The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1920-05-06
Certified Copy of Order.
STATE OF MISSOURI 60,
County nf lnhner wv


sT4 eTaD or q M Jasper Set.
jasper County Court February Term,
1920:
BE It Remembered, That on the 9th
day OF April, 1920, in said court, the
following among other proceedings
were had, TO wit:
Now on this 9th day OF April,
1920, comes G. b. Patterson, Luther
Wescott and more than fifty quail
flied voters, who are resident tax
PAYERS OF the proposed Special Road
bistrict hereinafter described, and 'file
a petition with the Court, asking the
Court to submit to o vote OF the people
OF the hereinafter proposed road dis
trict, for their adoption or rejection, an
Act OF the General Assembly Of the
State OF Missouri, approved on the
9Th day OF March, 1895; as amended,
Laws 1903, D. 260; Laws 1909, p. 1856 (be-
ing now Article 6, Chapter 102 OF the
Revised. Statutes, Missouri, 1909 and
entitled "Act to provide for working
and improving the Public Roads, by
organization OF Special Road Districts,
Of territory not more than eight miles
square and to raise revenue therefor,
and to further provide that when this
act shall become law IL shall take ef-
feet and be in force only in such pre-
scribed territory, wherein the County
Court shall by order OF record declare
the same to be the lawn such prescribed
territory where adopted by the legal vot-
ers thereof:
And it appearing from said petition
that the territory proposed TO be orga-
nized under the provisions OF said act
is described as follows, to-wit:
| Commencing at the Northwest corner
Of Section Sixteen (l6), Township
Thirty (30), Range Thirty-One (3l),
running thence South Four az miles
to the Southwest corner OF Section Thir-
ty-Three 1881, Township Thirty 1907,
Range Thirty.One (3D, thence East Six
| 10y miles to the Southeast corner Of
Section Thirty-Two 1927, Township
Thirty 1907, Range Thirty (3o), thence
North Four(4) miles to the Northeast
corner OF Section Seventeen IN, Town
ship Thirty 1907, Range Thirty (80) q,
thence West Six(6l miles to place OF
beginning. All being in Preston and
Sheridan Townships, Jasper County,
Missouri:
The city or Jasper, city OF the fourth
class being located and situated within
said territory.
And it appearing TO the satisfaction
OF the Court that said petition1s signed
by more than fifty qualified voters,
who are resident taxpayers OF the afore-
said Road district:
1t is therefore ordered by the Court
that Special Election be held on Tues
day, the Eighteenth day OF May, 1920
And 1t is further ordered that said
Election be held at the fol lowing place,
to-wit:
Jasper Voting Precinct, Preston
Township: 1t being further ordered
by this court that all those residing In
Sheridan Township Voting Precinct,
and residing within boundary lines OF
said proposed Special Road District,
shall vote at said above set out voting
place.
The voting place shall be established
by the constable OF Preston Township
and be within the limits Of the said
proposed Special Road District in ac-
cordance with the Law.
At which Special Election said Act
shall be submitted to the qualified vot-
ers OF said proposed Special Road Dis
trict, for their Adoption or Rejection,
and the form OF the ballot voted at such
Special Election shall be:
FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE
ROAD LAW.
And
AGAINST THE ADOPTION OF
THE ROAD LAW.
with the direction Erase the clause
you do not favor."
And that notice Of such submission
and election be given by publication Of
q Certified Copy OF the Order in the Jas
perNews, a newspaper published in City
Of Jasper, Jasper County, Mo-, for two
consecutive weeks, the last insertion
| to be within Five(5) days next before
said election. And that due and prop
or returns OF said Election to be made to
this Court.
STATE OF MISSOURI, ss
County Of Jasper 49,
/, Chas. DAVIDSON, Clerk OF the Coun-
ty Court within and for the State and
County aforesaid, hereby certify that
the within and foregoing is q true copy
of an order made by said County Court
on the day and year above written, as
the same appears OF record in my Office.
In Testimony Whereof, 1 have here
unto set my hand and affixed the seal
Of said Court at Office in Carthage, this
the 9th day OF April, 1920.