The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-03-23
Albert E. Bennett and Fred s


Miss Alice Payne, of Kuhlman,
was placed on the county pauper
list at $500 per month.
1t was moved and carried that
the clerk be and he is hereby
authorized to have constructed a.
cross the commissioners room a
suitable fence or railing which
shall divide the public from the
table around which the said board
hold their business sessions.
The road petition signed by G.
Crews and seven others for road
ON the range line dividing ranges
25 and 26 from the Wauchula-
Crewsville road, south to Zolfo-
Crewsville road was received and
action on same was deferred for
reason of communication receiv-
ed objecting to said road being
granted.
Road petition signed by Sup.
Durrance, Norton t. Smith and
others, was submitted to the
board and upon motion the said
road granted and declared a pub
lie road.
Moved and carried that the
Franz Safe and Lock Company
be and they are hereby employed
to prepare plans and specifca-
tions on all necessary repairs of
the county Jail as listed to the
board, and that the clerk of this
board be instructed to advertise
for bids for the construction of
said work; said bids to be receiv-
ed at our next regular meeting in
April. The county agrees to pay
10 per cent. of cost of said repairs
for plans and specifications.
Advertisement for sealed pro-
posals for furnishing $50 tons of
asphalt cement {. o. b. Punta Cor
da for use in the Punta Gorda
special road and bridge district,
was ordered published in the
Punta Gorda Herald. (See notice
in advertising columns of this
Road petition of Il. B. Crews,
j. B. Albritton and Others; also
of j. +. Skipper, j. Ed Raulerson
and others, were granted.
Moved and carried that blaz-
ers report of F. M. Cooper, j. f.
Citizens and Charles Waltmire be
and the same is hereby accepted,
and the said road is hereby de-
clared a public road as reported,
as follows:
Begin at the northwest corner
Of section II, township Al south,
range % east, and run, west on
line between sections 7 and Is in
the same township and sections
II and 13 and IL and IA and 10I
and Is, of township Al south,
range % east, to Charlotte Har-
Dor bay. Said road is hereby
viewed and marked out at a
width of forty feet.
The committee appointed to ex--
anime the books and records of
he various county officers re-
ported that they had examined
said books and, in so far as they
were able to ascertain, same arc
Kept neatly and correctly.
The following resolution was
'y motion unanimously adopted |
Resolved, That in the opinion
II this board, it is expedient and |
o the best interest of this coun-
y, that bonds of the Fort Ogden
special drainage district in the
um of twenty-eight hundred |
$2,SOO.O0) dollars, be issued and |
old for the purpose of paying
he expenses that may be incur
ed IN the construction of canals
"A" and "B," as the same have
'een established by this board |
Ipon the petition of C. C. Morgan
nd others for drainage of lands
n sections 7, II, 9 and 19, town
hip 80 couth, range "a east, and
ections IL and 13, township 80
outh, range % east, and consti-
uted and known as the Fort Og-
EN- special drainage district.
Said sum of $2,80O.OO being the
otal amount, less the interest
harges, assessed against the sew
raj parcels of land benefited by
ne construction of said work, as
rovided in section $50, of the
eneral statutes of the state of
'lorida.
Said bonds shall bear date May
st, 1916, and shall bear interest
the rate of 6 per cent. per an
um, payable semi-annualiy, on
ne lst day of July and January
[ each year, with interest cou-
ons attached thereto, and shall