Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-01-21
GRAND JURY PREsENTMENTs


We, the following named members
of the Grand Jury, l. Gelders, Fore
man; C. Roy Adams, Clerk; W. y
Walker, G. A. Troupe, w. q. Broad
hurst, E. G. Hale, J. c. Glover; M
w. Chasteen. Warren Gibbs, F.: j.
Hansen, G. E. Kicker, Roscoe Kim
ball A. Swanson, Jas. T. Mathis, >
f. Booker, C. L. Saunders, John
Hagemar,. j. L. Perry, j. Horton
TayIor. C. S. Rice and H. l.. Forbes
chosen and serving at the January
Term of Superior Court, Ben Hill
cOuDyS. Georgia. herewith present to
This Honorable Court our present
ments and recommendation as fol
lows: ..,
We have examined thirty-seVen
hills. returning 80 true bills and q
no bills. all of which have been duly
turned into the court.
We have carefully gone into the
pauper list of the county ana RECON-
mend that Mrs J. H. Clark and susie
Hopson be dropped from the list ana
that payments to them be discohtih-
ued. We recommend the following
be placed on the pauper list: r. u
Wood and Mrs. Rosetta Wood, care
Joe Rogers, Abba, Ga; John Donald
son and Fred Garner, care the Ordl-
nary. and that they each be paid the
sum of $500 per month.
1t having been brought to our at
tention by the Ordinary, Hon. }. X,
Horton, that vacancy existed IN the
Notary Publics office in the 433rd
district, we recommend that non.
Marvin Roberts be appointed to the
office of Notary Public and EX-Offl-
clio Justice of the Peace i'll the 433rd
district of the county.
We recommend that the foreman
and clerk of this grand jury be PAID
the sum of $4.00 per day and that all
other jurors at this term of court pc
paid the sum of $500 per day for
their services. .
We also recommend that all bailltts
be paid the sum of $500 per day and
all mounted bailiff's be paid the sum
of $500 per day for actual services
rendered at this term of court.
We Recommend that these present
ments be published in the Leader
Enterprise and Herald and that they
be paid the sum of $500 each there
fore.
We wish to especially extend our
thanks and appreciation to His
Honor, Judge d. A. r. Crum, for his
able charge to this grand jury, we
deeming it very appropriate and help
full to us in our deliberations. we
also wish to commend his honor for
appearing before this body and lay
ing before us matter of great mn
portance, not only to this court, but
to every tax payer in the county, and
which is found duly commented upon
and embodied in this report.
We wish to thank our able solicit
tor, Hon. j. B. Wall, for his advice
and counsel given this body with the
greatest willingness and courtesy.
We also desire to thank our Sheriff,
Hon. E. H. Dorminy, and our eff
cient clerk, Hon. David l.. Paulk, and
our other officers and court attaches
for the assistance and courteous
treatment given us during our delib-
eratiOns.
We also wish to commend our eff
ficient Tax Collector, Mrs. f. M. Ora
ham, and our ever obliging Ordinary,
Hon. J. R. Horton, for their special
interest and effort in the collection
of special taxes and also for their
courteous and efficient handling of
their offices.
In going into the matter of collec-
ton of special taxes, we find that
some persons who were indicted for
failure to pay last years taxes have
still failed to pay them and we rec
ommend that our Solicitor push any
indictments against these parties that
we may have and endeavor to force
payment fthese taxes.
We took special note of the recon-
Crum, regarding Judges Library
and after thorough discussion of the
matter, we were informed by the
County Attorney, Col. A. J. Melon
aid that the County Commissioners
could not appropriate money from
the county funds owing to such APP
preparation being illegal
Our County Commissioners, headed
by Hon. NJ. Dickson, as chairman,
came, before this body bringing with
them, an auditors report covering 8
portion of the year 1925, stating that
sna rest of the year was now under
audit and report would be made Of
same within few days. Mr.. Dick
son explained that although it was
not the duty of this grand jury to in
vestigate the affairs of the county
that the commissioners wished to APP
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know how they were handling the af
fairs of the county. He made full
report of their work on the new roa'
from Bowen's Mill to this city and in
vited this body to make an inspec
ton of the work. This inspection wa
made and we wish to commend ou
Commissioners, our Warden. and tn
Engineers for the wonderful progress
made in the construction of this roaC
We wish to go on record as heart
lily endorsing the educational pre-
gram as advocated by Gov. Cliffor
Walker for the expansion of our edr
cational opportur Nies for the chi
dren of the rural sections, and W
therefore recommend to the honor
able members of the Ben Hill an
Fitzgerald Boards of Education, tn
advisability of consolidating the tw
school systems, believing that bette
results would be had for the advance
ment of education among the rur;
section and that such consolidate
would help in the upbuilding of OF
rural sections and would attract
our county a desirable class of ne
citizens.
1t having been brought t oour a
tention by His Honor, Judge Crun
that due to some friction or misur
derstanGing regarding the paymer
of serving subpeonas that the coul
was unable to try any cases prompt
the first day of criminal court, there
h. causing the tag naYerS of til