Sharp County record., 1891-01-22
e Election Order .
David r. King and eight
hundred AMI fory-ninc Appeal
others, Petitioners. from coun
Against ty Court
Wm, T. Stokes and Others.
Respondents.


Against ty Court
VIM, 7. Stokes and others,
Respondents.
Now on this day came the petitioners
and respondents by their respective ut
torneys and this cause came on for final
hearing on the petition Of the peti ton
ers and the response of the respondents,
and after the argument Of cou s4l and
the court being fully advised in the
premises, the court is Of opinion thBt
said response is insufficient 1t is there
fore considered and sdjudgod by the
court that said response be and the same
is dismissed and Ovtrru cd.
And 1t further appearing to the salts
faction OF the court from the peltiou,
abstract Of title, and the evidence adj
tuced that the qualified voters of Sharp
county to the number of one third there.
Of, have joined in the petition 10 the
county court Of said county for the
change or removal Of the county sea,
Of SAID Sharp county to the town OF
Confer in said conatv, and that they
had embodied in said petition propos
ed donation Of one acre of land adi0in-
ing the said town OF Center in Sharp
county by Na'mus King and also the
conditions OF said donation and an alb
sract OF the title to the same, and also
setting up in said petition that David
Il, King proposed TO furnish TO the
county Of Shape house in the said
town OF Center in which the courts of
said county can be held and the records
Of the county can be kept for period
Of two years and the court being salts,
fled flom said abstract of title that said
donor Harmus King can aud will make
good and sufficient tile to the propos
ed one acre OF ground described IN said
petition in case SAID county son, shah
BE- ly a majority Of thp voter, of Sharp
county located ut said town of Cente,
aud oil and singular the premises being
seen and by the court fully understood
II is ordered that nm election 90 bo hel
and conducted in accordance " til ohnpt
SO Mansiield's Digest shall DO held IN
accordance with tho prayer OF said pc.
tltlon ut the several voting precincts IN
the county Of Sh@p on Saturday, the
Oath day Of january, 1901 ut which
said election shall be submitted to the
qualified voters of Sharp county the
proposition OF said petition foi the
change or removal Of the county seat of
sharp county from its present location
at Evening Shade in sad county to the
town Of Center in said county. And II
is further ordered By the court that
public notice shall BE- given OF the cleo
tion for such proposed change or romov
al by publishing the order in the SHARP
COUNTY RICoRD, weekly Newspaper
printed and published ut Evening Shade
IN said county and having "a general
bona Bde circulation therein, for a period
Of not less than thirty days before said
2iCh day Of January 1891, aud Il Is fur
thcr directed aud ordered by the cont
that the sheriff Of sharp county post
up IN hand bill form printed copies o
this order IN not less than three Of the
most public places In each township Of
Sharp County not less than thirty ys
before tho said Gath Of Jauuary, 1891
tho day Of said election And this
cause having boon appealed from the
county court OF Sharp county, 1t is order,