The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-09-13
Petition For Public Ditch

Petition For Public Ditch
To the Honorable L. l.. Baxter and
Hon. D. B. 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 represent that the public
health, convenience, benefit and well
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
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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 ~, township one
hundred twenty-five 125) of range
thirty-ive 1857, 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. q of the N. E. Il of
Section 8, Township 125, Range SIS in
said Stearns County; thence across |
the s. E. d of said Section 8; thence
across the N. d of the N. E. a Of
Section II; thence across the N. x of
of the N. w. d of said Section II;
thence across the S. q of the N. w. NJ
of said Section II, in said township
and range; thence across the N. E. III
of Section 10 in said township and |
range; thence across the S. E. n of Sec
ton z in said township and range;
thence across the S. q of S. w. u
of said Section Z; thence across the
S. E. u of Section IL in Township 125,
Range SO in said Pope county; thence
across the N. w. a of said Section -
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 public
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 7, 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
S Soanf OF Of f po1s' IS: |
On this LIST day OF August A. D. |
1906, personally came before me, a |
Notary Public, Carl Kraft, Henry
Judes, J.. E. Stephenson, Minnie |
Smith, John V. Fromm, L. G. 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 a Public Ditch
commencing on the S. E. a of Sec
ton s, 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 Stephen son
Frank Carlson Minnie Smith
John V. Fromm Ellen Grimes
L. G. Reed Henry Berndt
Subscribed and sworn to before mel
this LIST day of August A. d. 1906.
(Seal) M. G. WHITNEY.
Notary Public, Pope County, Mimi
My commission expires Feb. 8, 1909
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