The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1919-12-27

Board ana IlliS DOdfU IufJncf
finds that the improvements pro-
posed to be done in the said pro-
posed drainage district as set
forth in said petition and i'll the
report Of the said engineer are
necessary for agricultural pur-
poses, for the promotion Of pub
lie health and are to the interest
of the owners of lands in said
drainage district, and are for the
public benefit both within said
district and in this county.
This Board further finds from
sufficient legal evidence taken be-
for it ut it's meeting that the per-
sons who have signed the said
petition are over twentyone years
Of age and owners of lands in
numbers and quantities as re-
quired by said Act of said Legis-
lature and amendments thereto,
for the organization of drainage
district hereunder.
1t is therefore ordered by this
Board that the said proposed
Drainage District as recommend
ed by said engineer be and the
same is hereby duly organized
as a polite and Corporate by the
name and style of the LEAD
Bayou Drainage District of Boil
ivar County and State Of Missis-
sippi, and the bounds Of the said
Lead Bayou Drainage District
shall be and are as follows, to-
wit:
Beginning on the West Bank
of Sunflower River on the Town
ship line between Townships %
and %, Range 5 West, Bolivar
County, Miss; thence running
west on said township line to the
western line Of the right of way
of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley
Railway Company; thence south
along the western line Of the
right of way of said railroad
company to where the same inter
sects the south line of Section 4,
Township %, Range 5 West ];
thence east to the eastern boun-
Diary line Of the right Of way Of
the said railroad company; thence
south along the eastern boundary
line Of the right of way of said
company to a point north of the
town of Cleveland, Miss, where
the corporate limits of said town
are intersected by the east line
of said right of way of said com
pany; thence in an easterly and
southerly direction, following the
corporate limits of said town of
Cleveland, Miss, to a point where
the said east boundary line Of
said railroad company right Of
way intersects the southern cor
porate limits Of said town of
Cleveland, Miss; thence south
along ihe east boundary line Of
said right Of way Of said COM
pany to the point where the said
east boundary line of said right
Of way intersects the corporate
limits of the town Of Boyle !;
thence in an easterly and south
erly direction, following the cor
porate limits of the town Of
Boyle to the southern boundary
of Section 33, Township %,
Range 5 West; thence east to the
half section line of Section 4,
township q, Range 5 West {;
thence south through the center of
Sections 4 and 9, Township q,
range 5 West to the south line Of
Section 9, Township q Range 5
West thence east along the sec
tion line between Sections 9 and
16, 10 and Is, II and II, II and
l3, Township p, Range 5 West, to
the line between Bolivar and Sun
flower Counties; thence north
along said line between said coun-
ties to the South Bank of Sun
flower River; thence following the
meanderings of the South Bank of
said Sunflower River to the point
of beginning.
In the above description the dis
tance and bearings of course shall
be taken to mean the closest ap-
proximation thereto necessary to
keep the boundary lines herein de-
scribed coincident with the boun-
Diary lines of the sections, quarter
sections and half sections of the
railroad right of way and public
roads aforesaid.
1t is further ordered by this
Board that w. L. Pearman, A.
Woolfork and E. Seelbinder, own
ers of real estate within the said
drainage district, who are more
than twenty-one years of age, and
recommended by the land owners
of said drainage district be and
they APE hereby appointed Com
missioners of the said Lead Bayou
Drainage District, the terms of