ALLEGAN COUNTY. To the Supervisors of Allegan county: We, the undersigned, inhabitants of the township of Ganges, do hereby petition the honorable body to set off town one, (1) sixteen (16) and seventeen (17) in a town by itself, to be called by name of "Richland," "Kossuth," Casco," or some other short name. Ganges, Oct. 7, 1854. Timothy McDowell, C. O. Hamlin, L. D. Cook, Stillman Mack, Andrew Hollister, John Bryan, S. G. Sheffer, Thos. Pinching, Joseph Dow, R. Robbinson, Joseph Dow, Jr., A. Murch, Moses Bartholomew, Walter Billings, Christian Bartholomew, Benj. Plummer, Currell Lake, Stephen Eurl, W. P. Davis, Chauncey B. Goodrich, E. K. McLouth, Isaac Patch, Eli Weisand, G. F. Hughs, Garet Updike, Arba N. Crawford, Jos. W. Hall, Orletus C. Thayer, Moses Shanon, J. P. Mansfield, Wm. R. Clark, S. M. Thompson, L. Heyd, M. Southerland, Orvid Hutson, Thomas Carter, H. F. Bostwick, S. R. Squier, Austin Foot, J. Cranson. NEW TOWNSHIP.-Notice is hereby given that application will be made to the Board of Supervisors of Allegan county, at their next annual meeting, to have towns one north of ranges sixteen and seventeen west, set off from the township of Ganges and organized into a new township, by the name of "Cornfield." Dated Ganges, April 24, 1854. (Signed,) E. D. Brown, Louis A. Shead, T. McDowell, L. D. Cook, Clark W. Sheffer, S. G. Sheffer, C. Bartholomew, M. Bartholemew, A. Howard, S. Cook, Joseph Dow, John Thayer, H. H. Barry, M. McDowell. State of Michigan, county of Allegan, ss. Moses Hawks, of said county, being duly sworn, doth depose and say, that he is the acting publisher of the Allegan Record, a weekly newspaper printed and circulating in the county of Allegan, and that an original notice, of which the annexed printed notice is a true copy, was printed in said paper once in each week for four weeks next preceding the 24th day of December, A. D. 1854, and further this deponent saith not. MOSES HAWKS. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 27th day of December, A. D. 1854. JOHN J. JONES, Justice of the Peace. State of Michigan, County of Allegan. Eugene B. Cook, of said county, being duly sworn, doth depose and say, that on or about the last day of November, 1854, he posted in five of the most public places in the south part of the present township of Ganges, to-wit, in towns one (1) north, of ranges sixteen and seventeen west, as many copies of an original, of which the following notice is a true copy, which said notices were signed by more than twelve freeholders living in said town one north, of ranges sixteen and seventeen. ( NOTICE.) NEW TOWNSHIP.-Notice is hereby given that application will be made to the Board of Supervisors of the county of Allegan, to have the townships one north, of ranges sixteen and seventeen west, set off from the township of Ganges, and organized into a new township by the name of and further says nothing. EUGENE B. COOK. JAMES B. PORTER, Subscribed and sworn before me, December 27, 1854. Clerk. On reading and filing the petition of Timothy McDowell, and thirty odd others, freeholders of the township of Ganges, in the county of Allegan and State of Michigan, praying that towns one north, of ranges sixteen and seventeen west, be organized into a new township and set off from the township of Ganges, which said petition is accompanied by a map and survey of the territory so petitioned to be set off and organized, and upon due proof of notice of such application having been posted and published according to law, which proof is hereunto annexed, therefore it is ordered by the Board of Supervisors of the said Allegan county, two-thirds of all the members being present and voting therefor, that towns one north, of ranges sixteen and seventeen west, be and the same are hereby set off from the present township of Ganges, in said county, and the same is hereby organized into a new township, to be called and designated the township of "Casco." The first township meeting in said township shall be holden on the first Monday in April, 1855, at the school house near Timothy McDowell's, on section twentyfour (24) in said town one (1) north, of range seventeen (17) west, and Timothy McDowell, E. K. McLouth, and S. G. Sheffer, are hereby appointed as three electors of said new township whose duty it shall be to preside at such first election or township meeting, appoint a clerk, open and keep the polls, and exercise the same powers as inspectors of elections at ordinary township meetings. It is further ordered that the next annual township meeting for the township of Ganges, shall be held at the school house near David Updike's, in said township of Ganges. E. B. BASSETT, Ch'n Board of Supervisors. JAMES B. PORTER, Clerk Board of Supervisors. I, James B. Porter, Clerk of Allegan county, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of all papers pertaining to the formation of the said town of Casco. [L. S.] Witness my hand and seal, at Allegan, this 27th day of December, A. D. 1854. JAMES B. PORTER, Clerk. |