The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-11-19

Of Mississippi
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County Of Lef1ore
ITO all persons interested in the lands
described below:
4ou will take notice that L. S. Hemp
sIniH ct ais. have this day filed a petition
20 the Office of the Chancery Clerk of
- lore county, Mississippi, praying to
amend the petition for the Pelucia-Big
seand Drainage District and for certain
sterritory, hereinafter described, to be
lattached to, made a part of and en-
3 ofaced in the Pelucia-Big Sand Drain
laage District, of Lefore and Carroll
counties. The land proposed to be en-
braced is as follows:
A strip of lam 200 feet wide from
fazoo River northeasteriy to the west
side of NE Ia, S 1, T 10, r i, East, and
being more particularly described as
being a strip of land 100 TT. in width on
each side of the following line, to wit;
Begin at the mouth Jennings Bayou in
Yazoo River, in Section lot. 10, R.. l E;
thence ~Northeasterly along the center
line of said jennings Bayou, following
the thread of said jennings Bayou, to
the Bridge of the Yazoo & Mississippi
Valley Co. thence South 80 deg. East
242 it., thence North % deg. TO- East SO
Eft. thence North 81 deg. d East. 412 it :,
thence North 70 deg. Is East 269 #;
thence North 76 deg. 4J' East, 249 it;
thence North 80 deg. East, 446 it.; thence
North % deg. East 219 it; thence North
40 deg. East 2S3 #; theme North Sc
deg. 80 East, 244 #; hence North 80
deg. East, 1473 it; thence North 30 deg
East, 2285 it; thence North 53 deg. East,
27O IT; thence North "a deg. 10 East,
sos It; thence North 81 deg. East, 637
it; thence North 50 deg As East, 67S TT;
thence North 40 deg. 80 Fast, 246 fl;
thence North AZ deg. East, 175 fl; thence
North 60 deg. East, 81 it; thence North
40 deg. East to the West boundary of the
Northeast Quarter of Sec. l, Township
10, H. l East, in Leflore County, Missis-
sippi, II being a strip of land 200 feet
wide running over and across parts OF
b following subdivisions of land, to-
witt West Half of Section One, the
Southeast Quarter of Section Two, the
North Half of Section Eleven and the
East Half of Section Ten, all in Town
ship Nineteen, Range One, East
The boundaries of said territory pro-
posed to be embraced in said dirtrict
are as follows: Begin at the mouth of
Jennings Bayou in YaZoo River at the
center or thread of said Jennings Bayou
M run 100 it. in a S%outherly direction
down ssid Bayou, N~ortheasterly with
the meanderings of said jennings Bay
GU, 100 it., from center or thread thereof
to the bridge of the Yazoo & MISSISSIPPI
pi Valley r. r. Co., across said Bayou,
thence 100 feet from the center line of
the strip of land abeve described, n
parallel ~lherewith to the West bound
airy of the N. Il. !, Section l, T. 10, X. 1,
East, thence 200 it. North on the West
boundary of the N. Z. ! OF section One,
thence S~outhwesterIy, parallel with the
center line of the strip above described
to the bridge Of the Yazoo q MISSISSIPPI
pi Valley r.. r.. Co, across Jennings
Bayou thence with the meanderings Of
said Bayou 100 feet, from the center or
thread of said stream to Yazoo River,
thence 90 the poins OF beginning.
Petitioners will ask a hearing of said
petition at Noon On the second Monday
of December 1903, at the Court House
in Iudianoia, Sunlower County, Missis-
sippi.
Witness my hand and seal, this the
18th day of November, A. D.. 1909.
G. W. CROCKETT,
Clerk of Chancery Court,
Leflore County, NJ ssissippi.