The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-04-10
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE AD-
JOURNED APRIL MEETING.
The $4,000 Bond Issue to be Sold al
the June Meeting.
NEW ORDINANCE ADOPTED TO REGU-
LATE PURCHASES FOR CITY.
All Bids for Wall and Foundation at
Power House Rejected. City
to Hire Work Done.

At this, regular adjourned
meeting of the Mayor and Board
of Aldermen held in the Mayors
Office in said city, this, the 8th
day of April, 1907, at 7::3O 3 'eIock
p. NJ, there were present: May
or Lanier, Clerk Hamilton, Al
dermen Hartman. Abrams, Jones,
Larsen and Wentworth.
Accounts Allowed. The fol
lowing accounts were allowed and
the Mayor and Clerk Instructed
to draw warrants on the various
funds to pay same:
Revenue Fund. /. g. r.. r.,
rent of ground for bell tower, ST.;
r. B. Noodle, lock for pound,
sec; Doc Sartin, listing street
hands, Sl5: j. b. Davis. extra po-
lice service for March, $50.
Power House Expense Fund. -
Standard Oil Co., oil for power
house. $11.27; 3. B. Noodle,
wheelbarrow for power house,
S2.25; Mctfrath & Sons, Gold
Dust for power house, $4. so;
Electric Supply Co., transform
ers, etc., S112 43; Electric Supply
CO.., anchor rods, $40; Electric
Appliance Co., steel chains, $1 44;
CA B Perkins, articles for power
house, $9.54; Brookhaven Ice
Mfg. Co., coal for power house
less freight, $260.29: Nance
Bros, oil pump, $40; Irving Pitts
Mfg. CO., books for supt., S4. 35;
Doc Sartin, cash paid freight on
coal and labor at power house,
ST, ,472. 50.
Street Expense Fund. r. B.
Noodle, nails for street, 25c; Nc
Grath & Sons, feed and pads for
mules (less 20 cents for bran)
S9.58; G. B. Perkins, pIoW
sfyo:Ht, 65e;; II Penn, work on
street tools, So: Brookliaven
Wholesale Gro. Co., feed for
mules for March, S15.23; Doc
Sartln. cash paid labor on street,
$131. 09.
School Expense Fund. L. d.
BoadWee, repair work on gutter
at school, 81. 80; P. w. Cameron,
crayon for colored school, 40c.
Meter Fund. Irving Pitts Mfg.
Co, backs for meter books, $6. 30,
Electric Appliance Co, leaves
for meter book, $1.50; Buffalo
Meter Co., rubber disc for meter,
So. rs; Mrs. j. Fl. Redding, re.
turn Of meter, less 10 per cent,
.S11.25.
Tax COLLECTORS Report. The
tax collector submitted his report
for the month of March, which i
as follows
Broolhaven, Miss,
April / 1907.
70 the Hon. Mayor and Board o1
Aldermen Of the City of Brook
haven, Miss.
Gentlemen: hereby submit
my report ais tax collector for The
month of March, as follows.
Amount collected for lights
$1 ,272. 81 for water, $627. .01 !; fol
meter rents, S44 so: for rebate of
coal, $I15.25; for street tax
$50, Is; total, $2145. .03.
Respectfully submitted,
DOC SARTIN.
After being carefully examined
Ithe report was approved.
Tax Collectof's Final Reporl
lon Street Tax The tax collector
Submitted bis final report al
lstreet tax, the same being careful
Fly examined and approved By ths
board. The report is as follows
Brookllayen, Miss,
April +, 1907.
ITO the Mayor and Board Of All
dernen OF the City of Brookha
rens Miss.
t1ehtlenaen II herewith submi
fnly final report of street tax col
llected for the year beginnin,
/ ApTiI 1906. aud ending ADr;
/ 4, 1907, to.wit List as approves
April | 1906, 6S1 al So, S1893
Since added, 80 ait So IS so; sine
added. / at So IS; total, $2044 70
Credits BY amount paid cit
treasurer, $1329; BY amount 81
Ihand, SIS rs; BIZ amount delin
lquent, 209 at rs, S827; total
l$2 044. Is.
Respectfully submitted,
DOC SARTIN.
/ Report Of Committee ON N or
lat Public School. The committeI
made its report Oh the amount 8
work necessary to put the hall ii
3good shape Bids were Opene
land the following were awarde
contracts Jack Glenn, painting
SO; Ell kits, repairing walls
1922 SO; g. Heuek, curtains an
hanging same, $40. The commil
ltees consisting of j Jones and Wenl
worth were given power to haF