Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-08-11
Proceedings Of the Police Jury.

Members present-Jas. Vignes, Presi7
dent; John H. Halsey, P. Bouanchaud,
John II. Seibert, Louis Chenevert.
The following persons, viz: oamue,
NJ. Thomas, member elect from the "a
Ward; John w. benson, from the 4th;
George Pitcher, from the 9Th; FRANCOIS
Gosserand. from the 18th; Alex. Labry,
from the 5th; and P. O. Lebeau, from
the l1th, presented to the President of
the Police Jury theircertificates of cleo
ton, and took their seats, after having
been sworn.
The minutes being read, the Police
Jury proceeded to business.
A leave OF absence is granted to the
President, and, on motion, J. ii. Selbert
is called to the chair.
The project of code recommended to
the Police Jury for adoption by a COM
mittee on ~levecs, roads and bridges, was
read and amended so as to read as fol-
lows:
ARTICLE l. Throughout the whole por-
ton of the parish where levees are re-
quired to protect the inhabitants against
i%nundation, said levees shall be made
and kept in good repairs by the owner
or wner of the land where. said leyees
are required, according to the ordinances
hereinafter provided.
ART. 2. All levees having n perpen-
dicular foot of water, and not more than
three feet against them, shall have at
least four feet base for each and every
foot in height. All levees having more
than three, and not more than six per-
pendicular feet of water against them,
shall have at least five feet base for
each and every foot in height. And all
levces having more than six perpendicu-
lar feet of water against them, shall have
at least six feet base for every foot in
height. The width of the top of the
|levee shall be equal to its height, and
the levee shall be constructed in such a
way that two-thirds Of the base shall be
on the side of the river: and, finally,
everv levee shall he of such a height
that after the settling of the earth it
shall be two feet above the highest water
mark. "
ART. 8. Hereafter, every new leyee
shall be constructed as follows, to wit:
In places where the bank of the river is
apt to cave in, at distance of at least
one arpent; and in places where the
same Inconvenience does not exist, at a
distance of at least forty feet from the
top Of the bank. And all levees already
made, the basesof which is at a distance
less than fifty feet from the top Of the
bank of the river in places subject to
cave in, and at a distance less than ten
feet in places where the same %inconve'
nience does not exist, shall be made &C
cording to the present articles And the
earth used for the repair or construction
of a levee shall be taken at a distance
of at least twenty feet from the base Of
the leyee onsthe side of the river. And
if considered necessary by the Inspector
of the District in which said levee is sit
uated, a ditch shall be dug in the center
of the base of the levee at least three
feet wide and three feet deep, SO as t.
remove all. stumps and logs, and after
full examination of the interior Of the
ditch, it shall be filed up and the groun6
we'll stamped. The place where thu
levee is to be built shall be plowed be
fore beginning the construction of sait
} levee. 3
ART. 4. In the month of July of ever.
year, it shall be the duty Of the lnspec
tors to examine the roads, bridges ant
, ~levees of their respective Districts; t.
draw a process verbal of all the work
. or repairs which they may deem neces
i sary; and to give notice to the owner
or lessees of the property on which sal,
works or repairs " to be executed, az
: cording to the ordinances of the Polio
Jury.
Arr. 5 .sAny person refusing Or neg
lecting to perform OR execute any wor
1 or repair required by the Inspector {
q the District, shall be liable to a fine nc
less than $25 nor more than $500, reco,
cradle by the Parish Attorney, befor
t any Court Of competent jurisdiction; an
/ the Inspector Of the District shall caus
said works to be executed, by sellin
: the same to the lowcst bidder, aud Attn
expense Of said owner, after giving te
y days public notice.
Arr. 6. Whenever the construction G
repair Of ~levees, bridges and roads sha'
be ordered on any property the owne
or owners Of which shall be absent Q
n reside out of the parish, the Inspecto
of the District shall give ~noticessof til
works by him ordered, by inscrtin
said notice in one or both Of the news
papers printed IN this parish, and th
notice SO given shall be considered a
legal notification to any non residel
proprietor.
! Arr. I. The works and repairs to. |
made annually to ~levees, shall beginO
or before the stwenty-lifth of Angus
unless rendered impossible by Il