Name: Peaine Township hires a cemetery surveyor and pursues its tax appeal, 1984
Start: 1984-12-11
End: 1984-12-11
Location: Township of Peaine

Locator map: Township of Peaine highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Took place at Township of PeaineLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Event

Date: 1984-12-11
Kind: Meeting
Where: Township of Peaine
Carried out by: Township of Peaine
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: governmentpropertyinfrastructureconservationcommunication
Within: Township of Peaine

Summary

At its December 11, 1984 meeting, Peaine Township hired a cemetery surveyor, authorized a circuit-court tax suit, approved an airport lease, appointed a board of review, and began work on a sanitary-landfill ordinance.

Evidence limits

The newspaper minutes preserve township action and assertions, not the later legal, survey, lease, or environmental outcomes.

Sources

Peaine Township regular meeting minutes, Beaver Beacon, January 1985.
Reports hiring Charlevoix Abstract and Engineering Co. for a $1,942 cemetery survey shared with St. James, authorizing a circuit-court tax suit, an airport lease, board-of-review appointments, DNR progress, and a sanitary-landfill ordinance concerning raw sewage and fish remains. It is a newspaper account of minutes, not a survey, legal filing, lease, or environmental record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, January 1985, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held fifteen-page January issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Peaine Township minutes.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Peaine Township hires a cemetery surveyor and pursues its tax appeal, 1984”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-peaine-township-december-11-1984-meeting/, accessed [date], citing Peaine Township regular meeting minutes, Beaver Beacon, January 1985. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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