Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-09-22
Having Mothing further to report, We rrs
pectnlly submit ,i.e above to your consider
alton.
i.ned 7. B TRINIDAD.
STEPHEN PIPES,
Joseph BKAID
West Baton Rouge Sept Sd, 1850

| Isl Ddtoii INohs,t sept 30, lSDU.
An account Of $ Aillet cl S! 90 t, r tees Ia
case State vs.. lleai Aemable was allowed
On motion OF Mr. Pope to pay accom,s
| of Sylvanle Saurage tar an inquest n, d resIp
belonging to Isidore Dalgle, amonn'lu. IN
! Fifteen Dollars the vot" was called as ios-
| lows and the account above,
! Yeas-Braud + A Woods. Pope, Jsn.,
l. Lobdeli, Sidney Lohdet.
| Nays-Landry. Trinidad Pipes, Cain
| On motion Of Mr.. Popc. it was
! Rrsoiued. That the sum of Nine Th,usan,
| Four Hundred Dollars be assessed upon tho
| taxable property OF this parish for parro-
| cha expenses for the ensuing year accor-
ding to the Report Of the Committee appon-
! ted to make an estimate of Parish faxes,
and published in The officia! paper "ecord'n.
| to law.
A petition in suit Of " B & f W Robert
| son VS. Parish of West Baton Rouge for
| moneys expended and land appropriated to
| brdlng their levees, was read and referred
! to the Parish Attorney
The following report of Commissioners
was read and received, viz.
7oMe President and Members of the Police Jury
Of Wtst Baton Rouge:
We the undersigned Commissioners ap-
pointed by your Hon. body to superintend
I he system of drainage from the lands of "
Leblanc Il Co., to those of James C. Woods.
and below to Big Bayou Choctaw, it found
| necessary, do report:
That under the act of March 18th, 1860,
and the resolution of your Hon. body, we
proceeded to appoint Mr. Edgar Dubroca En-
S'neer to make the necessary surveys, levels
and estimates, with instructions that he
should report on this the 9th of August
hat ho, =
complete said work under the instructions
gwen TO him. requested further time to COM
piete the same to wit to the Goth OF Sep
tembeT next, which was granted him.
We hereby submit to your Hon body the
minutes of our proceedings together with a
map of the country to be drained and plan Of
the levels as prepared by said Engineer up
to date
We ask for further time to make our esti-
mates and report the same to your Hon
body.
Signed. VIM NJ REYNAUD,
W B. CHAMBERLIN.
The Librarian was Empowered to have
the Parish Library placed in the North Jury
room and not in the recess back of the
Judges stand as heretofore ordered.
Mr. James L Lobdell presented the follow
ing report Of the Committee appointed to re-
port on the claims against the Parish for ma
terlals and labor furnished by private indi-
vidnals for closing the Lobdel crevasse, and
the same was adopted.
10 The Honorable the President and members Of
the Police Jury Of West Baton Rouge:
We, the undersigned Committee appointed
by your Honorable body to examine the ac-
counts presented for cash advanced and ma
terlal furnished for the stoppage Of the Lob
dell crevassee, beg leave to report that they
have examined each demand that is properly
Yonched, and find d'theswhole to amount to the
sum Of five thousand five hundred and sixty
one 81 100 dollars, as will more fully appear
by a list Of said accounts hereto annexed.
We therefore recommend that parish scrip
be issued to each creditor according to his
account, passed as correct by the Committee,
viz