Order No. 1
Wood County
Town of Johnson
We the undersigned supervisors
of the Town of Johnson, do hereby order that the said town be
divided into three road districts as follows:
Road district No. 1 shall
include two tiers of sections on the west side of Town 25 N of R
2 E, two tiers of sections on the west side of Town 24 N of 2 E
and two tiers of sections on the west side of Town 24 N of R 3E
and all the inhabitants liable to work on the highways there in,
shall be and are here by assigned to work in Road District No.
1.
Road District No. 2 shall include two tiers of sections in the middle of Town 25
N of R 2 E, two tiers of sections in the middle of Town 24 N of 2 E and two
tiers of sections in the middle of Town 24 N of R 3E and all the inhabitants
liable to work on the highways there in, shall be and are here by assigned to
work in Road District No. 1.
Road District No. 3 shall include two tiers of
sections on the eastside of Town 25 N of R 2 E, two tiers of sections on the
east side of Town 24 N of 2 E and two tiers of sections on the east side of Town
24 N of R 3E and all the inhabitants liable to work on the highways there in,
shall be and are here by assigned to work in Road District No. 1.
Given under our hand at
Johnson this 18th day of April AD 1868.
Supervisors
Wm. G. Nason
Nicholas Rausch
John H. Ebbe
Bill No. 1
Respecting the construction of
turnpikes for the year 1868.
Resolved, that all turnpikes
constructed in the town of Johnson, during the year 1868, shall
be twenty feet from outside to outside of ditches and shall be
thrown up at least eighteen inches in the center of the pike
from the bottom of the ditches.
All turnpikes to be commenced
before the 1st of June 1868 and finished before the 1st
day of November following.
Approved May 4th 1868
Contract No. 1
That of A. P. Wood, for
turnpiking 25 rods on the line between sections 5 and 6 T 24 R
2E.
Approved May 4th 1868
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Contract No. 2
That of John Rausch for
turnpiking 25 rods on the line between sections 5 & 6 T 24 N of
R 2 E.
Approved May 4th 1868
Contract No. 3
That of S. L. Nason for
turnpiking 25 rods on the line between Sections 5 & 6 T 24 N of
R 2 E.
Approved May 4th 1868
Contract No. 4
That of John Rausch for
turnpiking 37 ½ rods between sections 34 T 25 N of R 6 E and 4
T24 N of R 2 E.
Approved May 4th 1868
Clerks
Office
Johnson
May 25th ‘68
Board met of per adjournment.
Present Supervisors Nason,
Rausch and Ebbe.
Petition of John Mills and
others for a highway presented and laid over on account of not
having the requisite number of signatures.
Board accepted the contract of
C. Hanson Ebbe to chop the timber on 180 rods of highway in
District No. 2 as per contract, for $75.00.
After due consideration the
Board passed the following orders:
Order No. 2
Wood Co.
Town of Johnson
Whereas, upon application of six
freeholders, residents in said town of Johnson, for the laying
out of a road as hereinafter described, we, the undersigned
Supervisors of said town, did on the 25th day of May
A.D. 1868 meet at the house of Nicholas Rausch in said town for
the purpose of then and there deciding upon such application, it
being the time and place fixed by us for that purpose; did
proceed personally to examine such highway and having as here in
after described; having as required by law, first made out a
notice and fixed therein a time and place to decide upon such
application for such highway, having five days before our said
meeting caused such notice to be duly given to all occupants of
the lands through which said highway passes, and such notice
having also
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been posted up in three public
places in said town ten days before the time of said meeting, it
is hereby ordered and determined, and we do hereby order and
determine, that a highway be and the same is hereby laid out
pursuant to such applications, as follows to wit: commencing at
the south corner of the section line between sections 33 and 34
Town 25 North of Range 2 east, and running due north one mile
and one half on the United States Survey to the quarter post
between sections 27 and 28 Town 25 North of Range 2 east, the
line of said survey to be the center of said highway: and the
same is established four rods in width, two rods on each side of
the line of said survey.
In witness whereof we have
hereunto set our hands, this 25th day of May, A.D.
1868
Wm. G. Nason
Supervisors
Nicholas Rausch
of the town of
John H. Ebbe
Johnson
Order No. 3
Wood Co.
Town of Johnson
Whereas, upon application of six
freeholders, residents in said town of Johnson, for the laying
out of a highway as hereinafter described, we, the undersigned
Supervisors of said town, did on the 25th day of May
A.D. 1868 meet at the house of Isaac A. Williams in said town
for the purpose of then and and then (sic) deciding upon such
application, it being the time and place fixed by us for that
purpose; did proceed personally to examine such highway and
having as here in after described; having as required by law,
first made out a notice and fixed therein a time and place to
decide upon such application for such highway, having five days
before our said meeting caused such notice to be duly given to
all occupants of the lands through which said highway passes,
and such notice having also been posted up in three public
places in said town ten days before the time of said meeting, it
is hereby ordered and determined, and we do hereby order and
determine, that a highway be and the same is hereby laid out
pursuant to such applications, as follows to wit: commencing at
the southwest corner of section five (5) Town 24 N of R 2 E and
running on the section line between sections 5 and 8, according
to the United States Survey, one (1) mile due east to the SE
corner of said section 5, the line of said survey to be the
center of said highway; and the same is established four rods in
width, two rods on each side of the line of said survey.
In witness whereof we have
hereunto set our hands, this 25th day of May, A.D.
1868.
Wm. G. Nason
Supervisors
Nicholas Rausch
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On motion the
board then adjourned Sine Die.
A
true copy
Attest C. W. Blake
Town Clerk
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