Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-10-14

board OF county Commas
sioners Of Billings Coun-
ty, North Dakota.
By j. B. Stoddard, Chair.
man, and Commissioner
of LIST District.
H. C. Short, Commissioner
Of End District.
Attest: j. A. McGregor,
County Auditor, Billings
Co., N. Oak. Ex.officio
Clerk of said Board.
IN RE PETITION FOR THE
FORMATION OF "SLOPE"
COUNTY OUT OF BILLINGS
COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA.
ORDER
To j. A. McGregor, county audi
tor for Billings county, North
Dakota, ex-ofhcio clerk of the
board of county commissioners
of said Billings county, North
Dakota.
Pursuant to a resolution, made
and adopted by this board of
county commissioners of Billings
county, North Dakota, on the 3rd
day Of October, A. D. 1910, in
which there was adopted and al
lowed a petition for the forma-
tion of new county, to be called
"Slope' county, out of the terri
tory now included in the present
county Of Billings, which said
petition being in due and legal
form, and signed by a majority
of the legal voters and residents
in and of the territory to be
affected thereby. and which said
petition was and is in the follow
ing words and figures. to-wit:
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED,
legal voters Of the hereinafter
described territory, do hereby
respectfully petition your honora-
BILE board that a new county be
formed out of that part of the
territory now comprising Billings
county, described as follows, to-
wit:
Commencing at the southeast
corner of township one hundred
thirty-three Q33) north, range
ninety.eight 1881 west; thence
running north on the line between
ranges ninety-eight 1897 and
ninety-seven (90 west, to the
ninth 9th standard parallel;
thence west along said ninth (9th)
standard parallel to the northeast
corner of township one hundred
} thirty-six (136) N, range one
; hundred five 105) west; thence
south along the line between
range one hundred four (104) and
one hundred five (105) west, to
the southeast corner of said town.
ship one hundred thirty-six (136)
} NJ, range one hundred five (105)
; west; thence west on the line be.
} tween townships enc hundred
: thirty-five (l35) and one hundred
thirty-six (136) NJ, to the bound.
} airy line Of North Dakota; thence
south along the west boundary
line Of North Dakota to the
, eighth (8th) standard parallel
} thence east along said eighth (8th)
} standard parallel to the southeast
corner Of township one hundred
thirty three Q33) NJ, range nine
ty-eight (98) w., and the place Of
! beginning.
The name of said new count,
: herein petitioned for to be
2 'SLOPE." We, the undersigned
further state that we are lega
voters and residents Of the terri
tory above described as the terri
tory to be embraced in the pro
posed new county Of "SLOPE."
!, And it appearing to this boare
that such new county can be con
: stitutionally formed,
! NOW THEREFORE, YOU ARR
HEREBY ORDERED, To submit
2 the question of the formation o,
} "SLOPE'' county out Of the pres
ent Billings county, North Dako
> ia, to vote Of the people of the
county affected by it, to-wit
Billings county, North Dakota. al
] the next succeeding general cleo
tion. to be held in said Billing:
county. N. Dak., during the
month Of November, A. D. 1910
and to give notice thereof in &C
cordance with law. and that the
, form of the ballot to be used il
. the determination of such ques
: tion shall be ''for new county
and against new county" as pre-
scribed by law.
Dated this 5th day of October
! A. D. 1910.
: Board of County Commits
sioners of Billings Coun
ty. North Dakota.