The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-04-13
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Official Proceedings of the April
Meeting of the Board

Ocala, Fla, April o, 1910. =
The board met with Commissioners .
earn, Fort and Hutchins present. .
Mrs. Tunis filed road petition with
the board.
Robert Fort was put on the pauper
list at SIS.
Mr.. ]. T. Nix was authorized to
leave Whites ferry in charge of Mr..
j. NJ. Fort for ten days.
/ Mr.. Cameron presented petition for
road to take place of road running
east from Stanton to Starke's ferry, .
and asked that action on either road :
be deferred until thorough investi- =
CATION be had by the commissioners .
and county engineer. The matter was
referred to Capt. Pyles and the road .
engineer TO report at next meeting OF .
| the board, and no more money be re- :
ceived for work on road east of Stan 9
ton until further action Of the board. .
Mr.. Harris appeared before the :
board and asked that the Banner be
selected as the paper to publish the {
laws of 1915. The same request was
made by Mr.. Nisle for the Marion
County Advocate. The board decided =
by vote to designate the Marion Coun-
, ty Advocate as the paper in which to
, print the laws of 1915.
, 1t was ordered that the clerk have
published in the Marion County Advo-
cate of Dunnellon, the minutes of the
\ board and the financial statement of
: the clerk, as we'll as in the Banner
and Star, at $4 per month for the
o minutes and $3.50 for the financial
\ statement for each paper.
a The Florida Crushed Rock Com |
. pany, of Montbrook, Fla, offered
enough rock screenings to make one
# quarter mile of road free, for exper-
g mental purposes, which was accepted.
= Petition to furnish ]. G. Thomas
= with means to reach Chattanooga
: was referred to Commissioner earn
Il with power to act.
Petition to put Mrs. S. E. Koon on
/. pauper list was referred to Commits
"A sioner Hutchins to report on at next
! meeting of the board.
Petition to place Amos Eichelberger
~ on pauper list was referred to Com
missioner Pyles to report on at next
n meeting.
!, 1t was ordered that Eliza Calhoun
- be put on the pauper list at So per
~ month
- 1t was ordered by the board that
\ Judge Gober be employed to prose-
:, cute in the case of the state VS.. Mann
: lie Coakley, and the clerk was directed
:. to draw warrant in favor of Judge
- Gober for $40.
:. Mr.. Griggs appeared before the
board and asked that the county build
- a voting place in Moss Bluff precinct.
- Mrs. Moorhead appeared before the
= board and asked for $25 to pay for
= prize for canning clubs, which was re-
a. fused, as the county was not in shape
- to make the donation.
Mr.. Roess came before the board
:, and suggested that the board allow
the city to use the county ten-ton
IL tractor when not in use by the county
Bond of D. o. Kicker to carry rife
was approved.
- Notary bonds of P. w. Collens and
C. M. Livingston were approved
The board of county commissioners
ma by resolution directed the clerk to
80 formally notify each one of the rep
no resentatives of this county that this
board is opposed to the creation OF
either a county court or county Grim
inal court of record for Marion coun-
ty. and to have the minutes show this
But they are in favor of some specia
law for this county allowing the
county commissioners to employ coun
sci to prosecute criminal cases wher'
they deem that the best interest O
1 the county require it.
The board ordered that the count!
attorney be directed to draw up Law
to be submitted to the legislature i'm
posing a license of 500 on log carts
and $50 on log wagons using the pun
lie roads. And also a law under which
county prisoners when sentence
could be put to work without delay
Bond of w. Schmidtmann to carr
. pistol approved
Resolved, that when the tax asses
sor convinces the tax collector tina
assessment as made on the books is
typographical error and will make a
affidavit to that effect, the collecto
|: may correct the error on his book
and the same will be approved by tn
board when he presents his list OF e.
rors and doubles.
The clerk was instructed to dra
warrant for SO in favor of Mr.. +. Y
I'm Kraybill to pay fare of sick negro
Green Pond, S. c.
n Three certain deeds from j. B. Ma
30 tin and wife and Alexander Wynn
and wife were received by the boal
and ordered recorded.
The following road: Begin e sl'
G. of s. A. L. Ry. where section line D
tween sections 81 and %, TIP ID $, +
see e, thence crosses boundary OF 50
; nv railroad right of way, each along sc