Show o 0 ADVISE AGAINST AGA ANNEXATION ANNEXATION- ANNEXATION To the Voters Voters' of ot Duchesne County for the annexation annexation annexation an an- petition As you know a p Uintah of of f a narrow strip county land east of 1 Roosevelt has that the been Jeen favorably acted upon so ballot same will be on the official for the annexation of said strip to being being being be be- Duchesne Duch county The petition ing supposedly correct on its face commissioners held that the county under the law to it was their duty submit it to the voters and we have I no desire to criticise them for that acton and neither are we disposed to criticise the person and we do not know who it was that wrote the description description description de de- of the land or strip to be annexed But what we do know is that the description of the strip to be annexed is exceedingly faulty That Thai the descriptive line Une begins in an impossible im im- impossible impossible possible township and range and that thai the start is where the line between sections two and three intersect the north boundary of the Uintah Indian reservation and that there are no nc sections two and three in the township town town- township township ship which was probably meant but not sot properly described And that the the southern south southern same ame difficulty is met on ern arn line of the reservation where to the theline theline the he descriptive ve line runs west line hue between sections two and three In ill n another impossible or improperly improper improper- ly y described township and that is only a piece township again andias and has lias no sections two and three but if f it be attempted to follow what was vas probably meant by the lion Ion the line then in going south to o the county line will cut off a good slice lice of Duchesne county and annex an- an tex nex it to Uintah county which was tot not the object of the petition And too there are other uther very serious seri- seri ous us objections to that petition from fromi froma and to vote the a i legal standpoint stan point trip strip into Duchene Duche ne county on on that petition would be only to vote end end- less trouble and litigation on the people people people peo peo- of this and Uintah counties Instead Instead Instead In In- stead of settling the boundary question question quest quest- ion we would not settle anything but get ourselves Into endless trouble We are not opposed to annexation t annexation we want but if we wo get it to come so that It will will- stick and so that there wll not be a lot of legal rouble over it t to drag the people through the courts on an improper annexation that t will be an expensive and vexatious aton for our people for a dozen years After the election is over and this petition line Une voted down then the county should be settled in the courts and settled and then a proper and carefully prepared petition should I be submitted from the people of the strip for annexation and it would undoubtedly be approved by the people people people peo peo- of or the whole county Therefore to save savo trouble and litigation and to save the people from a bungling public document that should never be approved by them and filed In the and of the county pUb public ic archives most earnestly advise you state we to vote against the said annexation petition Yours very truly f. f L L. L LA A. A HOLLENBECK ERNEST H. H BURGESS DURGESS 0 |