Winston Incorporation
A communication was received from Winston by the writer in answer to
information asked for, stating that the town of Winston was incorporated in
1875, with a board of trustees composed of the following gentlemen: D. M.
Clagett, Joseph Swike, T. J. Jefferies, Henry Koons, and A.J. Kemberling. As the
year and some of the names differ from the act of incorporation, the above has
been given. The following is of record and seems to have been after the regular
act of incorporation, and is dated on August 21, 1877.
"Now at this day comes A. J. Kemberling et al, and present their petition,
praying the court to incorporate the town of Winston. The court, after examining
the same, find the metes and bounds of said town are not given in said petition,
therefore the prayer of said petitioners is hereby rejected."
On November 23d, 1876, the following act of incorporation of the town 'of
Winston was passed by the County Court of Daviess county, and as the act repeats
a petition of a number of prominent citizens the names of whom are here given.
The act of incorporation is as follows:—
" Now at this day comes T. J. Jefferies and twenty-four other citizens of the
town of Winston, Daviess county, Missouri, and present a petition praying for
the incorporation of the town of Winston, which petition is in words and figures
as follows; viz.,
" To the Honorable County Court of Daviess County, Missouri:
"The undersigned, two-thirds of the taxable inhabitants of Winston, respectfully
ask your honorable body to constitute said town a body politic and corporate by
the name and style of the inhabitants of the town of Winston; under the
provisions of article I, of chapter 134, of Wagner's Missouri Statutes; with a
police for the local government thereof, and for the preservation and regulation
of the commons appertaining thereto and with all the rights, powers and
privileges created by said chapter 134 of Wagner's Missouri Statutes, and the
court to establish the following metes and bounds for the corporate limits of
said town; to-wit, commencing at the-southeast corner of the southwest quarter
of the northeast quarter of section three, township fifty-nine, range
twenty-nine, and running north to the-northeast corner of the northwest quarter
of section three; thence west to-the northwest corner of the northeast quarter
of the northwest quarter of section three; thence south to the southwest corner
to the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section three; thence east
to the place of beginning; and the petitioners further recommend that Jonas
Potts, Joseph Swike, F. B. H. Brown, R. T. West and Dudley M. Clagett, be
appointed a board of trustees for said town.
" [Signed:]
T. J. Jefferies. Arch. Hays.
Joseph Swike. F. B. H. Brown.
William Luser. Keller Rogers.
Bladen Ashby. W. M. Shepherd.
B. A. Warring. M. Barndy.
J. N. Hollis. Samuel Stecker.
Frederick Croft. Jonas Potts.
Joseph W. Kinney. E. H. Higgins.
A. J. Kemberling. W. W. Snyder.
R. T. West. D. M. Clagett.
John F. Taylor. J. R. Potts.
W. Zentz. R. M. Higgins.
S. B. Evans.
" Which petition is received and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court
that two-thirds of the taxable inhabitants of said town of Winston have signed
said petitition and that the prayer of said petitioners is reasonable; it is
therefore ordered by the court that said town of Winston be and is hereby
declared incorporated, under the name and style of Winston, and the metes and
bounds of said town of Winston be and they are hereby fixed, as set forth in the
above petition; and all the territory within the above described bounds be, and
is hereby declared to be, and belong to said town, and the inhabitants of said
town of Winston are hereby invested with all the rights and privileges
guaranteed to such towns incorporated .under chapter forty-one of the general
statutes of the State of Missouri;. and it is further ordered by the court that
Jonas Potts, Joseph Swike, F. -B. H. Brown, R. T. West and ,Dudley M. Clagett;
of said town of Winston be and they are hereby appointed the board of trustees,
in and for said town, to hold their offices until their successors are elected
and qualified."
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