APPENDIX. ALLEGAN COUNTY. BOARD OF Session October 8th, 1955. It is ordered by the board of supervisors of the county of Allegan, two-thirds of all the members elected voting therefor, that township No. four (4) north of range No. thirteen west in said county, be and the same is hereby set off from the town of Monterey, and organized into a separate township by the name of "Salem," aud that the first township meeting for the election of township officers shall be held at the dwelling house of James Burnip in said township, on the first Monday in April, 1856, and Luke P. Brown, Henry Bear and Henry Wilson, electors of said township, are hereby appointed to act as inspectors of election at such township meeting. And it is further ordered by this board, that the next annual township meeting in the township of Monterey shall be held at the school house in school district No. two (2) in said township. E. B. BASSETT, Chairman. JAMES B. PORTER, Clerk of Board. State of Michigan, Allegan county, ss.: I, James B. Porter, clerk of said county, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true report of the action of the board of supervisors of said county pertaining to the formation of the town of Salem. Witness my hand and seal at Allegan, this 9th day of Oc [L. S.] tober, A. D. 1855. JAMES B. PORTER, Clerk, BERRIEN COUNTY. State of Michigan, county of Berrien, ss. At a session of the board of supervisors of the county of Berrien, held at the court-house in the village of Berrien, in said county, on the fourth day of March, A. D. 1856, the following action was had by said board in relation to the division of the township of New Buffalo, and the organization of the territory taken therefrom into two new townships, to be called Three Oaks and Chikaming: Whereas, A petition has been presented to the board of supervisors of Berrien county at its present session, signed by 104 voters and freeholders of the township of New Buffalo, asking for a division of said township, so that two new townships shall be set off and formed from the territory of said township, one of said new townships to be called Three Oaks and the other Chikaming; and Whereas, It appearing that legal steps have been taken, by posting and publishing the required notices previous to this meeting of the board, and a map and survey furnished; therefore Resolved, That the township of Three Oaks shall be bounded and described as follows, to wit: On the north by the north line of sections 32, S3, 34, 35 and 36, town 7 south, range 20 west; west, by the west line of section 32, town 7 south, range 20 west, and the west line of sections 5, 8, 17 and 20, town 8 south, range 20 west; south, by the State line of Indiana; and east, by the east line of towns 7 and 8 south, range 20 west; and that the first election for township officers in the township of Three Oaks shall be holden at the school-house near Chamberlain's side track, on the first Monday of April, A. D. 1856, and that Abram Martin, J. D. Fitch and Henry Chamberlain are hereby appointed inspectors of such election; also, Resolved, That the township of Chikaming shall be boundel and described as follows, to wit: On the north by the north line of town 7 south, range 20 west; west, by Lake Michigan; south, by south line of section 25, town 7 south, range 21, and south line of sections 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30, town 7 south, range 20 west; east, by east line of town 7 south, range 20 west; and that the first election for township officers, in the township of Chikaming, shall be holden on the first Monday of April, A. D. 1856, at the store of J. N. Wilkinson & Co., and that Richard Peckham, Silas Sawyer and Alfred Ames are hereby appointed inspectors of such election; also, Resolved, That the next township meeting in the township of New Buffalo shall be held at the school-house in the village of New Buffalo. The question being upon the adoption of the foregoing resolutions, and the yeas and nays being ordered, the result was as follows, to wit: Yeas-Messrs. Abbey, Barnard, Beaman, Crosby, Denn, Enos, Hazlett, Hand, Johnson, Jennings, Noggle, Pennell, Pearl, Woodruff and Winslow-15. Nays-0. (Signed,) D. O. WOODRUFF, State of Michigan, county of Berrien, ss.: Clerk. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the proceedings of the board of supervisors of Berrien county aforesaid, relating to the division of the township of New Buffalo, and the organization of the townships of Three Oaks and Chickaming in said county. Given under my hand at Berrien, the 6th day of March, A. D. 1856. WM. S. MERRILL, Clerk. EMMET COUNTY. AN ACT to divide the township of Charlevoix, in the county of Em met. SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Emmet enact, That that part of the township of Charlevoix, in the county of Emmet, known as town thirty-three north, of range five west, and so much of town thirty-three north, of range six west, as lies to the northeastward of the main channel of the lake known as Green Lake, Long Lake, Pine Lake or Lake Mormon, shall be organized into a separate township by the name of Evangeline, and the first township meeting therein shall be held at the house of Rueben T. Nichols, the first Tuesday in April next. Sec. 2. That part of the township of Charlevoix, in the county of Emmet, contained in ranges six and seven west, which lies to the south-westward of the main channel of the lake known as Green Lake, Long Lake, Pine Lake or Lake Mormon, shall be organized into a sep arate township by the name of Eveline, and the first township meeting therein shall be held at the house of William Biekle, on the first Tuesday in April next. Sec. 3. All that part of the township of Charlevoix, known as range seven west, which lies northward of the main channel of the lake known as Green Lake, Long Lake, Pine Lake or Lake Mormon, is hereby set off from the township of Charlevoix and annexed to the township of Little Traverse. Sec. 4. The remaining part of the township of Charlevoix, shall be and remain the township of Charlevoix. Passed by a majority of votes of all the members elected to the board of supervisors, upon due notice and application according to law, at an adjourned sitting of the annual meeting of the Board of Supervisors, the 22d day of October, 1855. GALEN B. COLE. Chairman of the Board. GEORGE T. PRESTON, State of Michigan, County of Emmet, ss. County Clerk. I, George T. Preston, Clerk of the county of Emmet, certify the foregoing to be a true copy of an original act on file in my office, and a true statement of the action of the Board of Supervisors of said county on the several applications for the division of the township of Charlevoix. Witness my hand and the seal of the circuit court of said [L. S.] county, at Charlevoix, in said county, the 22nd day of October, 1855. GEORGE T. PRESTON, Clerk. AN ACT to provide for the organization of certain townships in the county of Emmet. SECTION 1. The Board of Supe visors of the county of Emmet enact, That all that part of the township of Little Traverse, in the county of Emmet, included in towns thirty-five and thirty-six north of ranges five, six and seven west, shall be organized into a separate township by |