The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-09
Petition For Public Ditch

10 the LIZ Lie DdAUST dllu
Hon. D. oB. Searle, Judges of the
District Court within and for the
Seventh Judicial District of the State
of Minnesota, in which is situated the
County of Stearns, hereinafter referred
to:
The undersigned land owners, whose
lands will be liable to be affected by,
or assessed for, the expense of the
construction of the Public Drainage
Ditch hereinafter described, would
respectfully represen.that the public
health, convenience, benefit and vel.
fare and the reclamation of wet and
overlooked lands require the establish
ment and construction of public
drainage ditch along the following
described route in the Town of Ray
mond, in the County of Stearns, and
State of Minnesota, and in the Town
of Grove Lake, in the County of Pope,
in said State of Minnesota, and that
the construction of said public
drainage ditch would be of great public
benefit and utility. That no meander-
ed lake would be drained thereby and
that no waters to be drained by said
public drainage ditch constitutes a
part of, or is connected with, the water
supply OF any city or village in this
State.
A general description of the proposed
starting point, route and terminus OF
said ditch IS as follows:
Commencing at the Northeast corner
of the southwest quarter OF the south.
east quarter of the northeast quarter OF
section eight (s), township one
hundred twenty-five (125) of range
thirty-fve (35), in said Stearns
County, and passing over and across
the following described lands in the
most available and approved location,
said drainage ditch to be run over and
across said lands in the order herein
after stated and to take the course and
directions best adapted to drain the
same, to-wit:
Across the S. "A of the N. E. n of
Section 8, Township 125, Range 35 in
said Stearns County: thence across
the S. E. a of said Section 8; thence
across the N. a of the n. 2. a OF
Section II; thence across the n. a OF
of the N. w. n of said Section II;
thence across the s. q OF the N. w; a
of said Section II, in said township
and range; thence across the n. E. q
of Section Is in said township and
range; thence across the S. E. a OF Sec
ton Z in said township and range;
thence across the s. a OF S. w. n
of said Section z; thence across the
S. E. n of Section ~ in Township 125,
Range Sc in said Pope county; thence
across the N. w. a of said Section IL
to the so-called Krantz Lake, and
there terminating in said lake and
having said lake as its outlet.
And your petitioners pray that you
will proceed to establish such pubic
drainage ditch and cause the same to
be constructed in the manner provided
by Chapter 230 of the General Laws OF
the State of Minnesota for the year
1905 and any subsequent amendments
thereto.
Dated July Z, 1906.
Henry Judes Carl Kraft
l.. E. Stephenson David Stephenson
Frank Carlson Minnie Smith
John V. Fromm Ellen Grimes
L. G. Reed Henry Berndt
q. Richardson
STATE OF MINNESOTA, IS:
On this LIST day OF August A. D.
1906, personally came before me, q
Notary Public, Carl Kraft, Henry
Judes, j.. E. Stephenson, Minnie
Smith, John v. Fromm, L. C. Reed,
Henry Berndt, Frank Carlson, David
Stephenson and Ellen Grimes, to me
we'll known to be the persons named
in and who executed the foregoing
petition, and who, being by me each
severally duly sworn, did each for
himself say that he has read the fore
going petition for Public Ditch
commencing on the s. E. n of Sec
ton 8, Township 125, Range IS,
Stearns County, Mimi, and ending
at the so-called Krantz Lake in Sec
tions l and II, T. 125, R. Sc, Pope
County, Mimi, and knows the con-
tents thereof and that the same is
true.
Henry Judes Carl Kraft
L. E. Stephenson David Stephenson
Frank Carlson Minnie Smith
John V. Fromm Ellen Grimes
L. G. Reed Henry Berndt
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this LIST day of August A. d. 1906.
M. G. WHITNEY.
My commission expires Feb. 9, 1909.
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