The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-08-27
OFFICIAL
Proceedings of Board of County Com.
missioners of Mile Laos County.


Princeton. August Goth, 1908.
Board of county commissioners met
in adjourned session pursuant to ad-
journment with all members present
except Commissioner Potts of the 5th
district.
Meeting called to order at IL O 'clock
a. m. by the chairman. On presenta-
tion of petition signed by the super
visors of the town of Princeton, petit
tioning for county aid in building a
bridge across Rum river in section
30, township Sc, range 26, on motion
of L. S. Libby the board voted unani-
mously to appropriate from the county
road and bridge fund one-half of the
cost Of construction of such bridge,
said appropriation not to exceed the
sum 81, 425, and Commissioners Libby,
Dalchow and Uglem were appointed
committee to cooperate with the sup
ervisors of said town OF Princeton in
the letting of contract for the con-
struction of said bridge, and in the in
spection and acceptance of the work
In the matter of the hearing on the
petition of Jacob Ellenbaum and
others for the formation of a new
school district, the following order
was made and adopted by unani-
nous vote of the board:
Whereas, a petition signed and duly
acknowled ged by a majority of the
freeholders who are entitled to vote at
school meetings in their respective
districts, residing within the territory
Of the proposed new school district,
asking for the formation of a new
school district, which shall embrace
the territory hereinafter described,
was presented to the county board of
this county. at a session of said board
held on the 18th day of July, A. D.
1908, for the action of said board
thereon;
And whereas, it was then ordered
by said board that hearing should
be had on said petition, at a session
OF said board commencing on the 10th
day of August, A. D. 1908, at the
county auditors Office in the village
Of Princeton, in said county;
And whereas, due notice of the time
and place of such hearing has been
given by posting a copy of said notice
in three of the most public places in
each of the districts to be affected by
said petition ten days prior to the day
of such hearing, and by mailing to the
clerk Of each of said school districts
so affected thereby a true copy of such
notice, at least ten days before the
time appointed for such hearing, and
by the publication of said notice for
two weeks in the legal newspaper
printed and published in said Mile
Laos county, tO-wit: The Princeton
Union, which said newspaper is
printed and published in said county,
and was duly designated by said
county board for the publishing of the
same, and due proofs of the posting
and service and publication of said
notice of hearing having been made
and filed, by the affidavit of Harry
Shockley, who posted said notice, and
by the certificate of the county auditor
OF said county, who served the said
notice upon each of the clerks of said
districts affected thereby, and by the
affidavit of the publisher of said news
paper in which the same was so pub
lished, respectively; And whereas,
at the session of said county board
commencing on said Goth day of Au-
gust, A. D. 1908, said petition was
publicly read and considered, and
arguments of all persons interested
therein for Or against the organic
alton of said proposed new district
duly heard and considered.
1t is hereby ordered and determined,
that said petition be granted and the
following described territory, to-wit:
The north half OF northwest quarter,
southwest quarter of northwest quart
er, northwest quarter of southwest
quarter, and that part of southeast
quarter of northwest quarter and
northeast quarter of southwest quarter
lying west of Rum river in section
three, all of section four, the east half
of sections five and eight, and all of
section nine, in township thirty-six,
range twenty-six; and the southeast
quarter of northeast quarter and
southeast quarter of section thirty
two, the south half of northeast
quarter, south half of northwest
quarter and south half of section
thirty three, the southwest quarter of
northeast quarter, south half of north
west quarter, southwest quarter and
west half of southeast quarter of Sec
ton thirty -four, in township thirtv--
seven, range twenty-SiX, be and the
same is hereby organized and consti-
tuted school district, and shall be
hereafter designated and known as
Common School District No. Thirty
seven (30, of the county of Mile
Laos, state of Minnesota.
It is further ordered and deter
mined, that the 3rd day of October,
A. D. 1908, at O'Clock in the after
noon, at the school house in said dis
trict, be and the same is hereby fixed
as the time and place, when and
where, the first meeting of the electors
OF said district who are qualified to
vote at school meetings, will be held
to organize said district, and that the
county auditor cause ten days posted
notice to be given of the time and
place Of such meeting as required by
law. The county auditor will mail to
the clerk of each of the districts
affected by this order a true copy
hereof.
It is further ordered and determined
that a division be and the same is
hereby made of all moneys, funds and
credits belonging to said districts, and
that the same be and hereby are
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