Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1857-10-17

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| The jnry adjourned nnt,l Friday 18th inst
! at 10 O'Clock
I. Be .aERoN, Clerk
| According TO adjournment, the Jury met
at 10 clock A. n
| Present as before, with j. W Pipes.
Abscnt--W w Lennon.
Alter the reading and approval Of The min
utes OF the previous session, the following
resolution was adopted
ReSotlFd. Ihot the sum 0i ten dollars be
pad out Of the Treasury Of this parish upon
warrant issued to Henry Graut for the
burial OF dead sb0dv, and subsequently
transferred to 4. Duptantier. Said warrant
was lost by said Duplantef before payment
could be made.
Upon a note OF SIS 90, bearing per
cent interest per annuFn and tnc five years
after date, dated Sept ed, 1859 in favor of
John BuhteF and against the partsia OF West
Baton Roog~, the following resolution was
adopted
Resoired, That the Treasurer OF the parish
pay the aforesaid note, with interest as atre-
said, from the % September 1880, up to this
date
The Jury then adjourned until Saturday,
18TH 1857.
T. BeReERoN, Clerk.
According to adjournment, the Police Jury
met
Presept-H. Bergeron, F White, E. B.
Trinidad. ], C. Woods, f. 4 Woods, ]. W
Pipes, 3. r. Chnn.
A Absent--" w. Lennon, j S. Williams
and d T. Can.
The fres dent being absent, J. c Woods
was called to the chair as President, Pro.
Tenn
B R. C7inn offered the following resolution
which was adopted
Rcsoir d. That the President of the f0!l2e
Jury, M1 ~ w. Pope and D. \. Barrow
Esq, be appointed committee TO have the
Digest OF the Laws and Ordinances O, this
parish printed i'll neat manner, at the lowest
practicable p,ice, and have 25D copies de- |
ilvered to the Clerk Of the Police Jury, bound !
in pamphlet form.
5. Williams being now present, took
his seat as President
N. 0. Leblanc, E>q~ having refused to |
serve as Road Inspector for the Eighth Ward, |
Lewis F Bernard was appointed for the re-
nlaIndeT Of the year.
The following resolution was offered by B. |
r. Chinn, and adopted
E.sotrcd That the President Of the Police |
Jury, ii his capacity as such have full pow |
er and Authority to revise, amend ard correct |
the proceedings ot this Jury, as in his judg-
ment he may think proper, and the Police |
jury itself would.
A petition from several inhabitants OF the |
Fourth Police Jury Ward OF this parish,
pra wing that the Police Jury declare the !
road running from the Mississippi, River and |
along the lines Of Mrs V Kirkland and /. |
W Bird to the forty arpents thence turning
at right angle and following the forty arpent
lines of Mrs. Kirkland and the double con- |
cess on llne. TO where ii intersects with the |
road already declared public by this Police !
Jury. which runs t. J, c. Woods. etc, !
public road, and ,bata committee 0! six flee |
holders: be appointed to assess the damages |
thereto, etc.
SAID road, was declared public, and Nessrs. |
Raphael Hebert J c Woods Alfred Hebert, |
F. B. Trinidad Guy LaBauVe and j. Is, |
La aBanve, were appointed committee to as
sess said damages.
The Jury having now finished the revision
Of the Digest Of Laws for this parish, the |
account was submitted to the |
Jury:
Police .yuty of West Baton i,e,tqs,
IL ". ~. Pore as.i D. " Ba7roao Ur. |
For making Digest Of Laws tor the parish $500 oo !
Upon which. 3 r. Chinn offered the fol
lowing resolution
Resoived That the above amount be allow
ed to D. ~ Barrow and n. w Pope, for
services in making the Dlgest OF the Laws
aud Ordinances Tor this parish, provided,
they shall attend to the publication, correct
ion Of the proof OF said Digest, without any
extra compensation. Adopted.
The jury then adjourned, SIM die.
JOSEPH s. WILLIAMS, Pres.
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