The leader., 1905-09-13
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Official Proceedings Of the Regular
September Term. 1905.
THIRD DAY.

THIRD DAY.
/ Wednesday morning, Sept, s,
the board met pursuant to adjourn
ment; present same as yesterday.
Brookhaven, Miss,
Sept. 4, 1905.
To the Hon. Board of Supervisors
of Lincoln county:
| herewith submit my final re-
port as your road commissioner,
which shows the amount Of money
THAT | have collected and paid into
the county treasury, with a show
ling of the balance uncollected.
MY service as road commissioner
for four years has been that Of
warfare, and to some extent dis.
satisfaction. have labored faith
fully to perform the instructions
land orders of your honorable body
and in many instances, as you
i know, have failed, owing to the
fact that the contract system has
had its enemies from the begin
ming. In the first place the roads
when first let out in this county
were full of stuInps, roots and
lditches, all of which had to be re-.
moved and it has taken, as you
/ know, a great deal of labor to per-
form this initiatory step before
the roads could be put in proper
condition, which has been about
accomplished. | could have az
lcomplished a great deal more with
less expense had the board had the
cooperation of the entire people.
The compensation received by the
contractors has been so small that
it has been next to impossible for
4 them to comply strictly to the let
ter of the law and / have possibly
favored them beyond my iurisdic-
tion, but feeling as did the me-
cesslty of having good roads. I
have given them every encour-
agement and tried as best / could
| to obtain the results desired by
the best citizenship Of the county. /
| find the complaints against the con-
tractors are not we'll founded and
/ the roads as whole, are not as bad
asrepresented, and never have been
Isince the Inauguration of the con-
tract system. | have found the
contractors at all times not only
willing but anxious to carry out
the instructions of the Board of
supervisors to the very best of
their ability, but have been often
hindered by the public, all of
which | hope you gentlemen will
| be able to overcome, and | do now
submit my final report. Thank
ing you for the kindness and
courtesy shown me by your hon
orable body, believing as do that
you gentlemen have but one OBJ
iect in view, and that is to give
the people of Lincoln county the
very best roads possible for the
amount of money that you have in
hand, and / hope the time will
soon come when Lincoln county
will have the best roads in the
IState of Mississippi, and you will
lhave my hearty cooperation and
Igood will in the accomplishment
Of the same.
/ / have collected and paid into
the county treasury So, IA. 90,
which my vouchers will show. /
have to report $4,99400 delin-
lquent. collected east of the /.
c. X. r., 50, 1877; west of I. G. r..
R., $4,417; total $6, 744..
G. T. MONTGOMERY,
Road Commissioner.
To the Hon. Board Of Supervisors
of Lincoln county:
Gentlemen: 81 have inspected
all of the public roads in my dis
Etrict and respectfully state that
they are in good, safe, passable
condition.
Very respect eully.
Y. p, JONES.
Gentlemen: Il beg leave to re-
port that that / have inspected all
of the roads 10 my district except
about 81 miles and am pleased to
state that the same are in a good,
safe, passable condition.
Respectfully submitted,
j. G. BRYANT.
Gentlemen:-I have inspected
all the roads in district No 8.
find them in a good passable con-
dition. find them in my judg-
ment far better than this time last
year. Respectfully,
G. Nj. BRIS TER.
Gentlemen: have inspected
all The public roads in district No
1 and find them in good. passabl.
conditiah with the exception d
II lthc old jackson ana Liberty road.
] which is in bad condition il
! places. The culVerts on all thi
= roo nc ara IN had condifian heinz