The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-01-14
MANY MATTERS OF VITAL
IMPORTANCE TRANSACT.
ED AT BOARD
MEET.
FIVE DAY SESSION
Business Incident To Beginning
OF New Year And New
Term Disposed of. Ad-
jOurned Friday.

The board of supervisors after
having been in session for nearly fivs
days adjourned last Friday morn
ing. A large volume of business Incl
dental to the beginning of the New
Year and new term of office was
disposed Of and the board dispatched
its work with unusual efficiency.
The following orders were passed.
Ordered that the circuit clerk be
allowed one deputy to be paid fol
the time his services are needed on
the basis of $1,000 year. Mr.. Steph-
enson, the clerk, announced the ap-
pointment of Mr.. J. r. Randle.
The board allowed Tax Assessor B.
G. Hull four deputies who are to be
paid on the basis of s110 per annum
for the time they serve. Mr.. Hull
announced the appointment of the
following as his deputies: Messrs. j.
T. Baxter, M. N. Franks, Cecil Nash
and G. C. Anderson.
Ordered that Albert Porter be re-
funded $3.50 road tax in District 1,
on account of over age.
Ordered that H. P. King be re-
funded Sc poll tax on account Of
having paid same in Kemper County.
Ordered that the clerk draw war.
rants for the interest on road bonds
due.
Ordered that r. j. Sanders be re-
funded $l.4S taxes on account Of an
oycr-valuation in District /.
The salary Of the county Health
Officer was fixed at $500.
Supervisor ]. A. Watson was ap-
pointed 80 look after the county farm
for the year 1920.
Mr.. j. M. Holloway was appoint,
ed road commissioner in the Zion
Road district in the place of Mr.. E.
1. Randle, who moved out of the dis
trict.
Ordered that j. o. Green be ap-
pointed road commissioner in the
Tuscaloosa road district in the place
Of ]. X. Jones who has removed from
the district.
Mr.. c. L. Wood was elected county
road commissioner at salary Of
$500. 4
The clerk was instructed to adver.
tise for bids for wooden bridge on
the Garth road east Of Mayhem in
District 3,
Ordered that John Gray be refund
ed SO road tax in District 4 on nc.
count Of overage.
Gus Turner, Nathaniel Green, Al
len Edwards, and Amistead Brown
be refunded road tax in the Macon
and Gilmer road district.
Ordered that E. B. Beard assess
ment Of timber in Sc IA, SW Ia,
SW Of Sc, Section 6, W 1-2, w l-2,
NE, W Pt. N IL, Sc, Section 7,
r IL, W. All frac. IL N 1-2, frac-
tion. 13, 7 IN R 10 w., assessed at
6,50O,0O0 feet be reduced to 1000, 900
feet.s
Ordered that Alex Harris, Jr., be
refunded $l.5O taxes on lot in SW
Ia, s s, North of Main Street, on
account of generalization.
The Columbus Nationel Bank flied
its final report as county deposit
tory.
Ordered that all bills against the
county must be filed with the clerk |
OF the board on Monday before the
regular daY of the board, or thsy
will not be le', ived or consi;is-sI
until the next meeting of the board.
The manager of the county farm
filed his monthly report.
Levi Black, Jr., was refunded Sc
poll tax in District 4.
Ordered that contract for building
wooden bridge at the Freeman place
on the Ellis road be awarded to H.
H. Walters for $3.50.
Ordered that contract be awarded
for two culverts on the Seed Tick
road to H. H. Walters for $3.50.
Alexander Lacy, a colored boy In
District 1, was apprenticed to Lizzie
Lang.
Contract for printing the proceed
ings and orders Of the board for the
year 1920 was awarded to the Col
umbus Dispatch for the sum of slOO.
Ordered that ]. H. Burns be re-
funded $1l2 taxes on lot in So. 20.
north Of Main street, account of