The Tupelo journal., 1916-09-01
Notice

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Mississippi. No. 1892.
To All Persons Interested:
You are hereby notified that a petit
ton for the organization of a drainage
district to be known as Lower Town
Creek Drainage District No. 8. in Lee
County, Mississippi. was filed with the
Chancery Clerk of Lee County, Missis-
sippi, on the 31st day of August, 1916.
and said PETITIONS now on file in said
office. The general description of the
lands sought to be included in said
Drainage District and contained in said
petition are as follows, to-wit:
All of the wet. swamp and over
flowed lands in Town Creek bottom
beginning at the middle line between
the north half and the south half of
Section 81 on the Tupelo and Fulton
public road in Town Creek bottom and
running in a southeastern direction to
the Monroe County line, and including
the wet, swamp and overfiowed land in
Smiths Creek bottom as a lateral to
said Town Creek Drainage District,
which lateral includes all of the swamp,
overlooked and wet land in said Smiths
Creek bottom from a point on Smiths
Creek III half mile northeast of the
point where Smiths Greek is crossed
by the Tupelo and Nettleton county
highway and levee to the point where
said Smiths Greek flows into Town
Greek. and to include all that part of
said Town Greek and Smiths Creek
bottom and the lands adjacent thereto
which will be benefited by the COM
bined system of drainage.
Tho NOW oo,t;o,Iou Iooou.Asoz a~I
boundary lines of the proposed district
are as follows, to-wit:
Description of the Boundary or Peri
meter of Town Creek Drainage Dis
trict No. 3, in Lee County, Mississippi"
The District includes all the lands
within the following bounds, to-wit:
Begin at the N. w. corner of the
east J of the S. w. / Sec. so, T. 9. S.,
r. 6. E., in Lee County, on the Tupelo
and Fulton public road.
Thence south 80 rods, thence west 40
rods, thence south 240 rods. thence
west 40 rods to the S. w. corner of the
N. W. 1 of Sec. 5, T. 10, R. 6, E.:
thence south $50 rods to the s. w. cor
ner of Sec. 5, T. 10, R. 6, E.; thence
| west 80 rods. thence south $50 rods,
thence east 20 rods, thence south so
rods to the south line of Sec. IS; thence
east 60 rons to the S. w. corner of Sec.
II, T. 10, K. 6, E.; thence south 80
rods, thence east 80 rods, thence south
so rods, thence east 80 rods to center
of Section 20, T. 10, r. 6. E.; thence
south 160 rods to the S. W. corner of
S. E. / Sec. 20, I. 10, R. 6, E.; thence
east 80 rods, thence south 80 rods,
thence east 80 rods to the east line of
Sec. 20, T. 10. R. 6, E.; thence south
$50 rods to the N. w. corner of Sec. A,
7. II, R. 6, E.; thence east 80 rods,
thence south 80 rods, thence east 80
rods, thence south 30 rods, thence east
160 rods. thence south 40 rods to the
southeast corner of N. E. ! of Sec. a,
T. IL, R. 6. E.; thence east 40 rods,
thence sonth 80 rods. thence west 40
rods, thence south 1880 rods along Sec
ton line to a point 80 rods north of the
S. w. corner of Section n, T. IL, R. 6,
E.. thence east 80 rods, thence south 80
rods to Monroe County line, thence east
4S0 rods across Town Creek bottom
along Monroe County line, thence north
240 rods to center of the N. E. / of Sec
ton 26, T, IL, r. 6, E.. thence east 100
rods, thence north 80 rods, thence east
so rods, thence north so rods, thence
east 80 rods to center of S. E. I Sec.
"a, T. IL, r. g., E.; thence north so rods,
thence east 80 rods to Section line,
thence north 100 rods to N. E. corner
of Sec. "a, T. II, R. 6, E.; thence west
100 rods. thence south 100 rods to CEN
ter of Sec. "a, T. IL, R. 6, E.; thence
west 100 rods, thence south 80 rods,
thence west 100 rods, thence north so
rods to center of Sec. %, 7. II, R. 6,
| E thence west 80 rods. thence north
100 rods. thence east 80 rods to the N.
f. corner of the N. w. / Sec. %, [. II,
r. 6, E : thence north about 1870 rods
through the center of Section IA, I.
IL, r. 6, E., to the west line of the st.
Louis & San Francisco Railroad right
of-way, thence in a northwesternly dI-
rectisn along the west line of the St.
Lonis & San Francisco Railroad right
of-way to where same crosses the north.
line of Sec. q, t. 10, r. 6, E., lao feet
east of the N. w. corner of said Sec.
27, thence west 140 feet to the n. w.
corner of Sec. 81, thence north APO feet
to the west line of the St Louis q
San Francisco Railroad right7ot5Way,
thence in a northwesternly direction
along the said st. Louis 4 San Fran
cisco Railroad rieht-of-way to where
same crosses the north line of Sec. q,
7. 10. r. 6, E., at P antersville Station
therce west 143 rods to S. E Garner o.
S. w. / of S. w. / of Sec. 16, I, ~
r. 6, E.; thence north 24no foGs, thence
west so reds to Section line, theme,
north on the Section line between Sec
tons Is and II and Sections 8 and
about 1876 rods to where said line cross
es the west line of the st. Louis & Sal
Francisco Railroad right-of-way, theme
in a northwesternly direction along tn
west line of said ST. Louis & San Fran
Cisco Railroad right-of- way to wher
said west line of said right-of. wa,
crosses the north line of Sec. 8, T. 10
r. D. E., thence due north 154 rods t
where said due north line crosses tn
center of Mud Creed Canal as it is nov
located, thence in a northwesternly an,
north direction along the center of sal,
Mud Creek Canal to where same cross
es the Tupelo & Fulton road at the N