APPENDIX.

BAY COUNTY.

In the matter of the application of Martin Powell and others, for the erection and organization of a new township, to be called the township of "Merritt."

Whereas, It appears to the board of supervisors of Bay county, Michigan, that application has been made for the division of the township of Portsmouth, by twelve freeholders of each township to be affected thereby, and that notice thereof has been signed, posted, and published in the manner and form required by law, and this board having been furnished with a map of all the townships to be affected thereby, showing the proposed alteration, and having duly considered the matter of said application; therefore be it

Resolved, ordered, and enacted by said board, that all of township thirteen (13) north, of range six (6) east, also sections one (1), two (2), three (3), ten (10), eleven (11), twelve (12), thirteen (13), fourteen (14), and fifteen (15), all in township thirteen (13) north, of range five (5) east, be and the same is hereby erected into a new township, to be called and known by the name of "Merritt," and the first town-Merritt ship meeting of said township shall be held at the house of Joseph Gerard, at the first junction (so-called) on the Bay City and Tuscola plank road, on the first Monday of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-two; and at said meeting, Benjamin F. Partridge, Henry Hess, and Martin Powell, three electors of said township, shall be the persons whose duty it shall be to preside at said meeting, appoint a clerk, open and

organized.

keep the polls, and exercise the same powers as the inspectors of election at any township meeting, as the law provides. STATE OF MICHIGAN,

County of Bay,

SS.

I, Henry A. Braddock, clerk of said county of Bay and of the board of supervisors thereof, do hereby certify that I have carefully compared the foregoing copy of a resolution adopted by said board, with the original, now of record in my office, and that it is a true transcript therefrom and of the whole thereof. I do further certify that said resolution was adopted by said board of supervisors at a meeting thereof, held at the court-house, in Bay City, in said county, on the eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the circuit court of said [L. S.] county, at Bay City, this twenty-second day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

H. A. BRADDOCK,

County Clerk.

BENZIE COUNTY.

In the matter of the application of Geo. A. Douglass, John Moore, C. C. Miller, Geo. W. Wiltsie, A. S. Dow, Albert P. Kibby, G. C. Kibby, Isaac A. Peterson, Daniel Buchannan, Joseph Oliver, B. E. Morgan, Frank Martin, Hiram Wiltsie, Daniel Brunett, and Henry Cooper, of the township of Crystal Lake, and Isaac J. Carner, Frank Axtile, John Hunt, Orin Blood, Albert A. Cutler, James M. Goodrich, Chas. W. Crandell, Ira W. Mead, M. E. Crandell, Peter Garman, Hugh McKinstry, Marshall Willsey, in the township of Gilmore and county of Benzie, for detaching a portion of territory from

the township of Crystal Lake, and attaching the same to the township of Gilmore, in the county of Benzie.

detached

township of

and attached

It appearing to the board of supervisors that application has been made, and that notice thereof has been since posted up, and been 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, as follows, to wit: Fractional section twenty-eight Territory (28), twenty-seven (27), and thirty-four (34), lying south of from the Betsee lake, and the south half of section thirty-five (35) and Crystal Lake thirty-six (36) of town twenty-six (26) north, of range sixteen to Gilmore. (16) west, and the south half of section thirty-one (31), and thirty-two (32) of town twenty-six (26) north, of range fifteen (15) west, and section five (5) and six (6) of town twenty-five (25) north, of range fifteen (15) west, and sections one (1) and two (2), and fractional section three (3), of town twenty-five (25) north, of range sixteen (16) west, be and the same is hereby detached from the township of Crystal Lake and added to the township of Gilmore, in the county of Benzie.

NATHAN JAQUISH,

Chairman of the Board of Supervisors.

CHAS. H. PARKER, Clerk.

STATE OF MICHIGAN, }

County of Benzie,

SS.

I, Chas. H. Parker, 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 records thereof in my office as clerk of said board, and the copy thereto attached of the map of survey of the townships of Gilmore and Crystal Lake, in my office, and furnished to said board on the application for the detaching of said territory from the township of Crystal Lake, and adding the same to the township of Gilmore, 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 Frankfort, in said county, on the ninth day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as appears by their record. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand

and affixed the seal of the circuit court for the [L. 8.] county of Benzie, this eleventh day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

CHAS. H. PARKER,

County Clerk.

CHEBOYGAN COUNTY.

In the matter of the application of Oliver Beaugrand and others, for the erection and organization of a new township.

It appearing to the board of supervisors the application has been made, and the notice thereof has been signed, posted, and published as in the manner required by law, and having duly considered the matter of said application, the board order and enact the territory described in said application, bounded as follows, to wit: Towns thirty-eight (38) and thirty-nine (39) north, of range two (2) west, and towns thirty-eight (38) and thirty-nine north, of range three (3) west, be detached from the township of Inverness, and the same erect and organized Beaugrand into a new township, to be named and known as the township organized. of Beaugrand. The first annual meeting thereof shall be held in the school-house at or near the residence of said Beaugrand, on the first Monday of April next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and said meeting Charles R. Kniffen, Medard Metevier, and John King 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 in case neither of the above named as inspectors are present at the opening of the polls, then the legal voters of the said town