I do hereby certify that I have posted three (3) notices of the intention of the council of the village of Laurium to petition the board of super visors of Houghton county to the limits of the said village in three (3) conspicuous places in the territory described in said petition, and further, three (3) copies of such notices within the corporate limits of said village, viz: One on corner of First street and Conglomerate street, one in front of town hall, and one in front of the postoffice, as required by law, there being no newspaper published within the corporate limits of the village of Laurium. JOSEPH R. MURPHY. Subscribed and sworn to this 12th day of February, A. D. 1900. Notary Public, Houghton county, Michigan. To the Honorable the Common Council of the Village of Laurium: Gentlemen-The undersigned residents of and lot owners in what is known as the fourth addition to the village of Calumet, in the township of Calumet, county of Houghton, in the State of Michigan, request that the land hereinafter described, and which adjoins said village of Laurium, may be included within the boundaries of said village, and that the bounds of said village be altered accordingly, the reasons assigned for the said change in the bounds of said village so as to include said land are as follows: 1. Said land adjoins said village, and is almost entirely occupied by dwelling houses. 2. The resident owners of lots of land in said fourth addition by reason of their proximity to said village have many interests that are in common with said village. 3. By reason of the proximity of the lands included in said fourth addition and in said village it is to the mutual advantage of the citizens residing therein for the purpose of providing for fire protection and sewerage and for obtaining water for drinking and for purposes that they be under the same municipal government. Your petitioners therefor respectfully ask that the common council of said village pass a resolution taking in such territory and that said common council petition the board of supervisors of the county of Houghton, the county in which said lands is situated, to alter the bounds of said village as herein asked for, and that said common council describe in said petition the lands herein asked to be included by metes and bounds. The land described to be a part of said village and included within its bounds is described as: all that tract of land embraced in a plat of land known as the fourth addition to the village of Calumet, according to the plat thereof on file in the office of the register of deeds for said county of Houghton. Dated at Calumet township in said county of Houghton this 25th day of November, 1899. Signed. Paul P. Roehm, A. I. Lawbaugh, J. Edw. Shepard, Mrs. N. H. Spaulding, James Richie, William Hill, William H. Thielman, Harry T. Hosking, Mrs. E. Lamore, Godfrey A. Arnold, W. J. Holman, Julius E. Fliege, Mrs. Ann Goldsworthy. I, Joseph R. Murphy, clerk of the village of Laurium, Houghton county, Michigan, do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the original petition submitted to the council of the said village of Laurium by the above mentioned parties according to the petition on file in this office. Laurium, Mich., February 1st, 1900. JOSEPH R. MURPHY, Clerk of the Village of Laurium. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that a petition will be submitted to the honorable the board of supervisors for Houghton county, Michigan, by the common council of the village of Laurium in said county and State petitioning said board of supervisors to so change the corporate limits of said village of Laurium as to include within said limits the following described parcel of land, (commonly known as the fourth addition to the village of Caulmet; now Laurium) and more specifically described and bounded as follows: Certain land situated in section twenty-four (24) of township fiftysix (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 twenty-two and two-tenths feet west of north quarter post; thence south twenty-seven degrees eleven minutes, west seven hundred and fifty-six and three-tenths feet; thence north sixty-two degrees forty-nine minutes. west three hundred and 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 eight feet to the place of beginning. Said petition will be submitted to the board of supervisors at its meeting to be held in the clerk's office of Houghton county in the village of Houghton, on Tuesday, February 13th, 1900, at 10 o'clock a. m., when all persons interested shall be given an opportunity to be heard in the premises. Laurium, Mich., January 22, 1900. JOSEPH R. MURPHY, Clerk of the Village of Laurium. A true copy of notice of intention to file petition posted as per affi davit. JOSEPH R. MURPHY, Clerk. On motion, Resolved, That the foregoing petition of the village of Laurium be granted, and that the lands described in the foregoing petition be and the same hereby are incorporated as a part of said village of Laurium. Which resolution was adopted by the following vote, viz: Yeas-Duncan, Edwards, Harrington, Smith, Parnall, Harris, Fox and I, Louis H. Richardson, clerk of the said county of Houghton and clerk of the board of supervisors of said county of Houghton, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true copy of the petition of the village of Laurium presented at the aforesaid meeting of said board of supervisors and of the determining of said board of supervisors in regard to the matters contained in said petition; that I have carefully 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 the said circuit court of said county this third day of March, A. D. 1900. LOUIS H. RICHARDSON, County Clerk. |