The Ketchikan miner., 1914-07-02
NOTICE

Territory of Alaska, at hetchi-
 kan.
 In the Matter of the Annex
 ation os New Territory and the
 Extension of the Boundaries of the Town of ketchikan.
 Upon reading and filing the petition of more than one fifth of the qualified electors
 of the Town of Ketchikan. a municipal corporation duly cre-
 ated and organized under the flaws of the District of Alaska, land more than five electors who
 are residents on, or who are the
 owners of property interests land substantial improvements
 land possessory rights on the Itide lands in the limits of the territory proposed to be annex
 ed to said town of Ketchikan,
 hereinafter described, praying lthat the territory hereinafter
 described be annexed to said town and that the boundaries
 thereof be extended to include Ithe same and that this court
 enter an order directing a time land place when and where said petition shall be heard,
 land that upon such hearing that this court order an election lin said town and i'll the ter
 ritory proposed to be annexed,
 at which election the question Iof annexation of said territory
 shall be submitted to the quail lifted voters of said town and
 said proposed territory for de-
 termination pursuant to law.
 That the territory sought by
 said petition to be annexed,
 to said town is described and
 bounded as follows, viz:
 Commencing at the south west corner of the present Town of Ketchikan at point on Tongass Narrows at mean high tide marked by a cross on the rock; the same being corner No. , of U. s. Survey No. 437: thence south 33 de-
 grees 30 min., west 300 feet
 to point in Tongass Narrows: thence south 54 deg. 42 min.,
 east S653 feet to point in Tongass Narrows 300 feet southwest of the southeast corner of the property of the Standard Oil Company; the same being corner No. f of U. Is. Survey HOO; thence north 5I degrees 57 min., east 300 feet to the southeast corner of the property of the Standard |Oil Company, the same being corner No. i, of U. s. Survey No. HOO: thence along the |easterly line of survey Mo-, l. 100. 60S.52 feet to corner No., B, U. s. Survey No. HOO; thence north 5i degrees 57 feet east 1357.2 feet to a point; thence north 56 degrees 30 min., west 2649 feet to point identical with the north least corner of the present town iof ketchikan; thence south B degrees 30 min. west along the easterly line of the pres= Ient corporate limits of said town
 I252,7 feet to the southeast Icorner of the present corpor- ate limits, the same being iden-
 tical with corner No, 4, U. s. Survey No, $50; thence along the meander line of mean high tide to the place of beginning. The foregoing description in cludes within it's boundaries all Of the tide lands and water front abutting the southerly
 boundary of the present town Iof ketchikan and the property and plant Of the New England Fish Company and the proper Ity and plant of the Standard IOn Company and the public cemetery.
 Now on motion Of s. A. Plumley. attorney for the peti- ton, 1t Is ordered that said petition be heard before this court. at the Court House in the
 city of Juneau on the 10th day
 Of August, 1914. at 10 o'clock
 \. M. of said day.
 Ordered further that notice
 of said hearing be given by
 publishing copy of this order
 in the Daily Miner, newspaper iof general circulation. pub-
 iished within said town of Ket-
 chikan. for four weeks preced- ling said day of hearing, and
 by posting copy hereof in
 three conspicuous places with
 III the limits of said town. and
 posting a copy hereof in three
 conspicuous places within the limits of the territory proposed
 10 be annexed.
 l Done in chambers I,po o7