Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1859-08-20
EXTRA SESSION, POLICE JURY.

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At an extra session Of the Police Jury o.
West Baton Rouge duly convened and held
at TIE Court House ofsaid parish on Friday
the 18th day of July, 1859, at 10 O'Clock, A
NJ, the Jury met-present:
Messrs Joseph Braud, J T Landry, Frame
A Woods, James C Woods, f B Trinidad, n
W Pope, and B r Chlnn.
The President made known the object ol
| the meeting and the Jury proceeded to busl'
ness.
MR. C Woods in the Chair.
The Committee appointed at the last june
| Session OF this body to make certain neces-
sary changes in the levee laws, made thei1
Report.
On motion to have the amendments taken
up one by one, the yeas and nays were called
by MIR Trinidad, and the motion was carried
ty the following vote:
Ycas-F A VI GODS, James C Woods, Pope,
Chinn
Nays-Braud, Landry, Trinidad.
On motion the following al~endment was
adopted. viz.
That Art. 224 Sec. Is Be amended and re-
enacted as follows: Each levee shall have
such an elevation that alter the earth has
settled, it will be at least two feet and a half
above the highest stage eff water.
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the above resolution, it was adopted by the
following vote:
~Yeas-Braud, Landry, James C Woods,
Chinn.
Nays-FA Woods, Trinidad, Pope.
On motion to adopt the Report of,he Com
mittee recommending the appointment of an
Inspector for the whole parish, and defining
his duties, the yeas and nays were called and
the Report was adopted by the following
vote, viz:
Tras-F A Woods, James C Woods, Pope,
Chinn.
Nays Braud. Landry, Trinidad.
On motion of Mr. Pope the vote on the Re-
port Of the Committee on Iuspectorship was
reconsidered: aud it was postponed 10 the
September Session of this body. On motion
OF Mr. Pope the following resolution. was
adopted. vi-:
The Report mentioned in Article 239 shall
be accompanied by the Process verbal Of In
spection made by the Inspector and freehoI-
ders as provided for in Articles 236 and 235.
and shall be sworn to as follows; 70 wu:
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish Of West Baton Rouge.
a l., Inspector of Roads and Levees, Of
the - Ward of this Parish, do solemnly
swear that the foregoing Report is true and
correct, and contains the names OF all persons
who have failed to comply with MY orders,
and | do further solemnIy swear that every
public Road in in my Ward is twenty-five
than four acres apart, made of timber pre-
scribed by law, and that every levee not ex-
ceeding three feet in height. has five feet of
base for every foot of height. and where they
are over three feet in height have six feet of
base for every foot in height, So help me
God.
On motion the following amendment to
Article. 238 was adopted. vi-:
Art. 23S, Sec. 20. And where he has allied
to work upon Roads as directed, he shall be
to a fine of not less than Twenty Dol"
lars per acre for every acre of Road he neg
Iects to make or repair; when the work to be
done is to the whole road, and to a fine of not
nor more than One Hundred Dollars
the work ordered may be special re-
pair to some particular point, and in this lat
ter case the penalty shall be incurred in fail
ure of the proprietor to comply with each
order of the Inspector.
On motion OF Mr. Pope the following sub.
stitute to Art. 25S was adopted:
Art. 25s, Sec. 49. AS the Levees, Roads
and Bridges Of this Parish should be always
kept in good repair, the Inspector will grant
only such delay as is strictly necessary for
such repairs, and during high water, should
the proprietor fail 10 have any repairs ordered
on his levee completed at the eEd of such de- |
lay to him granted, said Inspector may take
The hands of such refractious proprietor and
finish the work, or lie may employ ]aborers
at not more tnan two dollars per day to work
On said re pairs until they are made.
On motion, it was
Resolved, That in case the Inspector should
employ hands as spe :itied in Article 2jS, the
shall be paid by warrant Of the Presi-
dent Of the Police Jury on the Treasurer of
he Parish on certificate Of said Inspector,
md the Parish shall have an action against
said proprietor, either personal or M rem, in
latter case it shall also have a privi~
ege upon the land over which the work is
lone, and for which latter purpose, the IN
spector shall have recorded in the Recorders
Office of this Parish, the necessary evidence
sh.
On motion of Mr.. Chinn, the following
WIS adopted:
That Art. 236 Sec. 81 be amended and re-
as follows: On or before the First
lay of September of each year. the Inspector
accompanied by two freeholders of the Ward
the Inspection is being made: shall
make an Inspection of the Roads and Levees
If his Ward.
On motion of MI. Chinn, the following
m endment was adopted:
That Art. 243, Sec: a. be amended and re-
so as to insert after the word Parish
n the fifth | inc, 3And if it should be a nom
to his Agent or Overseer, if he has
my in the Parish, otherwise by thirty days
publication in the oticia pa per.o
On motion of Mr. Chinn the following
amendment was adopted z-~-
That Art. 246, Sec. 81 be amended and re-
so as to insert after the word then
IN the sixth line, He shall proceed to make
requisition for a detail of hands from the
i'd joining Wards of the Parish for such a