The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1907-04-06
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Proceedings of April Meet
ing, Held at Cleveland.


board: S. C. Taylor, president; w.
A. Speakes and E. H. Wray, members;
L. E. Edwards, clerk, and Claud
| Seals, sheriff. The session having been
duly opened by proclamation of the
sheriff, the following proceedings were
had and same were ordered spread up
on the minute book of the board:
| COUNTY WARRANT CANCELLED.
The holder of county war; ant No.
S77, for 81 50 so, issued on January 10.
| 1867, PAYABLE from available funds to
the credit of section 10, township d
| range 5, to the order Of L. H. Gaines
and Il. NJ. Dakin, trustees, having
been now surrendered and in the pres
ence of this board duly cancelled and
annuled, it is ordered upon application
| that the clerk of this board issue in lieu
of said cancelled warrant his three
| warrants, all payable from the said
fund, to tine said trustees or order, as
follows, to-wit: One for $4,000; one
one for 500; and one for SIS. so.
ASSESSMENT REDUcED.
| The application of Nj. A. Jenkins,
praying for reduction in the assess
ment of block &C." IN the village of
| Alligator, and the board being now
duly advised and satisfied that the
present assessment of the. said block
is unjust, erroneous, excessive, and an
generalization, known to be such, it is
| ordered that the said assessment be
and is reduced from 81, COO to $500, and
| that the land asse ssment will be and
! is charged and corrected ac ;ordingly.
| 1t is further ordered that the clerk of
this board certify this order to the tax
collector of this county and to the aud
tor of public accounts.
CHANGE OF ASSESSMENT.
Ordered that P. c. Ousley be assess
ed ith 10 acres of cleared land i'll Sec
ton =, township %. range S, and that
the assessment of the Continental Ma
t,onal Bank be reduced 10 acres in
said section.
APPRAISERS APPOINTED.
Ordered by the board that W. l..
Pearman and A. L. Benehel be and
they are hereby appointed appraisers
TO appraise the rental value of the town
lots in the town cfMerlgold, secti On 10,
township %. range S, and report their
action to this beard at its meeting in
Cleveland III June 1eC7.
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT.
This day came on to heard the petit
| ton of Bolivar Troop CHAPTER of the
| United Daughters of the Confederacy,
praying that the board make an appro-
priation or donation fer the purpose OF
assisting in the erection of a monument
to the Confederate dead, as authorized
bv Sec. 400 of the Miss. Code of 1906;
and came also 25 earnest, enthusiastic
ladies and U. D. C's in their own prop
err and irresistible persons, eloquently
| urging favorable and liberal action on
the said petition; and the board having
now duly considered the said petition,
and having heard with great pleasure
and admiration the verbal appeals
made by the said daughters. and being
now duly advised and satis6 fed that
the said prayer of the said petitioners
should be granted, doth order, and il
is now ordered, that the sum of Twen-
ty-fiv Hundred dollars be and is ap-
propriated and donated to the said
| Chapter for the purpose of erecting q
monument to all of the Confederate
dead whose remains are buried in Boil
| iyar county. 1t is further ordered that
the clerk of this board sh all issue his
warrant, payable TO The order of the
president of said chapter from the gen
eral county funds in settlement of this
appropriation.
| Ordered this April l, 1907.
PETITION FOR ROAD.
The petition of w. l.. Dossett, w It.
Cassitv w. z. Ccurson, j. B. Bond,
and twelve other house-hoiders and
free holders of the county interested in
the road herinafter described, praying
the appointment of commissioners as
provided by law to examie and view
the route of a road, beginning at d
point 400 feet south of the Bell store, on
Bell place fronting Lake Beulah. and
running thence in a northerly direction
through the lands of Mrs. Laura B.
Terrell, C. D. Terrell and Walter Sill
,ers to an intersection with the Stokes
bayou road, and to lay out and mark
the said route, if they deem the same
practicable, coming on this dav to be
heard, and the board being nov duly
advised and satisfied that the said Pc
tition conforms in all respects to the re-
ouirements OF law, and that all parties
through or over whose land 1t will pass
have had due aud legal notice OF said
petition, it is therefore ordered, and
the board doth now order, that W. "A.
Spe axes and E. H. Wray, members OF
this board, other than that OF the said
proposed road, shall examine and view
the contemplated route of said road,
and if they find the same practicable,
they shall lay out and mark the said
road, and they shall report their pro-