American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-09-28
Hoard Of Police.

according 10 law.
Present, J. Il. Powell, President; George J.
HUME G. q. Cooper, w. @. Love, members !;
George Ward, Clerk; A. Il. Haddox, Sh'f.
Ordered, That the election held the 18th
inst, in Township 8, Range 2 East. TO I'll
Vacancy in the Board of Trustees for schools
and school lands in said Township be de-
clared void on account of illegal votes having
been polled at said election, and that new
election be held.
Hon. J r Powell was appointed Commrs-
sioner 10 let out the building OF a bridge on
the Madisonsifle and EicksDurg road, fnear
Bodies place. ss..
On application it was ordered that the use
of the court house be granted to the Method
list Conference to be held in this city this
falL
The resignation of W L Brooks, Member of
the Board of Police from the fourth. district,
having been accepted, it vas ordered that the
following named persons De snd are hereby
appointed Inspectors of an election to be held
on the 7th day of October next, to fill said
vacancy, to wit st
Sforon-David K Galtney, sam'l Scott, L
H Farmer. # ZUs
Sulphur .Slrings-J.R Brooke, Geo Laekett,
John -Cratin.
The petition of Henry Lord for the renewal
of his retail grocery license for twelve months,
fled at the August meeting of this Board,
coming on to be considered, and it appearing
to the Satisfaction of the Board thai major
ty of the present voters Of this Polie- DIS tEict
had signed said petition, il was ordered that
the Clerk ISIS ue TO said Lord g license to,keep
a retail grocery the east side OF the public
square, in the house now occupied BY him,
upon the payment of two hundred and seven
ty-hye dollars and entering into bond with
good security, conditioned according TO law.
The yeas and nays having been called TOR
affirmative, W c Love, c C Cooper, + Pow
ell in the negative, George Hume.
The account of Wesley Drane, for part of
the expenses incurred by him in the removal
of the body of his from Virginia to this
place, amounting TO enc hundred dollars, pre-
scented to the Board for allowance, having
been objected to, the yeas and nays were
j Hume voting yea, and c G Cooper voting
nay. 2ai a5IH
Ordered, That the following named persons
be and hereby appointed Inspectors OF hiec-
ton at the respective Pfeeinets named, at the
ensuing October election: 81 ...- .-.,-.
Cantca-O A Luckett, Jr., J T Cameron
and John Alsworth
Saaron-John J Lamar, o W baldwin and
A Beard. .s.sIa
Vernoa-John Brown, E Z Montgomery and
James l. Andrews. rs-
Waits Schoo! Housc-Thomss Davis, John
A Glover and McNeely.
MadisonoiAe-H Mckee A II Dinkins and
T J Smith '.o t9'a'E aatA
Hudson StatsonLJ w Griffin, A Mont
gomery and G. G Johnson. = .faatags
Listngsten--W J Britton, S A. d Greaves,
Jos. Nicholson and ..+,.-,..-s.
Bate SSprtngs-John Forrest, WIN Sine
mons aud John d Aurrell.
Cqnsdea-wm. Davis, A NcMurtray and
Y Olive.
Herrods Bor-Jscob Ross, Grafton and
j 5 Tucker. 's 50 81 s
Sulphur tsprings-s V Laekett, W NJ White
and W Scott. go. f.t.
Ordered, That the following accounts be
allowed out of any money in the county trea-
sury not otherwise appropriated:
James II Walker for Jury Ticket, So 30
L Barrett, for digging grave and bury
ing Soldier from Louisiana, kill
ed on the Railroad, near Calhoun
depot, in July last, i3aa ssersr s 90
Cameron, for lumber furnished for
bridge across Panther Greek, on
Canton and Vernon road, ga 62
VIM. Bennett, for board of John Ken 81
nedy, a pauper, from 18th June to
18th Sept, ls6l39s 1858. Is 4S 90
Robert Hicks, for 5 bushels meal fur
nished Mrs E. Patrick, a pauper, 90
| n Nichols, for building bridge across
- Chesnut Creek, on the Canton and
Stump Bridge road, "a 90
r III Burton, Treasurer, for commits
sions1on sli,l29 90, 3 per cent.
to voucher 1913, ...e... s33 Sc
James Kelly, for board Of VIM Butch
er, pauper, from 10th June to
10th Sept. 1861, 40 90
Mosby RIoihard DIS. for articles of sta p.
tioneFy, &C., furni he'd courthouse,
So 81; for same for 1860, SO so, 80 81
Mrs Sarah Ballard, for board of Eliza
Ray, from June list to sept.slst, As 90
J W Saunders or-pnttnig new single
roof on the courthouse, p 500 90
james Alden, fer building bridgeone
mile east OF. Camden across Ken -
lucia creek, t 1875 90
Reports were received from the following
road overseers, and ordered to be fled. to
wit aa - i -. e-ss,ss s.-@s
] Wilson, James Wales, Holiday, E NJ
Barwick, II Cantrell, James Sanders, c
upper, J Alsworth, j Elder, W How,
J Burk, j I Meek, Nichols, d Caldwell,
] N Richards, j II Cheatham, W Wallace,
Charles Collins, R W Durfy, J NJ Jones, A
Treadweil, ] Baiaes, A Y Montgomery, "
] Britton, H A Goodloe, P NJ Smith, C
rabbi, Eugene Terry, E B Tisdaie, Z Cfantop,
Hopkins, J. S Willis, z Beard, Ray,
T Divine, w B Brown, o 6 Baldwin, " J
Parker, b r Mann; j Hail, j A Simpson, " IN
J NJ Holiings worth. r Il Stokes. ] Massey,
Rich d Luokett, Thos. Luekett, Henry Bacon
A Dinkins, L Montgomery, I W Johnson,
Il Bennett. W Thompson, E ] Hinton,
Il Mhoon, c W McGehee, S s Sledgs, W C
AbeI, j A MeMurtray, E ] Tucker, j A Afford,
4 II Stamford paharf