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28 <br />residents. The first petition addressed membership for both the Board of <br />Commissioners and the Orange County Board of Education and was signed <br />by "approximately 930 people", as noted in the minutes of the January 21, <br />1953 Board meeting (Appendix C). This petition requested that the County <br />seek legislation through the North Carolina General Assembly for the <br />expansion of the boards from three to five members, with all members to be <br />elected on a countywide basis, and further directed that "no two members of <br />either board shall come from the same township". <br />The Board of Conunissioners subsequently scheduled a separate public <br />meeting for February 2, 1953 to discuss the petition and to hear from the <br />public, It was at that public meeting that a second petition was submitted, <br />with the minutes of the February 2, 1953 Board meeting (Appendix D) <br />noting it as "a petition containing 330 signatures". This second petition did <br />not address the expansion of membership on the Board of Commissioners, <br />but rather urged "that the members of the County Board of Commissioners <br />be elected from the county at large, rather than from any particular district or <br />township, with no linutation on the number of commissioners to be elected <br />from any township", <br />