The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-10
PROCEEDINGS
Board OF Supervisors OF Madison
County. April Term.

April, 1899, it being the first Monday
of said month, with all members pres
ent except J. +. Battley.
Present j. T. Luckett, president pro
tenn. II. H. McGowan, I. G. Stein, F.
D. Coleman, Jas. Priestley, clerk, G.
} X, Kemp, sheriff.
The following orders were allowed
and accounts paid:
Il Ordered that Gseen Hopson be APP
pointed overseer in, lieu OF w. j. Ca
rey, Road No. 145.
i Issued. Canton Times be paid for
Stationery chancery clerk, SO so.
/ Issued. j j. Hart be paid as keeper
of poor house. $40 80. FL. II. MCGOWAN
voting no. ssl..
]. Issued. J. J. Hart be paid for con-
veying pauper to poor house, 81 SO.
H. Fl. Mc'iowan voting no.
Issued. G. R. Kemp paid extra SER
vice under Section 2O03. $50.
| Issued. w. $. Kent paid as poor
house physician, $l4 10.
Issued. Rob't Powell paid as Attor-
ney of the Board for March, $25.
Issued. Kin Divine paid repairs on
bridge and Russell road No. 20; $40.
Issued. J w johnson paid repairing
bridge on Road 10, $40.
Issued. E P Sutherland paid lumber
Road 10. SIS SO.
Issued. w D. Owen Jr. paid lumb be,
Road 81. So 26. Ill,
Issued. Canton Times paid subscrip-
ton from Feb. 20. '94 to Feb. 20; '95, 81
Issued. E M Speaks paid ferryman
at Meck's ferry, $40.
Ordered that Mrs. Bono be admitted
to the poor house and certificate from
Coleman & Crisler to the effect. that
she was unable TO be moved to the
poor house Filed.
Issued. Canton Picket paid printing
notice of superintendent for examina-
ton of teachers, 81 80.
= Issued. G. Olsen paid lumcer for
the following Roads:
No 10, 81 70; No 20, SO 96; No 90, IS O6;
No 10, SIS 81; No 173, SIS 3s; No ~,
SIS IL. Total SAL rs.
j + BatJley reported and takes his
seat.
Ordered by the Board that j j Jolly
be appointed overseer on Rood No so
in place of w A Baldwin
Ordered by the Board that Walter
Willis be appointed overseer on Road
81 in place of Cauthen Stewart.
Ordered that hands on VIM Etes
place be changed from Road 1853 to
Road III.
Ordered that JAS Priestley .~chancery
clerk, be authorized to purchase JUS |
tice Docket for A P Hill for Dist No /.
Issued JAS Priestley paid express on
stationery chancery clerks Office, 35c |
Issued. G r Kemp paid conveying
Frank Jones to asylum, SIS 40.
Ordered that John r Semmes be |
put on the ex Confederate pension list, !
at IS per month under sheet acts 1888 /
chapter 1879, page 161.
Issued. Jas Priestley ct ais, paid in i
lunacy case of Lincoln Lester, his fam
lily not being able to pay the same, un-
der section 1888 of code of 1899, SIS As.
Issued. John Robinson paid for $50
yards road bed on road No 80, S25.
Ordered that w N Hammond. be APP
pointed overseer on Road No 80 in
place of A Whitehead.
Issued. j L Stewart paid as con-
tractor on Roads in Dist i, out of spe-
cial l mill tax, for February and !,
March, $3.50.
Report of committee ordered spread
upon the minutes and published. lin
spectors of Roads Dist l.
We, the undersigned committee APP
pointed by the Board of Supervisors to
inspect and report on the roads work
ed by the contractor in Dist No 1. After
mature consideration, and having a
full understanding with the contrac-
tor about the future working of the
roads in said District, and taking into
the unprecedented bad
weather during the months of January
Ind February, recommend that the al
owance for months of February and
March, amounting to the sum of one
hundred and eighty dollars, be allow I
ID; but with the District understand
ng that we are aware that the roads
rave not been kept in such order as
vas called for under the contract, and q
n recommending the payment of said
um we in no wise commit ourselves to 0
my future payments for roads not in il
tood order, and it is further agreed +
,etween us and the contractor that he L
hall at once proceed with all dispatch
o place all the roads in said District a
n such condition as his contract calls
or. GEO HARAEY, d
c OLSEN, t
Ed COLEMAN.
Board adjourned till tomorrow v
forming Q o'clock. o
j f BArTIEY,
President Board of Supervisors. u
Board met pursuant to adjourdment q
n Tuesday morning with all members
nd officers present, and following or v
ers were passed and bills paid: y
Petition of E f Gaddis was received u
,r new road in Dist No 2. J T Luckett o
nd ] f Battley appointed committee u
, examine proposed new road.
Petition of j c Neal ct ais for new e
,ad in Dist No . laid over. ~