The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-06-02
|OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
of the Board of County Commissioners
OF Blue Earth County, Minnesota.

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Mankato, Mimi, April 25, 1905, 2 p.
| M, Special Session.
| Board convened according to call. All
members present. Meeting called to
order by Chairman Paddock. Minutes
If last session approved.
| A bridge petition was presented sign
ID by John c. Strobel, j. w. Atcherson
It. al, for bridge across the Little
Cobb river in the swH of neH of Sec.
Il, Medo. On motion of Commissioner
Jones, the same was placed on file.
Hearing of school petition of Patrick
NJ. Lyons to be set over District 1873
to Joint 6, was on motion of Commits
sioner Jones granted and the following
Order made:
Whereas, The petition of Patrick M.
Lyons, legal voter, free holder and
resident of school district No. 1873 in
] this county, representing that he is the
owner of the lands hereinafter describ
ed, which are situate in said school dis
L a.
trict, and adjOin school district No.
Joint 6, and asking that he with his
said lands may be set off from said
district No. 1873 to said adjoining school
district No. it. 6, for the following rea
sons: That the distance by the regu-
larly laid out road to the school house
in district 1873 is nearly three miles.
The distance to school house in district
IT. 6, is but ive-eignts of a mile, was
presented to the Board of County Com
mssioners of this county, at session
of said Board held on the 9Th day of
March, A. D. 1905, for the action of
said Board thereon; and Whereas, it
was thereupon ordered by said Board
that hearing should be had on said
petition at a session of said Board COM
mencing on the 25th day of April, A.
d. 1905, at the County Auditors Of
flee in the City of Mankato, in said
County; and Whereas, it was further
ordered in and by said order that notice
of the time and place of such hearing
be given by posting a copy of said
order in one public place in each of the
school districts to be affected by said
Ipetition, and by handing to and leav
ing with the Clerk of said school dis
trict, personally, copy of said order,
at least ten days before the time APP
lpointed for such hearings; and Whereas,
at the said session of the said Board of
County Commissioners commencing on
said 18th day of April, A. d. 1905, due
proof of the posting and service of said
order of hearing as there directed
and required, more than ten days prior
to said last named date, having been
made and filed, said petition was pub
liclyread and considered by the board,
with everything which was said by said
interested parties for or against grant
ing the prayer of the petitioner P. M.
Lyons and said Board being of opinion
that said petition should be granted, it
is hereby ordered and determined that
the said petition and the following de-
scribed lands owned by him, to-wit
The southeast quarter of section TWEEN
ty-two (22), in township 100 North of
Range %, West, be and the same are
hereby set off from said school district
No. 1873 to said adjoining school district
No. it. 6, and said lands are hereby
made part of said last named school
district, for all purposes.
By order of the Board of County
Commissioners
Dated the 2Sth day of April, A. D.,
1905.
w. w. PADDOCK,
Chairman of the Board of County Com
missioners of Blue Earth County, Min
nesota.
Attest: Ed. Weaver,
County Auditor and Ex-officio Clerk
of Board.
Hearing on school petition of Rich
oio " DC oCO oNCi HUH uio-
trict 1873 to Joint g., was on motion of
Commissioner Hanson granted and the
following order made
Whereas, The petition of Richard NJ.
Lyons, a legal voter, freeholder and
resident of school district No. 1873 in
this county, representing that he is the
owner of the lands hereinafter describ-
ed, which are situate in said school dis
trict, and adjoin school district No. it.
6, and asking that he with his said
lands may, be cut off from said district
No, 1873, to said adjoining school dis
trict No. Joint 6, for the following rea-
sons: That the petitioner owns all of
the northwest quarter of Section %
That all buildings are upon the west
half of the quarter section That the
school house in Joint 6, is to the west
of this quarter. That the distance to
the school house in district 1873 is near
ly three miles by the regularly laid out
road and only ive-eights of mile to
the it. 9, school house was presented