APPENDIX:

CONTAINING

CERTIFIED STATEMENTS OF BOARDS OF SUPERVISORS,

RELATIVE TO

THE ERECTION OF NEW TOWNSHIPS: ALSO,

STATE TREASURER'S ANNUAL REPORT

FOR THE YEAR 1857.

APPENDIX.

ALLEGAN COUNTY.

In the matter of the application of Cornelius I. Voorhorst and others for the erection and organization of a new township.

It being made to appear to the Board of Supervisors that application has been made and that notice thereof has been signed, posted up and published, as in the manner required by law, and having duly considered the matter of said application, the board order and enact, that the territory described in said application, bounded and described as follows, to wit: Township number four north of range fourteen west, in the said county of Allegan, at present attached to the township of Fillmore, be and the same is hereby erected into a township, to be called and known by the township of "Overisal." The first annual township meeting shall be held at the school house, in school district number four, on the first Monday of April, A. D. 1857, at nine o'clock A. M., and at said meeting, Cornelius I. Voorhorst, Hendrick Browers and Jan Boers, three electors of said township, shall be the persons whose duty it shall be to preside at such meeting, appoint a clerk, open and keep the polls, and exercise the same powers as the inspectors of election at any township meeting, as the law provides. And it is further ordered, that the next

annual meeting in the township of "Fillmore," be held on the first Monday of April, A. D. 1857, at the school house. in school district No. one, and Isaac Fairbanks, Anton Schormo and Martenus Van Tubbergen, are hereby appointed to act as inspectors at the said election.

E. B. BASSETT,

Chairman.

JAMES B. PORTER,

Clerk.

State of Michigan, County of Allegan, ss.:

I, James B. Porter, clerk of the county aforesaid and of the board of supervisors thereof, do hereby certify that I have carefully compared the foregoing copy of an order of said board with the record thereof in my office, as clerk of said board, and the copy thereto attached of the map or survey of the new township of Overisal, in my office, and furnished said board on the application for the erection and organization of said township, and that said copies are true copies. And I further certify that the foregoing order of said board was passed by them at their meeting held at Allegan, in said county, on the 15th day of October, 1856, as appears by their record.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my [L. S. ] hand and affixed the seal of the circuit court of said county this 16th day of October, A. D.

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY,

In the matter of application of John E. Fisher, C. C. McCarty, L. S. Campbell, John Dorsey, Geo. Ray, Erasmus Nutt, John Larue, Frederick Werner, Carston Barfiend, H. N. Merrill, Wm. D. Burdick, W. L. Aikin, Joseph Oliver, P. P. Smith, Wm. Coggshell, and H. Decker, for the erection and organization of a new township.

It appearing to the board of supervisors that application has been made, and that notice thereof has been signed,

posted up and published as in the manner required by law, and having duly considered the matter of said application, the board order and enact that the territory described in said application, bounded as follows, to wit: Commencing on the shore of Lake Michigan at the point where the dividing line between the township number twenty-nine (29) north, range thirteen (13) west, and twenty-nine (29) north, range twelve (12) west, intersects said shore, thence running up the shore of said lake to the division line between the counties of Leelanaw and Manistee, thence east on said line to the south-east corner of township number twenty-five (25) north, range thirteen (13) west, thence north on east line of said township range thirteen (13) to the place of beginning, be and the same is hereby erected into a new township by the name of the township of Glen Arbor; the first annual township meeting thereof shall be held at the Mill House of Nutt & Ray, on the first Monday of April next, the usual time for holding township meetings; and at said meeting, John E. Fisher, John Larue and Erasmus Nutt, three electors of said township, shall be the persons whose duty it shall be to preside at such meeting, appoint a clerk, open and keep the polls, and exercise the same powers as the inspectors of election at any township meeting, as the law provides; and Geo. Ray be and is hereby appointed to post up notices according to law of the time and place of such meeting in the newly organized township of Glen Arbor.

Dated, Traverse City, October 15, A. D. 1857.

State of Michigan, County of Grand Traverse, ss:

I, Theron Bostwick, clerk of the county aforesaid and of the board of supervisors, thereof, do hereby certify that I have carefully compared the foregoing copy of an order of said board with the record thereof, in my office as clerk of said board, and the copy thereto attached of the map or survey of the new township of Glen Arbor, in my office,.