The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-05-22
Minutes of the Board of Supervis-
ors Of Bolivar County, Missis-
sippi-Special Meeting, 1920.

BE 1t remembered, that on this,
the third Monday, being the 18th
day of May, 1920, the day fixed in
the call and notice for the special
meeting of the Board of Supervis-
ors Of Bolivar county, the said
board met in the office of the
clerk of the Chancery Court at
the court house in the town of
Rosedale, pursuant to the follow
ing call, to-wit:
To the members of the Board
of Supervisors Of Bolivar County,
Mississippi, and the owners. of
land embraced in the proposed
Drainage District, to be known as
"Lane Bayou Drainage District"
of Bolivar County, Mississippi:
You will take notice that under
and by virtue Of the authority
vested in me by that certain or
der of the Board Of Supervisors
of Bolivar County, Mississippi, en-
tered at the meeting of said board
held in the court house in the
town Of Cleveland, Mississippi, on
the first Monday Of May, A. D.,
1920, and by authority of the law
made and provided in such cases,
l, W. A. Speakes, president of the
Board of Supervisors Of Bolivar
County, Mississippi, do hereby
call special meeting of the said
Board of Supervisors of Bolivar
Coutny, Mississippi, to be held in
the court house in the town OF
Rosedale, Mississippi, on the third
Monday, being the 17th day of
May, 1920, for the purpose of tax
ing action looking to the organi-
cation of the Lane Bayou Drain
age District.
Witness nv signature at my Of
flee on this the Sd day Of May, A.
d., 1920.
w. A. SPEAKES,
President of the Board of Super
visors Of Bolivar County, Missis-
sippi.
Which notice above set forth
was duly published for two weeks
prior to the date of such meeting.
in newspaper published in said
county, a copy posted at the court
house door in Rosedale for said
length of time. and copy mailed,
postage prepaid, to each OF the
members of the said board two
weeks prior to this date, when
and where there were present and
presiding: Hon. w. A. Speakes.
president Of said board; and j.
w. Yates and J. L. Smith, mem
bers of said board; f. H. Wray,
sheriff of said county, and p. b.
| Wollard, clerk of said board, when
the following proceedings were
had, to-wit:
In Re: Lane Bayou Drainage
District.
In the matter of the petition OF
the land owners in that part OF
Bolivar County, Mississippi, des-
icnated as the "Lane Bayou
Drainage District" +" came on to be
heard before this board at spe-
cial meeting held in the court
couse of the First Judicial Dis
trict of Bolivar County, in the
town of Rosedale. on the third
Monday and the 18th day OF May
4 A. D., 1920. the petition of certain
land owners. whose lands lie with
in the bounds of the following ter
ritory in the said county, asking
this board to establish a drainage
district to embrace all of their
said property, and all other lands
TO be benefited by a combined
system of canals, bitches and other
improvements proposed to be
made in the said territory the
! said drainage district to be de-
scribed by metes and bounds as
follows, to-wit
Beginning. at a point on the
east bank of Bogue Phalia. where
the center line of the north hall
I (N1h) of section IA, township -
/ north, range 7 west crosses SAID
Bogue Phalia; and run thence
west through the center OF 'sec-
! tions IA. Is. 16, II, and the east
half (E15) of Is, to the center OF
section IS, thence north to the
south boundary line Of section 9;
thence west to the southwest
corner of section Z, township %,
range q: thence west along the
south line of sections II. and IL to
! the southwest corner, of section
! II, township %, range s.; thence
North along the west line of sec,
- m tba northwest corner of