The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-04-10
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF REGULAR
APRIL TERM, 1909.
SECOND DAY.

same as yesterday.
1t is ordered by the Board that
a janitor be employed for the court
house and appurtenances to be Sc.
lected by the sheriff and to be un.
der his control at a salary of $40
per month, said janitor to perform
such duties as the sheriff may re-
quire, and such further duties as
the Board may prescribe. It is
further ordered that the sheriff
shall have the right to discharge
any janitor at any time and select
another in his place.
The petition of T. B. Price and
others, petiuioning the Board to
grant them new bridge or repair
the old one on one prong of T. B.
Prices Mill Creek, the same being
on the Bogue Chitto road, leading
from the Summit and Brookhaven
road to the Holmesville and Brook
haven road, was this day filed.
The petition of W. C. Summers
and others, petitioning the Board
to grant them an extention of the
Topisaw and Bogue Chitto road
commencing with said proposed ex-
tension at the west end of said
Topisaw and Bogue Chitto road
just north of Joe Finch's place
running by Finch's house and on
southwest l 1-2 miles and intersect
the Monticello and Bogue Chitto
road at or near the old 8 mile post,
was this day filed.
The petition of Frank Houston
and others, petitioning the Board
to grant them a public road COM
mencing on the Wesson and Smith
Ferry road at E. L. Pearson's place,
running east through w. C. Hog
gatt's, L. W. Furr's and T j.
Farmers places in Copiah county,
and through the places of the fol-
lowing named citizens Of Lincoln
county: Frank Houston, Mulk
Brown, George Alexander, William
Armstrong, and intersecting the
Hazlehurst and Monticello road
crossing the creek near the old
Swafford ford, was this day filed.
ACCOUNTS ALLOWED.
j. F. Greer, care and keeping Of
court house and Jail months of
February and March,, $50; same,
victualing prisoners, SOC. 30; same,
turnkey fees, SIG; q. P. Jones, in
specting bridge one day, So; z. S.
Cameron, 10 pounds nails, 50c.; J.
B. Daughtry, cost in cases sent to
farm, $20.35; Jesse Smith, same.
$23.75; E. W. Blue, same, $3.50;
H. L. Hoskins, same, $3.75; ]. C.
Osborn. same, $11.35; D. D. Sim
mons, same, $40; A. and H. Evans,
working public roads in district
no. 4, $1O3.75; A. and H. Evans,
same in district 5, $178.75.
To the Hon. Board of Supervisors
of Lincoln county, Miss.
Gentlemen:,-I submit my report
as Superintendent of the County
Convict and Poor Farm for the
month Of March, 1909, have on
hand 8 paupers and Is prisoners of
the first class.
Prisoners worked are:
Hartwell Scott, Lea Willoughby,
Mary Davis, Arthur Smith, Ernest
Duster, Sim Edwards, Cliff Fuller,
Charlie Turner, 81 days each, So
each; John Lynch, Lea Willis, 22
days each, $5.87; Fred James,
Frank Woods, Frank Moore, Sam
Hughes, 20 days each, $5.34; Isom
Green, 18 days, $5.32; Lonnie Byrd,
16 days, $5.27; John Walker IL
days, $5.57; Ceaton Gordon, Is
days, 81; Corine Scarborough, IL
days, ST. 80; Pet Jefferson, days,
$1.35; Richard Willis, Henry Har-
per, 3 days each, Soc.
Second Glass Hands worked:
Cliff Scott, 26 days, $4.34; Will
liam Kennard, % days, $3.68; Will
jackson, 10 days, 1918; Miles
Thomas, 16 days, $2.68; Charlie
O'Neal, 10 days, $1.68; Henry Har-
ris, 18 days, So; Walter Lea, 2
days, 34c Total amount, $780,.
Prisoners serving days:
Oscar Ratcliff, 5; Beulah Smith,
6; Minnie Blackman, 10; Rosa
Wells, 26; Addie Brown, 26. Total
days, $73.
Escapes:
On the night Of the 10th, Lea
Willis, John Lynch, Sam Hughes,
Frank Moore, Frank Woods, Fred
James. Isom Green, escaped by
burning through the Jail floor.
Since that time Lea Willis and
John Lynch have been returned.
Discharged:
John Walker, Lonnie Byrd, by
working out their time; Beulah
Smith by giving vagrant bond and
paying cost, $8.15; Louis Watkins,
66c. Seaton Gordon, $5.27; Oscar
RatcIiff, 8Oc. Charlie O'Neal, $9..
81; Minnie Blackman, $9.10; Pet
Jefferson, SO; Richard Wells. $13;
Miles Thomas, $14.42; Henry Har-
per, $68. Total, $138.37.
Sold one blind mare, SIS; Cash
for wood cut for j. M. Waldrop,
$780,. by error in Louis Watkins,
So. Total, $148.87.
Work done by prisoners since
last report besides farm work has
been building one bridge in Beat 5
80 feet long. worth, 500.
j. G. MILLER,
Supt, County Farm.
In the matter of the letting of