Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-26
FOURTEENTH ROAD DISTRICT.
]. B. HsiskeIl, Joseph LenOw Rnd
Others Appointed 0versssfs.
First and SecOnd-CIa Roads Laid
on, Etc.
MEMPHIS. April %. 1881.

AT a meeting Of the commissioners
for the Fourteenth road district on
this day it was ordered by the board
that the district be divided as follows:
For irst-class roads-The Horn Lake
road, including for road duty all
hands from the Mississippi river on
the west and the bayou on the east;
Mr.. = as overseer, he to work all
cross streets and roads, and which
said cross roads we hereby declare to
be second. class roads; with the south
ern limits Of the Taxing District as
the northern limit, and the northern
portion of Mr.. W. L. Vance's prop
erty as the southern limits, which is
the southern line Of the Fourteenth
civil district.
Also, as a irst-class road, Rayburn
avenue and its connections; with Lath-
am avenue with the same Northern
and southern boundary with the
bayou for the western line, and a line
drawn due north and south from Davie
avenue for the eastern limits; With
authority to work all hands subject to
road duty within said limits. Mr.. Nat
Trigg as overseer.
The fernando road, with the same
northern and southern boundaries, and
extending from the line as heretofore
defined on the west, to the west line Of
the Hollyford road, to its intersection
with. Nonconnah on the east. Mr.. Jor-
dan Tinsdale as overseer, with author
ity to work all hands subject to road
duty. Also, the Hollyford road, with
in the limits Of the Fourteenth civil
district, north and south;with the east
ern boundary Of said road, ON the west,
and the Selma railroad as the eastern
boundary. Phil Nicholson as over
seer, with authority to work all hands
subject to road duty within said lin
its.
Also the Pigeon Roost read as a first
class road from the western to the
eastern limits of the Fourteenth civil
district, and bounded by the Selma
railroad on the south and Central
avenue on the north to the junction of
the Pigeon Roost read with Central
avenue, and following the line of the
Pigeon ROOst road to the Taxing Dis
trict, with Hon. j. B. Heiskell as
overseer.
Also Union avenue as a irst-class
road, within the limits of the Four
tcenth district, with Central avenue
on the south, and subject to the de-
cisiou Of the Fifth road district for the
boundary.
Also the fernando road, from its
junction with the Thirteenth civil
district, at or near McCainey's gro
Gerry, to NOnconnah creek, it being the
dividing line between the Thirteenth
and Fourteenth districts; and, by
agreement Of both districts, Mr.. Wal
lace Billiard as overseer, within the
limits of tue Hollyford road on the
north and the Mississippi and Tennes-
SEQ railroad on the south.
The overseers of each and every
irst- class road to work all the roads
his district, but to put his force
principally on the frst-class road, hut
allow no road Of the second. class to
get out of repair.
We also declare a frst.class road
from Che city limits to the north gate
IF Elmwood cemetery, with Captain
Jos. Lenow as superintendent, to be
determined as to bounds by consulta-
ion with said Superintendent.
LOUIS ERB,
GEO. B. FLEECE.
WIN. P. 0RNE, District Clerk.
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