The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-05-27
OFFICIAL
Proceedings of Board of County Com.
missioners of Mile Laos County.

Auditors Office, Mile Laos County,
MINI. Princeton, May. Goth, 1909.
Board of county commissioners met
at the Office of the county auditor of
said county pursuant to adjournment.
All members of the board present.
John L. Bezanson presented a petit
tion to the board, signed by twenty
eight legal voters residing within the
territory hereinafter described, petit
tioning the board to call an election
for the determination of the proposed
Incorporation as village, to be
named Wahkon, under Chapter 9, Re-
vised Laws 1905, and laws amenda-
tory thereof, of the following describ-
cd territory, viz: commencing at the
northeast corner of the southeast
quarter of the northeast quarter of
section number eight, in township
forty-two north of range twenty five
west, in the county of Mile Laos and
state of Minnesota, thence running
south on the section line between
sections eight and nine, sixteen and
seventeen, in said town, to the south
east corner of section seventeen;
thence west on the section line between
sections seventeen and twenty,
eighteen and nineteen, to the south
west corner of the southeast quarter
of section eighteen; thence north on
the quarter line through the center of
sections eighteen and seven to the
northwest corner of the southwest
quarter of the northeast quarter of
said section seven; thence east to the
point of beginning, including what is
commonly known as Burton's island
in Mile Laos lake. After considering
said petition and the arguments of
persons interested for and against the
said proposed incorporation, on
motion of Erickson, seconded by
Cater, the said petition was laid over
until the next meeting of the board for
further consideration. Mr.. Bezanson
then requested that Section 1862, of
Chapter 16, Revised Laws of 1905, he
read to the board, which request was
complied with, and after the reading
OF said section Erickson moved to re-
consider the vote whereby said petit
ton was laid over until the next
session of the board, which motion
was seconded by Cater and carried by
a unanimous vote of the board. Erick-
son than moved that the petition for
an election for the determination of
the proposed Incorporation of Wahkon
as village be rejected, which motion
was seconded by Cater and carried by
a unanimous vote of the board.
On motion it was ordered by the
board that the state forestry CON-
missioner's notice for preventing and
suppressing forest and prairie fires be
published, without alteration, for
three successive weeks in the official
newspaper of the county, the Milaca
Times and one newspaper published
at the north end of the county.
In the matter of the hearing on the
petition to change the boundary lines
OF the town of Hayland, on motion
made by Erickson and seconded by
Dalchow, the said petition was grant
ed and the boundary lines of said
town OF Hayland changed SO as to in
clude township 40, range 26, and the
following report of the proceedings of
the county board in the premises were
adopted by majority vote, Erickson,
Da!chow, Swennes and Uglem voting
in favor of the motion and Cater vot-
ing no:
The county board Of Mile Laos
county, MIMI, respectfully reports to
all whom it may concern, as follows:
At the meeting of said board held
on the 10th day of March, 1909, said
board received the petition of twenty
six legal voters residing within the
territory to be affected by the grant
ing of the prayer of said petition,
praying said board to detach town.
ship 40, range 26, from the town of
Princeton, and to annex the same to
the town of Hayland; that thereupon
said board caused thirty days. posted
notice of the time and place of hear
ing said petition to be given within
the bounds of the territory proposed
to be affected, which notice included
a copy of said petition, and said
notice was served on the clerk of each
town whose territory might be affected
that at the time and place of SAID
nearing, viz: at session of said
BOARD commencing on the Goth day of
April, 1909, the said hearing upon
said petition was continued until a |
session of said board commencing on
the 10th day of May, 1909; that at the
said session of said board commence
ing on the 10th day of May, 1909, att
the Office of the county auditor in the
village OF Princeton, in said county,
said board after hearing the evidence
and the arguments of all persons in
terested for or against granting the
prayer of said petition, determined to
grant the prayer of said petition to de-
tach said township 40, range 26, from
said town of Princeton and to annex
the same to said town of Hayland.
and thereupon fixed and determined
the boundaries of said town of Hay
land to be the boundaries including
township 80, range 26, and township
40, range 26, in said county, and the
boundaries of the town of Princeton
to be unchanged except as to town.
ship 40, range 26, so detached there
from.
Dated at Princeton, MIMI, this 10th
day of May, 1909.
OLE II. UGLEM,
Chairman Board County Commits
sioners, Mile Laos Co., Minnesota.
Attest:
E. E. WHITNEY, County Auditor
and Ex-Oficio Clerk of Board.
auditors SeaD
In the matter of the hearing on the
petition to change the boundary lines