School Tax Authorization Document
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real property in such district subject to taxation for school purposes; every resident of such district authorized to vote at town meetings of the town of Wellsville and who has paid any rate bill for teachers’ wages in said district within one year preceding the third day of November next or who owns any personal property liable to be taxed for school purposes in said district exceeding fifty dollars in value exclusive of such as is exempt from execution will be held at the school house in the evening for the purpose of determining by a vote of such district whether a Union Free School shall be established therein in conformity to the provisions of chapter 433 of the laws of 1853.
Dated this twentieth day of October, 1859.
Charles Collins Trustee of W. H. Coats School District Hiram York Number One Wellsville
State of New York County of Allegany.
Welcome H. Coats late one of the trustees of School District Number One in the town of Wellsville in the County of Allegany being duly sworn says that on the twenty-second day of October, 1859 and more than ten days before the third day of November, 1859, he caused to be posted the notices of the foregoing are copies and five written copies thereof severally at various conspicuous places in said district.
T. H. Langworthy.
W. H. Coats
Sworn and subscribed before me this 13th November, 1861
D. L. Vaughn, Justice of the Peace.
[stamp: Allegany County]