The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-06-12
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Rankin county, Miss, met IN
regular session Monday morning,
June End, 1919, with all members
and officers present, when the fol-
lowing business was had and
done, to-wit:
Superintendent's Report-Supt.
of Education H. H. Bullock made
his monthly report, showing the
following to-wit: Aggregate a.
mount paid to teachers out OF
teachers fund from May | to
June /, 1919, $87S.75; salary for
May S136.5O; postage, 4.2O; total,
S140.70.
Feed Contract Awarded-Or-
dered that w. C. Parkison be a.
warded the contract to furnish
Reat No. l with No. 2 oats at VI
cents per bushel and Royal Mixed
feed at $3.50 per hundred
pounds; J. L. & 0. Buchanan a
warded the contract to furnish
Reat No. a with oats at 81 cents
ner bushel and Royal Feed at
1920 per sack; and R. R. Buslck
awarded the contract to furnish
Beats Nos. 2, 8 and 5 with oats at
e9 cents per bushel and sweet
feed at 1915 per sack.
Bids Advertised for Repairs TO
Bridge-Ordered that the clerk
advertise for bids to be received
up until IL o'clock noon on the
first Monday in July, 1919, to re-
pair the bridge across Pela-
hatchie Greek on the Pelahatchle
and Fannin road, accord
ing to plans and specifications
now on file in the Office of the
chancery clerk.
Committee Report. B. Will
hanson and R. A. Kennedy, COM
mittee appointed at March meet
inc to view a proposed route for
a new public road asked for by
II. w. Measles and others, re-
norted that they net on the 23rd
day of May and viewed said route,
and recommended that the road
be granted. r. A. Kennedy and
w. II. Till, committee appointed
at the April meeting to view ana
Law out a road as petitioned for
by F. E. Mills and othres, report
ed that they met on the 10th day
of Nav and viewed said route and
recommended that the same be
granted. The same committee al
so reported favorably on a change
in public road as prayed for by
e. NJ. Odom and others, and
recommend that said change be
made: also that change in public
road as asked for by----------
Lewis and others, be granted as
prayed for.
Stock Law Granted-Be it re-
membered that C. R. Taylor and
others having filed petition with
this board to annex certain lands
in Section %, Township 5, range
d east, to the ]. Fl. Whitfield
stock law district, and the same
having been considered, it is or
dered that the same be granted
to take effect IS the law directs.
Township Trustees Request
Granted-Ordered that the re-
quest Of the township trustees OF
township 4, range 2, to pay the
trustees of Briar Hill school the
sum of S52.25, be and the same
is hereby granted to be paid out
of said township funds.
Order of the Board of Super
visors with Reference to Mississ-
ippi Project No. 10, Rankin Coun-
ty-The State Highway Depart
ment having advertised for bids
on the above mentioned Federal
Aid Project, and it appearing that
no bids were received; it is there
fore ordered that the said work
shall be done on a force account
basis, provided il meets the ap-
proval if the Federal and Staete
Road Departments. The clerk IS
ordered to so advise the State
Highway Department, and re-
quest them to make necessary
recommendation to the Federal
Bureau of Public Roads.
Sixteenth Section Timber Sold
Whereas, the township school
trustees of township 3, range 3
east, having presented their
recommendation to the board OF
supervisors for the sale of all
timber Is inches and up on sec
tion Is, township 3, range 3, to
to J. w. Horton for a considera-
ton of $1.50 per thousand feet;
therefore, the said board of SUI
pervisors is Of the opinion that
the said timber ought to be sold