Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1857-10-10

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; at 10 O'Clock
/ I. Be .GEKos, Clerk.
F., According to adjournment, the Jury me;
at 10 O'Clock A NJ.
| Present as before, with J. w Pines.
| Ahsent-W. W. Lennon
| Alter the reading and approval OF the min
ufes Of the previous session, the following
| resolution was adorted
| k.S0Ecs1, lhot the sum o! ten doia ars be
| pad out OF the Treasury of this parish, upon
a warrant issued to Henry Grant for the
burial OF dead shody, and subsequently
transfe 'red 70 A DuplantieF SAID warrant
vas lost by said DnpIantier before payment
| could be made.
Upon note of SO 20, beariu. S per
cent interest per annun1. and due FIVE wears
after date, dated Sept. I'd. 1850 IN favor Of
John Buh!er and against the parish of West
| Baton Eous~, the following resolution was
sdopted;
Rssoircd, I bat the Treasurer o! the parish
pay the aforesaid note, with interest as store-
said from the I'd September 1850, up 10 this
date.
The Jury then adiourne,. until Saturday,
10th, 1857.
I BsRcxRoN Clerk
According 70 adjournment, the Police Jury
met
Present-H. Bergeron, F, White, z. B.
Trinidad, J. C. Woods, F. A. Woods, ]. W,
Pipes, B. r. Chinn.
Absent-W. W. Lennon, J. S. Wl!iaaas
and D. P Cain.
The President being absent, J. c Wood.
was called TO the chair as President, Pro
Ten
B. r. Cn.nn Tered the following resolution
" which was adopted
Rssolr,d, That the President OF the Police
jury, Mr n w. Pope and D, n. Barrow.
ESQ, be appointed a committee to have the
Digest of the Laws and Ordinances 0. this
parish, printed iii neat manner, at the lowest
practicable plice, and have $50 copies de-
hvered to the Clerk of the Police Jury, bound
in pamphlet form.
J $. Williams being noa present, took
his seat as President
VI. Q. Leblanc, Esq having refused to
serve as Road Inspector ior the Eighth Ward,
Lewis F. Bernard was appointed ioT the re-
Inasnder OF the year.
the following resolution was offered by L.
K. Ghnfl. and adopted:
Rsso!red That the President of the Police
Jury, III his capacity as sue3:' have full pow
er and authority 10 revise, amend auA correct
the proceedings OF this Jury, as IN his Iudg.
snent he may THINK proper, and the Police
Jury itself would.
A petition ..osil several inhabitants Of the
fonrth Police Jury Ward OF this parish,
pra yirg that the Police Jury declare the
road running from the Mississippi River, ard
along the lines oi Mrs V Kirkland and I.
W. Bird. 10 the forty arpents, thence turning
at right angle and following the forty arPent
lines Of Mrs. Kirkland and the double con-
cession line 10 where it intersects with the
road already declared public by this Police
jury, which runs to J. Z. Woods, etc, a
public road and that conmittce of six flee
holders, be appointed TO assess the damages
thereto, etc.
Said road, was declared public, and Messrs
Raphael Hebert, J. c Woods, Alfred Hebsrt,
T. B Trinidad, Guy LaHauve and J. =
LaBauve. were appointed a committee to as
sess said damages,
The Jury having now finished the revision
of the Digest of Laws ,oF ;h,s parish, the
following account as subnlttsd to the
Jury
f'st,ce Jury Of Hsa Bt@n F2'toe
To ". ". tos, nj D. " Bas7oe, Dr.
For making Digest of Laws for the parish $500 90
Cfon which, B. f. Chinn offered the fol
lowing resolution
Resolved. That the above amount be allow
ed to D. ". Barrow aud n. w. Pope, for
services II making the DIses, OF the Laws
and Ordinances for this parish, provided,
they shaI. attend to the publication, correct
ion OF the proof of said Digest. without any
extra compensation. Adopted,
The Jury then adjourned, sim ne
JOSEPH s. WILLIAMS, Pres.
r. BERcERoS, CFk.