The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1906-12-08
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE REG.
ULAR DECEMBER MEETING.
Private Streets Ordered Moved or Wa
ter Cut Off.
$3.50 Paid on New Machinery at the
Power House.
Aldermen Hereafter to Receive $500
per Diem for Attending Regu-
lar Meetings.

| At this, a regular meeting al
the Board of Mayor and Alder
men of the city of Brookhayen,
held at the mayors office in said
city, this uesday, Dec. 4, 1906:
at 1880 O'Clock p. M, there were
present R. D. Lanier, mayor, and
| Aldermen Hartman, Abrams and
Jones. Aldermen Parsons and
Larsen absent.
The minutes of the November.
1906, meeting we're read and ap-
proved.
i ACCOUNTS ALLOWED.
| The salaries of officers and en-
ployes for the month of Novem-
Der, with other accounts as ap-
pears below, were allowed and
amounts to gay same appropriated
from the different funds, as fol
lows:
Revenue Fund-R. d. Lanier,
salary mayor, November, 1906,
$35; Sam A brams, salary clerk,
November, 1906, $25; Doc Sartin,
salary tax collector November,
1906, SIS; A. Hurst, salary mar
shal, Nov, 1906, $50; j. H.
Magee, police, $50; W. NJ.
Meter, police, $50; R. F. Nc
Cormick, police, $50; G. Albertz,
sexton cemetery, 500; Masonic
Lodge, rent office, 500; Cumber-
land Telephone & Telegraph Co..
phone mayors Office, $2.75; Doc
Sartin, paid labor on ditch.
1866; P. 7. Byrne, labor, lum-
ber, etc., $27.30; J. A. Holman.
same, $25.25; The Leader, pub.
fishing annual statement, $50.
Street Fund--A. Hurst, street
commissioner for November, 1906,
SIS; A. Hurst, boarding mules
for November, 500; Geo, Wa ash.
ington, removing garbage fol
November, $35; Doc Sartin, cash
paid for labor on street, $42. so:
w. FL. Penn, shop work street
$8.25; G. B. Perkins, slips, etc.
street, $14. 60; John Dunn, 5 loads
gravel, S.; total, $140.65.
Power House Expense Fund
R. S. Purser, supt., Nov, 1906
$125; W. w. Nusom, engineer ano
over time, $72.50; Ben McTag
CART, fireman, $55; Theodore Ed
monds, fireman, less cash, S.. 70
$49.25; Luther Magee, lineman
$45; Brookhaven Ice Manufactur
ing Company, 5 cars coal, less
freight, $179.36; same, 45 load:
shavings, $3.50; Cling Surface
Co., Is pounds cling surface
$8.75; Marine Oil Co., 1 barre
cyl. oil No. 1887, $500; same,
barrel cyl. oil No. 1708, $21.73
r. M. Nalty, repairing main
$7.10; G. B. Perkins, articles fol
power house, $24.56; G. H. Penn
shop work at power house, So; G.
I. Patterson Co., Ltd, 2 yds
packing, $9.7S; A. G. Seavey 6
Sons, 5000 brick for boiler foun
dation, $72; Standard Oil Co., OF
and gasoline, $14.97; Same, OF
less co. men,, $18.S2; West Ken
lucky Coal Co., 2 cars coal, less
rebate, = $51.35; Electric Supply
Co., paste, etc., $2.O5;- Genera
Electric Co., Is lbs. tape, invoice
No. A, 81, $50, S.; Pearl Rivel
Lumber Co., lumber for storage
room, $43. 81; keystone Lubricat
ing Co.. u barrel grease, $33. 80
: Electric Appliance Co, wire
etc, order No. 1878, $30.81;
Cumberland Tel. & Tel. Co.
phone for power house, Nov.
$2.75; Doe Sartin, paid labor
, freight, ETC., $702.57; A. E
Moreton, cost of pipe to Whit
I property, So.
School Expense Fund, Ameri
ca Byrd, ianitor public school
$25; p. w. Cameron, articles fo
public school, $735; Penn Furni
ture Co., one stove, ETC., coloreC
school, SLIGO; Edgar Green, su
; perintendent of education, $8.97
E. S. B. Society, rent hall, Nov.
$50; P. w. Cameron, paid JAM
,, tor colored school, Nov, S..
Meter Fund. General Electri
Co. 6 meters, Invoice No. A 81,
$50, S6o.75.
Mrs. M. Greenwood's Assess
ment Reduced. 1t having bee
made to appear to this board tha
the property of Mrs. M. Green
wood described as part of lots 8
] 10, and II, being 150x46 feet i
s block 26, assessed on the reaIt,
: roll for Brookhaven at $500
. assessed in excess of its value an
that the Board of Supervisors G
! Lincoln county has reduced th
! assessment on said property t
e 81, 900; on motion it was ordere
: that the city assessment on sal
9 property he reduced to 500
9 and that the city tax collecto
g lcollect the taxes due thereon j
accordance with such reduced va
uation.
Stock Report. The report {
i City Marshal A. Hurst shown
h the sum of $21.25 in his hanc
due the city on account Of stoc
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