The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-09
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Of the city OF Keokuk. Lee county.
lI0Ea.
Notice Is hereby given 20 the cleo
tors OF the city of Keosuk- Lee coan-
II. Iowa. and 10 the electors Of the
territory proposed TO be annexed To-
the said city OF Keokuk. Lee county
Iowa. as described in the resolution
hereinafter set ont. and
To all whom II may concern. That.
Whereas. The city council OF the
city of Keoknk. Lee county. Iowa,
did on the 2sth day OF February. A. D.
1914. adopt a resolution No. sls. ex
tending and fixing the boundaries OF
the said city OF Keokns. Lee county,
Iowa, a copy OF which resolution is
hereinafter set out. and
Whereas. 1t Is provided by law thar
the question of the said extension OF
the said CITY limits shalt be submitted
10 the yote of the electors OF the
said city as thus proposed TO be en-
larEed: and
Whereas. the said ctr cozncI has
fixed the Both day OF March. A. D.
1914. as the date Of the special cleo
ton, at which said question shall be
submitted to the said electors:
Now therefore. 1. F. Elder. as
mayor OF the city of Keokuk- Lee
county, Iowa, do hereby make proc
lanation and give notice that on the
goth day of March, A. D.. 1914, there
viii be held a special election OF the
electors of the city OF keokus, as
proposed to De enlarged in said reso-
luton: that said special election will
! be held in the building commonly
known as the Tenth street FIRE engine
house. being No. 92e Main street. in
1 the said city of Keokuk. Lee county.
Iowa, and that the polls OF said spec
tfai election viii be open from TOO
o'clock a. m. until 700 o'clock p. N.
/ of the said Both day of March, A. D.
1914: and that at said special cleo
ticn the qualified electors of the said
city OF Keokuk and OF the said terri
said city of Keokuk, and lying within
the boundaries fixed by said resolution
shall be entitled to vote; that the
question to be submitted to the said
electors at the said special election
for their determination is as follows:
jsShall the following resolution of the
city council of the city of Keokuk.
Lee county, Iowa, be adopted and the
limits of the city Of. Keokuk be ex-
tended as therein provided
Resolution No. COZ
Be it resolved by the city council
sof the city OF Keokuk:
That the corporate limits of the
city of Keokuk be, and they are here
by extended from the limits now ex-
listing to the following described
/. boundaries, to-wit: Beginning at the
point where the sonth line OF fraction
sal section twelve l12l, township sixty
five (65) north range five (5) west, in
Lee county, Iowa, extended easterly,
!. intersects the state line between the
states of Iowa and Illinois; thence
west to the southwest corner of the
, southeast quarter "a of section ten
LOO in said township; thence south
to the center of section TWENTY-FIVE
| f22) in said township: thence west to
1.-THE northwest corner of the southwest
quarter "a Of section twenty one
il21) in said townships thence south to
the point where the east line of frac,
: ltional section thirty-two 1922 in said
: township, extended southerly, inter.
| ,sects the state line between the states
of Iowa and Missouri: thence in an
Ieasterly direction and along the south
ierly line of the state of Iowa to the
!. Ioint where the said southerly line
= of the state OF Iowa reaches the state
line between the states of Iowa and
Illinois; thence up the Mississippi
river and along the state line between
the states of Iowa and Illinois to the
place of beginning; and said bound
aries are hereby fixed as the bound
= aries of the city OF Keokuk, Lee coun
!, ty, Iowa;
: That all of the territory lying and
= being situated between the corporate
limits of the said city Of keokuk as
heretofore existing and the bound
aries above described, to-wit: All Of
! fractional section thirteen Q3). all Of
[ section fourteen t14), the east hall
2 on of section fifteen (15), the west
= half of section twenty-three (231. thu
: east half f1a) Of section twenty-five
: t22) and the southwest quarter (sa
Z Eof said section twenty-five (22), the
west half az of section twenty-si,
. t26), all of section twenty-seven (27,
' the south half W OF section twenty
one (21, all of section twenty-eigh
(2S), and all of fractional sectio,
tthirty-three 1887; all in township six
! ty-five (65) north, range five (5) ives
: of the fifth PRINCIPAL meridian, in lie,
! county. Iowa, be. and the same il
:. hereby, annexed to the said city o
!. Keokuk, Lee county, Iowa, and shall
:. hereafter be part of said city O
. Keokuk.
That the question as to whether tn,
: city limits of the said city of Keo
chnn ~