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MINUTE BOOK No. 24 CITY OF OXFORD
exhibit to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. Further, the City Clerk reported
that he gave notice of the aforesaid resolution by sending a copy of it by
certified mail, postage prepaid, within five (5) days after January 16, 1969,
to the last known address of all owners of property affected by the resolution.
The City Clerk further reported that, at or prior to the time specified
in the aforesaid resolution, being 7:30 o'clock, P. M. on February 4, 1969,
protests or objections were filed against making the improvements described
in the aforementioned resolution of January 7, said protests and objections
being made by David Correthers, Omanda L. Key, John H. Pegues, Willie Liggins,
Clinton Houston, Mattie Smith, Edith May Correthers, Elisha Pegues, Elijah
Pegues, Omar D. Craig and C. B. Roberts.
The City Clerk reminded the Mayor and Board that, when the time for hear-
ing the protests and objections arrived, to-wit, 7:30 o'clock, P. M. on Feb-
ruary 4, 1969, the Mayor and Board, upon the request of those protesting and
with the assent of those favoring the proposed improvements, continued hearing
until February 20, 1969, at 7:00 o'clocX, P. M.
On February 20, 1969, at the time set for hearing, after an investigation
of the matter and a hearing of sworn testimony by John W. Hester, an engineer,
and Loren T. Young, President of Oxford Community Homes, Inc., together with
written evidence, the Mayor and Board found that three of the property owners
making protests and objections were not eligible to protest and object under
the provisions of Section 3664-04, Mississippi C ode of 1942, they not being
persons who actually resided on, or otherwise actually occupied, property owned
by them fronting on the proposed improvements. Further, the Mayor and Board
found that the property owners making protests and objections, after the eli-
mination of the protests and objections of C. B. Roberts, Omar D. Craig, and
Elijah Pegues, did not constitute a majority of property owners owning more
than fifty percent (50%) of the front footage of the property involved and act-
ually residing on property owned by them and included in that part of Pegues
Street, which had been ordered to be specially improved, or otherwise actually
occupying property owned by them within said area. Therefore, the protests and
objections of those heretofore named were overruled. No other protests or ob-
jections of any kind or character whatsoever were made or filed against the
making of the improvements.
Mr. W. R. Lamb, an attorney of Oxford, then presented to the Mayor and
Board the following agreement. which had been executed by Oxford Community
Homes, Inc. and requested that the Mayor and Board accept this agreement as
a binding obligation of Oxford Community Homes, Inc. The agreement is as
follows: