The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-09-11
Proceedings Of City Council.

At . meeting Of the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen of the city of Bro0khaven,
held at the Mayors Office Sept. End, 1884,
present-His Honor, j. ID. DeasOn, May
or; Aldermen Atkins, Daughtry, Baker,
Brennan and Bowsky.
The committee appointed to remove the
calabOose asked further time, which was
granted.
Ordered, That J. B. Daughtry be ap-
pointed to prepare an assessment roll OF
the Corporation of Brook haven, to be as
certained from the assessment rolls of
the county of Lincoln for the year 1884.
Ordered, that the Street Commiss, oner
be required to work all persons liable to
street duty by the 18th September, or
collect their amount OF street tax in mon
ey by that time.
Tho following accounts were allowed
and warrants ordered to be issued for
same.
J. b. Deason, salary as Mayor for
August. .Sou.oV
A. d. McClendOn, salary as Marshal
for August. ............... ..0U.UO
B. T. Atkins, salary as Secretary
for August. ..lo.OU
j. G. Hardy, rent of Mayors office
for August. ..o.oo
A. d. McClendOn, salary as Street
Commissioner for August. ..... 100
A. d. McClendOn, hire of horses
and carts Oh streets for August. 20
Geo. G. McClendOn, hire of horses
|. on streets for August. .......l3.5O
On motion the board aalo B. pa.sos,
B. T. ATKINS, Mayor.
Sec'y.
At called meeting of tho Board of
Mayor and Aldermen Sept. 4th, 1854
present j. b. DeasOn, Mayor; Aldermen
Brennan, Baker, Bowskv and Atkins.
The following ordinance was adopted :
Be it ordained by the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen of the city of BroOkhaven,
That it shall be the duty of the city Mar
shall to kill all dogs found running at large
within the corporate limits of the city of
BroOkhaven between the first day of
June and the first day Of November of
each year, unless they shall be well and
securely muzzied, except dogs belonging
to people in the country, which follow
the wagons Of their owners into the
city.
Ordered, that the Marshal have 10l
copies of this ordinance printed and post
cd generally over the city.
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Max Priebatsch, Krauss g. Levy, Nevin
& Bro. and G. Heuck, asking the privil-
eye Of replacing the platforms in front Of
their respective places Of business on
Cherokee street across the bitches in
front Of their sidewalks, is granted on the
following conditions, viz:
They are to use said platforms only fol
the purpose of weighing cotton; that the
cettOn SO weighed shall be removed on
the evening of the day on which it il
weighed that said platforms are not to
be over IL feet in width and the outside
of said platforms to be laid even with the
dirt of the street, and not to project Oh
the sidewalks; said platforms to be tax.
en- up on the first of May and not to be
relaid again until first of September.
All parties 80 replacing said platforms are
required to keep the bitches in front o.
their places from becoming clogged will
any substance SO as to 0bs.ruct the flow
of water. And if these conditions are moi
observed faithfully by said petitioners, the
Board Of Mayor and Aldermen are to
have the conditions above stated carried
out at the expense Of the parties SO neg
lecting or refusing to do the same, and
at their discretion tear mp and remove the
platforms of parties 80 offending and moi
allow them to be again replaced.
| 1t is ordered by the Board that thu
Street Commissioner for the balance OF
this year confine his work on the streets
to repairing the bridges and to working
the bad places on the principal street,
leading into the CITY,.
B. T. ATKINS, Mayor
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