The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-10-16
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF REGULAR
SEPTEMBER TERM. 1907.
Road Contracts Let Other Road Mat
ters Claim Much Of the Boards
Attention.
The Roads in District No. 2 to be Let
Out at the November Meeting.
FIRST DAY.
Public Roads.

clerK or tnlS Board Tor working
all public Roads in Lincoln coun-
ty, Mississippi, by contract, &C
cording to the plans and specifca
tions now on file in its clerk IS
office, were opened at a public
and regular meeting of the Board
of Supervisors of Lincoln county,
Mississippi, in the Office of the
clerk of the Chancery Court of
Lincoln county in the Court
House in the city of Brookhaven,
Mississippi, on the first Monday
in October, A. D. 1907 (the time
and place fixed by law for the
holding of such meeting), at 2
O'Clock p. M, and the same read
out in open court by the clerk and
tabulated as follows:
A. A. Burns and David W.
Price bid $27 per mile for work
ing link No. s and 13 miles of
link No. Z.
W. H. Boyte bid $2S per mile
for link No. Z except 13 miles.
Anderson case bid $50 per mile
for working the Brookhaven and
Natchez road and all public roads
north of said road, lying west OF
the Illinois Central Railroad.
Fl. f. Middleton bid $42 per
mile for all public roads in Super-
visors' District No. 2.
Willis Walker bid $50 per>miIe
for all public roads north OF
Bruokhaven and Union Church
road lying west of the Illinois
Central Railroad.
&. d. Williams bid $24.95 per
mile for all public roads east of
Brookhaven in District No. /.
j. K. Smith and r. K. Smith
bid pro-rata share of commuta
tion and advalorem levy for road
purposes for all the public roads
in district No. 2 lying south of
Mississippi Central Railroad on
link No. 6.
Albert Evans and Hillary
Evans bid $29.50 per mile for all
public roads in Lincoln county,
lying west of the Illinois Central
Railroad.
II. w. Wallace bid $50 per mile
for link No. 8.
6. W. Peets bid $40 per mile
for links Nos. 2, 3, II and IL.
j. j. Newman and l. j. Walllce
bid $50 per mile for link No. 8.
l. j. Alfred bid $40 per mile
for link No. 9.
FL. H. Summers bid commuta-
tion tax and special road tax levy
for road leadingfrom .. q. Black
wells place on the lower Monti-
cello public road to point be-
tween the s and 8 mile posts on
the public road.
Isom Smith bid $35 per mile for
link No. 10.
w. j. and Jeff Moak bid $35
per mile for link No. 9.
Anderson Case & Sons bid $32. :
50 per mile for all public roads
lying west of the Illinois Central
Railroad except the Chippewa
Branch, May swamp and all new
roads just opened up.
Henderson and Turnbough bid
$40 per mile for all public roads
in Lincoln county, lying west of
the Illinois Central Railroad.
And, it appearing to the salts
faction of the Board that the bid
of A. A. Burns and David w.
Price for working link No. 5 and
Is miles in link No.7 at and for
the sum of twenty seven dollars
per mile is the lowest and best,
the contract for working said
roads according to the plans and
specifications now on file in The
clerks Office, is this day awarded
to the said A. A. Burns and
David w. Price for the term OF
two years from this date upon the
said A. A. Burns and David w.
Price entering into bond in the
penalty of the amount of their bid
payable to the President of the
Board of Supervisors of Lincoln
county, conditioned according tc
law for the faithful performance
of their contract during the con,
tinuance of said period of two
years.
| Public Roads west of |. G. r.
r. And it appearing to the salts
faction of the Board that Albert
Evans and Hillary Evans are th.
i lowest and best bidders for work
ling all of the public roads il
Lincoln county lying west of thu
Illinois Central Railroad, accord
ling to the plans and specifications
on file in the clerks office. at ane
for the sum Of twenty mine dollars
land fifty cents per mile, the con
tract for working all of said pub
liic roads is this day awarded tt
the said Albert Evans and Hi
IIary Evans for working all Of thl
lpublic roads in Lincoln count,
Lying west Of the Illinois Centra
Railroad, according to plans AMI
specifications now on file in Chi
clerk's Office, for the term of tw,
i years from this date, ut and fo
the sum of twenty nine dollar
!, and fifty cents per mile, upon CHI
lsaid Albert Evans and HilIar,
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