The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-04-24
In re Bond Issue Of THE Third
Road ! District Of Rankin
County"

road district in Rankin county. to
be known as 1.-THE Third Road
District of Rankin county, Miss
issippi," and to embrace and COM
prise the following described
territory in said county. to-wit:-
All ef Township Z. North
Range 2, east; All of Township
Z, North Range 3, east; All of
Township 8, North Range 8 east;
All of Township 8. North Range
4. east; All Of Township 8, North
Range 4, east; All of Township
8, North Range 5, east; All of
Township Z, North Range 4, east /;
all lying south and east of Pearl
River, in Rankin county; and also
the following sections in Town
ship 8, North. Range s, east; all
of Section 3 and section 10. in
Rankin County, and all of Sec
lions 4, 5, 6, z, 8, and 9, in said
Township 8. North, Range S, east,
as is provided in Chapter 176,
Laws Of 1914, and Chapter 200,
Laws of 1918, of Mississippi Leg
islature, and to issue the bonds of
the said road district, in sum
not exceeding ten percent of the
assessed valuation of all the tax
able property in the said road
district, as above defined, in the
manner prescribed and as is pro-
vided for in the said Acts of the
Mississippi Legislature, to con-
struct, or construct and main
tain, or maintain one or more
highways for the convenience of
the travelling public, as provided
for in said Acts; and,
Whereas, the said petition con-
tanned the names Of more than
twenty per cent of the qualified
electors of the territory proposed
to be created and organized into
a road district, and said petition
being fully in accordance with
the law in such cases, and the
Board of Supervisors being of the
opinion that the said petition
ought to be granted; therefore,
1t is ordered, adjudged and de-
creed that the said petition be
and the same is granted and that
the said territory be and the
same is created and organized in
to a separate road district, to be
known as 'The Third Road Dis
trict in Rankin County, Mississ-
ippi,' under Chapter 176, Laws of
1914, and all amendments there
to.
It is further ordered, adjudgedl
and decreed that NOTICE be
published in The Brandon News,
a newspaper published in said
Rankin county, and having
general circulation in said road
district, for three weeks next pre-
ceeding the regular, May, 1919,
meeting of the Board of Supervi-
sors which said meeting will be
held in Brandon, on the 1st., Mon
day in May, 1919, that the board
of Supervisors Of Rankin County
proposes to issue the bonds of
the said "The Third Road Dis
trict in Rankin County, Mississ-
ippi,' as same is above defined
and established, under Chapter
176 of the Laws of Mississippi Of
1914, and Chapter 2O9 of the
Laws of Mississippi of 1918, in
the manner and as therein pro-
vided, and for the purpose there
in named, in sum not to exceed
ten per cent Of the assessed val
uation of all the taxable proper
ty of said district; and if with
in that time twenty percent Of
the qualified electors of said road
district shall petition against the
issuance of the said bonds, they
shall not be issued unless author-
lied by majority Of the quail
fled electors of said district vot-
ing in an election to be ordered
for that purpose as provided for
in said Acts.
It is ordered, adjudged and de-
creed, this the 9th. day of April, |
1919.
The State of Mississippi,
Rankin County.
I, j. A. Robinson, Clerk Of the
Board Of Supervisors Of said
County and State, do certify that
the above is true and correct
copy Of an order Of the Board of |
Supervisors of said County, a.
dopted on the 9th, day of April,
1919, and recorded in Minute
Book IL, at page 455, thereof.
Witness my official act, this
the 9th, day Of April, 1919.
J. A. Robinson,
Clerk Of Board Of Supervi-
sors of Rankin County, Miss.