The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1922-10-07

Brick-Paved Highway to Napoleon
and Craveled Road to Pearl River
Line Will Be Built if State Amend
ment Carries.
OCTOBER MEETING. A. D. 1922.
The State of Mississippi, Hancock
County.
Be it remembered that a regular
meeting of the Board of Supervisors
of Hancock County was begun ana
holden in and for said County and
State, at the court house thereof, In
the City of Bay St. Louis, on the first
Monday of October, same being the
End Monday of said month, and the
time and place for holding OF SAID
meeting. There were present to-Wlt:
H. S. Weston, President of said
Board; Joseph l.. Favre, w. E. Thlg-
pen, Calvin Shaw and Joseph P. Mo-
ran, members; A. A. Kergoslen,
Clerk, and E. Van Whitfield, Sheriff.
The order of the State Tax Com
mission approving the personal as
sessment of Hancock County for the
year 1922 was duly received and or
dered filed, and it is ordered that or
der of approval be spread on the MIN
utes of this Board, which order is In
the words and figures as follows:
1t appearing to the satisfaction OF
the State Tax Commission of the
State of Mississippi, after studying
the values of the various classes OF
property of the eighty-tWo counties,
the economic conditions thereof and
the methods employed by the assess
ors ana supervisors in making and
eaualizing the assessment thereof,
and after making careful examlna-
ton of the recapitulations of the as
sessment rolls of personal property
of the several counties and COM
parison Of the assessments therein
contained that the assessments OF
the various classes of personal prop
critics on said assessment roll OF HAN
cock county Tor the tax year 1917,
as shown by the foregoing statement,
are equal and uniform with those IN
other counties of the State. 1t IS
therefore hereby ordered, that the
Chairman of the Commission mail to
the Board of Supervisors of SAID
county notice that the assessments
of said county are acceptable to SAID
Commission, and that copies of said
roll be made and certified to the Tax
Collector in accordance with the re-
uuirements of Chapter 323 OF the
Laws of 1920.
To the Board of Supervisors of
said County and to the President of
said Board:
You are hereby notified that the
foregoing is a true and correct copy
of an order which has been adopted
by the State Tax Commission of the
State of Mississippi and has this day
been recorded on the minutes of said
Commission in it's office in the City OF
Jackson, Kinds County, said State.
And you are therefore hereby in
structed to comply with the require
.nents of said order according to law,
immediately.
This the 30th day Of September,
1922. -
D. L. THOMPSON,
Chairman of State Tax Commission
of Said State.
The contractor, Albert Garcia, hav-
ing reported the completion of the
Clermont Harbor-W Waveland road, the
Board appointed Calvin Shaw, w. +.
Thigpen and Jos. P. Moran a commit
tee of three to investigate said road
and report at this meeting their find
ings.
The bill of Gerald Price having
been presented for damages done his
car on the county road and the Board
having considered same and feeling
that the county is not liable, it is
therefore ordered that said bill be
rejected.
The petition of Will Byrd and
James Stalling for statutory reward
for catching Tom Franklin, fleeing
homicide, was presented, and it ap-
pearing that the Circuit Court, in
Cause No. 1701, in ex-parte Will
Byrd and James Stalling, had been
allowed by the Court, it is ordered
that warrant of the county issue out
of the General County Fund for
$4,000, payable to Will Byrd and
James Stalling.
Be it ordered by the Board that
pursuant to Chapter 203, Laws of
1918, that the Board will pay not
over $4,000 to cover actual expenses
Of the County Health Officer on an
itemized account furnished the Board
to attend the Annual Health Officers
Institute, to be held at Jackson, Miss,
from October 3Oth to November End,
inclusive, same being for promotion
Of betterment of public health.
Whereas the bonds for Sellers
School were not adver-
bised for sale for October meeting.
Be it therefore ordered that the Clerk
advertise the sale of said bonds to be
sold on the first Monday of Novem-
ber, and to be sold for cash, bids to
be received in sealed envelopes and
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