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238 being made a part of these minutes. ad3ourded. ATTEST: There being no further business on motion made, seconded and carried, the Board 3 man. Clerk. - -� -- - - - - - ----------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tuesday June 7th., 1938._ The Board of County Commissioners in and for Indian River County, Florida, met at the Courthouse in Vero Beach at 9:30 o'clock, A. M. Tuesday June ith., 1938, with the following Mem bens of the board present, E. P. Poole, Chairman; S. E. Glover, Frank C. Vickers; C. S. Michael and Edwin A. Helseth. Also present were William Frick, Sheriff; Charles'A. Mitchell, Attorney to the Board and Douglas Baker, Clerk. Mr. Alonzo Ferguson appeared before the Board and reported the condition of the pro- perty which was adjacent to property owned by him, said condition being caused by the contin- ued flowing of two artesian wells and requested the Board to arrange.for proper drainage. The Board advised Mr. Ferguson that they could only drain property when protection of the County road right of way was involved which was not the case as presented. Mr. A. B. Crawford appeared before the Board'and stated that the taxes had been.rais= ed on his property described as part of lot 2, as in deed book 24, page 364 and requested the Board to reduce the taxes. The Board advised Mr. Crawford that nothing could be done with re- gard to the assessment on the 1937 roll and suggested that he be present at the time the tax Assessor presents the 1938 roll to the Commissioners as a Board of Equalizers. Mr. Talmage Ryall Wabasso, Florida, appeared before. the Board and requested a road to his place west of Wabasso in order that he might have better access to his property and so the school bus could pick up his children next year. He further stated that said road would run west about one mile from lateral A, that if the County would grade the road he would ar rrange to have the cross ties removed as said road was one formerly used by Graves Bros. as a tram road. It was moved by C. S. Michael, seconded by S. E. Glover and carried -that permission be obtained from the Indian River Farms Drainage District since it was pointed out that the road would be on the property of the'Drainage District, after this had been done Mr. Frank A. Knight, Road Superintendent, was instructed to grade the road after Mr. Ryall had removed the. cross ties. On ..-motion made by Frank C. Vickers, seconded by S. E. Glover and carried Frank A. Knight, Road Superintendent, was instructed to put in two bridges on Emerson Avenue and that galvanized culverts should be used and the inside of said culverts to be painted with asphalt paint. 4� It was moved by C. S. Michael, seconded by S. E. Glover and carried that before any material or supplies were sold by the County that a requisition for such should be obtained from Douglas Baker, Clerk. Mr. George James appeared before the Board and asked for a vacation of that part of the Old Dixie Highway not in use which was located in Vero Land Company's Subdivision. He fur- ther stated that there was no evidence of road right of way or any land mark. Commissioner Helseth was appointed to investigate this road with Mr. James and report back to the Board the9 findings. Miss Leila M. Bunkley appeared before the Board and filed her report of activities for the month of May, 1938 as follows, to -wit: 1 .. 1 1 1