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Moving the County Seat wasn't the only problem facing the Board of Police. The State Legislature, under the jurisdiction of the Fourth Military District of the United States, had passed a special Act on October 30, 1866, requiring that all roads in Hancock County be let out on contract for construction and maintenance. It repealed the Road Law previously existing which allowed the Board to name an Overseer of Roads for various segments of county roads, and to assign citizens to maintain the road on an annual rotation basis.
As directed by the new law, the Board advertised for sealed proposals for keeping up and repairing all county roads. However, the bids, which were received Tuesday, January 8, 1867, proved beyond the financial capability of the county. At that meeting the board ordered that "all bids or sealed proposals for the keeping up and repairing the Roads of Hancock County under a recent act of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi received by this Board under said Act stand continued until the next term of this Court."
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