Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-01-26

tors, to A. B San lers. The new con
tractor expects to have tle work com
pleted in about four months.
The official proceedings of the board
of Mississippi Levee commissioners a
their recent meeting, held at Green
vile, have just been Published. Al
this meeting bill was drawn Ut
which the legislature VIII be requested
TO pass. authorizing the beard Of COM
mlssioners to compromise dou 1T III
claims. Ths bill mentions the ia t
that large number of a,res of la ID in
the Mississippi le7ee district ara ella m
ed by syndicates, corporations and in
diviusls under state titles AMI liquidst-
Ing levse titles, for much OF which lani
the Lsvee Boarl has brought snit In
asmucl as s1ch suits for those lands go
held ara what the constitution terms
"dou tful claims, and may therefore
be compromised, the bill provides that
the board may compromise these clsims
and may execute quit claims desds con-
veying its title to such lands and re-
lease the levee xes due thsreon upon
payment to the secretary and treasurer
If thu board CT the sum agreed upon
between the board and land claimants
The bill further provides that any
claimant un Ter state or Hqnidat,ng
levee title who shall wish to taxa al
vantage of the act shall do so within
six months Salts of tho chara cter
mentioned in the bill involving at least
million of acres of lanl ia the delta
are now bending in the supreme court,
in all of which suits the Ievee board is
the plaintiff, seeking to recover the
land from the present holders. The re-
port of the caisf engineer of the d,s-
trict was received a11 approved.
Chief Engineer West states that the
completion Of thu amount o. W ,rk that
had to be carried over last season, both
ny the state and the government, to-
gether 18th the completion of most of
the work undertaken this season, has
placed the levees of the district i a
de ,idedly better condition than existed
at this time last year. There still re.
main, however, several we TX stretches
of levee. principally il the lower end
of the district, which for lack of funds
could not be strengthened as they
should be. but repairs have been or are
about to be made at these places. The
report states that the weather for the
past six months has been particularly
favorable for levee building, and the
progress of the work has been very sat-
isfactory. The report deals with the
levee work for the SIX months proceed
ing January /, 1900. All work under
contract at the date OF the last semi
annual report of the chief engineer has
been finished except the enhancement
from Lake Beulah to Back Ridge, in
Bolivar county, AMI the new levee
from Ingomar to Albermarle in Issa-
uenl county The most urgent of
the present unfinished contracts Is the
lower jenkins new levee, and the force
as been in reassd thera 1t Is neces-
a. tlat the gap across Black Bayou
u oae Huntington levee be closed b.
FOR high water, as tn old lsvee Is
only a saort distance from the
river ard ewing il liable to set in
when tie stage Of the water increases.
The government engineer has agreed
t. close this gap as soon as the re-
st lotions i'm osel by the court as to
such cl sure are removed The report
of thu treasurer showed the receipts
| for the six months preceding January
1900 to have been S2l1, 41i.99,
disbursements s2Os. 236.5O, bslanc
SO, l75 40. Coapons and oth,r oertif-
catss OF ind bteinsss amounting tc
S26, 242.47 waro cancelled AMI burned
There w II be tire, candidates at
TIE special elsctioi in Yalabusha
county on January 9th to fill tue
va ,ancy in the hous, caused by the
.ecsns death OF Hon. T. J. McFar.
land. They are: Hon. c. R. Cock
G. E. Harris AMI James G. Meow
al.
The introduction to thu biennial re.
port Of thu secretary Of state contains
matters of interest Col Power re-
commends that law be passed provid
| ing a schedule Of fees for recording
| onartoro discriminating hatwaap cor.