New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-21


on Drainage, which report was ordered
printed in the journal.
COMMITTEE ON DRAINAGE
Canals and Inland Navigation, ,
February l6, 1877
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate
Your Committee on Drainage, Canals and
Inland Navigation have the honor to report
back to the Senate, without any recon-
mendatiOn, a bill entitled "An act to con-
firm and amend the charter of incorpora-
ton of the Louisiana Land Improvement
Company, and to grant said additional
rights" Your committee submit the
inclosed brief of the history of said Bara
taria and LafOurche Canal Company, of
which this company is the successor; and it
is further the opinion of your committee
that a different report can not be made
without sending for persons and papers
The committee, therefore, ask to be dis
charged from any further consideration of
the same.
Respectfully submitted.
A. E. BARBER, Chairman;
PARRICK O'HARA.
February 6, 1S29-Act of the Legislature
incorporating the company, known as the
pany,' for the purpose of digging canal
from the Mississippi river to the Bayou La
fOurche.
The starting point, connecting the Mis-
sissippi river with Lake Perrier. Salvador,
Ouachita, or Barataria, shall be Mr.. Du-
gue's plantation, or such other place IN the
parish of Jefferson, about five miles from
the city of New Orleans.
Locks or sluices to be established at the
point at which said canal shall communi-
cate Lafourche; also, at the point Of de-
parture from the river Mississippi.
Term of charter, fifty years. Operations
to begin within two wears from date of this
act; also provided that after the lapse Of
ten years after the date of this act the
State shall have the right, at all times, to
assume the place Of said corporation, by
reimbursing the stockholders the full
amount of their respective shares.
Capital Of the company to be Sl5O,O00,
divided into shares of $l0o each; the State
to subscribe for 100 shares.
February 7, iS29-An act to incorporate
the 'Lafonrche and Terrebonne Navigation
Company the operations to extend to the
improvement of the navigation CT the
bayous Terrebonne, Black, Carpe, Coillou
and Du Large, and for establishing water
communication, by means of canal or
canals, from Bayou Lafourche to Bayou
Terrebonne, and thence to Bayou Black,
Carpe, Gallon and Du Large, and from one
to the other, and through the Bayou Black
to Berwick's Bay; provided the provisions
of this act shall not be so construed as to
prevent the Barataria and Latourche Canal
Company from cutting canal across the
said water courses to communicate with
Berwick's Bay, and for that purpose said
company is granted all necessary powers to
increase their capital
February 4, lS30-An act to amend the
act of incorporation of the Barataria and La
fOurche Canal Company, dated February o,
1929
The principal features Of this act are:
That whenever it shall appear to the Legis-
lature that the net amount OF revenue shall
exceed twenty-five per cent on the capital
employed, the Legislature may reduce its
tolls. not to exceed twenty-five per cent.
February A, lS30.-Ihat after twenty
years from the time said corporation shall
have commenced to draw a revenue, the State
may assume the place of the company by
reimb bursting the stockholders with an addi-
ton of ten per cent
Act l833-This act extends the charter
of the Barataria and Lafourche Canal Com
pany s;xty-eight years.
Act. IS35.-This act authorizes the State
Treasurer to subscribe 500 shares to the
capital stock in the Barataria and Latourche
Canal Company; it also provides for the
union of the Barataria and Lafourche
Canal Company with the Lafourche and
was effected by mutual agreement, the two
presidents signing the articles of agreement
in the office of Jules Massey, a notary public
in the city of New Orleans.
Act, 1Si3-This act regulates the amount
of fees of the Barataria and LatOurche
Canal Company on all the lines OF the for
mer two companies, then combined.
May 25. 1Si6.-Act providing for the sep |
ara ton of two companies; declared uncon- |
stitutional in the suit OF Boyhin & Lany |
VS.. Shatfer.
In 1850, A. D. Woodbridge, State engineer. |
with George May, president of |
the Barataria and Latourcho Canal Com |
pany for the building of locks and culverts |
in the Bayous Latourche, L Eau Bleue,
Terrebon and Black, thereby ignoring
the act of 1876: the suit of Boykin & Lany
vs.. Shatfer showing the contract to be within
the original franchises of the Barataria and
Canal Company. This contract
was entered into in virtue and by authority
Of acts of the Legislature approved De-
cember 20, 1SiS and March 90. 1850. This
contract was ratified by act of March II,
1852 making an appropriation of $4,000
FOR the purposes Of said contract.
,ioners on the part Of the State for same
Under the provisions of said act
the commissioners entered into an agree
nent with the Barataria company, said
acknowledging its Indebtedness
to be 900 and interest, and, in considera-
ton of $4,000 to be paid to the State, as
well as all other uneXpended balances of
former appropriations, agreed to relieve the
State from the completion Of the works IN
iertaken by it; engaging 10 do the work
ITSELF.
The act of 1876 is declared unconstitu-
tional upon the ground Of the Legislature
judicial functions, which is de-
,lared to be outside Of its prerogatives.
March, IS, lS5S-An act authorizing the
transfer of the stock and mortgaged debt |
leld by the State lin the Barataria and
Lafourche Canal Company.
1t appears that by virtue of the above
,cts new company was formed by meta
'ial act of incorporation in the parish of
dated the seventh day of
March, 1859, under the name Of the Bara-
aria aud Lafourche Canal Company No. 2.
said company, after paying the debts of the
irst company, became substituted in their
leu and place, as per suit entered by Compa-
" No. 2against Company No. |, in the Fifth
District Court, Judgment rendered Novem-
Der TO- 1861, by default.
This suit was for the payment of $4,000
iue by No. to No. g The Judgment not
being satisfied, the canal, lands, improve
nents, ETC., were sold by the sheriff and
purchased by No. 9.
February 25, lS70-By notariai act a new
company is formed, under the title of the
Louisiana Canal and Land improvement
Company. The designs and purposes of
This company are declared to be the Gredg
ng of bars and shoals, and the reclamation
'f low lands from overflow, bordering on or
having outlet in the Gulf of Mexico, with
power to excavate canals, etc. build Ievees,
tic.
December Fl, l570-This Louisiana Canal
md Land Improvement Comnanv obtains