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I Official Report of the Proceedings atthe June Meeting of the Board
Tuesday June 3 A D 1908 I
Board of County Commissioners metin regular session on this datePresent Hon John L Edwardchairman J R Matthews S RPyles N A Fort C W Turner
Minutes of last regular and specialmeeting read and approved
Commissioner Pyles reported that-on i account of illness in his familylets committee had not made invest-igation as to treatment of convicts-at E P Rentzs camp and asked further time-
It was ordered hat the former ac ¬
tion of the Board with reference tothe appointment of J H deBrass berescinded that the said Brass herecommended to the Governor forappointment as mark and brand in ¬
spector district No6Mr TV E Allen appeared before
the Board and made a statement inthe interest of Mr Cassells who wasdamaged while crossing a bridge nearMcIntosh whose claim for damages-was refuse by the Board at its for-mer
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meeting1 Mr Allen requestedthat the Board rescind its action andpay Mr i Cassells the actual damageThe request was refused
Mr Allen then requested that aJroad overseer be apointed in the Mc-
Intosh district and recommended that-R C Stephens be authorized to re ¬
pair the clay roads in said districtj which request was granted
The bdnd and contract of E L Andfrson and N H Boswell contractors-to harden the punnellon and Ocalaroad to intersection of Stokes Ferryread was presented to the Board exe ¬
cuted and was accepted and copy ofthe same delivered to Mr N H BoswellUpon
motion of Commissioner Tur-ner
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the resignation of R C Douglassi as mark and brand inspector district-No 16 was accepted and the Boardrecommended to the Governor the ap-pointment
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of R S Shortridge for saiddistrict
The petition heretofore filed re ¬
questing the Board of County Com ¬
missioners to close the present roadbetween Juliette and Dunnellon andto have the Ocala Martel CottonPlant and Juliette road xtonded ondirect line from railroad crossing atJuliette to Northwest corner of theWest Coast Farm thence south onquarter section line to Dunnellon-was
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upon motion of CommissionerMathews granted
Upon motion Conraiissioners PylesFcrt and Mathews were appointed aspecial committee to look into and re-port
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to this Board the condition ofj he Sims family with reference to gett1 g homes etc
A petition heretofore filed by BlackFalany requesting a permit to sell
liquors wines and beef in electiondistrict No 24 corning up for hearing-and it appearing to the Board thatdue and legal noticeof su6h aplication had been published ini the Dun ¬
nellon Advocate as required by lawand it further appearing that no ob-jections
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have been interposed by any-one why the said permit should not-
e granted it was upon motion order-ed
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that the said Back Falany begranted a permit > to sell liquorsvines and beer in district No 24 Ma-r on county Florida
The Commissioners appointed to lay-out the Ocala and Leesburg publicroad filed their report which waslaid over until the next regular meet-ing
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of the BoardMr S J McCully presented a peti
tion asking for the formation of aiifw election district as follows
Commencing at the northeasi cor ¬
ner bf section one township fourteenrange twenty thence west to north ¬
west corner of section four thencsuth to southwest corner of sectiontwentyone thence west to northwest tcorner pf section twentynine thence4outh to southwest corner of sectionthirtytwo township fourteen rangetwenty thence south to southwescorner of section five township fifthen range twenty thence east tosoutheast corner of section one thencenorth to northeast corner of section-cne township fifteen range twentythence north corner ofsection one township fourteen rangetwenty to point of beginning Saiddistrict to be known and> numbered-as fellowship district No4 with vot-ing
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place to be in the southeast cor ¬
ner of the northwest quarter of thenorthwest quarter section twentyseven township fourteen rangetwenty on V M Seckingers placePetition aid over until the next reg-ular
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meeting of the BoardMr J L V Hudgins filed a peti
tin requesting the Board to form a-
new election district as followsCommencing at the southeast cor-
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of section sixteen township six-teen
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south of range twenty eastthence north to northeast corner ofsection nine township fifteen southrange twenty east thence west tonorthwest corner of section eleventownship fifteen south of range nine ¬
teen east thence south to southwestcorner of section fourteen townshipsixteen south range nineteen eastthence east to point of beginningSaid district to be No 33 with votiftg place jat Leroy oi Petition filed andlaid over until next regular meeting-of the Board
The report of the commissioners onthe road known as the Belleview andSalzwedle road was taken up and re ¬
port granted 7
Commissioner Mathews having filehIs report with the Board with refer-ence
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1 to work done upon Ocala anr-Dunnellon road from Dunnellon to-
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where it intersects with the Stokesferry road which is as follows
June 2 1908Mr Chairman and Gentleman of th-
eroardI visited the hard road that-is
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now in construction at Dunnellonyesterday I measured up 11880 feetc 2VI miles of said hard road that IsTearing completion I measured thewidth of the road in several placesand found the hard surface to be 10ft and 6 in wide AVith a pick andshovel I dug through the hard surf-ace at what I considered an averagethickness of the road in the centerand found it to be 9 inches thick Thestumps and trees are not all removedfrom the out edges of the road yetbut is being rapidly done
The material used in the hardening-of this road is a poor grade of clayof which I very much regret but thecontractors tell me that after a thor-ough
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search I nothing better is ob-
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RespectfullyJ M Mathews Com
The following order was made Itwas upon motion ordered that an ad ¬
vance payment be made to the con ¬
tractors Anderson and Boswell as thepayment under the contract 1400in accordance with report as filed byCommissioner Mathews
A petition was filed asking that thepublic road be opened leading fromSmoak Postoffice to the town of Mar-tin
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described as followsCommencing where the Fairfield-
and Smoak Postoffice road intersectsthe discontinued Flemington andOcala road in section twentyfourtownship thirteen range twen andrunning in a southeasterly direction-on the road bed of the said Flemington and Ocala road through sectionstwentyfour twentyfive and twentysix of township thirteen ranget and through and to the southboundary of section six townshipfourteen range twentyone thenceeast on section line dividing sectionssix seven five eight four nine threecnd ten of township fourteen rangetwentyone to the northwest corner-of lot one town of Martel thenceyouth through street 210 yardsto the intersection of the Martin anjAnthony road Petition laid over un ¬
til the next regular meeting of theBoard-
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Richardson an imbecile was or-dered
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to be taken to the poor farmand the assistance with which theEdard has heretofore been given himwas ordered discontinued-
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Board thereupon approvedbends for carrying firearms and or ¬
dered licenses issued as followsGeorge R Johns R M Long
Charles J Rast James H N Holford dThomas H Barwell
The following notary bonds wereI approved
T L Dekle with J G Ferguson andJ G Dekle as sureties
N S Priest with Charlton Priestand C A Martin as sureties Samucr R Hall with Loren Squier andFred A Hall sureties
The Clerk of the Court presentedhis payrolls for witnesses serving inthe Circuit Court which were approv-ed
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by the BoardThe following persons presented ap-
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for pensions Their claimsware examined and approved as fol¬
lowsW N Tucker Rhoda A McClure
Benjamin Brinson Lew M BaldwinElmira Wood James L Beck F MTownsend
The Board having agreed to havethe gas fixtures put in the Court-House the following letter was filedfor information
Ocala Florida May 30th 1908The Board of County Commissioners
Marion County FlaGentlemen-
WeWe to confirm the price madeyou by our Mr C W Hunter L ethat of one dollar and fifty cents netper thousand cubic feet for gas con ¬
sumed in the Court House at OcalaFlorida Very respectfully
Citizens Gas CompanyPer C t W Hunter
The Board thereupon adjourned un ¬
til tomorrow morning at eight oclockWednesday June 3rd 1908
Board met pursuant to adjourn-ment
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All members present-A communication was received from
Mrs William Hocker President of theV omens Civic League requestingthat the Court House janitor be in¬
structed to thoroughly cleanse the twopublic drinking fountains round thesquare every Monday morning Therequest granted and so ordered
A petition was filed by Commission-er Fort requesting the Board to grant-a public neighborhood road viz
Beginning at a point on the Electraand Saw Grass public road in therrwi4 of section 23 township 15 range24 running in a northwesterly direc ¬
tion to Lynne postoffice in section 9township 15 range 24 Also a publineighborhood road beginning at apoint in the nw14 of nwof section14 township 15 range 24 Runningin a westerly direction to Lynne postcffice
The above petitions were grantedby the Board as requested
A committee of Kings Daughtersappeared beore the Board and req-uested
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that an appropriation of 500per month be made for the mainte-nance
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of Mrs Marshall a very needyperson and who is unable to help her-self
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The request was grantedPetition asking for county hard road
from the intersection of BellevlewCandler road and North Lake Weirto the Baptist church located on tneChautauqua Grounds was filed andlaid over until next meeting of theBeard
H M Hampton appeared before theBeard and requested that the Boardrelieve the Sheriff of amount chargedagainst him on account of the ninety
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