The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-05-05

said petition, to-wit: by publishing
a notice of said hearing Of said
petition in the KennewiclV Courier
Reporter for a period Of three con-
secutive weeks, commencing on the
18th of April, 1927 and ending on
the 21st day of April, 1927, both
dates inclusive, as shown by the
affidavit of publication Of said no
tice on file with the auditor in this
cause and matter, and also by the
affidavit of II. A. Lindgren, that
on the 9th day of April. 1927, he
posted three true and correct CO.
pies of the original notice of hear
ing on the petition, for the estab-
lishment of said herd district. said
notices containing full copy OF
the petition and which notices were
posted in three public places with
in the territory petitioned to be
established as such herd district,
to-wit:
One at the public bulletin board
located at the office of the River
view Farms Corporation on Bla-
lock Island. ~
One at the eastern boundary of
said proposed herd district, near
the river on a red house within
said territory and in view of all
persons coming to and from Pater-
son. Washington.
One at the ferry landing on said
Blalock Islands and within said
proposed territory.
That each and all of said notices
were posted in a CONSPICUOUS man.
ner and securely fastened, So as
to be protected from the wind and
weather and available and conspic-
ious to the travelling public.
The said affidavit of HI. A. Lind
gren being on file with the County
Auditor in this cause and case, and
The Board of County Commits
sioners having heard the sworn
testimoney and other evidence in
troduced for and on behalf of the
petitioner and having considered
the protest of r. w. Smails and
L. M. Rice Estate, protesting a.
gainst the granting of the said pc
tition for the formation of the said
herd district. and,
| The Board of County Commits
sioners being fully advised in the
premises and finding the said pc
tition regular in all respects and
| that the notice of the hearing of
the same was published and given
as required by law and the order
of the Board of County Commits
sioners of Benton County, Wash
ington, setting the time and place
of hearing of the said petition,
and the Board of County Commits
sioners had full and complete jur-
isdiction of this matter and cause
now finds. that the protest above
mentioned should not be granted
; and that the said protest be and
: the same is hereby disallowed.
1t is further ordered and de-
creed, that the petition for the for
nation of the said herd district
should be and the same is hereby
in all matters granted and allowed
and that the said herd district
should be and is hereby established
to be known as herd district No
, "a of Benton County, Washington
, and within said boundaries, the
running at large of livestock OF
any particular classes or sex OF
| livestock. within the territory here
matter described be and the same
, is hereby prohibited.
, the said herd district be and th,
, same are hereby described as fol
, lows, to-wit:
: Beginning at the most Easterl,
, point of the lands hereinafter full
ly described and commonly known
] as Blalock Islands, thence in /,
; general Westerly direction alonf
the Northern boundary line of saiC
Blalock Islands to the extrem,
:. ! Westerly point of said boundary
line, thence in a general Easterly
direction along the Southerly
boundary line of said Blalock Is.
lands to the point of beginning
said exterior boundary lines to be
established at low water mark il
the Columbia River and where the
said line crosses slough or inlet
line shall go in direct direction
across said Island that the SAID
from low water mark on one point
OF land to low water mark on the
next point of Land. so as to enclose
all those certain islands in the Co.
lumbia River together with the
sloughs therein or across the same
situate in Township a and 5 North
Range % E.W.M. and Township s
North. Range 26 E.W.M., according
to the United States Government
survey and more particularly de-
scribed as follows, to-wit:
Township 4 North. Range 25 E,
| Sec. 2. Lots 1, 2, 8.
Sec. 8. Lots 1, 2. 8. a. s. 6, z, 8,
9 and 10.
Sec. a. Lots L, 2. 8. A, 5, 6, z,
8: 9. 10, IL. IL and Is and NJ of
Sec. 5. Lots 2. 8, a, s, 6. and z
and NEA of SWA.
Sec. 6, Lot /.
Township 5 North, Range 25 E.
VIM:
| Sec. Is, Lots S, 6 and z.
Sec. %, Lots and 6.
Sec. %, Lots a, 8, 6, z, 8, g.;
NEM of SEA; Sh of sen and
SEA of SWN.
Sec. "a, Lots 1, 2, 8. a, s. 6. a..
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