The Ketchikan miner., 1914-07-31
NOTICE

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 trict Court, Division No. l.,
 Territory of Alaska, at Ketchi- kan.
 In the Matter of the Annex ation of New Territory and the Extension of the Boundaries of
 the Town of Ketchikan.
 Upon reading and filing Hle 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 laws of the District of Alaska, and more than five electors who are residents on, or who are the owners of property interests and substantial improvements and possessory rights on the tide lands in the limits of the territory proposed to be annex ed to said town of Ketchikan, hereinafter described, praying that the territory hereinafter described be annexed to said town and that the boundaries thereof be extended to include the same and that this court enter an order directing time and place when and where said petition shall be heard, and that upon such hearing that this court order an election in said town and in the ter ritory proposed to be annexed, at which election the question of annexation of said territory shall be submitted to the qual- flied 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 a point on Tongass Narrows at mean high tide marked by a cross on the rock; the same being corner No. 5 of U. s. Survey No. 437; thence south 33 de- grees 30 min., west 500 feet to a point in Tongass Narrows; thence south 54 deg, 12 min., east S653 feet to a point in Tongass Narrows 500 feet southwest of the southeast corner of the properly of the Standard Oil Company; the same being corner No. 4 of U. s. Survey HOO; thence north 51 degrees 57 min., east 800 feet to the southeast corner of the property of the Standard Oil Company, the same being corner No. 4 <of U. s. Survey Mo-, HOO; thence along the easterly line of survey Mo-, H. 100, 6OS.52 feet to corner Mo-, 3, U. s. Survey No. HOO, thence north 51 degrees 57 min. east 13a7.2 feet to a point thence north 56 degrees 30 min., west 2649 feet to a point identical with the north east corner of the present town of Ketchikan; thence south 33 degrees 30 min., west along the easterly line of the pres ent corporate limits of said town 1252.7 feet to the southeast corner of the present corpor- ate limits, the same being iden- tical with corner Mo-, 4, U. s. Survey Mo-, $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 of Ketchikan and the property and plant of the New England Fish Company and the proper ty and plant of the Standard Oil Company and the public cemetery.
 Now on motion of s. A. Plumley, attorney for the peti- ton, it 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 A. M. of said day.
 Ordered further that notice of said hearing be given by publishing a copy of this order in the Daily Miner, a newspaper |of general circulation. p.o- lished within said town Of Ket- chikan, for four weeks preced- ing said day of hearing, and 5y posting a copy hereof in three conspicuous places with in the limits Of said town. and
 posting a copy hereof in three conspicuous places within the limits of the territory proposed to be annexed.
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