The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-21
Official Proceedings of the Board
of Supervisors.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 4.


All members present. Court wa
opened in due form, when the follow.
ing proceedings were had:
Ordered that VIM. G. Mclean be
employed as attorney at law at a fee
of $50 to prepare the contract Of Dob.
sol & Bynum, of Montgomery, Ala
bama, with the board Of supervisors,
for the construction of a county Jail:
E L Atkinson, voting No.
DobsOn & Bynum Ct Montgomery,
Alabama, having deposited with the
clerk of the board, one thousand dol
lars to be held by him until said com
pany shall execute a bond in the pen
atty of S25, 900 with good and sufficient
sureties to be approved by the board
for the faithful performance by said
company of the contract to build and
erect a county Jail, and it being the
agreement thai said 81, Zoo shall be
forfeited to said Grenada county in
the event said company shall fail to
execute said bond on or before the
first Monday in June, 1904.
1t is therefore ordered that the
clerk of this board do retain said for
felt money until the further order of
the board.
On motion it is ordered that w E
Moore be and is hereby employed as
commissioner to superintend the cree
ton and building of the county Jail
aS the work progresses (whose duty
shall be as provided in Section 294 Of
the Annotated Code Of 1922 and for
his services he shall be paid S25 per
month.
State of Mississippi, Grenada County.
This agreement made, this the 4th dav of
May, 1904, by and between Dobson & Bynum
of Montgomery, Alabama, party of the first
part hereinafter designated the contractor
and the board of supervisors of Grenada
county. state of Mississippi, party of the sec
ond part Hereinafter designated the ownerl
witnesseth:-
That the contractor in consideration If
the fulfllment of the agreements herein
made by the owner agrees with the said
owner as follows
ARTICLE L.
The contractor under the direction and the
satisfaction of W. f. Moore. commissioner
lOT IN puI pOSC VI Iiio htId 40 dSCiO VI
the said owner, shall and will provide all of
the materials and perform all of the work
mentioned in the specifications and shown
on the drawings prepared for a county jail
to be erected in the city of Grenada, county
of Grenada and state of Mississippi, which
drawings and specifications are identified by
the signatures of said contI actor and The
president of said DO .rd of supervisors.
ulurn II
The commissioner shall furnish to the con-
tractor such further drawings or e%Xplana-
tions as may be necessary to detail and
illustrate the work to be done, and the con-
tractor shall conform to the same as a part
of this contract S far as they may be con-
sistent with the original drawings and speci-
ications referred to and identified as pro-
vided in article L.
ARTICLE III.
Nc alterations shall be made In the work
shown or described by the drawings and
specifications, except upon the written order
the owner, and when SO made the value of
the work added or omitted shall be computed
by the owner. and the amount so ascertained
shall be added to or deducted from the con-
tract price. In the case of dissent from such
by either party hereto, the valuation
the work added or omitted shall be refer
red to three dfsinterested arbitrdtors. one to
be appointed by the board of supervisors,
one by the contractor, and the third by the