Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-08-04
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COMMUNICATED.

EDITOR DEMocRAr:-A communication,
signed P. c., appeared in your paper last
week, headed "Tle@Police Jury and
Levees," taking to task the presidential
the. police jury and the committee ap.
pointed by the president, for the pur'
pose of presenting q report OF ordinances
or laws-the first, for appointing a com
mittce of members all Of whom, SO says
?. G. resided u tn tie wishes Of the
said interior; and the second, for max.
ing OR reporting ordinances altogether
unsuited to the wishes Of the inhabitants
on the river, or rather, the front propri.
etors.
The remarks of P. G. deserve some at
t%cntion, as they are rather calculated to
mlslead those who are not acquainted
with the wishes Of the people Of the
parish.
In the first place, of the four members
who form the committee, two Of them
represent the river district and two the
interior, so that P. G. is in error when
he says that not a member representing.
the river was placed upon the commit
tee. Mr.. Halsey, although residing on
~LettsWorth, represents the third ward Of
the parish, aud Mr.. Vignes, who repre-
sents the seventh district, reside upon
the river-therc being only two other
members representing the river dis
trict in the police jury, Messrs. Labry
and Mebius, and only one of the two
residing upon the river, Mr.. Mebius.
Now, with regard to the substance of
T. C's objections. lie objects to the
LIST Article of the report, which reads
as follows:
Throughout the whole of the parish
wheEe leyees are required to protect the
Inhabitants from inundation, said levees
shall be made and kept in good repair
by the owner or owners of the land
where said levees are required, accord
ing to the ordinances hereinafter pro-
vided.n
Such is Article LIST, in reporting which,
the committee consulted the views and
wishes of the parish at large; and we.
venture the assertion, that if the ques-
tionaWas directly put to the voters Of
the parish, whether the levees should be
built by taxation, or front proprietors
should be required to build them, that
two-thirds of the voters would decide
the latter. And we predict that the
police jury, at its next sitting, when
report comes up for action, will, by
almost unanimous vote, adopt the
said Article list of the repoHt-thus prov
ing satisfactorily to an unprecedented
mind, that the voters of the parish,
whose wishes alone are to be consulted
with regard to taxation, are opposed to
such a system of building levees as P.
G. recommends.
We do not herein propose to discuss
The prcpriety or the justice which re-
luires front %proprietors to build their
evees at tier own expense; suffice it.
hat as such p%roprietors have chosen to
purchase and own plantations on the
rout, always heretofore subject to such
! servitude, that the increased expense
which they may have, is fully compen-
'ated by the superior advantages which
hey enjoy as front proprietors; advan-
ages which are SO numerous and appa-
ent that they need not be mentioned
'ere. Y
The police jury Of the parish, eonsid-
the uncertain and disordered state
f our levee laws, in consequence Of the