Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-04
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City of Pine Bluff

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City of Pine Bluff.
Notice is hereby given to all per
sons, firms, corporation or others
that may in any wise be interested by
city of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, that
nine o'clock am. Thursday July tenth,
1919 in the office of the County
Judge, in the court house of jefferson
county, Arkansas, has been fixed as
the time and place for the hearing of
the petition of said city of Pine Bluff
for the annexation of certain contigu-
GUS territory hereinafter described to
said city of Pine Bluff
That said petition states and shows
in substance, that at the annual cleo
ton held in the city of Pine Bluff on
the first Tuesday in the month of
April, nineteen hundred and nine
teen. there was submitted to the
qualified voters of the said city, the
question of the annexation of certain
contiguous territory, which territory
is hereinafter specified defined and
described
That at said election there was east
for said proposed annexation, and in
favor of the question of annexation
so submitted at said election, a
majority of all the votes cast at the
said election; that the said PROPOSE
ton and question of said annexation
was submitted as aforesaid by a pro-
per resolution of the city council of
the said city, duly made and adopted
by the said council on the sixth day
OF January, 1919 which resolution
was duly and properly amended by
the resolution of the said city coun-
Gil passed, approved and adopted on
the 18th, day of February, 1919; and
the said submission was more than
one month prior to the time of the
holding of the said annual election
aforementioned.
That the said city of Pine Bluff is
DESTROYS in pursuance of the said
resolution heretofore adopted, and
the will of the voters heretofore ex-
pressed at said election, and the
authority and power therein granted
and given by the voters Of SAID city,
legally qualified, a majority of
whom voted for the said annexation
of said territory, to annex the said
territory, and said city now petitions
fthis honorable court for an order an
IneNing the said contiguous territory
to the city of Pine Bluff
n That the territory hereinbefore re-
ssferred to, and which is sought and
proposed to be annexed as aforesaid is
described as follows, to wit:
4 Being contiguous to the said city
of Pine Bluff, and lying between the
present city limits and the following
boundaries, to wit:
Beginning at a point on the pres
ent city limits at the common corner
of section ten, eleven, fourteen and
fifteen of township six south, in
range nine west; thence south one,
mile to the southeast corner of said
section fifteen, thence west one mile
to the southwest corner of said sec
ton fifteen, thence south one half
mile to the southeast corner of the
northeast quarter of section tweny-
one of the same township and range,
thence west one-half mile to the
southwest corner of the northeast
quarter of said section twenty-one,
, thence north one-half mile to the
northeast corner of the northeast
! quarter of said section twenty-one,
thence west one and one-half miles
to the southwest corner of section
seventeen Of the same township and
range, thence north one mile to the
northwest corner of said section seven
teen, thence west one mile to the
southwest corner of section seven of
the same township and range; thence
north to the north line of said town.
ship at the northwest corner of sec
ton six thereof; thence east along
the north line of said township to the
southwest corner of section thirty-six
OF township five south, in range ten
west, thence north one mile to the
northwest corner of said section
thirtysix, thence east to the north
east corner of section thirty-one of
township five south, in range nine
west, thence south to point on the
present city limits at the quarter
corner of sections thirty-one, and
thirtytwo of the last named townhip
and range.
That plat of the said territory,
rather showing the said boundary lies,
and the proposed annexed territory is
attached hereto, made a part of this
petition, and marked for purposes of
Identification, exhibit Az
And notice as above stated is here
by given that at said time and place,
said petition will be presented to the
county court with a prayer for the
Annexation of the territory herein
before described.
Signed at the city of Pine Bluff,
jefferson County, Arkansas, on this
the End, day of June A. d. 1919,
CITY OF PINE BLUFF,
| BY A. r. COOPER,
City Attorney.
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