The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-08-17
MELVIN R. DANIELS
Clerk of Board of Commissioners
TO THE CITIZENS AND
TAXPAYERS OF MANTEO
SCHOOL DISTRICT OF
DARE COUNTY:

No right of action or defense
founded upon the invalidity of the
election mentioned in the forego-
ing statement or the invalidity of
any proceedings or steps taken in
the creation of said Manteo School
District of Dare County shall be
asserted, nor shall the validity of
said election or the validity of the
creation of said District, or the
right or duty to levy a sufficient
tax on all taxable property with
in said District for the payment
of the principal and interest of
said bonds, be open to question in
any court upon any ground what
ever, except in an action or pro-
ceeding commenced within thirty
days after the publication of the
foregoing statement.
The Manteo School District of
Dare County was created by order
of the Board of Education on May
8, 1885, and comprises the follow
ing territory in Dare County:
All that area of Dare County,
North Carolina, including all of
East Lake and CrOatan Town
ships and a portion of Mays
Head Township, all of Roanoke
Island, Durant Island, Duck Is
land, and all of the various is
lands lying in the Roanoke
Sound and Croatan Sound, and
bounded generally on the North
by Albemarle Sound and the
Public Highway at Mays Head
known as "Nags Head Sound
side Road" and the South line
of the T. H. Wilcox property,
on the East by the Atlantic
Ocean, on the South by PamlicO
Sound and Hyde County, on the
West by Alligator River, and
bounded and described as fol-
lows:
Beginning on the shore of
Roanoke Sound on the Mays
Beach at Mays Head at the point
of intersection thereof by an ex-
tension on a course South So
deg. West from the center of
the State Highway known as the
SOundside Road" at Mays Head,
running thence North So deg.
East $3.50 feet to and along the
middle of the SOundside Road to
a point at the turn thereof;
thence North So deg. East APO
feet along the middle of Sound
side Road across and to the East
margin or right of way of U. S.
Highway No. 1853 leading along
the Dare Beaches; thence North
16 deg. West along the East
margin or right of way of the
aforesaid U. S. Highway No.
15S, IL feet to the Southwest
corner of the T. H. Wilcox
property; thence along the divid-
ing line of T. H. Wilcox and DIR.
Frank Wood, the same consti-
tuting the South line of the
Wilcox property and the North
line of the DIR. Frank Wood
property, North "a deg. East
400 feet to the Atlantic Ocean;
thence along the Atlantic Ocean
in a general SOutheasterly direc-
tiOn, the various courses and
meanderings thereof, to Oregon
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sisde of Oregon Inlet in a gem
eral Westerly direction to the
WestermOst point of BOdie Is
land on the North side of Ore
g0n Inlet; thence in a South
westerly direction in a straight
line across the PamlicO Sound to
Sandy Point on the PamlicO
Sound South of Stumpy Point
Bay; thence continuing along
the Pamlico Sound in a general
Southwesterly direction, the
various courses and meanderings
thereof, to the center of the
mouth of Long ShOal River, said
point being also the Darrell Hyde
County line; thence along the
Dare-Hyde County line and the
center of Long ShOal River in a
general Northerly direction, the
various courses and meanderings
thereof, to a concrete post sit
uated at the head of Long Shoal
River; thence continuing along
the Dare-Hyde County line
North 70 deg. and As min. West
571.21 chains to Alligator River;
thence along Alligator River in
a general Northerly direction,
the various courses and mean
derings thereof, to Briery Hall
Point at the mouth of East
Lake; thence in a Northerly
direction across the mouth of
East Lake to Sound Point on