The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-02-15
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Providing fos the Election Of ! Street
Dommisuioner; prescribing his
duties and fixing his salary.
1. Be Il ordained BY the mayor and
board OF aldermen Of the city Of
Greenwood. Mississippi, TIL t from
and after date the street commits.
sioner shall be elected by the people
Of said city 1t the same time and in
the same manner y other city Of.
icials are elected.
Section 2. Be II further ordained
that = special election be and the
same h hereby ordered to be held for
the election Of . street commi ssioner,
on the goth day Of February 1907, and
the election commissioner are hereby
ordered to give the notice required
and hold said election on said date.
Section 8 Be 1t further ordained
that it shall be the duty Of the said
street commissioner, in additi ion to
the duties imposed by Section 1897 Of
Mississippi Code OF 1906, to keep all
streets and sidewalks Of said city
clean and free from all garbage; to
work all streets up to the present
grade or to such other grade as the
mayor and board Of aldermen may
from time to time direct to keep the
culverts, side bitches. and surface
sewers open SO that there shall be no
standing or stagnsnt water in the
same.
Section 4. Be 1t further ordained
that there shall be created a street
fund, and the mayor and board Of
aldermen shall at each regular meet
ing appropriate to said fund . suf-
icient amount Of money to pay for
the labor on the streets for the sue
ceeding month, to be based on the
estimates furnished by the street
commissioner and street committee.
Section 5. Be it further ordained
that the street commissioner
shall keep q time book and resent
same with his monthly report and in
the payment Of labor done on the
streets may draw on the fund pro-
vided for in Section 4 by a check
by himself and countersigned
by the mayor, and the treasurer may
pay said check out of the said fund
and turn the same In to the said
Mayor and board Of aldermen at the
next regular meeting and receive a
warrant for the same.
Section 8. The said street commits
shall purchase no tools or inn
without the authority of
the mayor and board Of aldermen,
except in cases Of emergency, In
cases he can make said pur-
chase o. purchases by a written order
by the mayor and the CHI air
man Of the street committee, and
said order shall accompany the &C,
count before the same shall be al
Section I. Be 1t further ordained
that the compensation of the said
street commissioner shall be nine
hundred dollars per annum, payab BILE
monthly.
Section 8. Be 1t further ordained
hat, for aus this day shown it be-
a public necessity. this ordinances
shall be in force and effect from its
passage.
Section Q. The said street commits
,ioner shall have care and custody of
he city barn and live stock Of said
,ity used in tho working Of the streets
Ind Of all road implements, and shall
make a monthly report to the May Or
md board Of alderman, of the condi-
ion of the same and Of the number
# stock and said report he shall
give . detailed list Of the implemen to
IN hand and shall state what imple-
nents shall be needed, and he shall
Ilso In said report state the condition
Il the streets and what work he has
lone during the previous month.
Section 10. Said street commits
Toner shall give bond in the sum Of
Hundred Dollars conditioned
or the faithful discharge Of his duties.
Approved this the 9Th day OF Febru-
ny, 1907.
W. s. vARDAMAN, Mayor.
r. III. Hicks. Clerk.