The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-10-09
duced by Alderman Webb and adopted

duCed Oy Aloefm6n WeOD ana aQOpteo
on motion duly seconded and carried:
Whereas on September I, 1909, an
order was adopted by the Board of Ma
yor and Aldermen of the City of Bay
st. Louis. authorizing the secretary OF
said city to accept in its behalf war
ranty deed from Sarah A. Watts, con-
veying to said city certain lands, and to
issue to the grAntor in said deed upon
delivery the warrant Of said city for the
sum OF $4,000; and
Whereas . mistake was made in the
description of said land in said order,
therefore, so as to correct said incor-
rect description, be it ordered by the
Board of Mayor and Aldermen Of the
said City of Bay st. Louis that said or
der. as it appears on pages tS and IS of
Minute Book No. 4 of said city, be
altered and amended so as to read as
follows, to-wit:-
Whereas it has become necessary for
the City of Bay ST. Louis to purchase
lands for public purposes, and, whereas
the lands hereinafter described are sat-
isfactory for said purposes, therefore be
it ordered by the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen of said City of Bay st. Louis
that the Secretary of said city be and is
hereby authorized to accept for said
city warranty deed from Sarah A.
Watts, conveying to the City of Bay st.
Louis said lands, situate, lying and be-
ing within the State of Mississippi,
County of Hancock and City of Bay ST.
Louis, described as follows. to-wit:-
Lot II Of the Third Ward of the City
of Bay st. Louis, and Lot No. 2 in the
rear Of said ward and city, said lot No. 2
being continuation of said lot No. II,
outside OF the limits of said city, as said
lots are numbered and described upon
the official plat OF said city, made by
Surveyor Leland J. Henderson, and be-
ing all of said land purchased by said
Sarah A. Watts from w. B. Rohmer
and Octavia C. Rohmer, by deed of date
the 2Sth day of August. A. D. 1895, of
record in Vol. s on pages 74-76 of the
Deed Records of said Hancock County
Mississippi, lying west OF st. Francis
street.
And it is further ordered that said
secretary be and he is hereby author
lied to execute a warrant of said City
of Bay st. Louis in favor OF said Sarah
A. Watts for the purchase price of said
land, the sum of $4,000, upon delivery
to him of said warranty deed.
Petition of John Dilmann, in relation
to the city drainage through his prop
.eIty, was read ordered. received and
fled, - 5, .s,s.,,
His Honor, Mayor Gardebled, ap-
pointed committee Of two to investi :
gate existing conditions complained of
and to report.
The committee: Aldermen Webb and
McGinn.
The communication from the presi-
dent of the Board of Health to the
Council, suggesting the adoption of an
ordinance regulating the distance be-
tween markets and residences, the for
mer to be not less than 100 feet from
any residence, was received and ordered
filed.
Acting upon the advice of the presi-
dent OF the said Board of Health. the
following ordinance was introduced,
read and unanimously adopted:
An Ordinance Prescribing the Distance
Between Market Houses and Any
Residences to Be Not Less Than
100 Feet, in the City of Bay St.
Louis-No. 26; New Series.
Be it ordained by the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen of the City of Bay ST.
Louis, Miss, that it shall be unlawful
for any person or persons to carry on
or operate, or to engage himself as a
butcher to carry on or operate, butcher
business, or to establish a market house
less than 100 feet away from any resi-
dence, and the conducting or carrying
on of said business within the said dis
tance shall be considered and is hereby
declared nuisance, and the person or
persons conducting said business within
the limits forbidden by this ordin ance
shall be fined not more than ten dollars
$1,000, or imprisoned in the City Jail
for not more than five days, or both, at
the discretion of the court. Every day
that said business is so conducted within
the forbidden limits shall be deemed
separate violation Of this ordinance, for
which said person or persons shall be
liable to arrest and conviction as herein
before provided.
Approved in open Board October End,
1909. GASTON G. GARDEBLED,
RICHARD MENDES, Mayor.
Secretary.
The following communication of Hon.
e. J. Adam, mayor of Pass Christian,
in relation to the damage inflicted by
the re.>ent storm to the beach front in
this city. a,..d, suggesting to the munich
pality to Join the other coast towns in a
petition to Gov. Noel, requesting him to
recommend to the approaching session
of the Legislature to enact a law per-
mittinp all the State taxes collected in
the three coast counties (save that por-
ton that is set aside for school and PEN
sion n,,rnosesl he expended for a period