The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-01-05
BOARD OF
srATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
onrNADA COUNTY.

oSiPENADA COUNTY.
70 it remembered that on the LIST
dow of January, A. D., 1917, said
a 1ay being the first Monday in said
month. a regular meeting of the Hon.
nr.bIe Board of Supervisors of Gre
Ida county, Miss, there was begun
nd held a regular meeting of said
Gard at the court house in the city
% Grenada. said county and state,
thsre being present the following Of
Gners and members Of said Board:
W. A. Odom, President, Dist. /.
]. E. Carpenter, Dist. 2.
w v. Horton, Dist. 8.
D. R. Childers, Dist. 4.
L T.. Hayden, Dist. 5.
M. E. Powell, Clerk, and
w. H. Crowder, Sheriff.
Whereupon the following proceed
ines were had and done, to-wit:
In the matter of the condemnation
Of the land for r~ight-of-way for
change of road in Dist. s., running
through the R. A. Mckee place;
It appearing to the Board that the
owners Of said land, to-wit: r. A.
Mckee, was duly and legally mott
fed of the intention Of the Board to
90 upon and condemn a strip of land
thirty feet wide and about three hun
bred yards long, and thereupon the
Board in pursuance of an order Of
this Board passed at the regular De-
cember. 1915 meeting, did, upon the
day therein set, to-wit: on the goth
dav of December, 1916, proceed to
90 upon and assess the value of the
said strip of land to be taken for
rieht-of-way; said strip having here
tofore been duly laid off and marked
by a committee of this Board ap-
pointed for that purpose, and did as
sess the value of said right-of-way
so marked and laid out at and for
the sum of ten dollars; it is there
fore ordered by the Board that the
Clerk of this Board issue warrant
PAYABLE to the said R. a. McRee for
the said sum of ten dollars. payable
out of the Road Fund, in full pay
ment of said right-of-way.
Ordered by the Board that the
claim of the City of Grenada for
S253.O5, be and the same is disallow-
ed. on the ground that the Board has
no authority of law for allowing said
claim, to which action of the Board
the City of Grenada accepts.
To the Honorable Board OF Super
visors of Grenada County, Miss.
Gentlemen
We, the undersigned committee,
duly appointed at the Dec. 1916. reg
ular meeting Of your Honorable Body
to view and lay out the following
proposed public road. as prayed for
in the petition of j. T. Thomas and
others, and which proposed road is
described in said petition as follows,
to-wit: Commencing at Montgom-
cry County line, just East of the l.
c.. railroad, and terminating at Gre
NADIA corporation line. being about
Q miles in length; beg leave to report
that we have examined and inspected
said proposed route. and after care,
full and due consideration we tinc
said route practicable and feasible
for a public road; and we respect
fully recommend that said proposed
road be laid out, established anc
opened for public travel. as follows
towit: Beginning at the Montgom'
cry County line on East side and par
aIlel to L. C. railroad, thence nortf
to a point q of a mile south of Simp
son Switch; thence in a northwester,
Nv direction crossing Jackson Creel
at the present bridge site and con
tinuing on a straight line to a pom
of intersection with the present roaC
which is 300 feet north of the inter
section of the road to the Tie Plant
thence along present road to Nit
chell's Crossing; thence on west SD
and about parallel to l. c. raiiroa'
to a point which is an intersectlo,
with Mound street in front W.. II
Yeager's residence, where we mn
corporation line of the town OF Ore
NADIA, Miss. -,
Now, having fully reported IN tn
premises, we beg~to be discharged.
Respectfully submitted:
J. f. CARPENTER,
w. V. HORTON,
Committee.