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Old Town of Broad Ripple Meeting Minutes #157
posted: Apr. 14, 2022

This historic serial has run on and off in the last 18 years of the Broad Ripple Gazette. It appears that the last paper issue that had room for it was March 3, 2017. I will try to include it from here on out. The intention is to share the history of Broad Ripple, help people find their ancestors in the text, and to complete the transcriptions of these important early documents.
A key to this passage: Morgan Street is now Guilford, North is now 64th, Hancock is now Westfield. See more of our street name research at BroadRippleHistory.org - Alan

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The Town of Broad Ripple was incorporated in 1894, and started holding regular meetings at that time. In each issue, I will print my transcription of the old Town of Broad Ripple meeting minutes. These are taken from the original, hand-written minutes that contain many spelling errors. I have transcribed all the records as they were entered, including errors. I will make some corrections to the text in brackets [ ]. The original minutes books are at the Indiana State Archives at 6440 E. 30th St.
For a partial (and currently being updated) list of previously published transcriptions of the minutes search here.

Here is the one-hundred fifty-seventh installment

Broad Ripple Ind. August 14th 1903
The Board of Trustees of the Town of Broad Ripple met in special session on call of President D. H. Harcourt, who stated that the purpose of the meeting was for the consideration of street and side-walk improvements, Trustee Marion Whitesell was absent. On regular motion the following resolutions were adopted.

Be if Further Resolved, That the Town Engineer set the proper grade stakes, in accordance with the above plans, drawings, profiles, and specifications on file in the office of the Town Clerk of said Town, and that the Town Clerk advertise bids for making said improvement, said advertisement to be made once each week for three successive weeks, in the Independent, that sealed proposals will be received by the Board of Trustees of said Town, at a meeting of said Board to be held on the 9th day of September 1903, at 7:30 o'clock P.M. of said day, for the execution of said work, and give notice to the property owners accordingly. And also that the Town Clerk give notice in the Independent once each week for two successive weeks not less than ten days prior to the 9th day of September, 1903, in which said notice shall be stated the time and place, when and where, so that the property owners along the line of said proposed improvement can make objections to the necessity for construction thereof, as provided by law, and that said objections may be made to and will be heard by the Board of trustees of said Town, at the regular place of meeting of said Board to be held at 7:00 o'clock P.M. on Wednesday, the 9th day of September, 1903, or by reducing the objection to writing and filing the same with the Town Clerk of said Town, not later that 7:00 o'clock P.M. on said 9th day of September, 1903, at which said meeting the objections will be considered by the Board of Trustees of said Town.
Be it Further Resolved, By the Board of Trustees of said Town (all the members thereof concurring) that an emergency exists for the immediate talking effect of these resolutions, therefore the same shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.



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