The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-04-22
ANDRY, La SATURDAY, APRIL %, 1871

Gulf Ship Canal Company, to draw war
rant or warrants on the Administrator {
r Finance in payment of tie work 50 done a
the rate of fifty (50) cents per cubic ya'
: Of excavation, and fifty (50) cents per cubi
: yard for the protection levee, the said wal
rants to be of such denomination as may b
required by the president of the said com
panv. These warrants it shall be the dut
) of the Administrator of Finance to pay Of
presentation to him, in case there be an.
funds in the city treasury to the credit @
the said Mississippi and Mexican Gulf Shi
Canal Company; but should there not b
! sufficient funds to cash the said wal rant 0
warrants then the Administrator Of Financ
is hereby required to indorse upon the sam
the date of presentation, after which dat
the said warrant or warrants shall bear in
tere>t at the rate of eight per cent per an
nun uEtil paid, which condition shall b.
set forth in the form of the said warrant O
warrants.
Sec. g. Be 1t further enacted, etc, Tha
in order to provide funds for the paymen
Of the work to be done by the said com
pany, the three boards of draining commits
sioners for the draining districts of Orl, an:
and Jefferson. established under the acts o
March IS, 1868, of March II, 1859, and the
several amendments thereto, and any anc
all other person, persons or corporations
who may have them in posscssion shal
transfer to the Board Of Admin strators o
New Orleans all moneys, assessments anC
claims of drainage in their hands or undel
their control, all titles TO real estat-, al
books, plans, tableaus, judgments in favor
of commissioners, the office furniture of said
drainage commissioners, a true statement OF
the claims of said drainage commissioners
against the city, to be adudicated and set
tied out of the money collected by the city,
and everything pertaining to said draining
districts; that the Board of Administrators
Of New 'rleans he and is hereby subro-
gated to all the rights, powers and facilities
possessed and enjoyed by the commission
ers of the several draining districts Or OF
any other corporation charged with the
duty of drainage and leveeing within the
limits of the city of New Orleans and Car
rollton; that the Board of Administrators
| be and are hereby authorized and directed
to collect from the holders of property with
in the said districts the balance due on the
| assessments, as shown by the books of the
first. second and third drainage districts,
under the acts Of March IS, 1865 that of
March II, 1852 and the several supplement-
ary and amendatory acts thereto, which
| said assessments are hereby confirmed and
made exigible, at such time and such man
ner as the Board of Administrators may
designate; provided, that the said board
shall collect the assessments herein author-
lied in time to provide for the payment of
the warrants to be issued to the said COM
pany at the date Of their issue; also to
make assessments Of two mills per suDerti-
clal foot in those parts Of the three draining
districts, as existing under and created by
the acts of March IS, 1853, and of March
II, 1859, and amendments thereto; and on
such other lands as are brought within the
projection levees contemplated by this act,
where no assessments have been made and
to execute and -nforce the same as provided
for by the several acts of the Legislature,
creating and regulating said boards of drain
ing commissioners, provided that all money
or moneys received by the said Board Of Ad
ministrators from the said commissioners of
the drainage districts, either from the sale of
property received from the said commission
ers, from the collection of claims for drain
age now due, from the collection of drainage
assessments, and fom any of the sources
Of revenue contemplated by the provisions
Of this section of this act be placed to the
credit Of the Mississippi and Mexican Gulf
Ship Canal Company, and held as fund to
be applied only to the drainage of New Or
leans and Carro'lton, in accordance with
the provisions Of this act; and that all pro-
perty, not money, so received, shall be held
in trnst for the payment of said Mississippi
and Mexican Gulf Ship Canal Company
and ultima ely for the benefit of New Or
leans, should the same not be required for
the work of drainage; and provided, fur
sher that the rights, powers and Families
possessed and enjoyed by said Board of Ad-
ministrators of New Orleans, relative to
drainage, shall be so construed as not to
conflict with the rights, powers md facul-
ties acquired by the said company, in exca-
waiting canals and building levses as stipu-
lated in the various sections of this act
Sec 10. Be it further enacted, etc, That
all acts and parts Of acts in conflict with or
inconsistent with the various provisions of
this act, are hereby repealed, and especially
the act entitled IAN act to repeal all laws
and parts of laws creating drainage districts
in certain portions of tie parishes of Or
leans, Jefferson, etc, "passed March 2, 1869,
generally known as the Ship Island canal
bill; also an act amendatory thereto, APP
proved March IS, 1870.
Sec: II, Be it further enacted, etc, That
it is hereby made the duty of the Board of
Administrators to see that the parties whose
duty it is to do the same, shall; imme diately
after the passage of this act, build such le-
wees on both sides of the Carondelet Canal,
and the New, Or Canal and Banking Com
pany's Canal, extending to Lake Pontchar-
train and around their basins, as to effectu-
ally prevent the overflow of water from
the SAID canals during storm, tides or high
water in Lake Pontchartrain, the dmen-
sions of the said levees to be determined
by the Board of Administrators.
Sec. l2 Be 1t further enacted, etc, That
this act shall be favoraby construed; so ss
to favor all the purposes and objects of the
same, and the operations of the provisions
thereof, and shall take effect from and after
its passage. --..
(signed) GEO. w. CARTER,
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.
(Signed) OSCAR j. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
A true copy: i
GEO. E. BovEE,
Secretary of State. ....