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Macon Beacon
Macon, Noxubee County, Mississippi
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Board of Supervisors proceedings include setting aside funding for a Macon school-house, advance payment to J. C. Gilmore for jail lining, nullifying a 1873 order on Sheriff Moore's debt, allowing payment options for Moore's sureties, and ordering Treasurer to settle $29,161 by March 15, 1874 or face suit.
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An order was entered allowing the Trustees $1,127 for building a school-house in Macon, but on reconsideration the order was set aside.
J. C. Gilmore was allowed $600, a payment in advance on contract for lining county jail.
On the 5th day of May, 1873, an order was entered authorizing the Treasurer to receive a draft on Sims, Harrison & Co., in full payment of said indebtedness against Sheriff Moore. It appearing that the Treasurer has never received said draft, the order set aside.
The late Sheriff Moore or his sureties are allowed to pay $650 in warrants or $500 in currency.
On the 3d of March it appeared to the Board that $29,161 should be in the hands of the Treasurer, and it was ordered that unless the same is settled or satisfactorily arranged by the Treasurer by the 15th of March, 1874, that suit be brought for the same and that 2 per cent damages be charged against him.
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Macon
Event Date
March 1874
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orders set aside for school-house funding and sheriff moore debt draft; $600 advance to gilmore; moore sureties allowed $650 in warrants or $500 currency; treasurer ordered to settle $29,161 by march 15, 1874 or face suit with 2% damages.
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Board of Supervisors entered and reconsidered orders on school-house funding in Macon, advance payment for county jail lining, set aside 1873 order on Treasurer receiving draft for Sheriff Moore's indebtedness, allowed payment options for Moore or sureties, and ordered Treasurer to settle funds or face legal action.