to this property has ever been made
   Ordered that the actions of the president of 
the Board in hiring out Negroes under sentence 
of law, for fines and Costs of County be ratified 
by the Board & that in the future when parties are 
hired out, under the law that surety be deman
ded for the payment of the indebtedness.
   Ordered that the Judge of Probate be and 
he is hereby authorized to advertise in the New 
Era, for all persons intitled to the appropriation 
made by the last Legislature of the state to 
present their claims to the Board at its meeting 
on the 1st Monday in June next, to be by them 
considered.
   There being no further business the Board ad
journed to the 1st Monday in May next.
			J.C. Gardner
			Pres of Board

		Commissioners Office	
			May 7th 1866
Board met.  Present J.C. Gardner, President of the 
Board, M. Hinson, P.B.H. Dudley, W.T. Cheves 
& C. Rain.
   Ordered that John Williamson, his wife and 
two children, be and they are hereby recorded on the 
list of the poor & indigent of this County, and 
that they be supplied with the common neces
saries of life at the expense of the county.
   Ordered that Jurors and witnesses sum
moned to attend the County Criminal Court