The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-03-11
MONTHLY MEETING
COUNTY SUPERVISORS
Bond For New Steel Bridge
Over Baker Greek Other
Business Transacted.

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able Board of Supervisors OF Grenada
County, Mississippi, met at the Court
House at Grenada. Miss, on the 9th
day of March, 1905, the same being
the first Monday in said month and a
regular term of said Court.
The following members were pres
ent: District No. 1, A. Olson, Presi-
dent; district No. 2, J. e. Shaw; dis
trict No. 8, J. N. Roberts; district
No. A, J. P. Hill; district No. 5, E.
T.. Atkinson; j. s. King, clerk; w.
Fl. Crowder, sheriff.
Court was opened in due form when
the following proceedings were had:
Report of V r James. Supt. of ed
cation, received and ordered recorded.
v r James, salary as Supt. OF edu-
cation for February, $50; Hughes
Drug Co., medicine for poor house,
S2.85; w r Baker, moving iron at
Baker creek bridge, district 4, $40;
Grenada Sentinel, stationery for
chancery clerks office, superintendent
sheriff and tax list for assessor, s87. 40;
w III Crowder, fixing court house floor,
prisoners carried to Willis and janitOr
one day after court, S22.32; G Il Ross,
board IL paupers and salary for Feb
ruary, $99; Geo. ID. Barnard & Co.,
books and envelope dockets for circuit
clerk, s44.05; o L Kimbrough, mer-
chandise for jail, soc; Grenada Ma
chine Works, repairing closet at court
house and jail, S24; Garner & Sharp,
coffin for Boswell King, pauper, s5.
Report of w II Crowder, sheriff, be
received and ordered recorded.
w Fl Crowder, board prisoners for
February. s60.90; Max Ginsburger,
bagging for poor house, 1892.
City Light and Water Co., lights
and water for court house and jail,
$8.lO; Duncan & Hall, yds flannel to
chancery clerk IS Office, soc; d o Sem
mes, merchandise for court house, So;
r Crawford j p, holding inquest Bos-
well King and John Gayden, s30.50;
Mildred Bowers, monthly allowance
for February, Sc. so; Estate of D w
Buchanan, 2 months on contract and
blanks for court house, S2Sa50; A A
Henson, lumber and plow points, FIX
ing bridge, s1.90; ID b Phillips, re-
pairing Cane creek bridge, district 4,
and repairing bridge at provinces, dis
trict 1, $50; e L Atkinson, 3 days
service at Cane creek and slough
bridges, district 5, So; j p Hill, 2
days letting and receiving Riyerdale
bridge, district 4, 81.
Ordered that the report OF ] w
Vance, county treasurer, for February,
1905, be received and ordered recorded,
showing balance OF $780, 43 due gen.
eral county fund, a balance OF SO.
40 due school fund, balance of s47
due institute fund, a balance of 1929
due past Indebtedness fund, balance
of SlO.54 due permanent school fund,
a balance OF $139 due pension fund.
On motion it is ordered that the
bond of the Virginia Bridge & Iron
Co., OF Roanoke, Virginia, for the
performance of their contract to build
steel bridge over Baker creek in dis
trict No. 4, according to plans and
specifications now on file marked ex-
hibit A., said contract having been
entered into with this bond on the 7th
day of February, 1905, be, and the
same is hereby approved and accepted.
The said bond is in the following
words and figures, to-wit:
BOND NO. 369,O14
FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF
MARYLAND.
Know all men by these presents
that the Virginia Bridge a Iron Co., !,
corporation under the laws OF the
state of Virginia, and whose princi-
pal Office is located in Roanoke, Vir-
ginia, thereafter called the principaD
and the Fidelity and Deposit Com
pany, of Maryland, corporation un-
der the laws OF the state of Mary
land, having its principal office in
the city of Baltimore, Maryland,
hereinafter called the surety are
held and firmly bound unto the
Board of Supervisors OF Grenada
county, in the state of Mississippi,
Hereinafter called the owner'o in
the full and just sum of twenty four
hundred (S2, 400) dollars to the pay
ment of which said sum Of money, the
said principal and the said surety
bind themselves their joint and several
successors, and assigns jointly and
Severally firmly BY these presents.
Signed. sealed and dated this 10Th day