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<br /> COUNTY OF LEE
<br /> STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
<br /> NOTICE OF SPECIAL LOCAL TAX ELECTION
<br /> Notice is hereby given that a special election will be held
<br /> in the territory hereinafter described on Saturday the llth day of
<br /> May, 1957, pursuant to the provisions of Art. 14, Subchapter 5 of
<br /> Chapter 115 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, for the
<br /> purpose of ascertaining the will of the voters within said area as
<br /> to whether or not there shall be levied and collected annually,
<br /> within said territory, a special tax not to exceed thirty cents
<br /> (30¢) on the $100 valuation of all taxable properties, real and
<br /> personal, for the purpose of supplementing the current expense
<br /> funds from the State and County allotments and thereby operate
<br /> ' schools on a higher standard by supplementing any item of expendi-
<br /> Iture in the current expense school budget.
<br /> The administrative unit or school area upon which the
<br /> I proposed. supplementary tax will be levied is the Lee County Schools
<br /> Administrative Unit and embraces all of that territory lying within
<br /> the boundaries of Lee County which is not included in the Sanford
<br /> City Schools Administrative Unit, said Sanford City Schools Adminis
<br /> trative Unit being made up of the Sanford Graded School District
<br /> and the Jonesboro Graded School District.
<br /> The description of the area embraced in the Lee County
<br /> School► Administrative Unit, by metes and bounds, in which said
<br /> special election is to be held, is as follows:
<br /> BEGINNING at upper Little River on Harnett County Line,
<br /> thence in a.northwesterly direction, following upper Little River
<br /> to the Seaboard Air Line crossing, thence with the western boundary
<br /> of the following..farms: Talmadge Wicker, C. B. Martindale, Willie
<br /> T. Cox, Jesse Woffard, J. . R. Woffard, A. J. Pierce, H. A. Palmer
<br /> Estate, thence in an easterly. direction to Persimmon Creek, thence
<br /> I down Persimmon Creek to Buffalo Church cemetery, thence with
<br /> southern boundary of cemetery to Worthy's Pond Road, thence along
<br /> Worthy's Pond Road to Jensen Road, thence up Jensen Road to Sea-
<br /> board Air Line Railroad crossing, thence up Seaboard Air Line
<br /> Railroad to Vestal property, thence with eastern boundary to a
<br /> stone as corner of Murphy and Cox property, thence to W. A. Monroe
<br /> property line, thence with said line to 13th Street, 120 feet
<br /> south of the Southern edge of Lee Avenue, thence parallel with Lee
<br /> Avenue in a westerly direction.. to Makepeace Street extended,
<br /> thence straight line southwesterly. direction to southern end of
<br /> Ashe Street at a branch, then down branch to the Gurley line,
<br /> thence with the Gurley line north to his corner, thence with his
<br /> line northeast to Fayetteville Street at the southwestern corner of
<br /> the Makepeace Lumber Company, thence with Makepeace line north-
<br /> westerly to his corner, thence northeasterly with his line and
<br /> continuing same course to Moore Street on the Southern Railroad
<br /> right of way, thence with Moore Street to Pearl Street, thence with
<br /> Pearl Street, west with the Seaboard Air Line Railway, thence
<br /> direct tothe corner of the Moffitt property on the western edge of
<br /> Steele Street, and running with the Moffitt Brothers' northern
<br /> boundary to their northwest corner, thence northwest line to inter-
<br /> section of Gulf and Wicker Streets, thence down Wicker Street to
<br /> intersection of Vance Street, thence down Wicker .Street to Dry
<br /> Creek, then west to McIver and Hatch corner, thence with McIver and
<br /> Hatch line to their corner, thence following the J. M. Wicker line
<br /> east and south to Wicker's corner near the old stone quarry, thence
<br /> westerly to Big Buffalo Creek, thence down Buffalo to U. S. Highway
<br /> #1, thence with it to Persimmon Creek Bridge on U. S. #1, thence
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