The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1906-08-18
THE CITY COUNCIL
IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTED AT
ADJOURNED MEETING.
Corporation Limits Extended Quarter
Of Mile on All Sides Except
PearIhaVen.
NOTICE GIVEN OF INTENTION TO
ISSUE $4,000 IN BONDS FOR
WATER AND LIGHT Ex-
TENSION.
THE CITY COUNCIL

WATER AND LIGHT Ex-
TENSION.
The Mayor and Board of Alder
men held an adjourned meeting
Thursday evening at 5 o'clock,
with the Mayor and all members
of the Board present.
VIM. Jones, who was fined
$500 by the Mayor for keeping
his meat market open on Sunday
appeared before the meeting, and
on representing tEat he had
proceeded under the misappre-
hension that the city had no ordi-
nance against meat markets sell
ing on Sunday, on motion of
Alderman Parsons, the fine was
remitted, it being stipulated and
understood that Mr.. Jones would
conform to the law on this subject
hereafter.
The Board refused to agree to
pay more than $4,000 per month
for the Colored Industrial School
Building for use by the colored
public school, and that matter
went over.
The subject of extending the
corporate limits of the city being
taken up, Mayor Lanier and AL
derman Jones, who had been d.
rected to Investigate the legal
questions involved, submitted their
report in the form of an ordi-
nance. Alderman Parsons NOV
ed to amend the ordinance sub
mitted by including in the pro-
posed extension all of the terri
tory now embraced within the
present corporate limits of Pearl
haven, which section 1912 of the
new Code chapter on municipal
Iities, authorizes. The amendment
was tabled by the following vote:
Yeas-Abrams, Hartman and
Larsen.
Nays-Jones and Parsons.
The ordinance was then adopted
as publisnhed below, all members
Iof the board except Alderman
Parsons voting for its adoption:
Corporation Extension Ordinance.
An ordinance to enlarge the
area and boundaries of the City !
of Brookhaven, Mississippi.
Section I. Be it ordained by |
the Mayor and Board ofAldermen
of the City of Brookhaven, Mis-
sissippi, That the area and boun-
daries of the City of Brookhaven,
Mississippi, be and the same are
hereby enlarged by adding there
to and including all of the ad-
Jacent unincorporated territory
lying and being situate between
the present boundaries of the
said City of ,Brookhaven and the
following boundaries, to-wit:
Begin In the center of the main
line or track Of the illinois Cen
tral Railroad at point thirteen
hundred and twenty 1920 yards
or three-quarters of one mile
north of the center of Monticello |
street and the center of the main
track of the Illinois Central
Railroad, at the crossing of said
street and railroad in the City Of
Brookhaven, and run thence at
right angles to said railroad in
an easterly direction thirteen
hundred and twenty yards (1320)1
or three-quarters of one mile;
thence at right angles and parallel
to said railroad in a southefly
direction two thousand, six
hundred and forty yards, or one
and one-half miles; thence at
right angles In a westernly direc-
tion two thousand six hundred I
and forty (2640) yards or one and
one-balf miles, crossing the Illi-
#nois Central railroad track at
and s fo,ty s foeaa1 9i1aa Yards &c or1ona and
.ana-balf IN, n;laa from ont tba "a staTtino
noinT. & tbanca 4 r;abt anoles J and T
psrallal q tba IiI;no;s Central
Pa,lroad - ] -, northarnIr direction
5two tbonsana s;y hundred and
fnrfv loe4ell vards q one and /
Inna.half n,iIps. thence # riohf
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