The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-12
PROCEEDINGS OF
BOARD or SUPERVISORS

1911, WQ0U tUC lOllOWillS puOl-
ness was had and done, to-wit:
Feed contracts for feed stuff
for July, 1917, were awarded
as follows: Taylor-Wills Gro.
Co., best sweet feed SIS per
hundred pounds, best white oats
SO 1-2 cents per bushel; r. K.
Busick awarded contract for
beats 2. 3, and 5, Royal feed
So. 80 per hundred pounds, beats
2 and 5 oats at SO cents per
bushel; G. H. Sheriff. beat 3
oats at 80 cents per bushel deliv-
cred at camp; L. H. Mashburn
beat a, best sweet feed 81. 80,
oats at 81 cents per bushel.
Contract for building bridge
across Pelahatchie Creek was
awarded to L. L. Bowman for
the sum of $133.
Robert Bolden, of beat 3, was
declared a county pauper, and
ordered sent to the home, for
support.
Supt. H. H. Bullock made
his monthly report as follows:
Aggregate amount paid to teach
ers from June l, 1917, to July l,
1917, $212; salary for June
SLAB. 40; postage for June So. 20.
Ordered that the petition of
r. c.. Baker and others for
change of public road in beat 3,
be dismissed.
Ordered that the petition of j.
L. Lawrence and others for
public road be continued.
Application of Pat and c..
Holmes for township loan was
continued.
Whereas there has been locat-
ed upon the right of way of the
Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Co.
a portion of the public highway,
of approximately 1850 feet north
of the town of Star, in said
county of Rankin, and,
Whereas the consent of said
Railroad Company has been pro-
cured for said location on con-
dition that it forfeit none of its
property rights ir permitting
said location and on condition
that if it desires to use said
right of way for railroad purpos-
es it may repossess the same,
and,
Whereas the Board Of Super
visors are willing in considera-
ton of the permission to use said
right of way to assent to SAID
conditions:
It is, therefore, hereby or
dered by the board that the
president of the board of super
visors, on behalf of said board
and on behalf of the county, be
authorized and directed to exc
cute the agreement with the
Gulf & Ship Island Railroad
Company contemplated in this
order.
In re Federal Aid for Public
Road in Supervisors District No.
l, Rankin County, Mississippi.
Whereas, the board oflsupervl-
sors of Rankin county, Mississip-
pi, is, of the opinion. that Super
visor's District No. 1, said coun-
ty and state, is entitled to re-
ceive aid from the Federal Fund
for building and constructing a
public highway in said Supervl-
visor's District, known as the
Centennial Highway; and.
Whereas, the board is advised
and does believe that the aid
will be granted to said District,
through the State Highway De-
partment, on request from the
board of supervisors; therefore.
1t is ordered and adjudged
that the State Highway Depart
ment be, and it is, directed, en-
powered and Authorized to col
lect the said aid from the said
Federal Highway Department
for and on behalf of the said
Supervisors District No. l, and
to apply the same on said road
as in its judgment is best and
most profitable, for said District.
Ordered this the 9Th day OF
July, 1917. 4.
State of Mississippi, County of
Rankin.
/, j. A. Robinson, clerk of the
chancery court, in and for said
county and state. do hereby GER
tify that the above is true and
correct copy Of an order duly
passed by the board of supervi-
sors of said county, as is record
ed in Minute Book l at page
of the Minutes of said Board of
Supervisors in my offise at Bran
don, Miss.
Witness my hand and seal Of
office, this the 9Th day of July
1917. J. A. Robinson,
Chancery Clerk.
j. j. Daniel and w. E. Laird,