The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-01-06
NOTICE OF SALE
OF VALUABLE PROPERTY

Under and by virtue OF that Ger
tain resolution adopted by thu
Dare County Board of Education
at a duly assembled meeting
thereof held on the 9Th day o.
November 1866, and pursuant K
the provisions of G.S. Section lis
126 of North Carolina, and amend
ments thereto, the schoolhouse ant
schoolhouse site hereinafter de
scribed being in the opinion of thu
said Board unnecessary for public
school purposes, the undersigned
will, on Monday the 9th day O.
January 1856 at 1900 o'clocl
Noon, at the Courthouse Door il
Manteo, Dare County, North Caro-
lima, offer for sale at public auc
ton to the highest bidder for casl
the building and site described
hereinafter:
All that certain tract or parcel
of land, together with the build
ings thereon, lying and being in
the Village of Avon in Kennekeet
Township, Dare County, North
Carolina, adjoining the lands of
N. e. Price, the George Meekins
Estate Tract and others, and
bounded as follows:
Beginning at concrete mOnu-
ment situated on the East mar
gin or right of way of the Viii
lage Road in and near the Viii
lage of Avon, said monument and
beginning point being in and
marking the Northwest corner
of the N. E. Price lands, for
merly known as the Damon Gray
Property, and said beginning
point being also 1854 feet North
9 deg. East along the West mar
gin or right of way of said Viii
lage Road from the middle of
the asphalt road leading from
Avon to the Beach Highway,
known as the Hatteras Island
Highway, running thence from
the beginning point along the
Price North line South 81 deg.
East along a line of old stakes
and posts 632 feet to an iron pipe
and old post in the George
Meekins Estate Tract West line
thence along the George Meekins
Estate Tract West line and along
the West side of dixie North IL
deg. East 41S feet to an iron
pipe; thence North 81 deg. West
All feet to an iron pipe; thence
South 8 deg. West 118 feet along
a line of old stakes to an iron
pipe; thence North 80 deg. West
along line of old stakes or posts
254 feet to an iron pipe in the
East margin or right of way of
said road; thence along the East
margin or right of way of the
aforesaid Village Road and along
a line of old stakes or posts
South 8 deg. West $40 feet to
the point of beginning.
For more particular descrip-
ton of the lands above described
see map or plat thereof made by
David, Cox, Jr., Surveyor, OctO-
Der Is, 1852 and designated
"AvOn School Lot" and duly re-
corded IN Map Book 2, page Is,
office of the Register of Deeds
of Dare County, North Carolina.
Said lands comprising the
lands conveyed to the Dare Coun-
ty Board of Education by the
following deeds:
CAD Deed from G. C. Meekins
ct ux TO the Dare County Board
of Education, dated September
10, 1882 and recorded in Book Is,
mage SO, Dare County Registry;
(b) Deed from Eliza A.
Meekins ct al to the Board of
Education of Dare County, dated
August 20, 1888 and recorded In
Book 81, page 81, Dare County
Registry. !.
The successful bidder at said
sale win be required to make cash
deposit of 10 per cent of the
amount bid as evidence of good
faith.
The Dare County Board of Edu-
cation hereby reserves the right
to reject any and all bids made at
the above sale because of the in
adequacy thereof or for any other
reason. The said sale is likewise
subject to the approval and con-
firmation of the Board of Educa-
ton Of Dare County.
This the 9th day of December
1856. -
DARE COUNTY
BOARD OF EDUCATION
BY MARY L. EVANS
Superintendent Of Schools and
Ex- Officio Clerk to said Board.
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