The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-11-05
OFFICIAL
Proceedings of Board Of County Com
missioners of Mile Laos County.

"ESSAOHSES VI VAllle IdCS NOuHLH.
Auditors Office, Mile Laos
County, MINI. Princeton, October
81, 1914. ~
Board of county commissioners
met pursuant to law with Chair
man Warren presiding and all men,
bers of tile board present. Meeting
called to order by the chairman at
IL O'Clock d. m.
The depository bonds of the follow
ing named county banks, together
with the sureties on same, we're
duly examined and accepted by the
board, to-wit: First National Bank
of Milaca, First State Bank of Ona-
mia and 500 State Bank of Wahkon.
A letter from the state highway
commission relative to 1915 state
road work was read to the board and
the matter discussed by the board
but no formal action taken in the
matter.
On motion board took a recess
until l 80 p. m.
Board reconyened at ? o'clock p.
m. with all members of board
present.
The school petition relative to
setting off of certain territory in the
town of Milo from school district
No. 6 to school district No. IL was
then taken up by the board and both
sides of the question thoroughly dis
cussed by all interested parties. On
motion made, seconded and duly
carried the petition was denied and
rejected.
In the matter of the school petit
tiOn affecting school districts Nos. 20
and %: the board made and adopted
the following final order. to-wit:
Whereas, a petition purporting to
be signed by majority of the free
holders who are qualified to vote at
school meetings in each of the school
districts numbered twenty (2O) and
twenty three (23) of the county of
Mile Laos, state of Minnesota, ask
ing that sections seven 90 and
eighteen (1S), in the town of Milaca,
be drawn over from district num-
bered twenty-three (23) to district
| No. twenty (2O), was presented to
the county board of said county at a
session thereof held OH the 18th day
of September, 1914, and
| Whereas, 1t was thereupon ordered
by said board that a hearing should
be had upon said petition at ses-
sion of said board commencing on
the 9th day of October, 1914, at 2
O'Clock in the afternoon at the Office
of the county auditor in the court
house in the village of Princeton in
said county, and the said petition
having come on to be heard at a
session of said board held at the
time and place last above mentioned,
was publicly read and considered. and
the board having heard the evidence
offered in support of and in Opposi-
tion to such petition and the argu-
ments of all persons interested for or
against the same, find as follows:
lst. That said petition is signed
by Il majority of all the freeholders
who are qualified to vote at school
meetings in each of the school dis
tricts affected by said petition.
I'd. That notice of the time and
place, when and where the board
would meet to hear said petition,
has been given and service thereof
notice to the clerk Of each of such
prior to the day of such hearing, and
by posting copies of such notice in
each of three of the most public
places in each school district SO
affected, more than ten days prior to
said day of hearing, and by the pub
LEGATION of such notice one in each
week for two successive weeks in the
Princeton Union, a duly qualified
newspaper printed and published in
said county.
3rd. That proof of such service
has been made and filed in the office
of the county auditor, by the GER
tifcate of the county auditor who
mailed such notice to the clerks of
such districts, and by the affidavit of
Harry Shockley, sheriff of said coun-
ty, who posted copies of such notice
in each of said school districts, and
by the affidavit of Geo. /. Staples,
who is the printer and manager of
said newspaper.
4th. That it is for the best inter-
ests of the residents of said school
districts that said sections seven (D
and eighteen (l8), said township of
Milaca, be set off from said district
No. % and attached to said district
No. 20 for the following reasons, to-
wit "That the children in said
sections have been attending to our
school (district No. 20) for the last
ten years. That they have got roads
to our school, while they have not
any to the school to which they be-
long. That we are building an an
mex school in our district (district
No. 20) which makes it nearer and
more convenient for the children
of said sections to go to our school
than it is to go to the school they
belong to at the present time.''
Wherefore, it is ordered and de.
termined that said sections seven (7)
and eighteen (lS), in said township,
be and the same hereby are set of
from said school district No. % and
attached to said school district No.
20 for all purposes whatever.
And it is further ordered, that all
school taxes collected on said Sec
tions from and after June l, 1914, be
paid over to the treasurer of said
school district No. 20.
| Dated this 9th day of October,
1914.
| J. T. Warren,
! Chairman of Said Board.
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