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In the October 1875 term, it is noteworthy that the Board allowed a payment of $279 for a vault purchased from Folger and Co. While it is probable that is was for the courthouse, the minutes do not so specify.
Two items of interest are found in the December 1875 meeting. First, the Board authorized the president, Dr. E Latham, to have a survey of the lot on which the courthouse stood. In addition, there was a record made of a vote by Joseph Favre against an appropriation to Peter Ramond for raising the courthouse.
Relative to the previous paragraph, Favre was unanimously voted to be president at the January 1876 meeting. Also, Monet was paid $18 for surveying the lot, as called for above.
New Jail and other Happenings
Over the years contemporary with the progress of the courthouse, things were happening with an old jail in Gainesville and a new one in Bay St. Louis. William Poitevent seemed to be involved in several ways.
In the Special term of June 1874, the Board ordered that suit be brought against Poitevent "for the recovery of the old Court House and jail in the town of Gainesville." The president was authorized to employ counsel for pursuit of the claim.
In March 1875, it was announced that sealed proposals would be taken for the building of a new jail for Hancock County "in accordance with plans and specifications now on file in the Clerk's office. As the courthouse in Bay St. Louis had just been finished, it is assumed that the location of a new jail was intended for that city.
Two months later, in May, the same man who had been sued in June 1874, William Poitevent, won the bid. He was allowed $600 "for the taking down of the jail in the town of Gainesville and removing the same and the rebuilding the same in the City of Bay St. Louis within the space of 60 days from date and that all timber in said jail that is not sound be replaced by sound timber."
At the end of the sixty days allowed above, Poitevent applied for and was granted an additional sixty days. Finally, in December of 1875, Poitevent was paid $793 for "removing Jail and rebuilding same and material furnished as per bill on file."
An addition to the jail building was proposed in March 1877. Sealed bids were called for, the purpose being "building a house for a Jailor's house adjoining the Jail said house to