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Record of Proceedings Relating to the Howell Free Public Library and Carnegie Library Building. Howell, Michigan Pages 016-017

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Howell Carnegie Library board minutes and ledger entries approved by the board.

RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO THE HOWELL FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND CARNEGIE LIBRARY BUILDING

August 4 1902
Deed recorded Aug 2 4 P.M. A.D. 1902 in Office of Register of Deeds. Liber 10 3 Page 238 of Deeds.
Letter from Wm. McPherson that had received telephone message from Alex McPherson of Detroit that Col. E.E. Myers, architect would be
here Aug 5th at the Committee Conference.
Telephone message to W.H.S. Wood from architect Sidney J. Osgood, Grand Rapids to the same effect.
Certified copy of deed sent Hon. R.A. Franks, Prs. Home Trust Co. Hoboken New Jersey.

(P. 579)
A meeting of the Township Board of Howell Township was held at the office of the Township Clerk in the Village of Howell on Saturday, August 2,
1902 at 2:00 o'clock P.M.
Present: W.H.S. Wood, Supervisor, James L. Pettibone and David D. Harger, Justices of the Peace and Frank J. Holt, Township Clerk.
Moved by Mr. Harger, supported by Mr. Pettibone that the following resolution be adopted:

'Whereas Wm. McPherson Jr., Martin J. McPherson, Edward G. McPherson, and Alexander McPherson have deeded to the Township of Howell' all that certain
piece or parcel of land situate and being in the Village of Howell, County of Livingston and State of Michigan, known and described as follows, to wit- Commencing
at a point in the southerly line of Lot number eighty-nine (89) of Crane and Brooks Plat of the Village of Howell as duly laid out, platted and recorded and
sixteen (16) feet westerly from the south-easterly corner of said lot, thence running northerly parallel with the rashes by line of said Lot eightt nine and in continuation
there of, one hundred and fifty (150) feet, thence westerly parallel to the southerly line of said lot eighty-nine (89) one hundred (100) feet thence southerly parallel to the
easterly line of said Lot eighty-nine one hundred and fifty (150) feet thence easterly the place of beginning. Being the east fifty feet in width of lot ninety and west fifty feet in width
of lot eighty nine and the west fifty feet in width of the south eighteen feet of Lot eighty nine and the east fifty feet in width of the south eighteen feet of Lot ninety one, all are Crane and
Brooks plat aforesaid, Also hereby conveying a perpetual right of way from the northerly end of the premises herein described to Center Street are the East and Chestnut Street are the West and
Clinton street are the North and to either or all of said street and to be of such width and run in succh directions as shall be hereafter determined
to be best for the Library Grounds. Reserving to the first parties are buildings with right to remove the same.

The parties of the first part hereto convey the premises herein described for a site for the Carnegie Free Pubic Library building under Act 164 of
the Public Acts of Michigan for the year A.D. 1877, being Sections 3449 to 3460 inclusive of the Compiled Laws of Michigan 1897 and the deed
having this day, Aug 2 1902 been delivered to W.H.S. Wood Supervisor of the Township of Howell in the presence of J.J. McPherson, R.B.
McPherson and F.E. Lansing and said deed here now presented to this Board.

Be it resolved by the Township board of Township of Howell that