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VILLAGE OF ELK RIVER COUNCIL MEETING August 1, 1938 The regular meeting of the Village Council was held at the Municipal Building Monday Aug 1, 1938 at 8 o’clock P.M. Members present: Frank Nickerson, Pres.; G.A. Bailey, Wm Patenaude, Geo Cornelius, Trustees; Wm H Greupner, Clerk. Minutes of last meeting were read and approved. Resolution by Village Council to vacate street The above entitled matter came on to be heard before the Village Council of the Village of Elk River, upon a petition duly filed by George E Lowe for the vacation of all that part of Vine Street in the Taconsite of Orono, in said Village of Elk River between the Trunk Highway and the Elk River mill pond, so-called in the County of Sherburne, State of Minnesota and the Village Council having st given due notice of said hearing by all published and posted notice thereof to be had on the 1 day of August 1938 at the Council Room in the Municipal Building IN said Village at the hour of eight o’clock P.M. and no one appearing in opposition thereto and the said Council after hearing the evidence presented to it in for or of said petition that the said street had never been used or open to use by the public and that it would be to the best interests of the public to vacate the same, Councilman G.A. Bailey introduced the following resolution, to wit: that the part of Vine Street in the Taconsite of Orono, in said Village of Elk River between the Trunk Highway and the Elk River mill pond – so called be and same is hereby vacated. Which said resolution was seconded by Councilman George Cornelius and a majority of said Council voted in favor of said resolution thereupon said resolution was declared adopted by the President of the Council. Dated at the Village of Elk River, August 1, 1938 Attest Wm H Greupner, Clerk F.M. Nickerson, Pres of Council A motion was made by G.A. Bailey seconded by Wm Patenaude that Whereas the Village of Elk River has no further use for the land hereinafter described and that the offer of $1000.00 therefore by the State of Minnesota be and the same is hereby accepted and that the President and the Clerk of Village Council be and they are hereby authorized and directed to execute to the State of Minnesota, a Warranty Deed therefor, of the said Village of Elk River, to all the following described tracts, situate in the County of Sherburne, State of Minnesota. That Part of Lot 13, Auditor’s Subdivision No. 4 of Government Lot 3 in Section 34, Township 33, North, Range 26 West, according to the plat thereof now on file and of record in the office of the Register of Deeds in and for Sherburne County described as follows: Beginning at a point on the east line of Lot 5, Block 8, Village of Elk River a distance of 150 feet south from the northeast corner thereof: thence running south along said east line of said Lot 5 to the east bank of the