The Van Buren press., 1877-06-19
COUNTY SEAT REMOVAL.
In the Matter of the Removal of the
County Seat of Crawford County
inthe State of Arkansas, from Van
Buren, to Alma in said County

0N this day this cause came on to be heard
~ ON the aInended petition filed by,
r. Burrow Esq. Tor and upon the oehaii OF
NJ. f. Locke, and other petitioners praying for
an election on the proposition of the said Pc
titioners to remove the county seat of Craw-
foru county from Van Buren,. where Is Is now
established, TO Alma, in Crawford county,
aforesaid. And the Court. after an examine
ton of said petition. being salts led that the
said petition is in all things regular as G.
CURED by law, and the same being accompa-
MED by an abstract of the title to the lands
to which such county seat is proposed to be
moved, and which are proposed to be donat-
ed to said county of Crawford, by NJ. F..
Locke and other citizens of Alma, which lots
are numbered ., TO- II and II in Block II, in
said towa of Alma. And it being made to
appear. by evidence. to the Court, that over
one third Of the qualified voters Of said Craw-
ford county have joined in signing said petit
ton for the change or removal OF said county
seat of said Crawford county from Van Pu-
rem. where it is now established, in said Craw-
ford county. the court Is of the opinion that
the prayer Of said petitioners should be gran
ted. 1t is, therefore, considered, ordered and
adjudged, by the court that the proposition.
to-wit of NJ. f. Locke. and others. be'submit-
ted to the qualified voters OF Crawford coun-
ty. on the 10th day of July. Il. d., 1877. And
1t Is further ordered and adjudged by the
Court. thatan election be held at each and all
the voting precincts in said Crawford county
on the 10th day of July 1877. at which time
and places Of voting, the proposition of said
petition, to-wit, Of Nj. F. Locke and others,
for the change and removal of said county
seat of said county Of Crawford from Van
Buren, to Alma, shall be submitted to the
qualified voters OF said county of Crawl ford
AMI that said election for that purpose be con-
Quoted and held In the same manner as gene
raj elections are required by law to be held
and the returns thereof to be made as prescri-
bed by law. in all things pertaining to said
election. and the returns thereof to be made
to this Court at the next July term thereof, as
ordered and adjudged, by the Court. that pub.
lie notice shall be given Of said election, here
in ordered. for such proposed change or re-
moval OF said county seat of Crawford coun-
ty from Van Buren, to Alma by publication
in the Van Buren, Press and Argus and Alma
Herald, newspapers published In the county
of Crawford And the Sheriff of Craw ford
county is hereby ordered. directed and re-
QHired to put mp public notices or handhils
from printed copies of this order, in not less
than four at the public places of each town
ship In sold county of ford, not less Than
thirty day before the day of election, here.
luDetorc ordered 20 be held, at hich the pro-
position fer the Change or removal Of the
county seat OF said Crawford county. l. voted
upon, all OF which said notices shall be pub
lished and continued up until the day OF said
election rs provided by law.
A trpe copy Of the record Of date April 80.
Il. d.. 1877.
Attest: Ed. a. ScoTr, Clerk.