, 1908-07-11
COMMISSIONERS
PROCEEDINGS
Report Of the Proceedings Of the Board
Of County Commissioners Of A.
bany County, Wyoming.


bany County, Wyoming.
Laramie, Albany County. Wyo,
Wednesday, July 9Th, 1908.
The board of County Commissioners
Of Albany County, Wyo.. met this day
pursuant to adjournment, there being
present:
JAMES McGIBBON, Chairman.
JOHN McGILL, and
W. ]. BROApHURST.
Commissioners.
And B. FEATHERSTONE, Clerk,
when the following proceedings were
had, to-wit.
The petition OF Ora Haley, Robert
George, Howard 1ngham and others
for the organization of an irrigation
district to be known as Laramie Val
ley Municipal Irrigation District, and to
include certain lands in townships IT,
Is and 10, range IA west, and town
ships II, IS and 10, range rs west, all
In Albany County, State OF Wyoming.
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same coming on to be heard, the said
board, having examined said petition
and heard testimony relative to the
matters and things therein set forth,
and being fully advised In the prem
ises, finds for the petitioners and that
the matters and things set forth In said
petition are ture. And the board
further finds hat said petition
was duly signed, as required by
chapter ~ of the Session Laws OF
petition was duly signed, as required
by chapter 72 of the session Laws Of
the State of Wyoming for the year
1907, by the requisite number of petit
TONERS; and that the signers OF said
petition were and are a majority OF the
free holders within said proposed dis
trict; and that they are the owners in
the aggregate of a majority or the
freeholders within said proposed dis
trict; that notice of the presentation Of
said petition has been given, al re-
quired by law and thai sad petition
has been published for at least four
weeks before the time on which said
petition was presented to this board In
each and every issue of the Laramie
Republican, a weekly newspaper OF
general circulation, printed and pub
nshel in said Albany County nearest
the land embraced in the proposed dis
trict, together with a notice signed by
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selected by the petitioners for that
purpose, giving the time and place Of
the presentation Of the same to said
board of county commissioners; that
said petition and notice was published
in said newspaper on the 4th, 18th,
18th and 25th days OF June, 1908, and
ON the I'd day OF. July. 1908, being each
and every Issue Of said newspaper pub
lished during that time, and in all re-
spects in compliance with said act OF
the legislature; that a marked copy Of
said publication and also a registered
notice of the proposal to organize such
district was, as required by said act,
at once, on the 4th day Of June. 1908.
mailed by the clerk of this board tc
the last named post office address of
each and every person owning lands
within the boundaries of said proposed
district;
That said petition was accompanied
by maps and plats of said proposed
district, which maps and plats had been
submitted to the state engineer and
we're accompanied by his report as to
the practicability, feasibility and prob.
able lost of the proposed irrigation
system; n that said petition and
the maps and plats accompanying the
same are in all respects in compliance
with said act and all other laws of the
State of Wyoming;
And application having been pre-
sented by Union Pacific Railroad Com.
pany, John Biddick, Della Neville and
by S. N. Wilkins, trustee, for the ex-
clusion Of lands from said district, and
by Elizabeth Brockway for inclusion OF
lands therein, having examined the
same, from said petition and said ap'
p%lications. the board hereby defines
the boundaries of said district as
follows:
Beginning at a point on the Little
Laramie river at the intersection OF
the east and west middle line of sec
ton 10, in township II north. range
rs west: running thence west on said
line to the west boundary line Of said
section; thence north on said west
boundary line to the northwest corner
of said section; thence west on the
north line of section IA. in said town
ship, 4.140 feet, to a stake. being sta
ton No. 33, according to the field
notes of the south lateral of the
James canal No. 4, as shown on the
map of said district on nle with the
board of county commissioners Of Al
bany county; thence following the
line Of said canal as follows: North
41ho east 1850 feet, thence north
50Ao east $50 feet, thence north 81
east 1,7SO feet, thence north 44A' east
/ .24o feet, thence north SIX west $50
feet. thence north 4SA' east 1880
feet, thence north 60Ao east LAO
feet, thence north 15e west $40 fest,
thence north 56s west 1,450 feet,
thence south 77ho west $40 feet
thence south 670 west 5G5 feet, thence
south 76Ae west ITO feet, thence
north S8A' west 1900 feet, thence
south 57ho west 1880 feet, thence
north TN west about 1910 feet to