Resolution providing for the annexation of certain unplatted territory to the Town of Broad Ripple, Marion County, State of Indiana, and declaring an emergency resolved by the Board of Trustees of the town of Broad Ripple, Marion County, State of Indiana, that the petition of which the following is a copy be and is hereby adopted and that the petition be presented by this board of trustees to the board of Commissioners of the County of Marion and State of Indiana and which petition is as follows

In the matter of annexation of

Contigous territory to the

Town of Broad Ripple, Indiana

The undersigned members of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Broad Ripple in the County of Marion, State of Indiana, would respectfully present to the board that the said town of Broad Ripple is an incorporated town duly incorporated under and pursuant to the general laws of the State of Indiana for the incorporation of towns. That your petitioners desire to annex to the said town certain territory lying and being contigous thereto: that said contigous territory has never been platted or recorded except as the same has been platted for the purposes of this petition that said contiguous territory is situated in the county of Marion in the state of Indiana as is accurately described by metes and bounds as follows: to wit

Part of the southeast quarter of section thirty five (35) and part of the southwest quarter of section thirty six (36) all in Township seventeen (17) N. range three (3) east in Marion County State of Indiana, described a follows: -

Beginning on the east line of said section thirty five (35) at a rock at the north edge of the tow path on the north side of the canal and running south 52 ¼ degrees west with the north edge of said tow path one hundred and fifty nine (159) feet: thence north five hundred and two (502) feet: thence northward curving to the right on a 1 degree curve for a distance of fifteen hundred and fourteen (1514) feet: to the east line of said section thirty five (35) at a point nineteen hundred and fourteen and one half (1914 ½) feet: north of the beginning point thence north with the west line of said section thirty six (36) twelve hundred and fifty three (1253) feet: to White River: thence east eighty three (83) feet: thence south parallel with the west line of said section thirty six (36) five hundred and thirty nine and four tenth (539.4) feet: thence east seventy two (72) feet: thence south parallel to the west line of said section thirty six (36) seven hundred and fifty four (754) feet: thence east one hundred and fifty seven (157) feet: thence south parallel to the west line of said section thirty six (36) four hundred and nineteen (419) feet" to the north line of Lights Broad Ripple Addition: thence west two hundred and ninety (290) feet/ to the west line of said section thirty six (36) thence south fourteen hundred and fifty six (1456) feet. To the beginning. Containing ten and seventy hundredth (10.70) acres more or less. Six and eighty six (6.86) one hundredth acres are owned by the Union Traction Company of Indiana. One and twenty four hundredths (1.24) acres are owned by Clarence L. and Autie R. Kirk and two and sixty hundredths (2.60) are owned by Charles F. and Ada M Surber.

Harvey B Fatout of lawful age being first duly sworn upon his oath says that he is the Civil Engineer of the Town of Broad Ripple, Marion County State of Indiana, and that he prepared the annexed plat and the description of the real estate set forth in said plat, and that said plat and description are correct and accurate and further affiant saith not.

Signed Henry B Fatout

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of January 1905.

William W. Spencer

Notary public

My commission expires January 2nd 1907

That a map of said territory proposed to be annexed duly certified by the affidavit of Henry B. Fatout civil engineer for said town is filed with and accompanies this petition that your petitioners desire the annexation of said territory to said town for the following reasons. To wit:

Signed

Daniel W. Harcourt

Joseph W. Bates

Henry C Gresh

Daniel W. Harcourt being duly sworn upon oath says that the facts set forth in the above a fore going petition are true in substance and in fact

Signed Daniel W. Harcourt

Subscribed and sworn to before me this (5th) day of January (1905).

William W. Spencer

Notary public

My commission expires January 2nd 1907

Be it further resolved by the Board of Trustees of said Town that the Town Clerk of said Town be and is hereby ordered and directed to give notice of the intention of this Board of Trustees to present said petition to said County Board by publication in the Indpls Sentinal thirty days prior to the first day of the February term of said County Board and to file a copy of said notice and proof of publication of the same and that Spencer and Spencer attorneys for said Town of Broad Ripple, Indiana, are hereby directed to present said petition with copy of said notice and proof of publication to said Board of Commissioners at their regular meeting in the month of February 1905 and to produce such proofs before such board as may be necessary to secure the annexation to said Town of the Territory described in said petition and the Town Engineer is hereby directed to prepare an accurate plat of the lands and territories desired to be annexed to the Town to accompany said petition.

Be it further resolved that an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of these resolutions therefore the same shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.