The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-10-09
CITY COUNCIL.
omciai Proceedings of the Regular Oc-
tober Meeting, 1901.

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Minutes of last meeting we're read
and adopted.
CITY TREAsURER's REPORT FOR oCTo-
Der, 1901.
Chas. Heuck, City Treasurer. pre-
sented his monthly report of Septem-
Der, 1901, which was carefully examined
and approved by the Finance Com
mittee and carefully examined by the
Board, the cancelled warrants and the
stubs were marked cancelled" and the
cancelled warrants we're filed in the
Mayors office.
On motion the report was received.
filed and approved by the Board. Ayes:
Schnorrenberg, Moreton, Scherck and
Seavey. Nays, none. Absent and not
voting, Willoughby.
The report is as follows:
REVENUE FUND.
Sept. 3. TO balance last report S,,3s 10
Oct /. TO cash T.. Mccormick Il Os
" |. To cash W. II. :. pTiv-
lege tax -..-..- ...- 100 90
1. TO cash J. b. d., fines iG4 SO-Slsl5 81
Oct. 3. by warrants cancelled $50 80
ny com. "a per cent. II 81
ny balance.----..--.-..--.. 43s "a SI3l5 81
TEACHERS FUND.
Ntpis y. ~ bdldUtt last report Sl5I2 3B
Oct. 1. TO cash f. Mccormick IS 2I-Sl5S5;2
CREDITS.
!. To balance on hand - SljSG9
SCHOOL BoND INTEREST FUND.
Sept. 3. TO balance last report S239 81
Oct. l. TO cash L. Mccormick - G3-243 co
Oct. 1. TO balance on hand - s2l3 co
STREET FUND.
Sept. 3. TO balance last report - $50 CO
Oct /. To cash L. Mccormick -.----. - Il S94 10
CREDITS.
Oct. 3. BY war. cancelled ------ So 10
Com. % per cent - | 80
Balance ...... ...... $1,000 10 10 S94 10
=, wATERwoRKs BOND INTEREST FUND.
Sept. 3. To balance last report $40 %
Oct. !. To cash +. Mccormick. IA 5O-$7S4 ~
GENERAL IMPROVEMENT FUND,
Sept. 3. To la lance last report - $34 10
Oct. |. To cash l.. Mccormick 49, 10 S7-S4j 90
SCHOOL EXPENSE FUND.
Sept. g. To balance last report 1888 SO
Oct |. To cash L. Mccormick 3 G3- S3i2 q;
Oct. /. BY warrants Cancelled 600
ny com. ga per cent. Is
BY balance 1886 lI-$342 26
POWER HOUSE EXPENSE FUND.
Sept. 3. 10 balance last report S924 50
Oct. !. Cash, L. Mccormick ....-. S4S 07-Sl772 90
CREDITS.
Oct 1. by warrants cancelled Sl,61l %
BY com. pa per cent. 40 q
BY balance--....-..-. .--.-. III 46-Sl772 %
Respectfully submitted,
CHAS F. HEUCK.
City Treasurer.
Approved:
CHAs. SCHNo RRENBERG, / Finance
w. II. SEAvEY, Committee.
The following accounts were examin-
ed and allowed and warrants ordered
to be issued for same on city treasurer:
I IL IF,,n
W. II. Seayey. copying assessment rolls 80 90
Louis v Clark X Co., liability insurance
at power house. 90
w. Ii. Seavey, Auditor for 1901. ---...-.. 50 90
/. c. Crawford, cash paid labor on streets y 80
+. Mccormick, paid freight wood and
work at power house, G22 u
General Electric Co.. supplies .--.------... . 40
Casey 4 Hedges Mfg Co., liners at y. h. 20 80
Laidlow Dunn Gordin Company, part
payment on air compressor $50 90
furnace at public school .,.....-------.. I,727 40
s. w. Hoskins. md and 3rd quarter rent
on wood yard for power house -----..-. Il 80
East Union Mfg Co., fuel for power house go IS
j. NJ. TedfOrd, part payment OH contract 1000 90
ForSythe, night police - 90
Mrs. $. storm, rent of mayors Office. : 90
Christ AlberH, sexton at cemetery--...----.. 20 90
J. b. Daughtry, Mayor, salary .------....... IS co
H. {. Applewhite, marshal, salary -..--.-... GO 90
L. c. Crawford St CON-, salary y. 50 90
I. {. Crawford removing garbage .-.....----- 10 90
W H. Seavey, clerk, salary ...--..-..---...-. 10 90
j. ID. Cu Supt W. w., salary .-.-.........- 12J 90
Bennett Dunn, eng, salary ...........-.... so 90
Andrew DUNN asst engineer .-..-.-.....--..- 30 90
I'd Dunn, nreman $ salary days. s 90
w. W. NewSom, same, "A days ....-........-. 80 90
Alex Washington, fireman, salary, 40 90
{. l. L. Co, rent of Phones 90
CITY SEXTON.
Whereas, At the April meeting of
the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of
the City of Brookhaven, Miss, held at
the Mayors office in said city on the
first Tuesday of April, A. D., 1901, at
1870 o'clock p. M, Christ Alberto was
elected City Sexton for the term of
one year from said date and his salary
fixed at twenty dollars per month,
his duties were then and there defined:
to put and keep the avenues, walks
and ways in the Jewish, Protestant
and Catholic cemeteries in first-class,
clearly condition under the direction
of the Ladies' Cemetery Association of
Brookhaven, composed of members
from the respective religious associa-
tionS. He was and is allowed to
charge, in addition to the said monthly
salary, $3.50 on interments of children
and $3.50 for those of adults and such
sums as the owners of the plats in said
cemeteries might agree to pay for
cleaning the graves therein contained;
and, whereas, said order was mad
vertently omitted from the proceed
ings: now, therefore, the order elect
ing the said Christ Alberto, to the Of
flee of City Sexton, on said date, at
$40 per month on the conditions here
inbefore defined and set forth on the
said first Tuesday in April, A. D. 1901,
is here now entered by the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen of the City of
Brookhaven, Miss, nunc pro tanc.
This order was first reduced to writ
ing and read by the City Clerk in open
court, and a vote taken thereon, which
resulted as follows: Ayes, Moreton,
Seavey, Scherck and Schnorrenberg;
nays, none; Willoughby, absent and
not voting.
SUPT. CULL's MONTHLY REPORT.
Superintendent Gull made his
monthly report for September, 1901,
of oils and fuel on hand on Septem
Der 30, 1901, and report of wiring
houses and other work in electric line
70, nh q r.