Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-03-31
PROPOSED WATER DISTRICT
FOR PART VASHON ISLAND
Petition Being Circulated Asking County Com.
missioners to Call Election to Vote on
Matter to overNorth Half Of Island

This week a petition is being
circulated over the north part Of
the island aking the county com
missioners to call special cleo
ton to vote Oh the question Of
establishing water district to
provide water for domestic pur-
poses. For the benefit Of our
readers we are publishing the
petition in full together with
concrete opinion on the matter
by Il. F.. Weld, a civil engineer.
Petition for the Establishment Of
a Water District
To the Honorable Board of
County Commissioners, for King
county, Washington:
The petition Of the mdcrsign-
ed qualified electors residing
within the territory hereinafter
described, respectfully repre-
sents
That your petitioners comprise
at least twenty-five (25) per cent
of the qualified electors residing
within the territory and district
hereinafter described, and that
they are DESTROYS of having sub
mitted to the voters residing in
said district and territory the
proposition Of creating a Water
District under the provision of
the legislature Of the state of
Washington approved March 2S,
1913, Laws of Washington 1918,
page 533, as amended by Chap.
ter "a, Laws of Washington, 1915
page &c, approved March |, 1915.
That there is no Incorporated
city or town within the boundar-
les of the proposed district and
your petitioners therefore rrspec-
fully pray that there may be
submitted to the voters residing
within said district and territory,
the proposition of creating
Water District under the pro
visions of the laws of the state
of Washington, which district
shall include all property with
in the following described bound
aries, and said district to be
given such name as may be de-
cided upon by your Honorable
Board:
Beginning at the meander
corner between partial sec
ton eighteen (1S), township
twenty three (23) north,
range three (9) east w. M.
and section twenty three
(23), township twenty-three
(23) north, range two (2)
east w. NJ; thence south a
long the section line be-
tween the following sec
tons: section nineteen 10y,
township twenty-three (23)
north, range three (3) east
w. M. and section twenty
four (24), township twenty
three (23) north, range two
(2) east W, NJ. between sec
ton thirty (30), township
three (23) north, range three
(3) east w. M. and section
twenty-five (25), township
twenty-three (23) north, range
twenty three (23) north,
range two (2( east w. NJ;
between section thirty-one
(3D, township twenty-three
(23) north, range three (3)
east w. M. and section
thirty six 1867, township
twenty three (23) north,
range two (2) east w. NJ;
and between section six (6),
township twenty two (22)
north, range three (3) east
w. NJ. and section one az,
township twenty-five (22)
north, range two (2) east
w. NJ, to the southwest cor
ner of the northwest quart
er of section six (6), town
ship twenty-five (22) north,
range three (3) east w. NJ;
thence east along the center
line of sections six (6), five
(5) and four (4), township
twenty-five (22) north, range
three (3) east w. M, to the
meander line of VASH0N