Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-06-20
REPORT AND PETITION FOR AID
OPTIONAL ASSESSMENTS


COURT FOR WOOD COUNTY.
In the Matter of the Cranberry
Greek Drainage District.
TAKE NOTICE that the Commits
sioners of the Cranberry Greek Drain
age District did on the the 18th day |
of June, 1913 file in said Court re-
port and petition wherein they re-
ported % That in their first assess
ment for construction in said matter
said Commissioners reported to the
| Court smaller sum than is necessary
! to complete the work of construction
Of the bitches in said district, here
tofore confirmed by the Court, and that
next year an additional sum will be
necessary to pay the principal of and
interest on lawful Indebtedness of said
| district,
~ That such additional assessments
is necessary because the Court after
said assessments for construction were
confirmed authorized a compromise
which relieved some of the lands in
said district of part of the assessment
which had not been placed thereon
by the Commissioners, to-wit; the
lands included in the Lawrence Ward
contest, and because part Of the said
assessment, to-wit: the assessment a
gainst the Ole Walden, Frank Walden
Robert Walden and Emma Walden
: lands III said district were re
4, monstrated against and never been
r confirmed by the Court and hence have
not been and are not available to
make such a payment and because no
CORE spending assessment was made
at the time that the cleaning out of
certain of the old bitches in the dis
trict was authorized by the Court, and
\ further because approximately ST.
10000 of assessments against the
lands in said district confirmed by the
Court and now past due have been
returned to the County Treasurer de-
Il linquent, and are not paid. and there
by there is and will be an insuficiency
of money in the treasury of said dis
> trict to pay the bonds and notes of
said district and interest to become
= due within the next year prior to and
! on January l, 1919.
FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that it
: is necessary, by this additional assess
: ment, to raise the sum of S31, 636.37
n which sum in said assessments has
. been and is apportioned against the
n lands and corporations Of said district
= in proportion to the sum Of all assessed
:. benfts against the same heretofore
approved by the Court,
FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that
said report and petition and the as
sessments therein made are on file il
y the office of A. B. Bever, Clerk Of
said Court, at Grand Rapids, WOOD
Il County, Wisconsin and are subject tC
n your inspection.
II FURTHER TAKE NOTICE thai
L the Court on June II, 1918 ordered
i that said report and petition be hearc
e before said Court at the Court House
IL in the City of Grand Rapids, Woo
i County, Wisconsin, on the 18th da!
; of July, 1918 at 1000 o'clock A. M
or as soon thereafter as counsel ma!
be heard at which time all interested
parties may be heard in said matter
Said report and petition pray tina
the Court confirm said additional as
sessments and authorize the Commits
sioners to temporarily borrow none.
!, on the notes of said district and II
). issue bonds Of said district payable
in installments to pay said sums du
and interest thereon. =,
Dated June II, 1918:
William H. BOwden,
Anton Br0st Commissioners
II |. A. Haverberg.
B. M. VAUGHAN,
1t Attorney for said district,
re P. O. Grand Rapids, Wis.
le1 list pub June 20, last July 4 J.