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	Burt, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are also two Burt Townships in Michigan.
		Burt is an unincorporated community in Saginaw County, Michigan, United States.
		It is a Census-designated place (CDP) used for statistical purposes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burt,_Michigan (357 words)

	William A. Burt and the Upper Peninsula
		By this time the township lines in the western end of the peninsula were almost to the Wisconsin boundary, and Burt, tired and worn from what he described as his hardest surveys, was ready to leave field work to younger men.
		Burt and his party finished the work in just over one month, but the job was not without hardships and some excitement: they encountered Indians who at first regarded them as trespassers.
		Burt gave the tribesmen some presents and convinced them that their lands were not in jeopardy.
	www.michiganhistorymagazine.com /extra/surveying/burt.html (2019 words)

	List of cities, villages, and townships in Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charter township status was created by the state legislature in 1947 and grants additional powers and streamlined administration.
		Charter townships that meet certain criteria are also provided greater protection against annexation by a city or villate.
		Townships must meet population requirements before they can seek charter status.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_cities_in_Michigan (543 words)

	Emmett Township
		Modern Emmett Township is populated by the descendants of the immigrants from a number of countries, primarily of western and central Europe and the British Isles.
		The legal definition of all townships in Michigan is in terms of their relationship to the place where the baseline and the principal meridian.
		All township board meetings, elections and voting on issues were held in private residences, except on special occasions when meeting with county boards were held in available halls in the Village of Emmett.
	www.theirishamericanclub.org /EmmettTownship.htm (3138 words)

	History of Erin Township
		When the surveyors finished their arduous work, they were offered land in the newly-surveyed Township as their pay, or part of it; but not being favourably impressed with the wilderness, they refused to accept it.
		Following the survey of the township about 1820, the surveyors were not impressed with the wilderness, and refused to accept the property, saying that it was of little value.
		Township of Erin in 1842, was a close neighbour of Squire Trout.
	www.town.erin.on.ca /about/townshiphistory.html (22310 words)

	William Austin Burt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Burt's inventions included America’s first writing machine ("typographer"), but it was his solar compass that earned him fame as one of the most accurate of the early pioneer surveyors.
		While he was running lines, Burt first encountered what was to be a recurrent problem for all the government surveyors of that era: the frequent disturbance of the magnetic compasses by mineral attraction.
		The heavy brush took its toll on clothing, and as Burt neared the Superior shore, he wrote his wife that his "Coat and Pantiloons are most gone", and requested that she make him a new outfit from the "strongest kind of bedticking".
	www.geo.msu.edu /geo333/burt.htmL (1880 words)

	Albee Township, Saginaw County, Michigan
		This township was organized in 1863 with the first meeting held in the home of William C. Albee.
		It is owned by the township and records are held by the township supervisor.
		The cemetery is owned by the township and records are held by the township supervisor.
	www.mifamilyhistory.org /saginaw/albee (368 words)

	History of the Provisional County of Haliburton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This township was surveyed in 1862, and was named after the town of Cardiff in Glamorganshire, Wales, noted for its castle and church, founded in A.D. The town is situated on the Bristol Channel and was once surrounded by a wall in which were five gates.
		This township was also named in honor of a distinguished soldier, Brigadier General Sir William Eyre, born in 1805, died 1859, entered the 6th regiment of infantry in 1823 as an ensign and was promoted through all the steps, until in 1854 he received his command of a brigade in the army of the east.
		This township was surveyed in 1872 and was named in honor of Sir Colin Campbell, grand officer of the Legion of Honor, a Field Marshal in the British Army, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, born near Glasgow in 1792, died in 1863.
	www.haliburtonhighlands.com /museum/hpch.htm (10723 words)

	Potter chapter 29 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		J.K. Burt, who has the proud distinction of being the first white male child born in Potter county, was born in Roulette township in 1811, at a time when there were no educational advantages, and when the country was absolutely wild.
		Burt is a member of Eulalia Lodge, No. 342, F. and A.M. He is a Democrat, and although he takes an active interest in politics, he is not an office-seeker.
		About 1853 his parents removed to Sweden township, Potter Co., Penn., and purchased a tract of over 200 acres of land; this was cleared, and they became prominent citizens of that township.
	www.accessible.com /amcnty/PA/McKeanElkCamPot/Potter29.htm (5549 words)

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		The Township Rural Zoning Act (TRZA) is an enabling act granting townships the authority to regulate land use and pass zoning ordinances.
		MCL 125.276; MSA 5.2963(6) states: Members of the township zoning board may receive such compensation as may be fixed by the township board.
		MCL 125.277a; MSA 5.2963(7) states: The township zoning board may engage the services of a township planning expert with the consent of the township board, and the compensation for the services shall be paid from appropriations made by the township board.
	www.michbar.org /opinions/appeals/1999/121499/5805.html (2218 words)

	Gaylord Herald Times
		Burt has a bachelor's degree in land use planning from Central Michigan University and a master's degree in geography from Western Michigan University.
		Burt's current position as director of county planning and GIS mapping in Berrien County involves working with 39 municipalities, including 22 townships, eight villages and nine cities.
		Burt believes the reduction in state revenue sharing is a critical issue all counties are facing.
	www.gaylordheraldtimes.com /articles/2005/12/19/news/top_stories/top_stories05.txt (858 words)

	Otter Tail County Minnesota Genealogy MnGenWeb Maine Township
		The township of Maine (township 134, range 41) was organized by the county commissioners on September 5, 1871.
		Red river flows through the southern part of the township from east to west and an enlargement of the river in the southwestern part of the township is known as Lost lake.
		Maine township was settled early in the history of the county, but so far it has never had a village platted within its limits.
	www.jsenterprises.com /ottertail/townships/maine.htm (480 words)

	Pittsfield Charter Township v Washtenaw County
		Pittsfield Township took the position that the proposed use violated its zoning ordinance and thus was impermissible because the Township Zoning Act (TZA), MCL 125.271 et seq., and specifically MCL 125.271(1),1 gives its zoning priority that the county cannot ignore.
		The township filed a complaint in the Washtenaw Circuit Court seeking a declaration that the county must comply with the townshipÂ’s zoning ordinance, and seeking to enjoin the county from disregarding the zoning ordinance and proceeding with the construction of the proposed homeless shelter.
		4 The township filed a similar motion asserting the converse, that the TZA gave it priority and that, accordingly, the county was not immune.
	www.icle.org /michlaw/oview.cfm?caseid=11959011 (4387 words)

	Salem Chapter 76 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Oldman’s Creek flows along a portion of the northern border, and several small streams have their sources in the township, radiating irregularly from near the centre, aiding in the drainage of the land, and affording small water-powers here and there.
		The township is traversed in all directions by well-kept roads, connecting it with various points in Salem, Gloucester, and Cumberland Counties and beyond.
		The Salem Branch of the West Jersey Railroad, in its course from Elmer to Salem, crosses the township, with a station at Daretown.
	www.accessible.com /amcnty/NJ/gloucester/Salem76.htm (4791 words)

	Opinion #5851
		MCLA 41.723, Section 3(b) requires that an improvement not be made unless a petition is filed with the township board and in the case of water mains or sewers requires record owners of lands constituting at least 51% of the total land area in the special assessment district to sign the petition.
		It is assumed for purposes of your questions related to the petition that the township population does not exceed 2,000 or that the township board does not desire to proceed under the optional provisions of the statute.
		There appears to be no statutory authority for a township to specially assess state lands for purposes set forth in 1954 PA 188, supra, or in any other statute, and without such authority the township may not do so.
	www.ag.state.mi.us /opinion/datafiles/1980s/op05851.htm (707 words)

	USPLS survey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Thus "T2N, R3W" means the second township north of the baseline and the third west of the meridian.
		The sections within each township are numbered from one to thirty-six, beginning with number one in the northeast corner, continuing westward to number six in the northwest corner.
		In response to this demand the federal government began to lithograph the township maps of various states.
	www.geo.msu.edu /geo333/Survey.html (2055 words)

	Roxanne Quimby Purchases High Priority 24,000 Acre Township East of Baxter Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Burt’s Bees Inc. co-founder Roxanne Quimby has purchased one of the highest priority East Branch townships adjacent to Baxter State Park for $12,041,500.
		The natural features that make the township so valuable from a protection standpoint are that it contains the eastern slopes of the impressive Traveler mountain range and both sides of the East Branch of the Penboscot River for 10 miles, starting at the outlet of Matagamon Lake.
		Back to Burt's Bees, Quimby is excited about her new business partners and the arrangement she has made with them.
	www.meepi.org /files03/pa112403.htm (2845 words)

	Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Reaffirmation Act
		(1) The members of the Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, whose historic name is the Cheboigan (or Cheboygan) Band, are descendants and political successors to signatories of the 1836 Treaty of Washington and the 1855 Treaty of Detroit.
		Before World War II, more than 50 percent of the Burt Lake families were still speaking the traditional language in their homes, and more than 50 percent of those tribal members who were married were married to other Ottawa and Chippewa individuals.
		The initial Constitution of the Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians shall be the Constitution which the Band submitted to the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Office of Federal Acknowledgment on May 2, 2005.
	www.theorator.com /bills109/hr4802.html (1956 words)

	History of Federal Ridings since 1867 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The East Riding of the county of Lambton shall consist of the townships of Enniskillen, Brooke, Warwick and Bosanquet, the town of Petrolia, and the villages of Oil Springs, Alvinston, Watford, Arkona and Thedford.
		The county of Lambton and the townships of Zone and Camden in the county of Kent into two ridings, to be called respectively the east and the west ridings of Lambton.
		The east riding shall consist of the townships of Bosanquet, Brooke, Enniskillen, Euphemia, Zone, Camden and Warwick, and the towns of Forest and Petrolia, and the villages of Alvinston, Arkona, Oil Springs, Thedford and Watford.
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Det&Include=Y&rid=363 (202 words)

	Chapter 2
		The original set of field notes and plats of township surveys for the area included in the State of Iowa is in the office of the Secretary of State in Des Moines.
		Burt found that the traditional magnetic compass was often distracted by iron ore deposits, so he created and patented the solar compass in 1836
		Burt was also a significant character in surveying history because of his reputation for honesty.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~mcmiller/RESEARCH/THESIS/chapter2.htm (6304 words)

	History of Hannibal, New York
		This survey township of Hannibal included all of the present county of Oswego lying west of the Oswego River, except the north thirty-three lots of the township of Lysander, which, when Oswego county was formed, were included in that county, and now form a part of the town of Granby.
		This continued until February 28, 1806, when the military township of Hannibal was separated from Lysander and made a town by the name of Hannibal in the county of Onondaga.
		When Oswego county was formed, March 1, 1816, the town of Hannibal and the north thirty-three lots of Lysander were taken from Onondaga county and made a part of Oswego county, and the thirty-three lots were annexed to the town of Hannibal, which thereby included all of Oswego county lying west of the river.
	history.rays-place.com /ny/hannibal-ny.htm (5253 words)

	Salary Database
		The data is used to provide townships with a comparable measure on which to base compensation and benefit packages.
		Compensation data can be compared to 10 other townships based on population, SEV and on a county-wide basis.
		It is hopeful that in the future MTA will be able to provide this information here on the website allowing township elected officials the opportunity to do their own inquires.
	www.michigantownships.org /salarydb.asp (340 words)

	John W. Meldrum
		Two years later Meldrum, under contract number 204, was surveying townships bordering on the Snake River in present day northern Malheur county.
		Subsequent contracts called for many townships which for the most part were located in southeastern Oregon, in the Malheur Lake/Steens Mountain area.
		The surveyor general reported "John W. Meldrum presented an improved Burt's patent solar compass No. 4982, made by William J. Young and Son, Philadelphia, Pa. Placed upon the meridian, it was found to be slightly in error in both latitude and declination arcs.
	www.plso.org /readingroom/meldrum.htm (1694 words)

	Southeast Kansas Library System SEKLS genealogy bibliography: Iowa genealogy holdings, books.
		SEK Q 912 A Atlas of Clinton County, Iowa : containing maps of townships of the county; maps of state, United States, and world; farmers directory; analysis of the system of U.S. land surveys.
		SEK 929.2 B Burt, Mary Emma and Burt, Robert Eugene.
		NC 929.3777 H History of Johnson county, Iowa; containing a history of the county, and its townships, cities and villages, 1836-1882.
	www.sekls.lib.ks.us /genser/ia1.html (715 words)

	State of Superior Cuisine: Yooper Food: Iron County
		A man named William Burt noted “an outcrop of iron ore five feet high” while surveying the area in 1846.
		Due to the large migration of miners along the western Menominee Range, there were calls to separate a new county out of the western townships of what was then Marquette County.
		With the game still hot, Commissioners Frank Scadden and Burt Hughitt, both of Crystal Falls, left the game, pretending that they were going to go to bed.
	www.kenanderson.net /up/html/iron.html (456 words)

	Family and Ancestry of Lewis Randall Hobart and L
		Burt, Henry Martyn, 1899, The First Century of the History of Springfield: The Official Records from 1636 to 1736, Springfield, MA: H. Burt, 2 vols., 472+710 p., pp.
		Burt, Henry Martyn, 1899, The First Century of the History of Springfield: The Official Records from 1636 to 1736, Springfield, MA: H. Burt, 2 vols., 472+710 p., p.
		Burt, Henry Martyn, 1899, The First Century of the History of Springfield: The Official Records from 1636 to 1736, Springfield, MA: H. Burt, 2 vols., 472+710 p.
	users.sisna.com /mhobart/US/LRHobart-LMTrask/ps_src.htm (10815 words)

	Historical Plaques of Haliburton County
		The Company which had purchased ten townships in the district, agreed to assist in supporting a missionary and that same year the Reverend Frederick Burt was appointed.
		A native of England, Burt had earlier served as missionary in Montreal and in Huntingdon, Quebec.
		At the village of Minden, which soon became the centre of his mission, Burt first conducted services in a schoolhouse, but about 1868 construction was begun on this simple frame church.
	www.waynecook.com /ahaliburton.html (851 words)

	Story Corner \| AgateLady.com \| Gitche Gumee Agate Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		However, Grand Marais contains the majority of people in Burt Township, on which data is available, so the assumption will be made that Grand Marais is a reflection of Burt Township and the same trends and projections apply.
		Burt Township’s population increased in the 1940s but decreased from 1950 to 1960, as did all the surrounding townships except Hiawatha.
		The school census for Burt Township shows a decrease in the 0 to 19 age group of 78 children between 1959 and 1968 which indicates a continuing population decrease.
	www.agatelady.com /Story_Corner_Part_3_2005d.htm (1329 words)

	Michigan Appellate Digest - 200328 Burt Township v Department of Natural Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ordinances regulating land development may also be adopted designating or limiting the location, height, number of stories, and size of dwellings, buildings and structures which may be erected or altered, including tents and trailer coaches, and the specific uses for which dwellings, buildings, and structures, including tents and trailer coaches, may be erected or altered.
		In this case, the defendant DNR began construction of a boat launch facility in the plaintiff township without obtaining approval of the township's zoning administrator.
		A zoning ordinance may not totally exclude a lawful land use if there is a demonstrated need for the use in the township or surrounding area, and the use is appropriate for the location.
	courtofappeals.mijud.net /Digest/newHTML/20032821.htm (658 words)

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