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PETITION OF CITIZENS OF SEBASTAPOL SCHOOL DISTRICt FOR CHANGE OF BOUNDARY LINE-
FILED JULY 17 1874- ANGEVINE REYNOLDS, CLERK
(see photo of Sebastapol School and Children)
To The School
Superintendent of the County of Mariposa, State of California
The undersigned petitioners respectfully represent and petition as follows, viz:
Township Number Three, of said County of Mariposa, and reside, more than ten miles from any district school house, accept that of Sebastapol District some of us ______ the boundaries of Sebastapol School District, as defined and still existing by ______ of an order of the Board of Supervisors of said County, Creating and defining the boundaries of said school district, made and entered on the 4th day of February, 1863, and the rest of us residing near to, and upon the Eastern by Northeasterly borders of said school district, but without the boundaries ______.
No school district exists or has been ever formed in said County the to the Eastward or Northward of said Sebastapol School District.
There are about fifteen census school children, mostly the children of some of your said petitioners, residing without the boundaries of said school district, and in the Easterly and Northward borders, and entitled to be admitted in to the public schools of said state, who reside in no school district, and not within from ten to fifteen of any other school house than the school house of said Sebastapol School District, and who are nearer to and could more conveniently attend school at the school house in said School District district than at any other, and who, in fact are, and if not authorized by the granting of this petition to attend the school of said school district, must con____ to be debarred from and deprived of all public school facilities and privileges whatever except the privilege of being enrolled by the Census Marshall of said District and drawing money from the State for the support of the Public School of said Sebastapol District, which they are not entitled to attend.
The average attendance of pupils a the public schools of said Sebastapol School district does not exceed fifteen pupils, and said school would not be inf___, but would be benefited by the addition of each of the children ____, residing ____ the Easterly and Northeasterly boundaries of said School District, as would attend, if entitled.
_____we ask that the boundaries of said Sebastapol School District may be changed, so that said District shall be bounded as follows: viz
Beginning at the South easterly angle of the Ranch of David Clark on Bear Creek; then running to and along the crest of the divide between the waters of Stockton and ________ Creek; thence to Big Springs on Australian Gulch; thence to the old Becknell Ranch, from ___ by John Milburn) thence to Bloed's Ranch; then due east to the boundary line between Mariposa and Fresno Counties; thence Northerly along said County boundary line to a point due east from the northside of S. L. Hogans Ranch thence to the northerly boundary of the Ranch of John Higman, known as the Laird Ranch; then to the Northeasterly angle of J W Snyders Ranch. Then to the place of the beginning.
Signed by Resident of said Sebastapol District
(some of these signatures are very hard to decipher- and my interpretation may not be correct-c feroben)
David ASHWORTH
Robert PRESTON
Dexter (?) WHITE
J R WESTFALL
S. E. MERLVYON ?
P T FOSTER
Martin KIRBY
Geo BERNSHAND ?
W M WHITBY ?
J PATERSON
J C JENKINS
Bernard CONWAY
Barry CONWAY
John W COLEMAN
R M COLEMAN
Residing without and near and Easterly and Northerly from Sebastapol District
Fred HOLT
Joseph M Frye ?
Thos G DELONG
V L HOGAN
J C LANDRUM
B H HARBONE ?
G B BOBBIO
J W B _______
James BUTLER
Frank GROSJEAN
To the Hon Board of Supervisors of Mariposa County:
Gentlemen
I have the Honor of Representing to you for your Consideration a Petition of Twenty Eight citizens from Chowchilla Valley, Wishing to have the Sebastapol School District line Changes as you will. Please find in the above Petition and which meets my approval.
Mariposa July 17th, 1874
David Egenhoff
Superintendent of Coun School
Mariposa County
The undersigned petitioners respectfully represent and petition as follows, viz:
Township Number Three, of said County of Mariposa, and reside, more than ten miles from any district school house, accept that of Sebastapol District some of us ______ the boundaries of Sebastapol School District, as defined and still existing by ______ of an order of the Board of Supervisors of said County, Creating and defining the boundaries of said school district, made and entered on the 4th day of February, 1863, and the rest of us residing near to, and upon the Eastern by Northeasterly borders of said school district, but without the boundaries ______.
No school district exists or has been ever formed in said County the to the Eastward or Northward of said Sebastapol School District.
There are about fifteen census school children, mostly the children of some of your said petitioners, residing without the boundaries of said school district, and in the Easterly and Northward borders, and entitled to be admitted in to the public schools of said state, who reside in no school district, and not within from ten to fifteen of any other school house than the school house of said Sebastapol School District, and who are nearer to and could more conveniently attend school at the school house in said School District district than at any other, and who, in fact are, and if not authorized by the granting of this petition to attend the school of said school district, must con____ to be debarred from and deprived of all public school facilities and privileges whatever except the privilege of being enrolled by the Census Marshall of said District and drawing money from the State for the support of the Public School of said Sebastapol District, which they are not entitled to attend.
The average attendance of pupils a the public schools of said Sebastapol School district does not exceed fifteen pupils, and said school would not be inf___, but would be benefited by the addition of each of the children ____, residing ____ the Easterly and Northeasterly boundaries of said School District, as would attend, if entitled.
_____we ask that the boundaries of said Sebastapol School District may be changed, so that said District shall be bounded as follows: viz
Beginning at the South easterly angle of the Ranch of David Clark on Bear Creek; then running to and along the crest of the divide between the waters of Stockton and ________ Creek; thence to Big Springs on Australian Gulch; thence to the old Becknell Ranch, from ___ by John Milburn) thence to Bloed's Ranch; then due east to the boundary line between Mariposa and Fresno Counties; thence Northerly along said County boundary line to a point due east from the northside of S. L. Hogans Ranch thence to the northerly boundary of the Ranch of John Higman, known as the Laird Ranch; then to the Northeasterly angle of J W Snyders Ranch. Then to the place of the beginning.
Signed by Resident of said Sebastapol District
(some of these signatures are very hard to decipher- and my interpretation may not be correct-c feroben)
David ASHWORTH
Robert PRESTON
Dexter (?) WHITE
J R WESTFALL
S. E. MERLVYON ?
P T FOSTER
Martin KIRBY
Geo BERNSHAND ?
W M WHITBY ?
J PATERSON
J C JENKINS
Bernard CONWAY
Barry CONWAY
John W COLEMAN
R M COLEMAN
Residing without and near and Easterly and Northerly from Sebastapol District
Fred HOLT
Joseph M Frye ?
Thos G DELONG
V L HOGAN
J C LANDRUM
B H HARBONE ?
G B BOBBIO
J W B _______
James BUTLER
Frank GROSJEAN
To the Hon Board of Supervisors of Mariposa County:
Gentlemen
I have the Honor of Representing to you for your Consideration a Petition of Twenty Eight citizens from Chowchilla Valley, Wishing to have the Sebastapol School District line Changes as you will. Please find in the above Petition and which meets my approval.
Mariposa July 17th, 1874
David Egenhoff
Superintendent of Coun School
Mariposa County