The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-07-22
From the Petrel
A History of Chickasaw County
NUMBER 3.

With the regulations adopteu ny cohllhis-
sioners appointed by the act of the Leg
islature for the organization of the coun-
ty, an election was held on the goth day
of April, 1886, for the purpose of elect
ing members to constitute :" Board OF
Police" for the county. AT this election
we are informed the vote of the whole
county was thirty-eight. Of this we
cannot speak with any degree of certain
ty, inasmuch as we find discrepancy of
ten votes in the statements of different
persons, who were living in the county at
that time. Some place the number of
votes poled at that election as low as
twenty Eight. We, however, take the
maximum as the correct vote. Three
days after the election above named we
find the following entry, under date of
April 23rd 1886.
Minutes of the Board of Police. -
"At meeting of the Board of Police of
Chickasaw county, held at the Store of
Reuben Ii. Grant, according to agree
ment on the day of election on the 23rd
day of April, lS36-present, Benjamin
Bugg, Thomas Gates, Asa ii. Braddock
Thomas ID. Woodbridge; ordered by the
Board that Charles Graeif be appointed
to act as Clerk, protein, for the Board.
The Board proceeded to the election OF a
Presidtn;-when Thos. ID. Woodbridge
was duly elected
The following code of Bylaws were
then adopted, viz:
81. Any member desiring to make a
motion, or TO offer any remarks, Shall ad-
dress himself to the President" /"
"2. No remarks shall be permitted to
be made by any member, unless the mo-
tion made, shall have been first secon-
ded.'
"3. No person, except member OF
the Board, shall be permitted to make
any remarks before said Board, on any
question, before having first obtained per
mission of the Court"
The first business of the Board was TO
divide the county into five Police Dis
tricts-also the following election Pre-
cincts, viz:
The lst at Littleberry Gilliams store.
The End at the store of r. Ii. Grant.
The 3rd at the store of Asa Ii. Brad
dock.
The 4th at the house of Mr.. Mccarthy.
The following persons We're appointed
to act as inspectors and returning officers
for the first election for County officers,
viz:
lst Precinct-Wm. Goodman, Sr.,
VIM. NJ. Sample and VIM. Webb, inspec-
tors; and VIM. Goodman, Jr., returning
officer.
2nd Claiborn Williams, Thos. Ivy
and Chas. Gates, Jr., inspectors; and
Robt. Aldridge returning officer.
Sd. Barnett Seay, Francis Carson and
Wiley Griffin, inspectors and Hezekiah
NJ. Goode, returning officer.
4th. Mortimer Pitman, Mr.. MCCARTHY
and Mr.. Duncan, inspectors; and MIR.
Harris returning officer.
An election was now ordered to be
held on the 9th day of May following, for
the following county officers, viz:
"a Sheriff, a Coroner, a Judge of the
Probate Court, Assessor and Collector,
County Treasurer, County Surveyor, and
for each District, two Justices of the
Peace and one Constable" The Poles
to remain open at Grants store, on the
9th and 9TH days of May. The Board
then adjourned to meet again on the sec
ond day of the lection-Saturday May
7th
AT the succeeding meeting of the board
the name of Littleberry Gillian appears
as one of the members. AT this meet
ing, as there appears to have been nc
business to transact, after the closing Of
the Polls the Court adjourned to meet at
Norton's store" on the second Monday
in June following. Thus by holding
their sessions at different points of the
county, the board We're able to ascertain
the wants of the scattered population
and apply such measures of relief as were
best adapted to the immediate neces.
sites of each separated colony or neigh.
borhood of settlers.
NUMBER 4.
Those wids which had heretofore been
the hunting ground of the savage, or
constituted the lair of the wild beasts
which he sought as his prey, were now
for the first time to pass from the rule OF
the tawny Indian, in the exercise of his
simple and austrre code. those hills and
valleys which had heretofore been the
undisturbeG covert of the fleet-foeted
deer or the hiding place of the bear and
the panther, were now to pass into the
hands of the Pioneer, who, with his axe
and his rifle, levelled and subdued. or
drove ont the wild denizens of the forest.
The great throbbing heart of true Ameri-
J canism had sent the warm blood of Re-