Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-03-24
PETITION

TO THE COUNTY BOARD OF PUBLIC
INSTRUCTION OF PUTNAM COUN-
TY, FLORIDA:
We, the undersigned residents quail
or personal property. or both, within
the limits of Welala Special Tax
School District Number Seven ca, of
Putnam county, Florida, as said Dis
District is described as follows, to-
Beginning at point on the East
side of Little Lake George where the
Section Line between Sections IL and
IA in Township IL South, Range 26
East, would strike the water thence
East along said Line to the Half-Mile
Stake between Sections II and IA,
thence North along the Half-Mile Line
t6r9Hg4 Sections u and T0TnsihlP
on through Section S5 in Township IL,
South, Range rs East, thence West
along Section Line between Sections
50 and 20; 81 and "a to the Acosta
course of the Branch to the st. Johns
River, thence Southerly along the me-
andering of the st. Johns River and
Little Lake George, to the starting
residents qualified electors, and tax
payers on real or personal property,
or both, in certain territory surround
ing on all sides the above described
District Number Seven CD, which said
District it is proposed to so extend and
enlarge as to take in the surrounding
territory so that said District as eX-
tended and enlarged will be limited
and bounded as is hereinafter describ-
ed do each and every of US, hereby
petition your honorable Body to call
an Election as is provided by law, to
determine whether or not the limits of
the said Special Tax School District
Number Seven co, shall be extended
nd n,1o n toll in nd in
clude within its proposed limits such
surrounding territory, which said sur
rounding territory is not now included
in any Special Tax School District.
The said District to be so extended
enlarged and formed for the purpose
of levying and collecting Special Dis
trict School Tax for the exclusive use
of Public Free Schools within the said
proposed District as same is herein
after described; to better promote the
educational interest in said proposed
extended and enlarged District and to
provide better equipment for the Pub
lie Free Schools therein;
Said proposed extended and enlarged
Welaka Special Tax School District
Number Seven 90, is described as fol-
lows:
Beginning at the Northeast Corner
of Section %, Township II, Range &c
East and running West along North
Line of said Section %, and thence on
same Line North of Sections 26, q and
2S to St Johns River; thence North
along channel of River to South
Boundary of Section A. Joseph NJ.
Hernandez Grant; thence Southwest
erly along South Line of said Grant to
point which is the Northwest Cor
ner of Section 49, Miguel Crosby Grant :;
| thence Southwest along the North and
! West Boundaries of said Grant to a
| point of intersection of said Line with
| Section 5, Township II. Range 26 East;
! thence West along North Boundary of
! said Section 5, and continuing West
| along North Boundaries of Sections 5
and 6, and on to County Line between
| Marion and Putnam Counties; thence
! to st. Johns River; thence North along
channel of said River to a point where
the Half Section-Line of Section &c,
Township -, Range 26 East strikes
the East Bank of the said River;
thence East along this Half Section
! Line to the Sertion Line between Sec
| lions IS and &C. Township 70, Range
| % East; thence North along said Line
| West of Sections "a, 13 and u, to the
| Northwest Corner of Section 70, and
thence West to the Northeast Corner
| of said Section 10; thence North along
Section Line West of Section 6, Town
| ship 12 Range 81, and continuing on
| North along West Section Line of Sec
| tions 81 and 80, Township II, Range 27
East to point of beginning.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the above
and foregoing Petition will be pre-.
scented by the signers thereof to the
County Board of Public instruction of
Putnam County Florida, at 10 o'clock,