The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-08-18
PROCEEDINGS
OF the Board of Supervisors.
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
COUNTY OF GRENADA.
BE 1T RENDERED, That, on tn
the 7th day of August, 1916, said da
being the first Monday of said mont
and a day fixed by law for holding
regular meeting of the Board OF 81
pervisors of Grenada County, MIS-:
issippi, there was begun and held
regular meeting offs aid Board at tn
Court House, in the City of Grenads
said County and State, when then an
there were present the following:
w. A. Odom, President, Memoe
District One;
j. E. Carpenter, Member District
Two; 49,.
W. V. Horton, Member Distrlc
D. r. Childers. Member Distric
Four; .-
L. T. Hayden, Member Distric'
Five; .,,,
M. E. Powell, Clerk of said a
w. H. Crowder, Sheriff of said Co
unity.
when the following orders, amongst
others, were passed, to-wlt:
Mr.. Horton offered the following
which upon being read and seconded
by Mr.. Hayden, carried UNANIMOUSLY
was ordered spread upon the minutes
WHEREAS, A petition was pre-
sented to this Board at its regular
meeting held on the 9TH day OF June
1916, as follows. to-wit:
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
GRENADA COUNTY.
To the Honorable Board of SUI
pervisors of Grenada County, Mis-
issippi
We. the undersigned petitioners,
constituting a majority of the quail
fled electors residing within the Hol-
comb Consolidated School District,
which district contains more than
25 square miles, embracing the fol
lowing lands to-wit: All that part OF
township twenty-one, Range two
east. in Grenada County; all of
Township twenty-five, Range two
east. in Grenada County; all of
Township twenty-one, Range three
east, in Grenada County, except
west half of section fifteen; all of
section sixteen; and the east half
of section seventeen; and all of
township twenty-five, Range three
east; do hereby petition your Hon.
orable Board to issue twenty year
bonds in the sum of ten thousand
dollars (S10,000.00) for the pur-
pose of erecting and equipping
school buildings and the purchase of
such buildings or lands therefor,
and the Improvement and adorn-
ment thereof, for erecting and
equipping water works and sewer
age; for the purchase of transpota-
ton vehicles for the Transportation
of pupils and teachers to and from
school in said district.
And we further petition your
Honorable body to annually levy a
tax on all the property in said Hol-
comb Consolidated School District
sufficient to pay for fuel, transpo-
tation of pupils and teachers to and
from school and all other incident
expenses; and also a tax sufficient
to maintain the school of said dis
trict after, the expiration of the
County Public school term and to
supplement during the County Pub
lie School term in said district so
that a free public school shall be
maintained in said district at least
seven months in each scholastic
year. Your petitioners respectfully
represent that the County School
Board met in Grenada April 10,
1916, pursuant to a call of the Co.
unity Superintendent of Education,
after the petition for the %organiza-
ton and establishment of the Hol-
comb Consolidated School district
had been filed with the said Super
intendent, and organized the Hol-
comb Consolidated School District
according to law, all of which is of
record in the office of the CountySu-
perintendent of Education.
Respectfully submitted,
Mike Hey, Mayor; R. D. Williams,
L. H. Hightower. n L. Holcomb,
]. w. Wood, A, S. Hill, J. L. Elliott,
R. H. Turner. ct al, which said pc
tition contains a majority of the
qualified electors of Holcomb Con-
solidated School District, petition
ing that bonds of said district be is
sued for the purpose of erecting
school buildings in said district as
provided in Chapter 1875, of the code
of Mississippi for 1906, and amend
ments thereto; and,
WHEREAS, This Board, having
found that said petition contains the
names of a majority of the qualified
electors of said district, did instruct
that notice be published in "The
Grenada Sentinel, a newspaper
published in said county, having a
general circulation therein, for
three weeks preceding the regular
July, 1915, meeting giving notice of
this Boards intention to issue bonds
of said district in the sum of Ten
Thousand Dollars (S10,O00.O O i
and, i
WHEREAS, said notice. as pre-
in said paper does not meet
lie requirements of the law in SO
tar as it was not published for three
weeI.s prior to the first Monday in
that being the day on which
regular meeting of said Board
shall be held; and,
WHEREAS, 1t is the desire of
his Board to issue Ten Thousand
Dollars $50, 100000 of bonds of
aid school district in such manner
hat they shall meet all legal re-
Luirements; therefore, d,
BE 1T ORDERED, That notice be