At a Circuit Court continued and held for the County of Pocahontas, at the Court-house thereof, on the 4th day of April, 1900.
In the Matter of the Incorporation of the Town of Marlinton. It appearing to the Court that Uriah Bird and 36 other citizens of the town of Marlinton, in this County, applicants for a certificate of incorporation for said town have complied with all the requirements of the Code of West Virginia, in reference to the incorporation of towns and villages, it is ordered that the clerk of this Court issue a certificate of incorporation to said town of Marlinton as provided by Chapter 47 of the Code of West Virginia, and it is further ordered that J. A. Sharp, F. P. Anderson and W. B. King, be and are hereby appointed Commissioners to hold the first election of officers to be held in the said town of Marlinton, and the clerk of this Court is directed to record said certificate of incorporation in the following words, to-wit: Beginning at a white oak and maple on the east bank of Greenbrier river, 26 feet from low water mark, corner to the Pocahontas Development Company’s land and with the line of the same; S. 76 E. 699 feet to 2 small white walnuts; E. 49 1/4 E. 1569 feet to a pin oak and chestnut sapling on top of a ridge, (corner to the Susan McGlaughlin Tract); S. 48 1/2 E. 681 feet to a chestnut oak and double chestnut on top of said ridge; N. 78 E. 1148 feet to a hemlock and dead white oak on a ridge; N. 87 E. 454 feet to a dead white oak on a ridge, witnessed by a pin oak and white oak; N. 30 E. 1016 feet to 2 white oaks above the creek; S. 26 E. 165 feet to a point on the North West side of the creek; S. 89 1/4 N. 1621 feet crossing Knapps Creek and the Huntersville road to a plug by a stake, (marked 81 x 10) witnessed by a pin oak; N. 83 1/4 E. 2220 feet, at 1910 passes plug by a stake marked (40 x 60) by a road, witnessed by a chestnut to a set stone on the side of the mountain; N. 5"94' E. 1161 feet to a set stone on the side of the mountain, witnessed by a pin oak, white oak, and two small maples; N. 63 1/2 W. 5100 feet passes a plug by a stake by a run (No. 61 x 20) at 852 feet passes another plug (63), 1782 feet crosses a branch of Marlin run at 3630 feet crosses the West branch of Marlin run to a plug on top of the river ridge by a stake; No. 49 x 90 witnessed by a black pine, marked “XX” bearing S. 67 E. 12 feet; N. 1/2 E. 1820 feet to a point on a hill side; N. 53 3/4 W. 19 poles to low water mark, on the South east side of Greenbrier river, thence down the said river with its meanderings, measured along the South-east margin of said river with low water mark 3263 feet to a point at low water mark on said Southeast side of said river 237 feet above the upper edge of the abutment of the bridge on the east side of the river, thence crossing the river; N. 49 1/2 W. 370 feet to a stake on the west bank of the river corner to lot No. 15 in the partition of the lands of James H. Price, deceased, 17 feet from low water mark, thence with the lines of lots 15 and 13, crossing the road; N. 46 1/2 W. 363 feet to a stake on a hill side witnessed by 2 small sugars and a hickory, thence S. 55 1/2 W. 1039 1/2 feet with a line of lot No. 21 to a stake on the point of a ridge witnessed by a small pine and small pin oak; S. 29 1/2 W. 610 1/2 feet, crossing a road and run to a stone on a point, witnessed by a walnut bearing S. 40 1/2 E. 13 feet, thence the same course continued 665 feet, crossing the Kee run to a bunch of withhazels at the Northern edge of a large flat rock on the Southern bank of said run; S. 36 E. 810 feet crosses the turnpike road, at 192 feet passes a phono pole in the lower bank of road, at 353 foot passes a marked forked locust, at 550 feet passes two sycamores on the bank of the river, crossing the river to low water mark on the east side of the river, thence down the east margin of the river with low water mark, 800 feet to center of the mouth of Knapp’s creek; thence down the river with low water mark 3104 feet to opposite the beginning thence S. 76 E. 25 feet to the beginning, containing by calculation 807 acres; Have been given in due form of law in favor of the incorporation of the town of Marlinton, in the County of Pocahontas, bounded as herein set forth. And it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that all the provisions of chapter 47 of the Code of West Virginia have been complied with by the applicants for said incorporation, the said town is duly authorized within the corporate limits aforesaid to exercise all the corporate powers conferred by the said chapter from and after the date of this certificate.
J. H. Patterson, Clerk.
State of Vest Virginia,
Pocahontas County, to-wit:
I, J. H. Patterson, clerk of the Circuit Court of said County, do certify that the foregoing transcript is a true copy from the records of my said office. Given under my hand and the official seal of said Court, this the 10th day of April, 1900.
J. H. Patterson, Clerk.
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