The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-08-21
Hopkins County Court
IN THE MATTER OF ESTABLISHMENT
AND MAINTENANCE OF EARL.
INGTON GRADED COMMON
SCHOOL ClSTRICT-
(Colored)

This being the next regular term
OF the Hopkins County Court after
the receipt and filing herein Of the
petition of j. w. Bell and eleven
other legal voters and tax payers
within the city of Darlington, q city
of the fifth class In Hopkins county,
the said petition coming on for hear
ing 1t is now ordered by the Court
that the boundary of the proposed
Darlington Graded Common School
District, colored, be fixed pursuant
to the agreement of the County
Judge, the petitioners and the Coun-
ty Board of Education of Hopkins
County, Kentucky, as follows:
Said proposed district shall CON-
prise aud be the same as the terri
tory embraced ia the Darlington
graded common school district
which is identical with the boun-
DIARIES of former consolidated sub
districts Nos. As aud 48 the bound
diaries of each of which are as fol-
lows:
Sub-dlstrict No. 40 begins at the
N. end of S. r. Nisbet's lane on the
Madisonville and Darlington road !;
thence E. to the end of his cross
lane; thence s. to the fork of the
White Plains and Hopkinsville
roads; so as to exclude A. j. Sisk's
farm; thence with the Hopk insville
road to the crossing of the l.. & N.
r.. r.; thence on straight line so
as to include Elias Oldham's farm
and Riffs Oldham's farm; thence to
include Sam and Hiram Oldham's
farms; thence to tire N. w. Corner
of the survey of the town of Earl
lngton; thence with said line to the
N. e. corner thence to the Thomas
Davis place and to Polk Merrill's
place, including Them thence on
straight line to the beginning.
Sub-district No. 48, beginning at
the N E corner of the corporate
line of the town of Darlington;
silence to Thos. Davis place and the
Polk Merrill place, excluding them;
thence with the meanderings of the
Hunting Branch to the Rock Ford
or Cloar Creek; thence to the Steve
Robinson house; thence to Dock
Orifhn's; thence to NJ w. corner of
the corporation line of the town of
Darlington; thence to the begin
ming"
The Sheriff of Hopkins County is
directed to open a poll within said
proposed graded common school
district on Tuesday, September 9Th,
r9l4, for the purpose OF taking the
sense of the legal colored voters in
said graded common school district
on the proposition whether or not
they will vote an annual tax of not
exceeding fifty cents on each One
Hundred Dollars of property asses
sed within said proposed common
school district belonging to colored
voters, and poll tax of not exceed
ing $3.50 per capita on each cOlored
male inhabitant over 81 years of age
residing in said proposed graded
common school district, being both
An ad valorem and a poll tax, for
the purpose of maintaining a COM
mon graded school In said proposed
graded common school district and
for erecting, purchasing and repair
ing suitable buildings therefor If
necessary. The court finds as fact
that the proposition to establish said
graded common school district and
school has been and is approved In
on the petition by Paul M.
Moore, the trustee of the common
school district and the only common
school district included within or
affected by the boundary of the
graded common school
district, aud has been approved IN
writing on said petition by the
Superintendent of Common
that the proposed school
house in said district is the school
house in present use by the Earling-
ton colOred school district within
the city of Darlington, with the lot
upon which the same is situated,
the same being located one block
west of the Louisville q Nashville
Railroad and one block north OF
Main Street In Darlington, Kentuc-