The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-08-21
NOTICE !!


OF Land Owners and the Report of
Lamar Fontaine, Jr., appointed by
the Board of Supervisors of Bolivar
County, Mississippi, in the Matter OF
Drainage District proposed to be
established in said Bolivar County,
Mississippi, to be known as the
"Lane Bayou Drainage District"
To All Persons Interested and Owning
Lands Situated in the Lane Bayou
Drainage District of Bolivar County,
Mississippi:
Take notice that a special meeting
of the Board of Supervisors of Bolivar
County, Mississippi, held in the town
of Rosedale, on the 3rd Monday ana
18th day of May in the Court House of
the First Judicial District of Bolivar
County, Mississippi, the petition of GER
tain land owners whose lands lie with
ip the bounds of the territory of said
Bolivar County hereinafter described
asking the said Board of Supervisors to
establish a drainage district embracing
their lands and all other lands to be
benefited by combined system of
canals, ditches and other improvements
proposed to be embraced within said
territory to be organized under the
drainage laws of the State of Missfsslp-
pi came on to be heard and Lamar Fon-
taine. Jr., was appointed as Engineer
to act under the said drainage law of
the State of Mississippi that the said
Lamar Fontaine, Jr., Engineer, filed his
bond as required by law and made the
survey required of him as such En-
gineer and has filed with me at my
office in the town of ROsedale in said
Bolivar County, Mississippi, his re-
port thereon in the manner and in the
form required by said drainage law.
The said Lamar Fontaine Jr., En-
ginecr. reports that the following ter
ritory will be benefited by. SAID i'm
provements, the said territory being
embraced within the following bounds
in said Bolivar County, Mississippi, to-
wit:
Beginning at point on the West
bank of Bogue Phalia where the South
line of the North half On W of the
North half IN. ~ of Section IA. Town
ship 23, Range T. crosses Bogue Phalia;
thence due West through Sections IA,
Is, 16, II and 1S, said Township 23,
Range Z, to the point where the said
Southern boundary line of the North
half of the North half of said Section
18 intersects the range line between
Ranges and s; thence due West to
the Southwest corner of the Northeast
quarter of the Northeast quarter of
Section 13, Township 25, Range 8;
thence South to the Southeast corner
.of tho Southwest quarter of the North
east quarter of said SECTION 13; thence
due West through Sections 13, IA, Is
and 1G to the point where the South
line CT the North half of said Sec
ton 49, Township 23 Range 8, in
tersects the levea of the Board OF Mis-
sissippi Levee Commissioners; thence
IN Northerly direction along and with
the said center line of the said levee
and following the meanderlngs OF the
said levee through Sections Is, and
4. in Township %, Range s, and
through Sections 33, 2S, 27, 22, %, IA
and 13, in Township a. Range s, and
through Sections 1S and and the
South half of in Township "a, Range
T. to where the Northern boundary line
OF the South half of said section 8.
Township "a, Range 7, intersects the
said levee.
Run thence due East through Sec
tions s, 9 and 10 to the center of Bogue
Phalia; thence in Southerly direction
along and with the center OF Bogue
Phalia to the point where the township
line between Townships 23 and "A in
tersects the said center of Bogue
Phalia; thence West along the said
township line to the East bank or
Lanes Bayou; thence South following
the meanderings of the said Lanes
Bayou to the point where the said
Lanes Bayou intersects Bogue Phalia:
thence South along and with the sald
Bogue Phalia to the point of beginning.
The lands embraced within the boun-
daries herein and above described are
as follows, to-wit:
All of the North half of the North
half Of Section IA West of Bogue
Phalia; all the North half of the North
half of Section Is South and West OF
Bogue Phalia; all of Section 10 South
of Bogue Phalia and West of Lanes
Bayou: all of Section 3 South ana
West of Bogue Fhalia; the North hall
of the North half of Sections 1t. II
and 1S: all of Section West OF Lanes
Payou: all of Section West OF Lanes
Rayou: all of Sections 5, g. and .;
all being in Township 23. Range
West.
All of Sections l, 2 and and that
part of Sections 4 and lying East OF
the center of the Mississippi River
Levee; all that part of the North half
of Section Is lying East OF the said
levee all Of Sections l, 2, 3, 10, IL,
l12 and the North half of Sections IA
and Is; the Northwest quarter and
the West half Of the Northeast quarter
of the Northeast quarter and the
Northeast quarter of the Northeast
nuarter of Section 13. All in Township