board acting as a board Of
commissioners.
Petition of M. A. Arnold and others
"alter or change that portion OF
road number 25, known as the road
from Alkali creek to Big Horn rum
ming over and across sections IA, %,
% and ~, all in township / north,
range 26 east, M. P. NJ, a plat there
of now being on file in the Office of
the county clerk of Yellowstone coun-
ty, state of Montana. We hereby Pc
tition for a right-of-way, go feet in
width, for a county road, such as
may hereafter be deemed a practical
route by the county surveyor, over
and across the following described
tracts of land, towit: Beginning at a
point in the center of the main travel
ed road, about $50 feet north of the
wagon bridge across Alkali creek in
the southeast quarter of section ~,
township / north, range 26 east, M.
P. NJ, running thence along the east
side of Alkali creek a distance of sew
eral hundred feet; thence following
northeasterly up a draw to a point
near the quarter corner on the east
side of section q, running thence
north on the section line to the north
east corner of said section; thence
east on the south line Of section %
4 distance of $40 feet to the main
bluff of the river, following the bluff
in a northeasterly direction to a point
about 700 feet south of the center
OF said section %; thence north to the
c0l1fh limo nf cnafinn "a +honn0 ooct
to the southeast corner of said Sec
ton; thence north along the east side
of said section Ia to the northeas.
corner of said section Ia, and inter-
secting with the main travelled road
at the last above mentioned point,
making a total distance of about four
miles,"
Petition of P. H. Smith and others
to "Alter or change that portion OF
road number Is, known as the road
from 'Alkali creek to the Big Horn
running yer and across section 6,
township l north, range ~ east, M.
P. NJ, sections 81, 20, % and 81, all
in township 2 north, range ~ east, M.
P. M.
"We hereby respectfully petition for
the vacation of the above described
road as now established and travelled,
according to plats thereof filed and of
record in the office of the county clerk
Of Yellowstone county, Montana, and
do pray for the establishment of a
right-of-way, 60 feet in width, for a
county road over and across the fol-
lowing described tract of land, towit:
Beginning at the southwest corner OF
section 6, township l north, range
~ east, M. p. M, running thence
north Of the section line to the north
west corner of said section 6, thence
running in a northeasterly direction,
d~iagonally through section 81, town
ship 2 north, range ~ east, M. P. M,
to the northeast corner of said section
81, continuing thence in a northeastern
ly direction ~diagonally through section
20, township 2 north, range ~ east,
I'M. P. NJ, to the northeast corner OF
said section 20; continuing thence in
a northeasterly direction through the
southwest quarter of section 81, town
ship 2 north, range ~ east, NJ. P. M,
to the center of said section FL; thence
east to the quarter corner on the west
side of section 20, township 2 north,
range ~ east, M. p. M, continuing
thence east through the center OF
said section % to the quarter corner
on the east side of said section %;
thence north on the section line to the
southeast corner of section Is, town
ship 2 north, range ~ east, M. p
M, continuing thence north On the
section line to the northeast corner
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