Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-04-15
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= he Official
Proceedings
Of the County Commissioners Of
Billings County at Medora, April
I, 1910.

Official proceedings of the board
Of county commissioner of Bill
ings county, North Dakota.
Medora. N. D., April 4. 1910.
Board of county commissioners
Of Billings county met in regular
quarterly session.
Present Commissioner j. w.
Follis and H. C. Short. chairman
Pro. Tenn.
Meeting of the board of county
commissioners held at Marmarth,
N. D., on April /, A. D. 1910 for
the purpose of viewing and laying
out new road.
Present j. B. Stoddard, chair
man, j. w. Follis and H. C.
Short. j. A. McGregor clerk.
The board having made per-
sonal examination of the proposed
new road to be laid out, and hav-
ing heard all objections for and
against the same, it was moved
by Mr.. Follis, and seconded by
Mr.. Short, that the following
commissioners order be made:
State of North Dakota, county
of Billings, SIS.
Whereas, upon the petition Of
more than six legal voters, own
ing real estate, or occupying real
estate under the homestead law
Of the United States, or under
contract with the state of North
Dakota, in the vicinity Of the road
proposed in said petition to be
laid out: Copies Of said petition
having been first duly posted up
in three of the most public places
of said county in the vicinity Of
said proposed new road at least
20 days before any action was had
in relation thereto, proof..of which
posting was duly shown by affi-
davit; which said proposed new
road is set forth and described in
said petition as follows:
Beginning at the quarter Sec
tion corner stone on the north side
of section "a and the south side
of section 13, township 1873, north
Of range 106 west of the 5th prin-
cipal meridian, thence running
due south, dividing said section
"a in township 1873, range lO6,
exactly in the center, to the cor
responding quarter section corner
stone on the south line of the
aforesaid section "a and the north
line of section Is, of said township
and range.
And, whereas, upon receiving
the said petition, we did, within
thirty days thereafter, make out
notice and fix therein a time
and place at which we would meet
and decide upon such application,
to-wit:
On the first day of April, A. D.,
1910, at Marmarth, N. D., caus-
ing copies Of such notice to be
posted in three pubic places in
said county least ten day pre-.
vious to such meeting, and having
met at such time and place as
above mentioned in said notice,
and being satisfied that the appli-
cants had, at least ten days
previous to said time, caused said
notice Of time and place of hear
ing to be given to all the occupants
of the land through which such
highway might pass, by serving the
same personally on each of them,
proof of which is shown by afida-
Wit. I'VE proceed to examine person
ally such highway and heard any
and all reasons for or against the
laying out Of the same and being
Of the opinion that such laying out
was necessary and proper and that
the pubic interest would be pre-
noted thereby, we granted the
prayer of said petitioners and de-
termined to lay out said road, the
description Of which as so laid
out is as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the northeast cor
.. ner of the northwest quarter (nw4)
of section twenty-four (24) being
the quarter section corner stone on
the north side of said section
twenty-four in township one hun.
dred thirty-three (133) north OF
range one hundred six (1O6)
thence running due south, divid
ing said section twenty-four GA
in township one hundred thirty
three Q33) range one hundred 81,
r (l06) exactly in the center, to the