The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-08-31

elusive of interest on the bonds, amounts TO
$50, 6l3 29s. Deducting therefrom the amount
ot the bonds, say So, 80 39s, and the amount
of unlawful warrants, S4,70i 10, the amount
OF the legal debt would be So, US Al twenty
two thousand one hundred and seventy-tiye
Al 100 dollars.
Ffth-We deem it proper to inform your
honorable body that ON the of -, 1871,
IN accordance with resolution of the Police
jury, committee was appointed to direct
and superintend the Improvement of the
public highway commonly known as the
| New River Road, and bonds of the parish
| to the amount of two thousand five hundred
dollars, bearing interest at eight per cent
per annum from date, We're issued by the
| president of the Police jury for the purpose
| o1 meeting the cost of the work. A portion
OF said bonds, amounting to fifteen hundred
! dollars, were delivered to Mr.. Welsh the
contractor for the work, and the remainder
OF the bonds, amounting to one thousand dol
lars, were subsequently delivered by the
chairman of the New River Road committee,
! Mr.. Dumlnl Leblanc, in whose hands they
| then were, to Mr.. Sam1 H. Fields, as your
committee Is informed. in accordance with
a resolution adopted by the Police Jury at
Its session of --, 49,. We have further
to state that, far as we are informed by
the records of the parish, no account has
ever been rendered to the Police Jury of the
manner IN which the latter mentioned bonds
have been disposed of. We have found mp
on examining the books of the Parish Treas
urer, that these bonds were delivered to the
treasurer by &. +. Smith. Parish Tax Col
lector, i'll settlement of parish taxes collected
by INN they are now in the possession of
the Treasurer. We did not consider ourselves
authorized to 60 further into an investigation
OF this matter, and therefore have not com
muncated with Mr. Fields relative thereto.
We would respectfully recommend that ..
tn hea ,AF
members of the Police Jury and the Parish
Attorney, be appointed with instructions TO
ascertain what disposition was made of said
bonds, for the benefit of the parish, and if
necessary, through what channel they passed
INTO the hands OF the Parish Tax Collector.
Sirth-An examination of the bills of par
ISL officers for criminal expenses shows the
necessity of reducing the fee bill for mileage
as now fixed by law. Your committee, believ-
ing the same may be materially reduced, and
those officers still adequately re4nunerated
Tor their services, would recommend the fol-
lowing tariff of fees viz: That the Sheriff
and Constable shall be entitled to demand
anu receive, III all criminal eases, six and "a
quarter cents for every mile they may aetu-
ally and necessarily travel in going to and
returning from the service of any process
out this shall be construed so as to allow
mileage only to and from the place where the
process was actually served to the seat of the
WI holll NHcIlce sueH process may nave
ssued, and i'll no case shall mileage be allow
ed for Il greater distance than the place of
residence of the person upon whom the pro-
,ess was served. That where there are mere
han one pc rson named in any process, all
living on the same place, no mileage shall be
allowed for a greater distance than the place
If residence of the persons on whom the pro-
ess was served, to be charged only once.
md when there are more than one person.
famed III any process, living ON different pla-
es, the officers shall only be allowed mileage
o the furthest, and from thence to the others
famed in the process.
In compliance with your instructions. we
'eg leave to submit for the consideration of
our honorable body the following statement
+ expenses of this parish for the current
ear. You will perceive that we have not
Included the whole amount of the floating
ebt with the probable expenses of admins
ration. This we have not done for the rea-
on that the aggregate amount of both would
realty exceed the limit prescribed by the
til section of Act No. ~ of 1871.
of Approximate Es-
Innate Of Expenses of the Par.
IsIl of Ascension for the Year
1872: