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HISTORY OF SAGINAW COUNTY.

on the said two squares of land described, and lying in the said city
of Saginaw."
SAGINAW TOWNSHIP ORGANIZED.
For a period extending over four years between 1831 and 1835,
the district known as the county of Saginaw formed a township
attached to Oakland for judicial purposes.
The Legislative Council of the Territory ordained that "all that
part of the country lying within the limits of the county of Sagana
heretofore set off and established as the county of Sagana, be and
the same is hereby set off into a separate township, and the name
thereof shall be Sagana. That the first township meeting to be
held in such township shall be held at the fort of Sagana, on the
first Monday in April, which will be in the year 1831. That nothing in this act shall in any manner affect the assessment and collection of taxes made or to be made within the said district pf
country, as a part of the township of Pontiac, for the year 1830."
This act was approved July 12, 1i30, and came into force 1831,
when Gardner D. Williams was elected supervisor, David Stanard
overseer of No. 1 district, or Saginaw; Eleazer Jewett, overseer of
No. 2 district, or Greenpoint; Charles McLean overseer of the 3d district, or Tittabawassee. This first meeting was held April 4, 1831, at
the Saginaw fort. After the election the board organized, and
proceeding at once to business appropriated $25 for the poor fund,
and $50 for building roads and bridges.
CHANGE OF BOUNDARIES.
The act of the Legislative Council approved March 2, 1831, abrogated that portion of Gen. Cass' proclamation dealing with the
county, and ordained that its boundaries shall begin at a point
where the line between ranges 6 and 7 east intersects the line
between townships 8 and 9 north; thence west to the meridian, thence
north on the meridian line to the line between townships 12 and
13; thence east to the line between ranges 2 and 3 east; thence
north to the line between townships 14 and 15; thence east
to the line between ranges 6 and 7 east; thence south to the
place of beginning, containing 32 townships. Within this district
Eleazer Jewett surveyed the first county roads in 1832, as elsewhere
noticed. Gardner D. Williams served as supervisor from April,
1831, to April, 1834, when William F. Mosley was elected to serve
until the election of 1835.
ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY.
During 1834, the question of conferring on the township of Saginaw the status of a county was discussed, and a resolution of the
Council passed to the effect:-" That the county of Saginaw shall
be organized when this act takes effect, and the inhabitants entitled
to all the rights and privileges to which, by law, the inhabitants of