The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-12
COMMISSIONERS PRocEEDrHes


The board met pursuant to adjourn
ment members present, Isaac ZeigleT
Chairman VIM. Grabbe Joe J Ku1ina,
Commissioners and P V GOttschalk'
County Clerk.
The Commissioners allowed LOOK
ont township one span of bridge 80
feet long across a certain draw pc
tween sections 20 and % township 10
range Is, provided the Township Enr-
nish all rock for, the abutments.
| incarceration of the City Of Victoria
And now on this 18th day OF April
! 1913, and at the April meeting Oh tnls
Board comes ]. H. SiuIHinger anu
Dresent the petition OF certain Per
sons praying that cert ain territory a.
therein describes by metes and bound
and being parts and parcels on the un
Incorporated villages OF Victoria and
Herzog in the said County on Ellis III
the State OF Kansas, be Incorporated
as a City OF the third (3rd) Class
under the name and style OF the
City of Victoria" and fur Their there
in showing and setting forth.
That said territory, contains Popu
Iatiton of more than Two hundred an
less that Two Thousand.
That the signers OF said peCuoN CO
stitutes a majority of the Electors
and Taxpayers OF said territory, and
are in favor OF said Incorporation
and that the said request Is reason
able.
And further presents to the Board
satisfactory proof that said petition
has been published as required BY law
And thereupon came certain remon-
strants by their Attorneys, c w Reed
or and E A Rea, and present to the
said Board their "Reminiscences IN
words and figures as follows to wit:
Before the Board OF County Com
missioners OF Ellis County, Kansas.
The proposed incorporation Of the
Town OF Victoria,
Now comes c W Reeder and A.
Rea, representing 24S people WhO.haV
signed rmonstrance against petition
for such incorporation and object TO
any hearing ON said petition for the
reasons that said petition is not
leagel one;
It does not describe by metes and
bounds the territory proposed to bel
Incorporated;
It does no state the number of in
habitants within THE territory prOPOs
ed to be Incorporated;
It do es not state the number OF
taxable inhabitants within said terri
tory OF within said proposed ibcorpOr-
alton. c. w. Reeder and E. a. Rea,
Attorneys for Professors
And the said board after hearing
the evidence adduced and arguments
OF Counsel overrules the. objections;
And thereupon the Board ordered
that the further hearing OF said petit
ton be continued for the purpose OF
having the County Surveyor, survey
and report upon the metes and
bounds, as modified by said Board;
And now to Widths 31st day OF
May and at the April meeting OF
this Board to which time this cause
by continuance duly had came On for
hearing, the petitioners appearing
oy their Attorneys J II Simmingeri
md A. D GiIkeson the Remonstrants
~ c. ". Reeder and E A Rea, their
The Board aft er bearing the tes-
imong and being fully advised in thsi
premises finds and Is satisfied;
FIRST: That majority of the Tax
bile inhabttant of the territory
ought to be incorporated are in
aYor OF such incorporation.
second. That the prayer of the Pc
itioners is reasonable.
Third. That the number OF inhabi-
ants Of said territory exceeds cool
nd does not exceed two thousand.
Fourth. That due and legal publ
alton of the said petition has been
lade and had, viz; by printed t
Offices posted i'm twelve CID places
In the said territory,
here being no newspaper print ed 5
{ published in sai' territory. a
It is therefore considered ordered
90 aDuoged Dy the Board, that thet =
'rritory hereinafter described being Il
ortions OF the uninoorporated village Il
Victoria and Herzog aforesaid be
I'd the same are hereby incorporate fe
J q city OF the Third Class. by theI o.
ame and style OF ''The City Of Vic
ria" bounded and described as fol Ii
ws and constituting the Corporated al
nits Of said city, to wit:
Commencing at the southwest cor Re
IT OF Block Three (2) in the Town
Vic tOEia, according to the record q
plat thereof runaing thence west 81
ls hundred (10o) feet to the west
le OF First Street In the town of -
Gloria
Thence south along the west line