Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-04-25
NOTICE
OF Special School Election, Dis
trict of Lincoln, May 2, 1905.

session, March oil, 1Suo.
Whereas, by Special Act of the
Regular Session, 1905, of West
Virginia Legislature, lin event of
a majority of the votes cast at an
election to be held on the First
Tuesday of May, 1905, be in favor
thereof" an Independent School
District of Sistersville was estab-
lished, section One of which Act
is as follows, to-wit:
Section l. "That in the event
of a majority of the votes cast at
an election to be held on the first
Tuesday of May, one thousand
nine hundred and five, be in favor
thereof, the following described
territory in the County of Tyler
shall, after the result of such cleo
ton is ascertained and declared,
be the Independent School Dis
trict of Sistersville, to-wit: The
City of Sistersville and the terri
tory contained within the follow
ing described boundaries, and be-
ing the same territory including
what is now Sub-School District
No. 6 of Lincoln district, Tyler
County, West Virginia, and which
is particularly described as fol-
lows: Beginning at a stake and
stone pile on the bank of the Ohio
river, 525 feet down said river
from a common corner of lands of
r. N. Wells and Eph Wells on
said river bank, said beginning
corner being in line with and op-
posite the entrance to the line
commonly known as the Eph
Wells lane, thence in straight
line and parallel with the division
line between lands of said Eph
and r. N. Wells, south so, east A.
900 feet, to a stake and stone pile
in back line of said lands Of said
Eph Wells, being an old patent
line, and being the division line
between the lands of said Eph
Wells and Nathan Salisbury !:
thence up and with said old pat
ent line north sc, east $3.50 feet,
to a large white oak in the south
line of land of J. r. Jones; said
white oak being the original
northeast corner of what is COM
monty known as the Samuel Cor
bitt or Raleigh Moore tract, now a
corner between Lazear and the
McCoach and West tracts; thence
continuing the same straight line
and crossing the J. T. Jones, Ev-
cline Russell and Henry W. Nc
Coy tracts of land to a black oak
being the southeast corner to the
Joshua Russell farm, and also an
established corner to said Joshua
Russell farm, land now owned by
said Henry W. Mccoy; thence
with the division line between the
said Joshua Russell farm and said
Henry W. Mccoy, north 81, west
2574 feet, to a white hickory (now
gomez, being an old original pat
ent corner on the bank Of the said
Ohio river; thence down said
river with the meanders thereof
and binding thereon 1850 feet,
to the stone pile, the place of be-
ginning.
The territory described above
is identical with what is now Sub
School District No. 6 of Lincoln
District, Tyler County, West Vir-
ginia, and is to constitute and be
known as the Independent School
district of Sistersville."
Therefore, pursuant to the pro-
vision of said Act and the call for
this special session of this court it
is hereby ordered by the said
County Court of the County of
Tyler, that the question of the
adoption or rejection of the pro-
visions of the said act be submit
ted to the legal and competent vO-
tiers residing in Lincoln District,
this county, on Tuesday, the sec
ond day of May, 1905.
Said election to be held and
conducted at the voting places of
the respective election precincts
of said district of Lincoln, and the
result thereof ascertained and de-
clared in all respects as now pro-
vided by law for general elections