The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-04-30

The Board of Supervisors took up
for consideration the matter of inn
proving the harbor facilities within
Jackson County and. following a dis
cussion of the subject, Supervisor Kha-
vat offered and moved the adoption
of the following resolution:
A Resolution declaring the intention
of the Board of Supervisors of jack
son County. Mississippi. TO issue
bonds of said county in the mount
of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
tSsoo. oool for the purpose of pro-
he hsrbor facilities within said
County.
WHEREAS. the Board of Supervis-
ors of jackson County. Mississippi,
does now find and determine that IL
Is necessary and advisable and in the
public interest that the harbor facili-
ties of said County be improved; and
WHEREAS. the said Board of Su-
pervisors does now find that the es-
timated ost of said improvements is
Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Dol
lars f$750O O0): and
WHEREAS. under and by virtue of
Senate Bill No. 700 of the Legislature
Of the State of Mississl opi. approved
April 10, 1913. Jackson County. acting
by and through the Board of Super
visors. is authorized and empowered
TO issue bonds of said County in the
principal amour n sun of Seven
Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($750.-
000). or so much thereof as may be
necessary, for the purpose of pro-
viding funds with which to improve
the harbor facilities within said Coun-
ty by deepening and widening the ship
channel from Horn Island Pass to the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Com
pany bridge across East P~ascagoula
River. and deepening and widening the
ship channel across Horn Island Bar
in Horn Island Pass. all within the
and
WHEREAS. this Board of Supervisors
does now find and determine that
by Senate Bill No. AL. approved April
Is. 1913. the Legislature of the State
of Mississippi has appropriated from
state funds the sum of Two Hundred
Fifty Thousand Dollars $3.50 .000) to
apply on the cost of the aforesaid
harhor improvements; and
WHEREAS, it now becomes neces-
sarv that Jackson County provide the
remaining cost of said improvements.
to-wit: the sum of Five Hundred Thous-
and Dollars $500. 000):
NOW. THEREFORE. BE IT RE-
SOLVED BY THE BOARD OF SUI
PERvISORS OF JACKSON COUNTY.
MISSISSIPPI, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. That the Board of ST.
pervisors of Jackson County. Missis-
sippi. does hereby declare its intention
to issue bonds of said County in the
sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dol
lars). $500 ,000) for the purpose of pro-
viding funds with which to improve
the harbor facilities within said Coun-
tv by deepenine and widening the ship
channel from Horn Island Pass to the
Louisville g. Nashville Railroad Com
pany bridge across East ~Pascagoula
River. and deepening and widening
the ship channel across Horn Island Bar
in Horn Island Pass. all within the COR
porate boundaries of said County: said
bonds to be issued under the authority
of Senate Bill No. 700 of the Legisla-
ture of the State of Mississippi, APP
proved April 10. 1913.
SECTION 2. That. as required by
Section 3 of the aforesaid Senate
Bill No. 700, a copy of this resolution
shall be published in four (4) weekly
issues of Pascagoula-C Chronicle Star. a
newspaper published and having a
general circulation in Jackson County,
Mississippi. If within twenty-one f21)
days after the first publication of this
resolution. twenty per centum (20etl
or more of the qualified electors of
said County shall petition the said
Board of Supervisors for an election
on the question of the issuance of said
bonds. hen the said Board shall call
and provide for the holding of an
election in which all of the qualified
electors of said County shall be eli
gible to vote. If at such election a ma
jority of those voting theron shall vote
in favor of the issuance of said bonds.
then said Board of Supervisors may
proceed to issue and sell said bonds
or any part thereof. If a majority of
those voting thereon at such election
shall vote against the issuance of said
hnndc thar nat1 ko-I1 rAoI - -
issued. but the said Board of Super
visors may call a new election there
on after the lapse of a period of one
year from and after the date of such
election. If no such petition be filed.
the said bonds will be issued without
an election thereon.
Supervisor Krebs seconded the mo-
ton to adopt the foregoing resoIu-
ton and. the question being put to a
roll-call vote, the result was as fol-
lows:
Supervisor Roy o. Cumbest voted
Yea
Supervisor E. A. Khayat voted Yea
Supervisor Joe Y. krebs voted Yea
Supervisor Fred Moran voted Yea
The motion having received the af-
firmative vote of all the members of
the Board of Supervisors present, the
President declared the motion carried
and the resolution adopted.
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
JACKSON COUNTY
I, N. c. Everett. Clerk of the Board
of Supervisors. said County and State
hereby certify that the above and fore
going is a true and correct copy of
the above resolution passed by the
Board of Supervisors of said County
on this the is day of April 1948 as
the same appears recorded in Minute
Book %, pages Is and 26 and q Of the
minutes of the Board of Supervisors of
Jackson County. Mississippi.
Witness my hand and seal of office
this the IS day of April A. D., 1948.
lSEAL)
N. c. EVERETT, Clerk,
Board of Supervisors
BY E. NJ. Galloway. D. C.