ORDER OF INCORPORATION

Now on this 10th day of March, 1952, at 10:00 a.m. of said day the Board of County Commissioners of Marion County, State of Kansas, met in regular session at the office of said Board of Commissioners in the Courthouse, Marion, Kansas, George Merilatt, Chairman, George S. Jost, Commissioner and Carl Spangler, Commissioner, being present.

WHEREUPON, the petition for incorporation of the village of Goessel, Kansas, as a City of the Third Class, comes on for hearing before said Board of County Commissioners, and said Board of County Commissioners, finds:

1. That the following described tract of land, to-wit:

Beginning at the northwest corner of Section Eight, Township 21, South, Range One East of the 5th P.M., Marion County, Kansas; thence south one quarter mile; thence east one quarter mile; thence due north on the said quarter mile line to a point on the south line of Commercial Street in the village of Goessel, Kansas; thence due east on said south line of Commercial Street extended to the half section line of said Section Eight; thence due north on said half section line to the northeast corner of the south half of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section Five, township, 21 South, Range One East of the 5th P.M., Marion County, Kansas; thence west one half mile to the northwest corner of the south half of the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section Five, Township, 21 South, Range One East of the 5th P.M., Marion County, Kansas; thence south one eighth mile to the point of beginning and containing 93.5 acres more or less

now comprises the unincorporated village and commons of Goessel, Kansas, and that such tract of land described is wholly within the County of Marion, Kansas.

2. That a properly verified census return is filed with and made a part of the petition for Incorporation herein above referred to, which census return shows that the inhabitants of such unincorporated village of Goessel, aforesaid, number 253 persons, same being more than 100 and less than 2,000 persons, and which census return said Board of County Commissioners finds in all respects true and correct and in compliance with the laws of the State of Kansas.

3. That a majority of the taxable inhabitants of such village of Goessel, Kansas, are in favor of the incorporation of such village as a city of the third class, under the laws of the State of Kansas.

4. That the prayer of the petition aforesaid is in all respects reasonable and proper.

5. That proper notice of the time and place of this hearing has been given according to law to all inhabitants of the territory and tract of land above described and forming a part of the unincorporated village and commons of Goessel, Kansas, which tract of land is the subject of this order of incorporation, as evidenced by the “Certificate of Posting Petition, executed by R. D. Voth on the 18th day of February, 1952,” which is filed with the Board of Commissioners.

NOW THEREFORE, it being found by the Board of County Commissioners of Marion County, State of Kansas, that all legal steps precedent to the incorporation of the Village of Goessel, Kansas, and as above described in metes and bounds description, having been taken, and all acts, conditions and things required to be done precedent to incorporation having been properly done have happened and been performed in regular and due form, it is found that said Petition for Incorporation should be allowed and it is therefore