following the city limits of Detroit, westerly on a line parallel with the southerly line of said quarter section thirty-nine (39) and being two hundred and thirty-three (233) feet northerly of the southerly line of said quarter section thirty-nine (39), to a point two hundred and thirtythree (233) feet easterly of the center line of Oakland avenue, so called; thence still following the city limits of Detroit, northerly on a line parallel with the center line of Oakland avenue and Oakland avenue extended and two hundred and thirty-three (233) feet easterly thereof to a point indicated by and intersecting the easterly and westerly center line of quarter section twenty-three (23) of the ten thousand (10,000) acre tract, being also on the southerly boundary of the village of Highland Park; thence along the southerly boundary of Highland Park village, easterly along the easterly and westerly center line of said quarter section twenty-three (23) to the westerly line of the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee railway company right of way; thence along the easterly boundary of Highland Park village northerly along said westerly line of the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee railway company right of way to the northerly line of said quarter section twentythree (23); thence easterly along the northerly line of quarter sections twenty-three (23), twenty-two (22) and twenty-one (21), all in the ten thousand (10,000) acre tract, to the northeast corner of said quarter section twenty-one (21); thence southerly along the easterly line of said quarter section twenty-one (21) of said ten thousand (10,000) acre tract, to the northwest corner of fractional section twenty (20), in town 1 south, range 12 east; thence east along the north line of said fractional section twenty (20) to the northeast corner thereof; thence south along the east line of said fractional section twenty (20), town 1 south, range 12 east, to the southeast corner thereof; thence west along the south line of said section twenty (20) to the east line of the ten thousand (10,000) acre tract; thence southerly along the easterly line of quarter section forty-one (41) and sixty (60) of the ten thousand (10,000) acre tract to the northerly limits of the city of Detroit and place of beginning. Said territory lying and being in the township of Hamtramck, Wayne county, Michigan. And be it further resolved, That the date for the first election of village officers in and for said village of Hamtramck be and the same is hereby fixed for Monday, the 26th day of August, A. D. 1901. The polls of said election to be open from seven o'clock in the morning to five o'clock in the afternoon. Said election to be held at the old school house on Joseph Campau avenue, in the said proposed village of Hamtramck, and this board doth appoint Anson S. Harris, Joseph Grix, John Heppner Jr., and Fred E. Corbett, four discreet persons legally qualified and residing within the said territory as inspectors of election at said first election and to constitute a board of registration for the first election in and for said village of Hamtramck. By Supervisor Chavey: Moved the adoption of the resolution, which was adopted by the fol lowing vote: Yeas-Supervisors Atyeo, Barrie, Buckley, Campbell, Chavey, Coots, Crowley, Day, Deimel, DeLisle, Esper, Haarer, Hansjosten, Hillger, Houghton, Jerome, Joy, Keating, Kemp, Koch (Max), Koch (Louis), Koenig, Lanning, Lemke, Liphardt, Loranger, Lynch, McGuire, Magee, I, Wm. H. McGregor, clerk of Wayne county, and clerk of the circuit court for the county of Wayne, do hereby certify, that the above and the foregoing is a true and correct copy of an order made by the board of supervisors of Wayne county, Mich., at a session of said board held on Monday, July 29, 1901, as appears of record in my office. That I have compared the same with the original, and it is a true transcript therefrom and of the whole thereof. [L. S.] IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and Clerk. CHAS. P. BENOIT, JR., Deputy Clerk. WAYNE COUNTY. In the matter of the incorporation of the village of River Rouge. Annual session 1899 of the board of supervisors of the county of Wayne. Fourteenth day. Resolution by Supervisor Lynch: Resolved, That an order be and the same is hereby granted to Oscar D. Chapman and other petitioners, being legal voters residing in that portion of Ecorse township, Wayne county, Michigan, described as, bounded on the north by the River Rouge; on the west by the River Rouge and the westerly line of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railway company, running from Detroit to Toledo; on the east by the Detroit river, and on the south by a line commencing where the northerly line of lot eight (8) of private claim number forty-two (42) of Ecorse township, Wayne county, Michigan, intersects the shore line of the Detroit river; thence following the northerly line of private land claim 42, to the rear line thereof; thence in a southerly direction along the westerly line of private cliam 42, to the intersection of the north line of lot seven of said private claim 42; running thence westerly in a straight line to a point where the northerly line of Cora avenue intersects with the westerly line of River Road in said township; thence westerly along said northerly line of said Cora avenue extended to the westerly line of said Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railway, said territory being situated in the township of Ecorse, Wayne county, Michigan, and containing more than a square mile of land; to incorporate and incorporating said territory as a village under the name of the village of River Rouge, in accordance with "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages within the State of Michigan and defining their powers and duties," being act number three (3) of the public acts of 1895 of the State of Michigan; And be it further resolved, That the date for the election of village officers in and for said village of River Rouge, be and the same is hereby fixed for Monday, the 27th day of November, 1899, polls to be open from seven (7) in the morning to five (5) in the afternoon, said election to be held at Mosher's hall, on Riopelle street, in said village of River Rouge, and this board doth appoint Henry E. Visger, Maynard Palmer, Samuel Cabanaw and Geo. Detrich as inspectors of election at said election, and to constitute the board of registration for the first election for said village. By Supervisor McGraw: Moved the resolution be laid on the table until Wednesday, October 25, 1899. Adopted, viva voce vote. Annual session, 1899, of the board of supervisors of the county of Wayne. Fifteenth day. By Supervisor Lynch: Moved to take from the table the resolution relative to the incorporation of the village of River Rouge. Adopted by viva voce vote. By Supervisor Lynch: Move the adoption of the resolution relative to the incorporation of the village of River Rouge, which was unanimously adopted by the following vote: Yeas-Supervisors Atyeo, Barrie, Beamer, Benton, Blanck, Bleil, Bosworth, Buckley, Coots, Crowley, Davis, Deimel, Dingwall, Fratcher, Greusel, Grunow, Haarer, Hacker, Harris, Higgins, Hollihan, Houghton, Humbert, Johnson, Knauss, Kemp, Lempke, Licht, Lynch, McGraw, McGuire, Mayhew, Masak, Megges, Miller, Merrill, Moeller, Nash, Peoples, Pernot, Prochaska, Riopelle, Rattenbury, Schneider, Seely, Smith, Stiles, Stahl, Starkweather, Walters, Weibel, Weber, Weiler, Youngblood, and the chairman. I, Wm. H. McGregor, clerk of Wayne county, and clerk of the circuit court for the county of Wayne, do hereby certify, that the above and the foregoing is a true and correct copy of an order incorporating the village of River Rouge, Wayne county, Michigan, entered in the above entitled cause by said court, as appears of record in my office. That I have compared the same with the original, and it is a true transcript therefrom and of the whole thereof. [L. S.] IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court and county, at Detroit, this 3d day of November, A. D. 1899. WM. H. MCGREGOR, WEXFORD COUNTY. In the matter of the application of certain freeholders for the incorporation of certain territory in the township of Springville, as a village under the name of the village of Mesick. WHEREAS, Application was, on the 19th day of October, 1901, made to the board of supervisors of the county of Wexford, for the incorporation of certain territory in the township of Springville in said county, as a village, under the name of the village of Mesick. WHEREAS, The consideration of said application was by said board of supervisors, made a special order for Monday, October 21, 1901, at two o'clock P. M. WHEREAS, After due consideration of said application, and after hearing parties interested in said incorporation, the said board of supervisors is satisfied that all the requirements of act number three of the public acts of 1895 in respect to such application have been complied with, and that such territory sought to be incorporated contains the population required by said act. Now therefore resolved, That the board of supervisors of Wexford county does hereby determine that it is advisable to order the incorporation of said village of Mesick, and that the east one-half of section eleven and the west one-half of section twelve in the township of Springville, Wexford county, Michigan, being the whole of the territory included in said application, shall be incorporated as the village of Mesick. It is therefore ordered, By the board of supervisors of the county of Wexford, that the territory described as the east one-half of section eleven (11) and the west one-half of section twelve (12), in the township of Springville, county of Wexford and State of Michigan, shall be an incorporated village, under and by the name of the village of Mesick. It is further ordered, That the first election in said village of Mesick shall be held on Monday, the 25th day of November, A. D. 1901, at Evitts Hotel in said village of Mesick. It is further ordered, That J. A. Evitts, E. E. Godfrey, L. J. Tripp and George Cooley shall be and are hereby appointed to act as board of registration for said first election to be held in said village, and who shall also act as inspectors of election at said first election. I, David F. Garver, county clerk of Wexford county, do hereby certify, that the above and foregoing is a true copy of an order of incorporation of the village of Mesick, made and adopted by the board of supervisors of the county of Wexford, on the twenty-first day of October, A. D. 1901. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county, this 20th day of November, A. D. 1901. [L. S.] DAVID F. GARVER, County Clerk. HOUGHTON COUNTY. In the matter of the petition of the common council of the village of Laurium to alter the corporate limits of said village. At a meeting of the board of supervisors of the county of Houghton held at the office of the county clerk in the village of Houghton in said county on Tuesday, February 13th, A. D. 1900, the following petition was presented, viz: Laurium, Mich., February 1st, 1900. To the Honorable, the Board of Supervisors of the County of Houghton: Gentlemen-At a meeting of the common council of the village of Laurium held on Tuesday, December 5th, 1899, a petition (a copy of which is attached hereto) was submitted to said council by the property owners of the hereinafter described parcel of land, known as the fourth addition to the village of Calumet (now called Laurium), praying that the necessary steps be taken to have said territory included within the corporate limits of the village of Laurium, for the several reasons set forth in the said petition. After due consideration of the matter in all its bearings, and believing it to be the best interests of both property owners now within the corporate limits of the village, as well as in said territory, it was determined and ordered, by the following resolution: Be it resolved, That the board of supervisors of Houghton county be petitioned to order and determine that the corporate limits of the village of Laurium be so altered and changed as to include within its limits the following described parcel of land situated in the township of Calumet, in the county of Houghton and State of Michigan, and more specifically described and set forth as follows: Certain land situated in section twenty-four (24) of township fifty-six (56) north, of range thirty-three (33) west, situated in the township of Calumet, county of Houghton, State of Michigan; beginning at a point on north section line of section twenty-four (24) nine hundred and twentytwo and two-tenths feet west of north quarter post; thence south twentyseven degrees eleven minutes, west seven hundred and fifty-six and threetenths feet; thence north sixty-two degrees forty-nine minutes, west three hundred fifty-five feet; thence north twenty-seven degrees eleven minutes, east five hundred and sixty-four feet; thence north eighty-nine degrees nine minutes, east four hundred and eight feet to the place of beginning. We do, therefor, respectfully petition your honorable body to order the corporate limits of the said village of Laurium, Houghton county, Michigan, so changed and altered as to include within the same the territory above described. HENRY FLIEGE, [L. S.] President. JOSEPH R. MURPHY, Clerk. |