09-05-1887 Supervisors Road Order
SUPERVISORS’ ROAD ORDER
Together with the Surveyor’s Report and Plat, the Award of Damages, and an Abstract of the facts
relating to the Petition and Supervisors’ Notice of Hearing, of a road vacated and discontinued by
the Supervisors of the Town of Elk River, September 5 A.D. 1887
Ownership and Description of Lands as given in the Petition
Owners of Lands Description of Lands Section. Town. Range.
SW ¼ 22 33 26
SW ¼ of NW ¼ 22 33 26
E ½ of NW ¼ 22 33 26
E ½ of SW ¼ 15 33 26
SE 4 of SW 4 15 33 26
NE 4 of NW 4 15 33 26
SE 4 of SW 4 10 33 26
NE 4 of SW 4 10 33 26
The names of the Petitioners, the place where, and the time when the copies of the Petition and of
the Supervisors’ Notice of Hearing were posted; and the names of the persons served with the
Supervisors’ Notice, and how served, personally or “by copy,” are as follows, viz:
Names of Petitioners Petition and Supervisors’ Notice on How
Notices, When Whom Served Served
and Where
Posted
Petition posted
July 30, 1887 by
Burcell in Post
Office on front
of
store and on
front of Bailey’s
store. Notices
posted August
1887 by deputy
clerk at same
places as first
time
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Sherburne Town of Elk River SS:
Whereas, upon the petition of 8 legal voters, who own real estate, or who occupy real estate under
the homestead or pre-emption laws of the United States, or under contract from the State of
Minnesota, within one mile of the road proposed in said petition to be vacated and discontinued,
copies of said petition having been first duly posted up in three of the most public places of said
Town, at least twenty days before any action was had in relation, thereto, proof of which posting
was duly shown to us by affidavit; which is said proposed vacated and discontinued is set forth and
described in said petition as follows, viz: Beginning all that such
(audepontuni?) of the “Haywood Road” so called in said Town, which lies between the point
whence the line of said road crossed the section line running North and South between sections
number twenty one (21) and twenty two (22) in Township number thirty three (33) of ranges
number twenty six (26) and the north end thereof as the same was laid out located and established
July 19, 1878
It is therefore Ordered and Determined that a said road be, and the same is hereby vacated and
discontinued and established according to the description last aforesaid, and the report and plat
herewith accompanying, which is hereby made a part of this Order, and it is hereby declared to be a
public highway __ rods wide, the said description above given being the center of said road.
Given under our hands, this 5 day of September A.D. 1887.
Supervisors
To the Board of Supervisors of the Town of Elk River County Sherburne and State of Minnesota:
The undersigned having been employed by you to make a survey of a road in said Town would
report that the following is a correct survey thereof, as made by me under your directions, to wit:
And that below is a correct plat of said road according to said survey.
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State of Minnesota, County of Sherburne Town of Elk River SS:
Whereas, a road was laid out vacated and discontinued on the 5 day of September AD. 1887, by us,
the Supervisors of the said Town of Elk River on the petition of ten legal voters who own real estate
or who occupy real estate under the Homestead or Pre-emption Laws of the Unites States, or under
contract from the State of Minnesota, within one mile of said road; which said road so vacated and
discontinued is set forth and described in the foregoing Supervisors’ Order, made by us, and
Whereas, a part of the damages sustained by reason of the laying out __ said road __ has been
ascertained by the agreement of the owners of lands through which said road passes, with us, and a
part of the owners of the said lands have in writing released all claims to damages but not being we
have not been able to agree with the owners of the following described lands, claiming as for
damages by reason of said highway passing through being vacated, and the owners of some of the
said lands being unknown, we have assessed the damages to each of such individual claimants with
whom we could not agree, and awarded damages to the owners of such lands through which such
highway passes as are unknown, at what we deemed just and right, taking into account and
estimating the advantages and benefits the road will confer on the claimants and owners, as well as
the disadvantages. We have assessed and awarded damages as follows:
Owners of Lands Description of Lands Sec Town Range Damages
SW ¼ 22 33 26 None
SW ¼ of NW ¼ 22 33 26 “
E ½ of NW ¼ 22 33 26 “
E ½ of SW ¼ 15 33 26 “
SE ¼ of NW ¼ 15 33 26 “
NW ¼ of NW ¼ 15 33 26 “
SE ¼ of SW ¼ 10 33 26 “
NE ¼ of SW ¼ 10 33 26 “
And in case of the following lands and claimants for damages, we estimate that the advantages and
benefits said road will confer on them are equal to all damages sustained by them by reason of laying
out __ said road, to-wit:
Owners of Lands Description of Lands Sec Town Range
Given under out hands this 5 day of September A.D. 1887
Supervisors
Town of Elk River SS. – The above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the Road Order and
Award of Damages filed September 5 1887 and recorded October 7, 1887
Town Clerk