The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-05-05
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
onicisi Proceedings of the Regular May
Term. 1897.
FIRST DAY.
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
COUNTY OF LINCOLN

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
COUNTY OF LINCOLN.
Be it remembered that at a regular
meeting of the Board of Supervisors in
and for said county, begun and held in
the Chancery Clerks office at the
Court House, in the city of Brookha-
ven, on the 3rd day of May, 1897, the
following members and officers we're
present, towit w. +. Parsons, j. G..
Bryant, Sam A. Brister, c. T. Mont
gomery and Zetus Linton, members /;
Chas. McNair, sheriff, and Felix May,
clerk.
ACCOUNTS ALLOWED.
Daniel & Willoughby, 933 It. Pb'rS 9.S3
John McGrath Il Sons, mdse. for
Court House as per bill. ..... $50
Maxwell Bros, 2133 ft. lumber
for Road No. 6................ 6. 17.O6
w. l.. Ratliff, 2 mile boards go. so
K ". McNair, jailor, feeding
prisoners to date. e.............. 1900
B. I. Hobbs, county printer, sta
tionery for chancery clerk, Sll;
same for circuit clerk, $3.50;
same for sheriff, 81. 75; same for
Co. Supt., $3.50. 50............. 24.T5
L. c. Crawford, keeping paupers
as per contract t.......... 1900
1t is ordered that road No. 10 be
changed as follows, towit Commenc-
ing 15O yards east of 10 mile board,
running thence west one=half mile and
intersecting road No. 10 near Keystone
railroad crossing.
1t is ordered that j. G.. Nations be
appointed overseer of road No. 142, and
that all the hands except ]. c. Will
liamson,on AM. Summers place, be as
signed to this road,
1t is ordered that Chas. Nettles be
assigned to road No. ia.
Allowed 2. ID. Jones for temporary
relief of pauper, $3.50.
Ordered that the Board do now ad-
journ until tomorrow morning at O
o'clock.
For the last two days the Board has
been engaged on the very tough job of
improving the public road system.
The solution decided upon is to here
after let out the working of the public
roads by contract, each road being bid
off separately by contractors, as is the
custom in bidding off bridges. These
contracts will be let at the meeting of
the Board in July, official notice of
which will be given Ia TArT,
hereafter, ',''
1t is the purpose of the Board to
have all public roads in the county
conform to the legal standard, not be-
ing less than l6 feet wide nor over 20
and raised in the middle. Now, there
are few if any such highways in the
county. One of the first things found
necessary by the Board is to locate all
the roads accurately and ascertain def
initely the names and number OF
hands to be assigned to each. This
will take time, and each member OF
the Board was commissioned to do this
for his own district and report at the
June meeting. After that meeting all
information for the guidance of con-
tractors will be found on file in the of
| flee of the Chancery Clerk.
A full official report of the last two
days proceedings of the Board will ap
pear in the next issue of The LEADER
A goodly number of farmers of dis
trict No. l attended the meeting of the
Board Monday, interested in what
would be done relative to stock law
There were two petitions filed, one fol
and one against partial stock law
that is, law to restrain hogs, sheen
and goats from running at large. Aft
er considering these petitions, the
Board decided it had no authority tc
to declare a stock law in force, as
prayed for, and, on the showing made
by the advocates of the law, also de-
clined to order an election on the
question.