Bond for Costs; General Power of Attorney Form

     [||d2763a4d-f7d5-4c49-b969-78a9df31f098||] IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI 

WESTERN DIVISION 

DELORES NORWOOD, ET AL, 

PLAINTIFFS 

¥. CIVIL ACTION NO. WC 70-53-K 

D. L. HARRISON, SR., ET AL, 

DEFENDANTS 

BOND FOR COSTS   

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, 

That we, D. L. Harrison, Sr., Jim C. Barnett, Irene Breland, Garvin 

Johnston, as members of the Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board, 

John Bell Williams, as ex-officio chairman of the Mississippi State Textbook 

Purchasing Board and M. A. Snowden, as Executive Secretary of the Mississippi 

State Textbook Purchasing Board, and their successors in office, are held and 

firmly bound unto Delores Norwood, by her father, Calvin Norwood, Van Siggers, 

by his mother Floy Gates Siggers, Audrey Shanda Woodard, by her father Henry 

King Woodard, Andrew Galloway, by his mother Gertrude Galloway, in the full 

and just sum of Two Hundred Fifty and No/hundred ($250.00) Dollars to be paid 

to the said Delores Norwood, by her father Calvin Norwood, Van Siggers, by his 

mother Floy Gates Siggers, Audrey Shanda Woodard, by her father Henry King 

Woodard, Andrew Galloway, by his mother Gertrude Galloway, their heirs, executors, 

administrators, successors or assigns, to which payment well and truly to be made, 

we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, successors or assigns 

jointly and severally by these presents. 

 



  

SEALED WITH OUR SEALS AND DATED THIS day of March in 

the year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy-Six. 

WHEREAS, the United States District Court for the Northern District 

of Mississippi, in a suit pending in said Court between Delores Norwood, by her 

father, Calvin Norwood, Van Siggers, by his mother Floy Gates Siggers, Audrey 

Shanda Woodard, by her father Henry King Woodard, Andrew Galloway, by his 

mother Gertrude Galloway, plaintiffs, and D. L.. Harrison, Sr., Jim C. Barnett, 

Irene Breland, Garvin Johnston, as members of the Mississippi State Textbook 

Purchasing Board, John Bell Williams, as ex-officio chairman of the Mississippi 

State Textbook Purchasing Board and M. A. Snowden, as Executive Secretary of 

the Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board, defendants, and their successors 

in office, an Order awarding fees for services and reimbursement for costs and ex- 

penses to plaintiffs’ counsel was entered in this action on March 2, 1976, and they 

have taken an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Clvouit. to 

reverse the Order in the aforesaid suit. 

NOW, the condition of the above obligation is such that the said party shall 

prosecute said appeal to effect and answer all costs which may be adjudged against 

it if it fails to make good its appeal, then this obligation shall be void; otherwise 

to remain in full force and effect. 

D. L. HARRISON, SR., JIM C. BARNETT, 

IRENE BRELAND, GARVIN JOHNSTON, 

JOHN BELL WILLIAMS AND M. A. SNOWDEN, 

Principals, and their successors in office 

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BY: NY laa nm Sle liste 7 
PETER M. STOCKETT, JR\ 

SPECIAL ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL 
OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI 

  

ATTORNEY FOR PRINCIPALS 

UNITED STAYES FIDELIT ANTX, GUARANTY COMPANY 
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S. Lyle Bates, Jr., Attorney-in-Fact 

 



CERTIFIED COPY 

GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY 

  

LI I I I rr A I SRY 

Know all Men by these Presents: 

That UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the 
State of Maryland, and having its principal office at the City of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, does hereby constitute and appoint 

Dan Bottrell, Davenport Mosby, William L. Crim, J. Carlton Smith, S. Lyle Bates, Jr., 

W. E. French and Martin H., McCubbins 

of the City of Jackson , State of Mississippi 
its true and lawful attorney § XX 30KDENBEXSEDEX X 6K 

for the following purposes, to wit: 

To sign its name as surety to, and to execute, seal and acknowledge any and all bonds, and to respectively do and perform any and 
all acts and things set forth in the resolution of the Board of Directors of the said UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY 
COMPANY, a certified copy of which is hereto annexed and made a part of this Power of Attorney; and the said UNITED STATES 
FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY, through us, its Board of Directors, hereby ratifies and confirms all and whatsoever X06 X%8% 
anyone of the said Dan Bottrell and the said Davenport Mosby and the said William L. 
Crim and the said J. Carlton Smith and the said S. Lyle Bates, Jr. and the said 
W. E. French and the said Martin H. McCubbins 

may lawfully do in the premises by virtue of these presents. 
In Witness Whereof, the said UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY has caused this instrument to be 

sealed with its corporate seal, duly attested by the signatures of its Vice-President and Assistant Secretary, this 28th day of 
June ,AD. 19 74 

UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY. 

(Signed) py... John Hamilton  .... oo f°. 
Vice-President. 

(SEAL) : 
(Signed) oe Ge Bilyard oo wo 

Assistant Secretary. 

STATE OF MARYLAND, 

BALTIMORE CITY, ® 

On this 28th day of June » A. D. 19 74 before me personally came 
John Hamilton , Vice-President of the UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY 

COMPANY and W., G, Hi lyard , Assistant Secretary of said Company, with both of 
whom I am personally acquainted, who being by me severally duly sworn, said that they resided in the City of Baltimore, Maryland; 
that they, the said John Hamilton and W, G., Hi lyard were respectively 
the Vice-President and the Assistant Secretary of the said UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY, the cor- 
poration described in and which executed the foregoing Power of Attorney; that they each knew the seal of said corporation; that the 
seal affixed to said Power of Attorney was such corporate seal, that it was so fixed by order of the Board of Directors of said corpora- 
tion, and that they signed their names thereto by like order as Vice-President and Assistant Secretary, respectively, of the Company. 

My commission expires the first day in July, A. D. 19... 4%... 

(SEAL) (Signed) ooJerbert do Aud a 
Notary Public. 

STATE OF MARYLAND ! Sa 

BALTIMORE CITY, 

I, Robert H. Bouse » Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, which Court is a 
Court of Record, and has a seal, do hereby certify that Herbert J. Aull , Esquire, before 

whom the annexed affidavits were made, and who has thereto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Notary Public of the 
State of Maryland, in and for the City of Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn and authorized by law to administer oaths and take 
acknowledgments, or proof of deeds to be recorded therein. I further certify that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said 
Notary, and verily believe the signature to be his genuine signature. 

In Testimony Whereof, 1 hereto set my hand and affix the seal of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, the same being a Court 
of Record, this 28th day of June , A.D. 19 74 

( SEAL) (Signed) Lil, Hohert H. Bouse... 
Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City. 

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COPY OF RESOLUTION 

  

  

That Whereas, it is necessary for the effectual transaction of business that this Company appoint agents and attorneys with power 
and authority to act for it and in its name in States other than Maryland, and in the Territories of the United States and in the Provinces 

of the Dominion of Canada and in the Colony of Newfoundland. 

Therefore, be it Resolved, that this Company do, and it hereby does, authorize and empower its President or either of its Vice- 

Presidents in conjunction with its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, under its corporate seal, to appoint any person or persons 
as attorney or attorneys-in-fact, or agent or agents of said Company, in its name and as its act, to execute and deliver any and all con- 

tracts guaranteeing the fidelity of persons holding positions of public or private trust, guaranteeing the performances of contracts other 
than insurance policies and executing or guaranteeing bonds and undertakings, required or permitted in all actions or proceedings, or 

by law allowed, and 

Also, in its name and as its attorney or attorneys-in-fact, or agent or agents to execute and guarantee the conditions of any and all 

bonds, recognizances, obligations, stipulations, undertakings or anything in the nature of either of the same, which are or may by law, 

municipal or otherwise, or by any Statute of the United States or of any State or Territory of the United States or of the Provinces of the 
Dominion of Canada or of the Colony of Newfoundland, or by the rules, regulations, orders, customs, practice or discretion of any board, 
body, organization, office or officer, local, municipal or otherwise, be allowed, required or permitted to be executed, made, taken, given, 

tendered, accepted, filed or recorded for the security or protection of, by or for any person or persons, corporation, body, office, interest, 

municipality or other association or organization whatsoever, in any and all capacities whatsoever, conditioned for the doing or not doing 

of anything or any conditions which may be provided for in any such bond, recognizance, obligation, stipulation, or undertaking, or 
anything in the nature of either of the same. 

I, George R. Downer , an Assistant Secretary of the UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND 

GUARANTY COMPANY, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of the original power of attorney given 

by said Company to Dan Bottrell, Davenport Mosby, William L., Crim, J. Carlton Smith, 
S. Lyle Bates, Jr., W., E. French and Martin H., McCubbins 

of Jackson, Mississ ippi , authorizing and empowering them to sign bonds as therein set 
forth, which power of attorney has never been revoked and is still in full force and effect. 

And I do further certify that said Power of Attorney was given in pursuance of a resolution adopted at a regular meeting of the 

Board of Directors of said Company, duly called and held at the office of the Company in the City of Baltimore, on the 11th day of 

July, 1910, at which meeting a quorum of the Board of Directors was present, and that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of said 
resolution, and the whole thereof as recorded in the minutes of said meeting. 

In Testimony W hereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY 

COMPANY on 
(Date) 

  
Assistant Secretary. 

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CERTIFICATE 

The undersigned counsel of record for the de- 

fendants hereby certifies that a true and correct copy 

of the foregoing Notice of Appeal and Bond for Costs has 

been mailed, postage prepaid, through the United States 

Mail, to the following: 

Melvyn R. Leventhal, Esquire 

Suite 2030, 10 Columbus Circle 
New York, New York 10019 

This the 1711 day Of March, 1976. 

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