District, Enoch E. Mizell Wily Daniels Joseph Mizell to 
be road Commissioners on said road. 
     Upon the petition of twelve Free holders of Alachua 
County a road was ordered to be laid out from Fort Crane to 
intersect the Newnansville Road at Olmsteds place, this road 
to Constitute the Seventh Road District, David Higginbotham, 
John Sanders and Jas. L. Knight to be Commissioners on 
said road 
                               J.W. Pearson 
                                  President of the Board 

                                February 6th 1847 
        The Board of County Commissioners met. 
                 Be it ordered that John W. Pearson have and old 
house located in the Town of Newnansville in Public Square repaired 
suitably for holding Superior Court and building of two Jury Rooms 
                                             B.B. Thompson 
                                               President 
        Ordered that a tax of twenty five per cent on the State 
be collected for County purposes 
                                       B.B. Thompson 
                                        President of the Board 
        Ordered that the Treasurer pay the fees due the Board 
up to this date, being fifty dollars  $50. 00 
                                            B.B. Thompson 
                                            President of the Board 

                 Election Certificate 1847 
        Alachua County S.S.  We the Subscribers and Judge 
of Probate for the County aforesaid and Inhabitants of said County 
having the qualification of Voters therein, Selected by said Judge 
of Probate to assist him in Canvassing and counting the Votes 
for each office as shown by the returns filed in the Office 
of said Judge at an election held at the Several precincts 
in said County on Monday the fourth day of October eighteen 
hundred and forty seven after having carefully Canvassed 
and Counted the Votes hereby Certify that the following 
is a true return of the votes given at said Election Viz.