Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-10-14
Commissioner. fee. 1000

$703.30
w. B. Keith was reappointed SOL
dters' relief commissioners for q pc
riod of three years, conditioned upon
his bond being fled rs required by
law.
On motion by Van scoy the follow.
ing resolution was adopted:
Resolution.
Whereas, the board of supervisors
Of said county. in session on the 5th
day Of August, 1915, appointed w. A.
Price. engineer, to make an examina-
ton Of certain lands situated in Boyer
and Lincoln townships, in Harrison
county, Iowa, as described in the Pc
tition signed by B. B. Powley ct al,
which petition asked that a drainage
district be established comprising the
territory as outlined in said petition.
and that certain improvements be con
structed therein, and the said engineer
was directed to file his report in writ
ing with the board of supervisors;
and,
Whereas, the said engineer did on
the goth day of September, 1915, file
his report. accompanying same with
plat and profile, in the Office OF the
county auditor of said county, which
said report recommends the establish
ment of drainage district and the
construction of certain improvements
therein; and,
Whereas, the said board Of super
visors having made an examination Of
said report, plat and profile which &C.
companied said report, and together
with the record herein, the board
finds:
That a commission was duly issued
to said engineer, having copy of the
petition filed herein attached
That the said engineer filed his
bond as required by law and that
said bond was approved;
That the said engineer has in all
his acts relating thereto complied with
the law;
That the plan submitted by the said
engineer, w. A. Price, seems to be ex-
pedient and meets the approval of the
board; therefore,
BE 1t resolved by the said board,
that the said plan recommended by
the said report Of the said engineer
be. and the same is hereby. approved
and adopted, and the county auditor
is hereby directed to Immediately
cause notice to be given to the owner
of each tract or lot within the pro-
posed drainage district, as shown by
the transfer book in his said Office,
and to each lien holder OF incum-
brancer of any land through which or
AUDITING upon which the proposed i'm
provements extend, and to all persons
whom 1t may concern. Including actual
occupants, Of the tendency and prayer
Of the petition Of the favorable re-
port thereon by the engineer, and
that said report may be amended be-
fore final action thereon, the day set
for hearing thereon before the board
of supervisors, and that all claims for
damages must be hled in the ONCE of
the county auditor Of said county not
less than Ave days before the day set
for hearing on said petition and re-
port;
Be 1t further resolved. that the hear.
ing on said petition and report be,
and the same is hereby. fixed on the
21st day Of October, 1915, at 10000
o'clock q. M, in the rooms of the
board of supervisors, in the Harrison
county court house. at Logan, la.
On roll call, vote was as follows:
Van scoy, yes; Hosbrook, yes; Erik
on, yes.
On account Of Attorneys Bolter and
Dewell being engaged in a lawsuit,
hearing on the application of the Iowa
Gas and Electric company. which was
set for today, was continued till 10000
o'clock q. M, Sept %, 1915.
Whereas, ownefs Of lands within the
Upper Boyer orainage district pc.
titioned the board Of supervisors of
Harrison county, Iowa, to repair Mud
Creek" outlet from the easterly
boundary of the rightof-way of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
company to its intersection with the
main channel of the Upper Boyer
drainage district; and,
Whereas, the board Of supervisors
referred the matter of the said pc.
tition to w. A. Price, engineer for in
vestigation and report; and,
Whereas, the said engineer filed his
report in writing, accompanied with
plat and profile, which said report
recommended that certain repairs be
made to said Mud Creek and that
additional right of-way would be re.
quired; and,
Whereas. the said petitioners have
proposed to the board to Ale grants
for such additional rightof-way; and
Whereas, the said board, now in
session, finds and determines that the
making of said repairs of said MUD
Creek" as recommended by the re.
port of the said engineer, is necessary
to afford the petitioners the relief
they are entitled to; therefore,
Be it resolved by the board. that the
plan recommended by said report be
and the same is hereby, adopted and
approved. subject, however. to final
determination, by the said board, after
the matter of the right-of-way as need,
ed has been adjusted;
Be it further resolved, that sale
work proposed by said report is found
to be and is in the nature Of repairs
and that same should be done at the
expense of the Upper Boyer drainage
district;
Be it further resolved. that final &C
ton with reference to the doing Of
said work, whether all or any par,
thereof shall be done. be, and the