Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-07-30
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G.,yoso PLANTATION, July %, 1863
Mr.. Editor The want of proper under
standing of the second article of the Leree Ordi-
nance recently adopted by the Police Jury, and
published in your paper, has given rise to much
dissatisfaction. This is much to be regretted.
The writer feels that it is due to the Police Jury,
of which he has the honor Of being d member,
to extract the thorn that is producing so much
irritation.
The second article Of the ordinance requires
that every Levee which shall contain so many
feet of water Perpendicular shall have so many
feet base-that is to say-every levee which
shall contain three perpendicular feet Of water,
shall have fifteen feet base; and for every foot
above three feet, and not above five, shall have
say, levee which contains four perpendicular
feet Of water shall have twenty four feet base,
and thirty feet base for five foot levee. This
rule is intendsdtosbe applied to the construction
of aee lerees.
This same article contains another rule in the
nature Of a proriso, which is intended to be ap-
plicable to the leyees as they now are, and reads
thus: :. The proprietors shall be required to
work only on the side next to the road, so as to
obtain the necessary base, y leaving to the annual
deposit the work necessary to be done on the
side next to the bayou-a very great auxiliary
in levee making-thus in point of fact, requiring
of the planter only one half of the work actu-
ally required to make the levees conform to the
first part Of the second article of the ordinance
The seventh article requires that the Inspec-
torsshall by actual measurement ascertain the
exact amount of labor to be performed by each
riparian proprietor. In doing this, the sInspec
tor will take a level of the high water, by which
he will ascertain the number Of Perpendicular
feet; to ascertain the base required he will
measure from the center of the levee at right
angles to the d-side--eonsidering the Side
next to the water equal tosthe side measured =
adding both together he will havesthe base. To
explain more clearly, the writer viii take the
leyee of Mr. R. G. Darden. By actual measure
ment we find that his levee supports, when the
bayou is highest, four perpendicular feet Of wa
ter, which will require twenty-four feet base
To ascertain the amount of work required of
him, the Inspector will draw a tape line at right
angles from the center of his leyee twelve feet
to the roadside, and whatever amount of work
it will take to make it out to twelve feet from
the center of the levee onehal, only, is required
of him this year. 81 s... ....-5i
The writer has frequently been asked when
in measuring the hight of the water, whether
you measure from the road or bayou side, he
answers, always from the roadside. When we
say that a levee contains four perpendicular
feet of water, it means that the water is four
feet higher than the land which would be over
flowed if crevasse were to occur.
JOSEPH S. WILLIAMS.
B6se A petition has been sent to the Canada
Legislature from the municipal council of Kent,
representing that, by reason of the rapid in
crease of the colored population Of said county,
by immigration from the United States, many