The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-03-05
Amendment TO City Charter.

The Mayor and Aldermen of the
City Of Grenada, Mississippi, hereby
propose the following amendment to
the charter of said city,:
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR
AND ALDERMEN OF GRENADA.
MISSISSIPPI:
That Section IL of the charter of
said city be amended, so as to read
as follows:
SECTION 12. When any person
shall desire to have a public street
or mi laid out, or widened, or
extended, in said city, a petition shall
be presented to the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen, signed by five or more
freeholders of househo1ders of the
city interested in the street or ave-
nue., setting forth the commencement
and termination and general course
thereof, and that the public interest
or convenience requires the street or
avenue to be laid out and opened up,
or widened or extended, as
shown in the petition; and the
petitioners, if not owners Of the
land through which the street or
avenue runs or is proposed to run.
shall give five days notice to the
owners of the land, in person, or by
leaving same at their residence, if
they reside in the city, or, if the
owners be nOn-residents of the city.
by putting up the notice in some con-
splcuous place on the land through
which the street or avenue runs or
is proposed to run; and thereupon,
the said Board, at such regular or
snecial meeting, shall hear the part
les, and if it determine the prayer
of the petitioners ought to be grant
ed, in whole or in part, it shall ap-
point q committee of two members of
the board to examine and view the
contemplated route of the street or
venue and if they find same practi-
cable, they shall lay put and mark the
street or avenue, so proposed to be
laid out and opened up, or widened,
or extended, and report their pro-
c~eedings, in writing, to the Board at
its next meeting. Such report may,
in the judgment of the Board, be set
aside and a new committee appoint
ed, but, If confirmed and approved
by the Board, it shall be so entered
on the Minutes and the Board shall
%thereupOn proceed to upen up. or
nue., and make same ready for pub
lie use and travel.
Should any owner of land, or 9TH
err person., claim compensation for
land taken for such street or avenue,
or for damages sustained on account
of the opening up, widening, or eX-
tension thereof, he shall file a pc
tition with the Board in writing at
the next meeting after the laying
out of such street or avenue, or at
the meeting when the report of the
is returned, setting forth
the nature and character Of such
damages, and the Board shall, on five
days notice to the petitioner, view
the premises and assess his damages.
The finding Of the Board shall be en-
tered on the Minutes, and the dam
ages assessed and allowed shall be
payable out of the city treasury.
All the proceedings of the Board in
the laying out and opening up, or
or extension of such street
avenue, may be reviewed by the
Circuit Court in the same way and on
the same terms as proceedings had
by the Board of Supervisors in re-
gard to the laying out and changing
of public roads in the county.
J. H. BROWN,
Mayor.
W. P. FERGUSON,
T. E. HEATH,
CLAUD HALL,
j. H. HORN.
R. PRESSGROVE,
j. W. VANCE,
Aldermen.
n G. TALRERT. 3-5-20-3t
Recorder.