Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-06-28
City of Willmar as part payment of
Certificate of Indebtedness of $4,000,
issued account of the General Fund.
Approved June q, 1916.
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AppIOVou june ~ 4S1O.
E. G. WELLIN, Mayor.
A communication from the Great
Northern Ry. Co., with reference to
vacating portion of East Litchfield
Avenue near the Round House and
part of Highway East thereof, was
presented and read, and a petition for
vacating part of said street and part
of road east of the Round House, sign
ed by D. A. Murray, Samuel Govig,
Great Northern Ry. Co., and others,
was presented and read.
The Railroad Co. offered to convey
to the city for highway purposes, in
lieu of street vacated, a strip of land
sixty-six feet in width, adjoining the
southerly side Of the vacated portion
Of said highway and extending from
the intersection of the north and south
section line in section IA, township
119 north, range IS west of the Fifth
Principal Meridian by the north line
of Litchfield Avenue, as now laid GU,
and established to the most easterly
point of said vacated highway, being
a point thirty-three feet north of the
south line of section II, of said town.
ship and range, and to put said new
street in first class shape with a grav.
ell surface.
The matter was discussed by the
Council.
Alderman Johnson offered the fol-
lowing resolution which was adopted
by the following vote: ayes" 8;
"Noes," none.
RESOLUTION.
Whereas, a duly verified petition,
proper in form and execution, accom-
panied by plat of the ground, and
signed by D. A. Murray, Samuel Govig,
Great Northern Railway Company and
others, constituting a majority of the
owners on the line of and within 300
feet of each end of the portion of the
street proposed to be vacated, has
been presented to the City Council of
the City of Willmar, Minnesota, pray
ing for the vacation of all that part
or portion of that certain street or
highway commonly known and desig-
mated as Litchfield Avenue East, the
same lying and being in Sections II
and IA, Township 119, Range IS and
described by metes and bounds as fol-
lows:
Commencing at point 437 feet
to said sections II and Ia; thence run.
ming north AZ degrees 30 minutes east
a distance of GAS feet, to a point;
thence running north 81 degrees 50
minutes east a distance of 80 feet, to
a point; thence running east and par
allel to the section line between said
sections II and IA a distance of 148
feet, to a point; thence running south
SO degrees 80 minutes west distance
OF 165 feet, to point; thence running
south 81 degrees 10 minutes west, a
distance of $40 feet, to a point, which
is on the north and south quarter line
and 443 feet south Of the quarter cor
IA; thence running south 70 degrees
north boundary line Of Litchfield Ave-
thence running north at right angles
a distance of 6 feet to a point; thence
running north 70 degrees IL minutes
east along the north boundary line of
Litchfield Avenue a distance of 300
feet to the place OF beginning, con-
tanning 1858 acres, more or less; and
Whereas the Council of the City of
Willmar deems 1t expedient that the
matter be proceeded with; therefore,
Resolved, that said petition be and
the same is hereby ordered filed with |
the City Clerk.
Resolved, Further, that q hearing |
be had on said petition at the Council
Chambers in the City Hall in the City
of Willmar on the oath day of July,
1916, at the hour OF eight o'clock in
the evening of said day, at which time
the Council will Investigate and con-
slider said matter and all parties In
terested may appear and be heard.
Resolved, Further, That the City
Clerk be and he Is hereby instructed
to give notice Of said hearing by pub /
lication IN the ofhcial paper for two
consecutive weeks. ct least once . I