The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-06-07

AWarded---Bills paid.
State of Mississippi,
Hancock County.
Be it remembered that a regular
meeting of the Board of Supervisors
was begun and holden in and for the
County of Hancock at the Courthouse
thereof, in Bay ST. Louis, Miss, on the
1st Monday of Jnne, the same being
the End day of said month, A. D. 1913,
and the time and place fixed by law for
holding said meeting.
The following members and officers
were present, to-wit:
Wiley Smith, president; H. S. Wes-
ton, J. E. Smith, JOS. L. FaVre and N.
T. Mauffray, associate members.
The report on prisoners by the sheriff
for the month of May was read in open
board, approved and ordered filed.
The report of the county superin-
tendent of education was read in open
board, approved and ordered filed.
The report of the health officer of
Hancock county was read in open board,
approved and ordered filed.
Ordered by the board that the fol-
lowing amounts be allowed and paid out
of the general county fund, as per bills
on file examined and approved:
Sea Coast Echo, printing 200 blank sub
poenas for chancery clerks office, both
sides, (see 3l5, code 1906. )..............$ 90
H. 7. Fayard, hair cut and shave Morton
Macarthur (sec. 315, code 1860 ........ so
A. Monti, repair and furnishings for court
house (sec. 315, code 1906 6).............. 10 80
Cuevas Lumber Co., excess on land re-
demption (sec. 1885, code 1905. ......... 81
E. Van Whitfield, victualing prisoners (sec.
l, acts 1908. .......................... Al 90
Cumberland t. C T, Co., rentals (sec. 3l5,
code 1906. ......................... 90
Sam C. Ladner, county treasurer, salary,
tsec. 3. chap. 192--1o10} }.s.........-..... 25 90
Gulf Coast Progress printing proceedings
Feb, March and April (sec 326, code
1906 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 81 so
Gulf Coast ProgI ess. printing advertise
ments, etc. (secs. 326 and 361, code 1906) 20 OF
Bay ST. Louis Ice, Light C Bottling W'ks,
lighting courthouse (sec 3l5, code 19O6l 81
E. Van Whitfield, stamps, etc., for office
etc, (sec. 315-l906) 6)..................... 90
Schumert &c Warfield, supplies for office
(sec. 3l5-l906) ........................ 2 56
Power Drug Co., drugs for prisoner (sec.
3l0-l9Ob. 70
Sam Breard, ianitor services (sec. i, ch.
142, acts l9Uo.., OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 20 w
Mary Mars, keeper of courthouse (sec. $50
-l906l ....-..........- 81 90
John Craft, stamps for Office (sec. 3l5-190 20
Ordered by the board that the follow
ing amount be allowed John Craft,
county superintendent of education as
pro rata salary for the month of May,
A. D. 1913, payable out of the school
fund, as per bill on file: S64.00.
Ordered by the board that the follow
ing amount be. allowed and paid out of
the road and bridge fund, as per bill on
file, for enormously collected commuta-
tion tax: Rodger Burton (sec. /, chap.
$50, acts 1910, $500.
Ordered that the following amount be
paid out of the general county fund,
as per bill on file: Geo. c. MCGOWAN,
M. D., 6 months services as county
health officer from Dec. Is, 1912, to
June l3, 1913: s100.
A. A. Kergosien, stamps for Office,
sec. 315, code 1906: S5.75.
This day, pursuant to legal notice
given for contract for building a steel
bridge across Rotten Bayou on Road
No. 40, in District No. 4, of Hancock
county, according to plans and specifi-
cations on file in the Office of the clerk
of the board of supervisors of said
county was offered for sale to the lowest
bidder at public outcry within legal
hours, at the front door of the court
house of said Hancock county, when
and where, after sundry bids had been
made, the Vincennes Bridge Co. of
Vincennes, Ind. bid the sum of S1975,
and the same being the lowest bid re-
ceived, said bid is accepted, and the
contract for erecting said bridge ac-
cording to the said plans and specif-
cations is hereby awarded to the said
Vincennes Bridge Company at and for
the said sum of $3.50, upon said COM
pany entering into bond, with good and
sufficient sureties in double the amount
of contract price, to-Wit: the sum of
thirty-nine hundred and fifty dollars
(S3950.00), conditioned on the faithful
performance of contract and compile
ton of said bridge within months
from this date, said bond to be filed by
the next meeting of this board, and
the time for the completion of said
work to be extended, If delayed by un-
ayoidable cause, and the payment of
the contract price to be made upon the
completion and acceptance of the work.
And it is further ordered that N. Il.
Mauffray be appointed to supervise the
construction of said bridge and !. T..
Favre and J. E. Smith be appointed q
committee to inspect same, when COM
pleted, and report.
Pursuant to legal notice given, proof
thereof being made and filed, the con-