The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-05-13
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
SPECIAL MEETING


courthouse in Grenada, at 10 O'Clock
a. m, April IS, 1921. There were pres
N K. Mattingly, district 1; J.. H
James, district 2; Frank Anderson
district 3; l. G. Rounsaville, district 4
and G. p. Cunningham, district 5. D.
w. Beck, sheriff and j. B. Keeton,
chancery clerk.
The president announced that the
board was ready to receive on road
bonds for districts l, 2, 3, and 4, where.
upon representatives of several bond
companies submitted bids, and on mo.
ton board took a recess to consider
said bids.
Tuesday morning, April 10, board
met. Present same as yesterday.
The bid Of We'll, Roth & Co., was
duly accepted, which bid was in word
and form as follows.
For your $500, 600, Sc road improve
ment bonds Of date of May 1, 1921,
and to mature serially, $4,000 May 1,
1922, to May /, 1926, inclusive: S12,-
600 May 1, 1927. to May 1, 1886, in
elusive; $4,000 May l, 1887, to May l,
1916, inclusive. principal and seminar
nual interest payable at the Hanover
National bank, New York, N. Y, to
be in 1000 denomination, we will pay
you par and accrued interest from
date of the bonds to date of delivery
to us.
1t is understood and agreed that we
are to be furnished with a complete
and certified transcript of the proceed
ing had incident to the issuance OF
these bonds, ~evidencing the legality
of the issuance and sale of said bonds
TO the complete satisfaction OF our
attorneys.
1t is understood and agreed that we
are to have the option Of taking up
and paying for 500, 600 of these ponds
AS soon as they are ready for delivery,
and the remainder of $200, 600, 80 Gays
thereafter. 1t is distinctly understood
that We may take up all or any part
of said bonds in advance of the above
schedule.
We are attaching hereto our certi-
fled check, payable to the order of
Grenada county, for $4,000, which
check is to be held uncashed and I'M
negotiated as evidence of our good
faith in carrying out the terms OF this
agreement and to be returned TO us
if our attorneys fail to approve the is
sue, otherwise to apply as part pay
ment on said bonds when they are de-
livered to us. but to be promptly re-
turned if this offer is not accepted.
1t appearing that said We'll, Roth
& Co. have deposited with the clerk
of this board their certified check,
guaranteeing the compliance by them
with their said bid, it is therefore, or
dered by the board that said bonds
be and they are hereby awarded and
sold TO said We'll, Roth & Co., upon
the terms of their said bid. And it is
further ordered that said bonds be
dated May 2, 1921, and that the presi-
dent and clerk of the board are di-
rected and authorized to sign, seal and
deliver said bonds to said purchasers
upon the compliance by them with
their said bid.
REGULAR MEETING.
Board of Supervisors of Grenada
county met at the courthouse in Gren.
ada, Monday. May ?. 1921, same be-
ing a regular meeting. There were
present: J. H. James, district 2, and
president; Frank Anderson, district 8;
|. G. Rounsaville, district 4, and G.. P.
Cunningham, district 5; D. w. Beck,
sheriff, and j. B. KeetOn, ~chancery
clerk, WhereupOn the following pro-
ceedingS were had and done. tOwit:
In the matter of the a~pprenticing
of Rubie Johnson. a poor orphan child.
Coming on this matter for hearing
Lewis Willis, and it appearing to the
hoo ri +hot rr0rO, norcN-o1 co,rioo % |
process has been had upon said minor
more than five days before the first
day of this term, and that all other
preliminary proceedings required by
law have been taken and done in the
premises, and it further appearing that
said minor and her mother appeared
in person before the board and stated
their willingness for said minor to be
apprenticed to said Lewis Willis, and
that said minor is a poor child resi-
dent of district 2, of Grenada county,
10 years Of age, and has no relative
able and willing to properly support,
care for and educate her and she
should be apprenticed to a suitable
person, and that petitioner, Lewis VII |
lis is a resident citizen of said district
2, and a suitable person to whom to
apprentice said minor, and is ready,
willing and able to properly care for
her and has engaged to provide said
minor with a sufficiency of good,
wholesome food, necessary clothing,
washing and lodging, to treat said ap-
prentice humanely and also to send
her to school until she learns to read,
write and perform any ordinary cal
culation, incident to the business of
the master and at the expiration OF
apprenticeship to furnish said ap-
prentice with two suits of new cloth
ing, including hats and shoes and of a
substantial kind. 1t is therefore, or
dered that said RUbie Johnson be n
she is hereby %apprenticed and bound
unto said Lewis Willis until she
reaches the age Of IS years, unless
sooner revoked by this board for cause.
Ordered this the End day of May,
1921.