The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1918-01-12

Ordered by the board that the above
costs of A. r. Coalter be approved.
Ordered that the assessment of the
south half of section 81, twp "a, range
west, north of public road be changed
to read as follows: Forty acres clear
ed at $50 per acre S24O0 and 200 acres
uncleared at Sill 90 per acre $2200; to-
tai $4,000.
Ordered that until changed by the
further orders of this board, the clerk
draw his warrant in favor of Doctor J.
J. Howell for twenty-five dollars per
month for furnishing medical attention
and medicine to the county prisoners
and inmates of the poor farm at Cleve-
land.
Ordered that an advalorem tax levy
on each dollar of assessed value of all
real and personal property in Bolivar
county not by law, is hereby made for
the current fiscal years as follows, to-
wit:
For general county purposes, Mills.
For bond and interest purposes. mill
For Agrclt. High School, l-2 mill.
A uniform road tax of mills is here
by levied on all the real and personal
property subject to road tax in each of
the separate road districts in said coun-
ty for the current fiscal year, except
that the said tax on the eastern sepa-
rate road district, the Boyle separate
road district and the Shaw separate
road district shall be 5 mills.
A communication road tax of three dol
lars per capita is hereby levied on each
person subject to public road duty in
said county for the current fiscal year.
The poll tax levied in said county is
hereby fixed at three dollars per capita
on each person in said county subject
10 such tax.
The advalorem tax levied on the
Cleveland separate school district is fix
ed at 4 mills, and the Skene separate
school district at mills. and the Shaw
separate school district at 2 mills.
Ordered that the drainage tax and as
sessment of all the drainage districts in
the county be and the same is hereby
fixed at the amounts originally fixed
and declared by the court decree of the
county courts of Bolivar and Washing
ton counties.
The board then proceeded in the man
ner provided by law to select list of
persons to serve as jurors in the circuit
court using the registration books, and
selecting the names of persons of good
intelligence, sound judgment and fair
character, and taking them as nearly as
convenient from the several supervisors
districts, according to the number of
qualified persons in each district.
The following claims for mileage and
per diem, authorized by section 2l94,
are allowed, to-wit:
w. A. Speakes, mp diem--------So3 ~
S. D. Knowlton, mp diem--------S7, 80
u Ia.
w. E. Litton, MP diem----------$5 20 4o
P. B. Woodland, per diem--------$3C0 co
l.. G. Dean, per diem m----------- w w
The following claims for salaries for
the month of Dec. 1917, are allowed:
Chas. Clark, co. atty Sloo. DO
G. H. Armstrong. supt. of ed---Sl5O 90
W. w. Hall, co hlth ofc--------s150 90
Miss Katie South, economics 90
Winnie Watts. asst ---Soo.oo
Ordered by the board of supervisors
of Bolivar county at their regular jan
uary meeting 1918, at Cleveland, Mis-
sisslppi, on petition of John }. Adams,
laa, the land assessment roll be and the
6 me is hereby corrected and ordered
10 read as follows, to-wit: The south
west quarter of the northwest quarter
of section Is as timber land and assess
ed at $l1 per acre. and that 60 acres OF
the east half of the northwest quarter
of section % as timber land and assess
I'd at $ll per acre, and that ~ acres OF
he east half of the northwest quarter
of section % as cultivated land and as
sessed at $50 per acre; all of said land
located in second district of Bolivar
county, state of Miss. The above des-
cribed southwest quarter OF the north
west quarter of section Is appears on
said land assessment roll on page 30 line
10. and the said 60 acres of the east half
of the northwest quarter of section 22