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IquDTORY OF THE COUTTY ARCHIVES
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Sargent B. Child, National Director
John C. L. Andreassen, Regional Supervisor ,
Howard H. Jacoway, State Supervisor :ﬁ
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“" May Bevens, State Director
SW. WCRK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION ,
‘; F. C. Harrington, Commissioner
J Lawrence Wcstbrook, Regional Director
‘5 Floyd Sharp, State Administrator
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»' FOREWORD
The Inventory of the County Archives of Arkansas is one of a number
of bibliographies of historical materials prepared throughout the United
M States by workers on the Historical Records Survey Program of the Work
, Projects Administration. The publication herewith presented, an invon— ,
tory of the Archives of Hot Spring County, is number 50 of the Arkansas '

_ series.

ii The Historical Records Survey Program was undertaken in the winter
.ﬂ of lOSS—SS for the purpose of providing useful employment for neeiy un—
‘f employed historians,lawyers, teachers,and research and clerical workers.

i In carrying out this objective, the project was organized to compile in-

' ventories of historical materials, particularly the unputlished govern—
ment documents and records which are basic in the administration of lo—

. cal government, and which provide invaluable date for students of polit—
ical,oconomic,and social history. The archival guide herewith presented
is intended to meet the requirements of day-to—day administration by the
officials of the county,and also the needs of lawyers, business men, and
other citizens who require facts from the public records tor the proper
conduct of their affairsc The volume is so designated tie: it can be
used by the historian in his research in unprinted sources in the some
way he uses the library card catalog for printed sources.

The inventories produced by the Historical Records Survey Program

‘ attempt to do more than give merely a list of records —— they attempt
further to sketch in the historical background of the county or other
unit of government, and to describe precisely and in detail the organi—
zation and functions of the government agencies whose records they list.

Th0 county, town, and other local inventories for the entire country
will, when completed, constitute an encyclopedia of local government as ,
well as a bibliography of local archives.
The successful conclusion of the work of the Historical Records
Survey Program, even in a single county, would not bu posSible without
the support of public officials, historical and legal specialists, and ‘
many other groups in the community. Their cooperation is gratefully ac-
knowledged.

' The Survey Program was organized by Luther K. Evans, who scrvoﬁ as :
National Director until his appointment as Director of the Lesislutive
ReferenCe Service of the Library of Congress. He was succeeded on ﬁerch

. l, l940,by Sargent B. Child, who hud served in the capacity of Field Cu—

“ porvisor since the inauguration of the Survey. The Survey Program oocr— '
ates as a Nationawidc series of locally sponsored projects in the Divi— ‘
sion of Professional and Service Projects, of which Hrs. Florence Kerr,

Assistant Commissioner, is in charge.
F. C. Harrington 3
Commissioner
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' PREFACE
The Historical Records Survey was organized in Arkansas in March,
l936,as a part of the Federal writers' Project. In Hovembcr'of the same
* year, it became an independent part of Federal Project No. l, and Howard
' Reed was appointed State Director. Mr. Reed was succeeded on November
2, 1958, by Robert L. Baugh, who served until August 51, 1939, at which
time, the Survey, as a Federally-sponsored project, passed out of exist—
. once. On September 1, 1939, the Arkansas unit rc-opened as a locally—
. sponsored,state-wide project,with Howard E. Jacoway as State Supervisor.
1 The Arkansas Survey operates under the general provisions of the
1 Research and Records section of the Division of Professional and Service
: Projects of the Work Projects Administration. The project is sponsored
‘ by the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Arkansas. Six—
. ty—six county judges act as co—sponsors.
This inventory is divided into two parts,the first part of the book
contains an historical sketch of Hot Spring County, brief discussions of
the governmental organization and records system, the housing, care and
accessibility of the records and an explanation of the abbreviations and
symbols used in the inventory.
The second part of the inventory gives a listing of the records of
the county, which are segregated under subject headings, according to
1 the office of origin or final deposit. Each group is preceded by a brief ‘
, explanatory outline of the structural set-up of the office to which the
records pertain. In the chronological index, record entry numbers are
arranged chronologically by decades and in the subject index they are
arranged alphabetically, with cross references.
The Survey is now engaged in preparing a comprehensive volume of
the general laws regulating county government in Arkansas. It is ex—
pected that this volume will serve as a handbook on the organization,
structure, and evolution of county government in Arkansas and will make ,
it unnecessary to repeat certain items of general information in the
various inventories. The office essays in this inventory aro,thercforc,
limited to the creation of the office and its present status, the manner
. in which it is filled, and the term of officc._ Pending issuance of the j
', volume on county government in Arkansas, it is suggested that the render ‘
[ consult The Inventory of the County Archives of Arkansas, No. 25, Faulk—
* ner County: T3F735F3_d5ta113d_35§E§s_thbh_tho§3'fbund-ih tho prcsoEt—in—
Records are described in entries whose stylc is formalized to give
the following information; Title of record, dates for which available,
I quantity, labeling of volumes or containers, variant titles, description
of record contentc,mannor of arrangement, indexing, nature of rrcording,
size of volume or containers, and location. '
The inventory of the records of Hot Spring County was begun in th;
courthouse at Malvcrn, August 16, 1958, and was ccmpl ted in Fobruery,
1940. The research field workers Worm Mrs. Josephinc Thompson and Wil— .
' liam F. Johnson. The recheck of thc inventory was madc under the dircc—

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1. IIiS’tOriCa], {Slietcyl 00......IOIIOIIOOIIOIOIIQOIUOIIOOIOOOIOOIII... 4:

2. Governmental Organization and Records System ................... 15
Chart of County Government

5. Housing, Care, and Accessibility of the Records ................ 22
Floor Plans of Courthouse

4. Abbreviations, Symbols, and Explanatory Notes .................. 98

COUPTY OFFICES AYD TYEIR RECORDS

IQ Cotlntly' Coul~t IDIG...‘8II....OII...‘I’II.'....III.IOIOIOIOODﬁlIOI 51
Case Papers; Settlements; Dockets; Proceedings.

11- Board Of Super’fisors (DefunC-t) uoocnoc-oosooo-concepts-uaonoaocl 54
Proceedings.

III- (1011111337Highl'ﬂyCOm’nissiOn boo...IIIllIIOICICOOOOIIC'IIOOOIIO0.00 34

Ilro 0011115537 Plannil’lg Board IOJIOOIOOIOOIIOOICCOIIOCOJIUOIIOOII'OIOOOC 34:

V. Internal Improvement Commissioner (Defunct) .................... 35

III. Circuit Clo/r}: {ls 11800.?er oagoons-aeucao-n-cu-ouoooao-cnuno.0... 55
Real Property Conveyances; Personal Property; Bonds, Commie»
sions and Credentials; Miscellaneous; Financial. ‘

\rljn i‘iot0~r3f public .II'II006.4ICEIICOOO‘.0.IIOIOIIOQOI.IOIIDOCIIDOIOO ‘17
VVIIIC Circi-li-t Cour‘t IIOOIIOGOCOIOOIIOIOOOICIOIICCIIOIIIQICOCIU.OCICIO. {18 .-
Case Papers; Inquests; Grand and Petit Jurors; Indictments;
Bonds; Dockets; Judgments and Executions; Proceedings; Fi—
nancial; Officer's Report; Naturalization.
I:X;t‘ k711r3fC01Tdnj‘SSiOll 0.5...0..0GOGIOI.IIOCOIDIOCIOCGOOOOOO‘OOIIIIIII. 334
. Grand and Petit Juries; Hiscellsneous.

Xv C}1E1nc{lryCOL‘I‘—t IIOU.IIIOCOUOOIIIIQ'IIOODOIDODIUOIII.OI..I.IOI.OI 55 '
Case Papers; Docket; Proceedings; Financial; Delinquent Tax 1
Records; Chancery Commissioners' Deeds.

.}:Iu I‘I‘Obate CO‘kll‘t IQIDIIOOI'QIICIOCIODIICC...IOIIIOOQOC'OIIOOIOOI.OQ 57
Probate Clerk;0ase Papers; Dockets;ﬂills; Bonds and Letters; -
Inventories, Appraisenents and Sales; Settlements; Procecd— 1
ings; Financial.
XI].- L1k7.1f(311i11?(101u1rt .0OI...000......laﬁOOICOCCOII.0000.0IDOIOIIQOOQCI 61
Case Papers; Proceedings. -
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XIII. Court of Common Pleas (Defunct) a............................... 61
Case Papers; Dockot; Proceedings; Judgments.
XIV!) Justjice Ofthc Pea-CG IOOI.IOOIIOOOIﬂ.0.IOOCOUCUOCOOOOIIIICIIICII 62
Docket. ‘
X‘V—C PTOSeCutj—l’lg Attorney lCOCOOIOOUCCODIOI'IOIOIIJIIIICOCDICOIIIOII. 65
XVII: CO‘JI‘A—ty .A‘ttornel/ (Def‘v‘inct) CCIIIGIIOOOCCI‘IIOOI'IIIIIOIIOUIlﬁaﬁil 63
:{TJIIO fjl’lgrifi‘ I’D...I.O0.0.IOIQII0.0lllIII'IDCIIOIDCI'IIOOCCIOIIIOIOI. 611:
Prisoncrs; Fees.
liK/‘IIII COrOl’l'/~)r IOIIIQCQIIICOIIII...IOOCDOIII'OIICIIOIICUOUIIDIIUDIUﬂJBI 64-
Proceedings.
.711}; 0011313321316 noa...goo...-t-Inun-o-oto...Io-ovqcaloo-coun'onoqu-uu 65
ZXLX- QLlOrm Cour-JO IIOil-OIIDOalolﬁiﬂttlllIIOQ.IOBIOIOIBOIIIDlOCIIBIOQ 65
Reports; Proceedings.
XXI. Count-f]. Cl(?r11: IOOOOCOICQI'II.CO....IIIODCOIII‘ﬁOOIGOIIIOIIOCDIOOI 66
Papers; Financial; Assessment and Taxation; Tax Collections;
Delinquent Taxes and Tax Sales; Elections; Marriage; Corpo~
rations; Professional Licenses; Pensions; Livestock; Fire—
arms;8chool Lands; Justice of Peace; Officer83Miscellaneous. ‘
XJCII: Ta}: ASSESSOI‘ acut!00.0.00sot-IIIODOIOIOIIIIOCOIOOIIOIOIOIOIUOOCO 78
Papers.
XXIII. BUIXI‘d of Equalizatior‘; I...no.cloutneoocnouuovuacoooecuunanco-aov 78
Proceodings.
XXIVe Township Board of Assessmcnt and Valuation ..................... 79
I.
:C/(Tnft T9): (loll-C7C.tor IOOOOOIDOIOIDUDIUIIQUIDUCEUCIIBIIIICIQIICIIOIUCCU. 79
Tax Receipts.
XXVI: Coulltsf Treasurer .QICDIIIOOIIO°00IIIIOi.OIOIOICOCQOOIOUIICIIOICI E50 :
Accounts; Warrants; Land Redcmptions.
. XXVII‘ Director of County Audits ...................................... 82
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XXXIII. Board of School Commissioners (Defunct) ........................ 84
)3‘DCIv‘Jc county Board Of Education.......-u.....o..........-.c.......... 8'5
XXX-\fb {SChool Directors I...eIO'90.]...0'0.IIIICOOOIOOOIC.IIIOIIIICOIIE 85
VJj-‘IIO CCUIlty Libra-r3, Boar‘d IO...IQOIOOICIOIOIUIIIOOIDIIOOOCIIIIOOIOIB. 85
Membership.
.’\::g{1fllo Hcgsltll [Init CCOIIIICIOOBOOIOIDIDCOIIIGOI.iltﬂtnICICOUIIIIOICI'IO 86
Miscellaneous; Case Records; Maternity; Family Case Records;
Index.
. XXXVIII. County Board of Medical Examiners .............................. 88
J‘C’IXIX. C'Dunty Department Of Public Welfare nogpconcooooocnoooouaaoauuon 89
Case Records; Applications; Financial.
:(L. Confederate Pension Board annooon-uonconaovaoltoo-cuooooooonooul 90
XLI. Surveyor 9O
. Record.
:‘iLII- Tilllber Insp(%CtOl‘ nnoon-canlnonouto-aooo-unIsl-alleoncaooluoou-cl 91
ILIII. Agricultural Extension Service Agents .......................... 91
County Farm Agent; Home Demonstration Agent; Correspondence;
Information; Agricultural Administration; 4—H Clubs.
IJis-t Of Coull’tbr Of‘i‘iciaJ-S I....0..0...IOIIOIIOIIOOIIIQDOIC'00.... 94
Arkansas Counties in the Order of Creation ..................... 103
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ﬁllphf‘lbctical 111(19): oIODCOOOCOOIOOOOIOOIUOIOO'IIODIIOIIIIIOIIHOIG 1.10
Lil-‘1.) Of Publications a.00.0000000uIOOOIODOICOIIOIIlIluilol'ltauc 12].

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5; Hot Spring County, situated in the south central part of Arkansas
.1 (1), was the twentieth county formed before statehood (2). It was cre—
':% ated by the territorial legislature on November 2, 1829, from a portion
"§ of Clark County and named ”Hot Spring” because of the hot springs of
1.; Arkansas which then were within the county's boundaries (5).
3% The act creating Hot Spring County defined its boundary lines as
dd follows: ”Beginning on the Pulaski County line where the township line
5 between township 6 and 7 intercepts the county line; thence west to the
g Ouachita; thence with the river to the Bayou DeRoache, and up the bayou
1' to its source; thence west to the west fork of the Fourche Caddo; thence ,
I up the west fork to its headgthence due west to the Little Missouri Riv—
% or with the boundary line of Clark County,following the county line back
3 to the place of beginning" (4). In 1858, the General Assembly added a
I portion of Saline County (5). Four years later, the western part of the ‘
g county was taken to form the new county of Montgomery (6). The Saline
1% River was made a part of the boundary of the county in 1846 (7), and the
,ﬁ boundary next to Montgomery County was changed in 1848 (8). In 1859 (9)
. (a and again in 1861 (10), the line between Hot Spring and Saline counties
,% was changed,and in 1869, part was added to Clark (11). In 1875, a large
i portion of the county, including the town of Hot Springs, was taken to ~
{ form the new county of Garland. At the same time, the county lost part
% of its territory to Saline and gained a portion of Clark. (12)
5a At present,the county comprises 592,320 acres (15) situated between
1% Garland and Saline counties on the north, Grant on the east, Dallas and
@ Clark on the south, and Montgomery on the west (14).
1% Physiographically, the northern and western sections of the county
I lie in the divisions of the Ouachita Province known as the Novaculite
.g Uplift and the Athens Piedmont Plateau, while the eastern and southern
d
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'ﬁ (1) Arkansas State Highway Com— Ark., with datc of approval),
E mission,0fficial Highway Ser— 1529—51—55, 144.
:f; vice Map__(h5?eafFEF7§ited"§s (5) Acts of Arkansas (hereafter '
111—gn‘w‘a’37‘ Service Map), Little EREI‘Es I‘TFTI,1358,152. ,
Rock, 1938. ' "T (6) A. Ark.,—1—S——t+
2 (2) Arkansas State Planning (7) I.IIT.,1346, 115.
Board, Progress Report, 1956 (8) I. 1171?, 154., 40.
(hereafmdmlamm (9) I.I?I?.,1559 194.
Lb Board, Progress Report), Lit— (10) A} III}, 1861, 299.
tle Room 224.."— (11) "A. 7-17., 1869, 114.
(5) Laws of Arkansas, 1829, as (12) I. III?. 1873, 68.
if contained in Laws of the AEEu (15) IanEE of Mines, Manufactur—
‘g ansas Territory '_(horeafter ers, and Agriculture, Nine—
ﬂ cited as L. A. T. Digest,with teenth Biennial Report (It??-
7 date of EppFovai), 1855 Di— ETTE§7153I§T_—7§smu_53reau of
L gest, 144. Mines, Biennial Report), Lit-
? (4) Territorial Acts of Arkansas tle Rock:—l§557 1557.—
IIEIEITEEF‘oTEEE ns"IESﬁ?TIIT (l4) Highway Service Map, 1958.
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f historical Sketch (Firs; entry, p. 31)
sections slope into the West Gulf Coastal Plain (15). The soils of the
county are composed of red, gravelly clay loam, sandy loan with a clay
subsoil, and rich alluvial soils. The average elevation is 52? feet,
ranging from. 280 feet in the lowlands in the east to 5&0 feet in the
rolling hills in the western section. (16) .
The county is drained by the Ouachita River, one of the major
stremns of the state,which crosses the county diagonally, and the smell-~
er streams, L'Eau Freis, Cove, and Stony (17). Lake Catherine in the
northwestern part of Hot Spring County and the southern part 03 Garland
County was formed in 192% by the construction of Kennel Dan for the gen—
eration of hydroelectric power. The lake, which is 12 miles ion) and 70
miles in circumference, has become one of the pleasure rcsorts of the
- state because of the scenic attractions and the need fishinn. (13)
Hot Spring County lies in a section that is described by the United
States weather Bureau as ”mild, healthful,and favorable for a ricultural
and other pursuits“. The winters are usually short and mild, but occa-
sionally the temperature falls below zero as in 1917—18. The suhners
are long with temperatures frequently above 103 degrots, though th; en—
. tremes in temperature are not comparable to those farther west. Usually
the rainfall is abundant, but the county sometimes suffers from drought
as in 1950 when the precipitation recorded at Ialvern was .13 inches in
April. During a period of 40 years, the average dates of the last kill»
inf frost in spring and the first killing frost in autumn, are Harsh 50
and October 31, respectively. (19)
The forests of Hot Spring County are, for the most pxrt, prirutcly
owned, but there is a section of 160 acres in the nortnﬁnst tart of (it
county that is included in the proposed expansion area of :h; ouqéhit: ‘
National Forest (20). Among the trees commonly found in this sr'tion or
the state are the yellow pine, loblolly pint,black walnut, pecan, scaly“
bark hickory, black Willow, swamp cottonwood, osayo orangz,pzpaw, sass:-
. fras, and several species of oak, elm and maple (El).
6.
A study of aboriminal Indian culture is now boinﬁ conducted under
the direction of the Arkansas Stat: Archeological Survey, e uFl proj UL.
Excavations along the Ouachita River in the county rcreal CTldQHCLS a;
what was once ”a continuous village stretching for no rly a mile along ‘ 1
the river terrace”. Laboratory analyses are being made of thg exhumt‘
“‘___*__m i
V (15) Planning Board, Progress Re- Climatic Summary of the Unit-
port, 9 . W‘ “_ W3W7‘1ﬁi_e
(16) EEFURU Of Binﬁs, hiennial Re— ETIETTTF—Summmry),stction 60,
port, 180. ”’“M ”“ ”“T'iTThY‘T‘T‘ 1, 1:», 2:. v
(17) Department of the Interior,U. (EU) Planning Board, Proeross RL— ;
8. Geological Survey, Map, port, 40. _~_h—_H_-—‘
State of Arkansas, 1928. (21) “hi7ersity of irt.ns-s, Pol—
(ld) lﬁhininf'ﬁaﬁdﬁ—wTrocrcss Ho- late of Agricultcro,ﬁxt:nsion
port, 64. -—_——___-.—- Mirculur 180, Common Forcsk .
(lgllﬁﬁffﬁd States Department of frogs oi‘ invquTTi”’1¢FT7TTT:
2' .AgrixNIILWrag Ekmxthrr lh1r<1u1, VTTFTE,‘*f92iﬁT“Tj‘TTT.

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material,which includes dog burials,human burials in extended and flexed
positions, stone and clay artifacts,and aboriginal houses. Culinary and
funeral vessels, discovered in the upper levels, have been analyzed as
belonging to the Caddoan wares,though materials obtained from lower lev-
' els ”reveal a total absence of such types”. (22)
Within historic times the territory that new comprises Hot Spring
County has been occupied by the early Quapaw Indians of Siouan storh,
3 known also as the Akansas, from which the name ”Arkansas” was derived,
and the Choctaw Indians, removed there by the United States Government
in 1820. The Quapaw Indians, who claimed the land prior to 1818, tilled
the soil, built log cabins, and manifested many characteristics of a su—
, perior people. (25) In that year, they ceded most of their land in Ark"
ansas Territory to the United States, an area which included all of the
section lying south of the Arkansas River within the present state with ‘
the exception of a small reservation in the eastern part of the territo—
' ry. In 1820, only two years after the removal of the Quapaws,the United
States ceded to the Choctaw Indians, in return for their lands east of
the Mississippi,a tract lying south of the Arkansas and Canadian rivers,
including what is new southwestern Arkansas. The eastern boundary of
. this tract extended from a point near the present site of MorriltOn to a
point on Red River, three miles below the mouth of Little River, thus
including a large portion of the early county of Hot Spring and a small
section in the western part of the present county. (24)
There was emphatic protest against having the Chectan Indians
brought into the territory as evidenced by the following editorial in
the Arkansas Gazette of June 6, 1821: ”If this treaty is ratified, near—
ly, if not all, the families which fall within the limits of the ccssien
in this territory, will remove to the Spanish Province of Texas....It ‘
will include more than 5000 (some say six or seven thousand) of our in- 5
habitants with their improvements, etc., many of Whom will lose their
all by being driven off" (25). In 1325, the matter was adjust d by an-
other treaty which removed the Indians from the territory and fixed the
eastern boundary of the Choctaw Reservation on a line extending from a *
point lOO paces east of Fort Smith to a point due south on the Red Riv»
er. This treaty of 1825 was of added significance in that it fixed the
western boundary of the future state of Arkansas south of the Arkansas
River. (26) ‘ 1
_ The earliest reference to this section of the State was made by one
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(22) Arkan