The Mena star., 1898-05-04
ORDER FOR. SPECIAL. fl-cTloT TOR THE REMOVAL OF TnE COUNTY SEAT OF POLK COUNTY. ARKANSAS

ORDER FOR SPECIAL. ELECTION TOR THE
 REMOVAL OF THE COUNTY SEAT OF POLK
 COUNTY, ARKANSAS.
 Now. on this8h dsy sf tNrii. < D. isas. come J. II. Hamilton, p. asa45a sud others and present to the e4unsy s,ust e Polk county. Arkansas, petition wheretn they pray the court to order an election to be held in the manner provided by lae. at Cine several voting places in Polk county, Arkansas, for the pur- pose Of submitting to tie qualified voters of said county a petition to remove the county seat of said county from the town of Dallas, where said county seat is now located to that tract of land in the town of Mena, designated and described as Block Twenty Four (24). as the same appears upon the plat of the townsite of Mena, filed by the Arkansas Construction Company, in the office of the Circuit Clerk and ex-officio Recorder of Deeds of said county on the 18th day of July 1S96, to which said peti- tion is attached abstract of title to the above described tract of land to which it is proposed to change the said county seat and the said petition further setting out the terms and con ditions upon which said tract of land will be donated to the county for such purposes, which said terms and conditions are more full ly set out in q certain contract heretofore flied with the court, executed by the Arkansas Townsite Company wherein the said The Ar kansas Townsite Company proposes to donate said tract of land to the said Polk county, for the purpose of locating thereon the said coun- ty seat and the county buildings the said con tract further proposing to donate to the county for the purpose of locating the said buildings on said tract of ground, the sum of FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
 And the court having seen and read the said petition, and fully considered the same, doth find that more than one-t third of the qualified voters of Polk county, Arkansas, have signed and joined in the said petition, and that the place to which it is proposed to change the county seat of Polk county, has been fully des- ignated, and that said designation embraces a complete and intelligible description of the proposed location, together with an abstract of title thereto, and the terms and conditions upon which the same will be donated to said county
 And the court further finds that the original cost of the court house and jail of the said Polk county was less than the sum of Ten Thous- and Dollars, and the court further finds that the said petition in all respects complies with the laws of the State of Arkansas, for peti- tions for the change or removal of county seats.
 It is therefore considered, ordered and ad- judged by the court that an election be held at the several voting places in the said county, for the purpose of submitting the proposition for the change or removal of the county seat of said county from it's present location in the town of Dallas to that tract of ground in the town of Mena. designated and described as Block Twenty Four t24l, as the same appears upon the plat of the t0wnsite of Mena, filed by the Arkansas Construction Company in the office of the Circuit Clerk and ex-offieio Re- corder of Deeds for said county on the 18th day of July, 1S96 and that said proposition be submitted to the voters of said county at such election and that such election be held on the
 25th day of June. A. D 1896
 It is further ordered that public notice be given of such election for the purpose of vot- ing upon the proposition Of the change or re- moyal of said county seat by the publication of this order in The MeHa Star newspaper published and printed in the said Polk county, and that the Sheriff of Said county post up in hand bill form printed copies of this order in not less than three of the most public places in each township of said county not less than thirty days before the said 25th day of June, A. D. 1898. the day upon which the said election shall be held, at which the proposition for the change or removal of said county seat is te be voted upon, all of which notices shall be pub lished and continued up until the day of such election. ". $. sTINNETT,
 County Judge. STATE OF ARKANSAS, Polk County:
 I.w.J Davis, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Polk county Arkansas, and cx-nficio Clerk of the County Court of saiei ceuutg aad state, do hereby cartifv that thp within and .oravnin0 Q is a true, perfect and complete copy of the Or der of the Polk county court, at the April term of said court. 1898, as the same appears from the Record of said court.
 Witness my hand and seal of said court this (~-~ 18th day of April, 1s9S
 l { SEAL. W. J. DAVIS, (s-~-~l Polk County. Clerk. c.I.