The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1917-11-10

ordreed to execute leass and con-
tracts in accordanc ewith the law on
the terms above mentioned.
S. P. HEARN,
B. s. HOLT.
Township Trustees.
| Sworn to an usdscbrcmfnpnpnpn
Sworn OF and subscribed before me
this. the 9th day of September, A.
D. 1917. ~ ot
WAYNE THOMPSON,
(Seal) Notary Public.
Ordered that the foregoing lease
be made as recommended.
REPORT OF TOWNSHIP TRUS-
TEES.
To the Honorable Board Of Super
visors of Bolivar County, Missis-
sippi.
Whereas, meeting of the heads of
families residing in Township %,
Range west, in Bolivar county,
Mississippi, was duly called by the
undersigned Township Trustees Of
the township aforesaid, to be held at
Rays Store School House, a school
house, conveniently located in said
township, on Saturday, the 18th day
of August, 1917, at the hour OF
100 o'clock A. M, for the purpose
of taking the sense of said meeting
as to whether or not the lands in the
Sixteenth Section of said township
! should be leased for term of years,
and if so, upon what terms, and,
Whereas, notices of said called
meeting were duly posted in three
public places, in said township for
more than five days prior to the
date fixed for holding said meet
| ing; and,
Whereas, pursuant to such call and
notices SO posted as aforesaid, a
meeting of the heads of families re-
siding in the township aforesaid was
i duly held at the time and place fixed
in said call and notices. tp-wit: at
the, ---- school house, in
said township. on Saturday, the 11th
day of August. 1917; and,
! Whereas, the undersigned Town
ship Trustees for said township, at
tended the said meeting and organ
izel the same and took the sense
thereof as to whether certain land In
the Sixteenth Section of said town
ship, which is not now in cultivation,
should be rented for term of years,
and the sense of the meeting and the
agreement reached by the hads of
familise and the township trustees at
said meeting, was as follows:
That M. r. Avcock should be leased
the Southwest Quarter of the North
west Quarter, of 1926.
| Also that w. B. Lemons should be
leased the east half of the Northeast
Quarter and the Northeast Quarter
of the Northwest Quarter of 1926.
Now, therefore, we, the under
signed Township Trustees. of the
township aforesaid. do respectfully
recommend that the tracts of land
situated in the Sixteenth Section of
siad township, be leased to the par
ties named on the following terms
and. conditions, to-wit:
The above leases TO run for term
Of seven years from the 1st- day of
January, 1918, and end the 31st day
of December, 1924.
The above parties will be required
to put in cultivation all of the above
described land, and in addition make
the following improvements:
Each party will be required to
/ build at his own expense one single
house on each twenty acres put in
cultivation, oro ne double house on
each forty acres put in- cultivation.
The single house is to be built
according to the following specifi-
cations:
One main room 16x16 feet, one
brick chimney at the end Of main
room, one brick flue at the end of
the shed room which must be 16xS
feet. One porch at the front 16x8
feet, one pump and small stock barn
and other necessary. improvements.
The double house is to be built ac-
rording to the following specifica-
tons:
Two main rooms 16x16 ft and two
shed rooms 16x8 it. One porch SIX
s TT. at the front of the house, one
brick chimney ,. between the two
main rooms. with fireplace opening
into each main room One brick f1ue
stock barn and other necessary i'm
pEovements.
The above described houses are to
be covered with good cynress boards
or galvanized iron roofing of the
best grade.
We further recommend that each
to enter into a gocl and sufficient
bond in penalty equivalent to five
hundred dollars for each forty. acres
of land leased to each of said les
sees, respectively, conditioned, in
each instance. that the lessee will
we'll and truly perform all of the
conditions, promises, agreements and
undertakings in this lease contained.
within S wears from the first day of
ommend that each of said lessees
shall be required to tender such bond,
to be approved by the Clerk of the
Chancery Court of Bolivar County,
Mississippi. and to file the same
with the Clerk of said Court, before
such lease shall be executed by the
Superintendent of Education of Boil
war county. We further recommend
that there be inserted in each lease
a clause providing that if ell the
improvements contemplated herein
shall not be made by the lessee
within a period of years from the
first day of January, 1918, then. and
in that event, in addition to the
bond. of said lessee becoming for
feited, the lease. to said partv shall
also become null and void and shall
be terminated.
We, the undersigned Township
Trustees of the township aforesaid,
hereby respectfully recommend that
the proceedings of the said meeting
be approved, and that the, Superin-
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