Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-09-01
POLICE jury rKOCEEplNGs.


! POLICE JURY PROCEEDINGS.
AT an adjourned meeting G. the Police
Iury O. She Parish Of West Baton Rouge,
| held at the Court House thereof on this day,
Saturday. July 2lst, 1850. at 10 O'Clock, "A.
M. the following members were present.
viz: J Braui, J i Landry, Frame A Woods,
James C Woods, Sidney %J.obdcll, w w Lem
mon. F. B Trinidad. N W Pope.
Absent-Jas l. LobdelI. SP,p pes, ID Cain.
James c Woods in the Chair.
! The President explained the object of the
meeting, and the Jury proceeded to business.
The following petition was presented to
the Jury as having been published according
to law. viz:
WEST BATON RoreE, May s, 1860.
To the President AMI Members of the Police
.Juru of The Parish of West Boiom Rouge:
The undersigned inhabitants OF this Parish.
and owners of land in that portion of it
which extends along the river from LIE
Blapc's plantation down to the lower pIanta-
ton of A. A. Williams. are DESTROYS Of hav-
ing constructed according to provisions of an
act of Legislature of this State approved
March, 1860, regulating drainage in this par
ish, a Draining Canal from said point, running
down across our several tracts of land, about
twenty five acres of land from the river,
with a slight divergence thereirom until il
will reach the upper line OF the said lower
plantation of A. A. Williams, and thence on
the most practical route to the Big Bayou
Chocta w-to have a width of from sixty to
eighty feet for the lower half, diminishing as
it ascends, and of sufficient depth to give the
water a free and ready flow.
They urge the making of this work for the
reason that it is of vital necessity to the
rl,,t;,n ,ufneosf ne THAR porSi,u &c }ho -o-
ish. as drainage is almost entirely dependent
upon private will, and is confined to one
ditch, which is entirely out of proportion to
their warts.
The fields Of your petitioners are SUBJ
merged for days at every hard rain, and the
extent of country that a canal of sufficient
length and dimensions would have to trav-
er>e. places it out of the power of individ-
uals to undertake said work. They would
prefer that said canal take, nearly as possible.
the direction OF the canal row running across
our lands, and established by act passed be-
fore l.. Favrot, Parish Judge, on the day of
1885, between several inhabitants of
this parish, all of which will be more fully
seen from reference to a plot of said proposed
work, annexed and made part of this petition.
Wherefore, the undersigned would pray
that your Honorable body direct their appli-
cation may be published in the Sugar Planter
for the space of thirty days. calling upon all
interested and who would feel themselves
aggrieved by said work, to come forward
within said time and file their opposition in
writing with the clerk of the Police Jury of
this parish, and that after all necessary DELAY
your Honorable body will appoint Commits
sioners to lay out and snperintrnd said work,
assess damages that may be sustained by any
one, assess taxes upon lands drained. and to
determine what londs shall be drained by
same.
(Signel), DAVID Pres,
O. BERNARD, Jk.
N. W. PORE,
J. V, Durable,
l. FAvRoT,
F. r. ALLAN,
ALzIRE DrBRocA,
'. DuBRocA.
Whereupon Capt. Trinidad Offered the fol-
lowing as an amendment to Mr.. Pope's petit
ton alb we mentioned. viz:
WEST BARON RorGE, July 81, 1850.
the Honorable, the President, and Members OF
the Police .Jnry Of the Parish Of West Baton
Rouge:
The petition of the undersigned citiz ems
of said parish respectfully represents that,
Whereas. AT the June session of your
Honorable body, a petition of certain inhabi-
tants Of the parish was presented, ask
ing that, under the provisions OF an act of
the Legislature of this State, regulating
drainage in the parish OF West Baton Rouge,
approved March 4th, 1860, a canal be con-
extending from LeBlanc's planta-
tion to the upper line of the lower plantation
of A. A. Williams, and thence on the most
practicable route to the Big Bayou Choctaw.
with dimensions-as specified in petition
sufficient to give the water a free and ready |
And,
Whereas, Your petitioners are equally !!
interested in a common system of drainage,
extending from the point on LeBianc's
plantation down to the plantation of James
Woods in this parish and believing that
any system of drainage terminating in Bayou
at a point higher up than the lower
part of the plantation of James C. Woods
be injurious to your petitioners and,
IN the contrary, that a canal of sufficient
extending from or near the lower
inc of the plantation of said Woods, to be
oined at LeBlanc's through the lowest
grounds, would be most advantageous to all
parties interested, without materially adding
the length or expense of the work:
Notc, therefore, Your memorialists respect.
ully ask of your Honorable body that the
'aid system of drainage be continued las the
Eost practicable route) through the low
ands In the rear and upon the lands of your
to the lands below the plantation
II James c. Woods, in this parish; and
hence, if deemed necessary by the Engineer
nd Commissioners who under the law are to
,e entrusted with the work, to Big Bayou
choctaw.
(Signed), E. B. TRINIDAD.
Tom. P. VAUGHAN,
T. DERrcHBoune,
V. BLANCHARD & Co.
per THEo. BLANCHARD.
V. BLANCHARD,
DoRvILLE FoREY,
ADoNIs HEBEaT, -
ARTHUR BLANCHARD,
J. BARGAos,
NY III