The Mena star., 1898-05-18
ORDER FOR SPECIAL ELECTION FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE COUNTY SEAT OF POLK COUNTY, ARKANSAS.

ORDER FOR SPECIAL ELECTION FOR THE
 REMOVAL OF THE COUNTY SEAT OF POLK
 COUNTY, ARKANSAS.
 Now, on this 9th day of April. A D. 1898. come J. IT. Hamilton, J. P Landes and others and present to the county court of Polk county. Arkansas, petition wherein they pray the court to order an election to be held in the manner provided by law at the several voting places in Polk county, Arkansas, for the pur- pose of submitting to the qualified voters of said county 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 i Company, in the office of the Circuit Clerk and ex-ofiicio Recorder of Deeds of said county on the 18th day of July, 1S96 to which said peti- tion is attached an abstract of title to the above l 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 a certain contract heretofore filed 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 seatand 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-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 fcounty seat of Polk county, has been fully des- ignated, and that said designation embraces a complete and ineligible 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- Yand 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 (24), as the same appears upon the plat of the townsite of Mena, filed by the Arkansas Construction Company in the sF ~ o corder of Deeds for said county on the 18th day of July, 1896, and that said proposition be submitted to the voters of said county at such election, and that such election bc 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 Mena Star, a 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 Fin each township of said county not less than thirty days before the said 18th 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 to 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 ex-ofcio Clerk of the County Court ol said county and state, do hereby certify that the within and foregoing is a true, perfect and complete copy of the Or der of the Polk county court, at the April term | of said court, 1898, the same appears from the Record of said court.
 Witness my hand and seal of said court this - 25th day of April, 1898.
 { SEAL. w. ]. DAVIS, t-~~-~ Polk County. Clerk.
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