Pocahontas star herald., 1926-07-29
ORDER

tlOn OF Randolph County, Arkansas,
on July 26, 1926.
The Randolph County Board of Edu-
cation met pursuant To call of the
Chairman thereof, on this July 26.
at one O'Clock p. m, at which meeting
there were present J. ID. Wells, w. h.
Hamil. Rufus A. Mock and j. A. Ford,
being a majority and a quorum of the
board, whereupOn the following pro-
ceedings were had and done, towit:
In the matter Of the Exparte petition
of ii {. Layl and others, for the crea-
tion of a rural or Special School Dis
trict
On this July 26, 1926, the County
Board of Education of Randolph Coun-
ty being in session, pursuant to legal
call, and a quorum of the members
thereof being present there was fled
and presented for the consideration
and action of the Board the ex parte
petition of II. g. Layl, and more than
nineteen Others all qualified electors
residing within the limits of the terri
tory to be affected, praying that the
sense of the legal voters, residing in
the following described territory, locat-
ed in Randolph County, Arkansas, as
follows, to-wit:
Commencing at point on the town
ship line between townships twenty
COO and nineteen (19) of Range two
(2) West, at the section corner com
mon to sections / and 2 of said Town
ship 10, n. II. 2 West, and run
due east, ON said township line, to
where the said line intersects Eleven
point river; thence down thh said
river, with the meanderings thereof,
to the point where said river crosses
the section line, between sections 81
and % of Townhip 10, n. II. l West,
thence running west along the sec
tion line between said sections, and be-
tween sections 20 and 20, and between
sections 10 and 30, of said Township
Nineteen, N. r. 1 West, to the town
ship line between Townships 10, l
West, and 10, 2 West thence north on
Township line, one mile, thence west
ON section line between sections 13 and
"a, in Township 10, West, one half
mile, thence north through center of
section 13 of said township, one mile,
thence west along section line between
sections - and 13, of said Township,
one half mile, thence north, along sec
ion line between sections IL and ~,
and sections l and 2, of said township,
/, two miles, TO the place of beginning,
being all the territory that is now
embraced and included in Common
School Districts No 3S and 75 of Ran
dolph County, Arkansas, be taken on
the question of adoption of the pro
visions of law for the establishment of
| l-p int nI
School District, i'm the manner set forth
and provided in sections 1881 ct seq. of
| Crawford and Moses Digest of Statu-
tes of Arkansas.
And it appearing to the Board that
the said petition is i'm due and legal
form, and that it is signed by more
than twenty legal voters of the terri
tory affected, is properly accompanied
by a map or plat showing the terri
tory proposed to be included in the
proposed Rural or Special School Dis
trict, and it appearing to the board to
he to the best school interest of the said
territory to be affected for the
same to be organized into a
Rural or Special School District
and it appearing to the Board
that the time and place for holding an
election at which the legal voters Of
such territory to pass upon the ques-
tion of the creation and formation of
such Rural or Special School District
should be selected, and named, and
that three qualified electors residing
within said territory should be an
pointed to hold such election:
1t is now therefore by this board CON
Il
tion duly made and seconded and un-
animously adopted and carried, that
an election be and it is hereby direct
ed and ordered to be held at Clarke's
Store. which is within such ter
ritOry, the said election to be held on
the 7th day of August, 1926, at which
election, at that time and place, the
legal electors residing within the said
territory shall be permitted to vote for
or against the creation of the said
Special or Rural School District; and
may also vote for and elect six quail
fed electors of the said territory, to
serve as Directors of the proposed
Rural or Special School District, If
the same shall be authorized and Great
ed, to serve as such until the first reg
ular, annual school election thereafter
TO be held.
And it is further ordered by the said
Board that Fayette Tyer, Tom Blan-
sett and John Claude being three quail
flied electors residing in the aforesaid
territory, be and they are hereby ap-
pointed and authorized to hold said
election; and are directed to make re-
port, and to deliver the returns Of
such election to the said Board, with
out delay.
And it is further ordered, consider
ed and adjudged by the said Board
that a copy of this order be published
in some newspaper, printed and pub
lished in Randolph county, Arkansas,
and that a copy of same be posted in
at least five public places in the afOre-
said territory, to be affected thereby,
to the end that due and legal notice
of the said election may be given.
Randolph County Board Of Educa
tion, BY ]. ID. Wells, Chairman,
Rufus A. Mock, Secretary,