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§ 3-1 TITLE 1 — GENERAL § 3-1 Chapter 3 ORDER INCORPORATING MUNICIPALITY Sec. 3-1: Order Incorporating Municipality Sec. 3-1. Order Incorporating Municipality. The Board of County Commissioners of Nez Perce County, Idaho Territory, met July 12, 1887, pursuant to adjournment. The following were present: C. A. Leeper, Commission Chairman; H. J. Bundy, Commissioner; J. L. Naylor, Commissioner; J. C. Hattabough, Clerk; and A. Quackenbush, District Attorney. In the matter of the petition of the people of Moscow, for the incorporation of their Town. The Board having examined said petition and being satisfied that the same was duly filed and that the majority of the taxable inhabitants of said Town had signed said petition, and that the metes and bounds of said Town together with the adjacent boundaries thereof are fully set forth and the request of said petitioners being deemed reasonable by this Board, the following order is ordered to be entered upon the records of this Board. It appearing to the satisfaction of the Board of County Commissioners of Nez Perce County, Idaho Territory at a regular meeting of said Board held at Lewiston on the 11th day of July A. D. 1887. FIRST: That a petition signed by a majority of the taxable male inhabitants of the Town of Moscow in said County and Territory has been duly filed with the Clerk of this Board praying for an order Incorporating the said Town of Moscow, the metes and bounds thereof being set forth in said petition, together with the adjacent boundaries thereof. SECOND: That a Board of Trustees be appointed as by law provided, that police be established for the local self government of said Town of Moscow, and that said Town at once enter upon all the rights, privileges and franchises granted by law. Now, Therefore, by reason of the law and the premises and by virtue of the authority in this Board vested, it is hereby ordered and declared: That the Town of Moscow, Nez Perce County, Idaho Territory, be and the same is hereby declared to be incorporated under the name and style of the Town of Moscow, and the metes and bounds of said Town shall be and the same are declared to be as follows: Commencing at a point 10 chains east and 30 feet north of the southwest corner of the northeast quarter of Section 8 in Twp. 39 N R 5 WBM, and running thence westerly parallel to subdivision lines and in accordance with the United States Government survey a distance of 69 chains and 80 links to a point, which point shall constitute the northwest corner of the corporation limits of the Town of Moscow and running thence south to the south boundary line of Section 7 in the aforesaid Twp. N R 5 WBM and running thence in a southeasterly direction along the southern boundary line of the Columbia and Palouse Railway Company's right-of-way to a point where said southern boundary line of said Railway Company's right-of-way intersects the west boundary line of Section 17 Twp. 39 N R 5 WBM and running thence east 49 chains and 30 links to a point due south of the place of beginning and running thence north a distance of 69 chains to the place of beginning. That W. J. McConnell, W. W. Langdon, M. J. Shields, W. W. Baker and R. H. Barton are hereby appointed and declared to be the Trustees of said Town of Moscow and said Trustees shall continue in office until their successors are duly elected and qualified as by law required. That police shall be established for the local government of said Town of Moscow, and that said Town shall at once enter into the enjoyments, privileges and franchises of every kind whatsoever granted by Law. Done at Lewiston, Idaho this 12th day of July, 1887. ---PAGE BREAK--- § 3-1 TITLE 1 — GENERAL § 3-1 By order of the Board. C. A. Leeper, Chairman of Board of County Commissioners Attest J. C. Hattabaugh, Clerk, By F. Kroutinger, Deputy.