The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1904-03-17

3rd. Ordered further, that if sal,
refractory prisoners do not and vii
not work as directed by said con
tractors on said contractors farm
after being subjected to the discip
line above ordered, for a period o
forty-eight hours, then and in sucl
event such refractory prisoner shall
be delivered to the sheriff of saic
county, and said sheriff shall placl
such refractory prisoner in solitar,
confinement, feeding such prisone
op bread and water only. and with
out permitting any such prisoner tC
have any intercourse with any per
son whatever, saving and excepting
the said sheriff.
4th. 1t is further ordered, thai
the county contractors be and they
are hereby permitted to use such
prison discipline as is ordinarily
used in the penitentiary, for en-
forcing obedience on the part of any
refractory prisoner, and that they
be and are hereby empowered tc
use moderate corporal punishment
with and upon such refractory pris-
oner.
sth. 1t is further ordered, that
the prisoners, ]. c. Carraway and
IL. M. Colson, now in custody oi
the sheriff of said county, be and
remain in his custody, and that
they and each of them be kept in
solitary confinement, without the
right or privilege to see or COM
municate with any member of their
family or other person, and that
they and each of them be fed on
bread and water only.
9th. 1t is further ordered, that
said contractors be and they shall
have full credit in their settlement
with the county, of Claiborne for all
of the time said prisoners have been
in their possession and actually
failed to work or partly failed tc
work.
9TH. 1t is further ordered that
when any prisoner so kept in soli-
tary confinement shall agree to re-
turn to the farm of the county con-
tractors and faithfully work accord
ing to law, such prisoner shall be
returned to said contractors, after
one week or more of solitary con-
fnement as aforesaid by said sher-
if and that should such prisoner
or prisoners fail to so work after
being returned to said contractors
as aforesaid, then said contractors
shall at once return him to said
sheriff for confinement as aforesaid,
without the privilege to return to
said farm, but to be kept in salitary
confinement until this board shall
order otherwise.
Ordered that the contract for the
erection of the Commissioner S
Creek bridge, according to plans
and specifications on file, at and for
the sum of $299. SO, be let to M. L.
Schuster, he being the best and
lowest bidder.
Ordered that the following named
parties from the country be appoint
ed members of the committee on
arrangements of ways and means,
and are requested to act in con-
junction with a similar committee
to be appointed from the town. to
devise and perfect arrangements for
the celebration of the court house
centennial, to-wit
Dist. 1-E. Whitfield, R. Valen-
tine, ]. M. Magruder, R. w. Ma
gruder, Jas. G. Spencer.
Dist. &C. w. Foster, c. c.
Goza, H. S. Morehead, J. T. Ire
vilion, Lee Hamilton.
Dist. 81. K. Highlander, S.
Bagnell, T. S. McCay, 7. M. Lus-
ter, w. c. Hicks.
Dist. Al. B. McMurchy, w. F.
Gordon, c. c. Smith, c. L. Will,
DR.. D. w. Jones.
Dist. 81. D. Bridger, I. 2. Nc
Kay, T. B. Nesmith, A. ]. Chap
man, E. J. Herren-
Ordered that Tom Johnson's and
Addie Goodrum' names be strick-
en- from the stipend roll, the board
deeming that it is no longer neces-
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