The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1914-10-23
Proceedings of the Board of
Supervisors.
Continued from last week.

The election commissioners canvass.
ed the returns of the bond issue in
Supervisors Dist No l and found
majority of III votes or Issuance of
Bonds"
DIR. j w. Eckford, j. E. McCre'ght
and R. K Wer were appointed road
commissioners for Supervisors district
Mol. They recommended the issuance
and sale of One Hundred Thousand dol
lars of bonds to bear date of February
lst, 1915 the amount accessory in the
construction of roads is said district.
Whereas, j. w. Eckford, e Nc
Creight and R K Wier, the duly elected
qualified and acting road commissioners
for Dist No have this day made re-
port to this board, recommending and
asking the issuance of nego liable bonds
In said district, the amount of $3.50, 900,
and it appearing to the satisfaction OF
the board that the said sum is less than
OF the assessed value of the taxable
property in said district No l; and
whereas,
1t further appears to the satisfaction
of the board that the said sum of $4,000
is necessary and needed for the con-
struction OF the proposed work, and
the said bonds in said amount should be
issued; Therefore be it ordered by the
the board.
Sec 1. That said report of commits
sioners be and the same is hereby ratl-
fed, approved and confirmed. and the
said amount of of negotiable bonds as
fixed by sail commissioners is necessary
to be issued and the same is hereby
needed for the construction OF the pro-
posed work. Ordered this 9th day OF
October, 1914.
Whereas, there was duly filed with this
board petition containing the names
of more than twenty per centum OF the
qualified electors of Supervisors Dist
No l. praying and petioning, that said
district be allowed to come under the
provisions OF chapter 176 of the laws OF
Mississippi of 1914, and to issue nego-
totiable bonds of said district i'll an AIN
cunt not exceeding ten per centum of
the assessed value of the taxable
property in said district No l, and,
Whereas, Notice of the intention OF this
board to issue negotiable bonds of said
district was duly and legally given pub
lication in the Starkvile News, d week
Iy newspaper published in the city of
StarkvilIe in Supervisors Dist No L for
three weeks preceding the Sept 1914
meeting of Ghis board, aud,
Whereas, there was filed at the Sept
1914 meeting of the board counter
petition signed by more than twenty
per centum OF the qualified electors OF
the district, asking that said bonds be
not issued and that an election be had
according to the provisions of section
of chapter 176 of the laws OF Mississippi,
aud,
Whereas. all orders necessary wers
properly and legally made and entered
by this board proy iding for the holding
of said election by the election com mis-.
sioners of Oktibbeha County, on Friday,
Sept 25, 1914. and
Whereas, the said election was duly
and legally held by the election commits
sioners, as is fully shown by their re-
port to this board, and Whereas, the
said election resulted in favor of the
Issuance of bonds by majority of III
votes, and
Whereas the said result was duly and
legally certified, and
Whereas there was recommended by
the Road Commissioners of Dist No Ia
bond issue In the sum of $l3O. 600; all of
which above facts are here and now by
the board adjudged 10 be true and cor
rect.
THEREFORE,
BE it ordered by the Board:
Sec |. That negotiable road bonds Of
Oktibbeha County, Miss: on account of
Supervisors District No 1. are hereby
authorized and shall be issued in the
sum of $l30, ZOO for the purposes and
objects authorized contemplated, and
permitted by chapter 176 of the laws OF
Mississippi. 1914.
Sec 2, That said bonds shall be dated
February 1st. 1915, and shall consist of
two hundred and sixty (260) bonds of
$500 each, numbers to 260 both inclu-
siye, which said bonds shall bear inter-