Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-08-07

w. NJ. Gallagher.
Commissioners.
State of Wisconsin, Wood Coun-
ty,-ss.
Anton Brost being first duly sworn
on oath says that he is one of the
Commissioners of the Kert Creek
Drainage District. That he has read
the foregoing petition and knows the
contents thereof and that the same
is true of his own knowledge.
Anton Brost.
Subscribed and sworn TO before
me this oath day of July, 1913.
B. NJ. VAUGHAN,
Court Commissioner,
in and for Wood County
State of Wisconsin, Circuit Court
for Wood County.
In the Matter of the Kert Creek
Drainage District.
The Commissioners of the Kert
Greek Drainage District having here
tofore, and on the 18th day of A
pril 1912, filed a petition in this
court, by and in which petition they
among other things reported
Cd That the owners of one
tenth and more than one-tenth of the
Lands in said Kert Creek Drainage
District have petitioned the commits
sioners of said district to enlarge
and extend existing drains of said
| district and to lay out and construct
new drains therein; and
(2l. That, after a thorough ex-
animation of the bitches and the plan
and scheme of drainage of that drain
| age district, said commissioners have
| become and are of the opinion that
the plan and scheme of drainage of
said district are and will be insuffi-
cient to effect a thorough drainage
of said district, for the purposes in
Sec. 1 of CHI 419 laws of 1906 .(Sec.
1891 statutes) of Wisconsin set
forth and
90. That present drains should
be enlarged, deepened and extended
and additional drains should be dug,
specifications for which new drains,
enlargements and extensions are in
said report and petition contained;
which specifications provide that
each of said new bitches, extensions,
of present bitches, and enlarged parts
OF present bitches Except division AZ
have an average depth of feet and
a bottom width of feet and that Di-
vision A be deepened feet, and that
said bitches each have side slope
of lone to one" from the sides of the
bottom outward and upward; and
a.. That in their opinion the cost
of construction of the work in their
said report reported necessary will
be $57, 100000; and
| 90. That the cost of construc-
ton already assessed together with
the cost of construction by them pro
| posed will exceed the benefits al
ready assessed and confirmed by the
court, and
| 60. That supplemental benefits
assessed in and by said petition
and report against the benefited
,ands, easements and corporations
are warranted by the proposed work !;
Which said report and petition prays
that said commissioners be author
lied and directed to construct the
new bitches in said petition report
ed to be necessary, and to enlarge
md extend the present drains in
said district as therein reported to
De necessary, and that the court CON
firm that report and all specifica-
ions therein reported and all assess
ments of supplemental benefits there
in reported and all assessments for
construction of said new and enlarg-
ed and extended work therein re-
| ported to be necessary.
And pursuant to an order made
| by this court and at the place and
time in said order fixed, to-Wit: Jul,
| >, 1912, this court having made an
order confirming said report, and
confirming all assessments therein
| reported
And a petition having been this
| ny filed in court, by the commission
ers of said district, bringing to the
attention of this court the fact that
a question has been raised upon the
| sufficiency of the notice of said hear
| ing leading up to said order of com
firmation of July 9, 1912, because the
notice failed to state the estimated
cost of the work reported necessary,
and therefore failed to state the
substance of the petition;
Now on motion of ]. A. Gaynor and
B. NJ Vaughan, attorneys for said
Kert Creek Drainage District:
IT IS ORDERED that each every
and all interested parties show cause,
| if any they have, at the circuit court
room in the court house in the City
of Grand Rapids, in Wood County,
Wisconsin, ON THE 18th DAY OF
AUGUST, 1913, at 10 o'clock a. m,
or as soon thereafter as counsel can
be heard, why said former order Of
confirmation, to-Wit: said order Of
July 9Th, 1912, be not validated; and
1T IS FURTHER ORDERED, That
said petition and this order be serv-
ed on all interested parties, by pub
fishing the same for three 80 sue
cessiye weeks before said hearing in
the Wood County Reporter, a news
paper published at Grand Rapids,
in Wood County, Wisconsin, in which
county all of the lands of the Kert
Creek Drainage District are situated,