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By Supervisor Weiler:

Moved the report of the committee and resolution be referred to a committee of seven to be appointed by the chairman.

Which was lost by the following vote:

Yeas-Supervisors Campbell, Deimel, Hartz, Houghton, Jerome, McGuire, Marx, Megges, Moeller, Mohn, Nevermann, Reinhardt, Root, Rutter, Smith, Steiger, Stiles, Weibel, and Weiler.-19.

Nays-Supervisors Atyeo, Benton, Bouchard, Burnham, Burns, Chilson. Codd, Crowley, Day, Denio, DeLisle, Hurst, Jones, Keating, King, Koch (Louis), Lynch, Monaghan, Nash, Tossy, Trombley, Underwood, Vernier, Weber, and the Chairman.-25.

By Supervisor Bouchard:

Moved the report be received and the accompanying resolution be adopted.

Which was adopted by the following vote:

Yeas-Supervisors Atyeo, Benton, Bouchard, Brown, Burnham, Chilson, Codd, Crowley, Day. Deimel, Denio, DeLisle, Houghton, Hurst, Jerome, Keating, King, Koch (Louis), Lynch, McGuire. Marx, Megges, Monaghan, Nash, Reinhardt, Root, Smith, Steiger, Stiles, Tossy, Trombley, Underwood, Vernier, Weber, Weibel, Weiler and the Chairman.-38. Nays Supervisors Campbell, Hartz, Moeller, Mohn, Nevermann, and Rutter.-6.

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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 official proceedings of the board of supervisors as to the incorporation of and showing boundaries of the village of Ecorse 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. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court and county, at Detroit, this 6th day of Nov., A. D. 1902.

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In the matter of the incorporation of the village of Ford.

On October 21st, 1902, being the, eighth day of the annual meeting of the board of supervisors for the county of Wayne, Michigan, the following resolution was submitted:

Resolution by Supervisor Benton:

Resolved, That an order be, and the same is hereby made and granted to C. N. Gore and other petitioners, being legal voters residing within

that portion of Ecorse township, Wayne county, Michigan, hereinafter described, to incorporate, and hereby incorporating said territory as a village, under the name of the village of Ford, in accordance with "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages within the State of Michigan, and defining their powers and duties," and being act No. 3, of the Public Acts of 1895 of the State of Michigan and acts amendatory thereto. Said territory is described as follows:

The said territory is in the township of Ecorse, Wayne county, Michigan, and is bounded and described as follows, to wit: Beginning at a stake standing in the center of the North Line road, so called, intersects with the quarter section line of section number twenty (20), running thence north along said quarter section line to the Goddard road, so called, and from thence due north across section twenty (20) and through private claims 112, 179, 121, and 169 and across private claim one hundred and thirteen (113) to the center of the south branch of the River Ecorse, thence in a northeasterly direction along the center thereof to the center of the River Rouge, thence easterly along the center of said river to the harbor line of Detroit river, thence southerly along the harbor line of said Detroit river to a point where the same intersects the northerly limits of the city of Wyandotte, and thence west along the northerly limits of the city of Wyandotte in the center of the North Line road, so called, to the place of beginning; said territory as above bounded and described being situated in the township of Ecorse, Wayne county, Michigan, and containing more than a square mile of land.

1st. In the granting of this order, this board determines that the said territory contains more than a square mile of land, to wit: seven hundred (700) acres.

2d. That the said territory contains a population of more than three hundred (300) inhabitants residing therein, to wit: eleven hundred.

3d. That the said territory is not included within the limits of any incorporated village, but is located in the township of Ecorse, Wayne county, Michigan.

4th. That a proper census of the inhabitants of said village has been taken, as required by law.

5th. That all notices necessary to be published and posted, have been published and posted according to the provisions of the law, relative to the incorporation of villages, and that all acts and things required to be done or performed, precedent to and necessary to the incorporation of said village have been done and performed, according to law.

And be it further resolved, That the date for the first election of village officers, in and for the said village of Ford, be, and the same is hereby fixed for Friday, the fifth day of December, A. D. 1902; the polls of said election to be open from seven o'clock in the morning to five o'clock in the evening of said day. Said election to be held in the office of Justice Wm. G. Perry, on Miller street, in the said proposed village of Ford. This board doth appoint Columbus Sansouci, Selah Sanderson. Wm. Jones and Joseph Bomya, four discreet persons, legally qualified, and residing within the said territory, as inspectors of said election, at said first election, and to constitute a board of registration for the first election in and for said village of Ford.

And on the 28th day of October, A. D., 1902, being the 14th day of the annual session of the board of supervisors for Wayne county, Michigan, the following resolutions were offered:

By Supervisor Bouchard:

Moved the resolution relative to the incorporation of the village of Ford be taken from the table. Which was adopted by the following vote: Yeas-Supervisors Atyeo, Benton, Bouchard, Brown, Burnham, Chilson, Day, Denio, DeLisle, Hurst, Jones, King, Koch (Louis), Lynch, McGuire, Nash, Root, Stiles, Trombley, Underwood, Vernier, Weber, and the Chairman.-23.

Nays-Supervisors Campbell, Deimel, Houghton, Marx, Megges, Moeller, Mohn, Neverman, Rutter, Steiger, Weibel and Weiler.-12. By Supervisor Bouchard:

Moved the report be received and the resolution adopted. Which was adopted by the following vote:

Yeas-Supervisors Atyeo, Benton, Bouchard, Burnham, Chilson, Crowley, Day, Denio, DeLisle, Houghton, Hurst, Jones. King, Koch (Louis), Lynch, McGuire, Marx, Nash, Root, Steiger, Stiles, Trombley, Underwood, Vernier, Weber, Weiler, and the Chairman.-27.

Nays Supervisors Campbell, Deimel, Hartz, Megges, Moeller, Mohn, Nevermann, Rutter, and Weibel.-9.

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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 official proceedings of the board of supervisors as to the incorporation of and showing boundaries of the village of Ford 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. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court and county, at Detroit, this 6th day of Nov., A. D. 1902.

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In the matter of the incorporation of the village of River Rouge.

Resolution by Supervisor Benton :

Resolved, That an order be, and the same is hereby made and granted to Daniel D. Barron and Fred L. Labadie, being president and clerk respectively of the village of River Rouge, Wayne county, Michigan, petitioners on behalf of the common council of said village, to alter and hereby altering the boundaries of said village by annexing and adding to said village certain territory adjoining and adjacent to the present boundaries of said village and hereinafter described and bounded, 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 No. 3 of the Public Acts of 1895 of the State of Michigan, and acts amendatory thereof; and said territory is hereby annexed and added to and as a part of the said village of River Rouge.

In granting this order this board determines:

1st. That the said territory is adjacent and adjoining to the boundaries of the said village of River Rouge.

2d. That said territory is not included within the limits of any incorporated village, but is located in the township of Ecorse, Wayne county, Michigan.

3d. That all the notices necessary to be published and posted have been published and posted according to the provisions of the law relative to the annexation of territory to villages within the State of Michigan, and that all acts and things required to be done or performed, precedent to and necessary to the alteration of the boundaries of said village, and the annexation of the territory hereinafter described, have been done and performed according to law.

Said territory is described and bounded as follows: Bounded on the north by the southerly limits of the village of River Rouge, as originally incorporated; on the west by the westerly line of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company's right of way; on the south by a line commencing at a point on the westerly line of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company's right of way 955 feet southerly from the intersection of the northerly line of Cora avenue, extended westerly to intersect the said westerly line of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company's right of way; running thence easterly in a straight line parallel to the said northerly line of Cora avenue to the easterly line of private claim 496, township of Ecorse; running thence northerly along said easterly line of private claim 496 to intersect a straight line drawn from the northwest corner of lot seven (7) to private claim 42 in a westerly direction to a point where the northerly line of Cora avenue intersects the westerly line of River Road in said township of Ecorse; running thence easterly along said line drawn as above mentioned to the northwest corner of lot seven (7), private claim 42; running thence northerly along the westerly line of lot eight (8) of said private claim 42 to the northwest corner of said lot cight (8); running thence easterly along said northerly line of lot eight (8), private claim 42, to the Detroit river; and bounded on the east by the Detroit river.

This board doth fix, establish and declare the boundaries of the village of River Rouge as follows: 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's right of way; on the south by a line commencing at a point on the westerly line of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company's right of way 955 feet southerly from the intersection of the northerly line of Cora avenue, extended westerly to intersect the said westerly line of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company's right of way; running thence easterly in a parallel line to the said northerly line of Cora avenue to the easterly line of private claim 496, township of Ecorse; running thence northerly along said easterly line of private claim 496 to intersect a straight line drawn from the northeast corner of lot seven (7), private claim 42, township of Ecorse, in a westerly direction to a point where the northerly line of Cora avenue intersects the westerly line of River Road, in said town

ship; running thence easterly along said line drawn as above mentioned to the northwest corner of lot seven (7), private claim 42; running thence northerly along the westerly line of lot eight (8), private claim 42, to the northwest corner of said lot eight (8); running thence easterly along the northerly line of said lot eight (8) to the Detroit river; and bounded on the east by the Detroit river.

The clerk of this board is hereby directed to spread this resolution upon the records of the proceedings of this body, and to certify a copy thereof to the Secretary of State for the State of Michigan, and the village clerk of the village of River Rouge.

Dated, October 28th, A. D. 1902.

Supported by Alfred C. Bouchard.

By Supervisor Bouchard:

Moved the report be received and the accompanying resolution adopted. Which was adopted by the following vote:

Yeas-Supervisors Atyeo, Benton, Bouchard, Brown, Burnham, Chilson, Crowley, Day, Denio, DeLisle, Hartz, Houghton. Hurst, Jerome, Jones, King, Keating, Koch (Louis), Lynch, Marx, Megges, Nash, Nevermann, Root, Rutter, Smith, Steiger, Stiles, Tossy, Trombley, Underwood, Vernier, Weber, Weibel, Weiler, and the Chairman.-36.

Nays Supervisors Campbell, Deimel, Moeller and Mohn.-4.

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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 order by the board of supervisors in annual session of 1902 as to the annexation of territory to the village of River Rouge 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. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court and county, at Detroit, this 12th day of Nov., A. D. 1902.

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WM. H. McGREGOR,

Clerk.

By CLINTON L. WILCOX,
Deputy Clerk.

WAYNE COUNTY.

In the matter of the incorporation of the village of Sibley.

To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors of the County of Wayne: We, the undersigned legal voters and residents within the territory hereinafter described, hereby respectfully petition and make application to your honorable body for the incorporation of a village to be called Sibley, within that territory in the township of Monguagon, county of Wayne and State of Michigan, which is bounded as follows, to wit: The

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