The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-11

RECORDERS OFFICE, }
Parish of Ascension, April 4, 1874.
To the honorable the President and Mem
/ bers of the Police Jury of the parish OF
Ascension:
GESTIEMES-I beg have nsest respectfully
to represent to your honorable body, that in
/ conformity with resolution of your prede-
/, cessors, have secured the assistance Of
| competent parties TO make eat o complete
mortgage and conveyance index for the use
| of my Office.
/ As it is probable that the work, or great
portion of it, will be completed before Your
next meeting, / would respectfully recon
mend that your honorable body appoint q
committee from among your number, who
| together with the Parish Attorney, and any
number of the members of the, bar- of this
parish, whom you may designate, TO receive
said work and fix the compensation to be
| paid for the same.
Respectfully, etc, your ebedent servant,
CHARLES GECES,
| Recorder Ascension parish.
| Received and adopted
DoSALDsoNvILLE, La, March "a, 1874
! To the honorable President and Members OF
the Police Jury Of the parish of Ascen-
sion.
Gentlemcn-We, the undersigned members
of an organization knawn as the Phoenix
| Fire Company No. l, ofDonaldsonville, La
chartered by the laws. Of this State, for the
! purposes of benevofenee and charity among
| its members, and to. save property from
destruction of Ere, have the hesioB-to ask aid
| from yeur honorable bsdy for the following
| reasons, via: We have an engine and every
thing necessary to carry out our purposes,
| except the ground whereon to builtl our
engine house, which house is absolutely
necessary for the REstGsfiDn of our engine
and apparatus. Therefore, we, your petit
TONERS humbly pray you to help us by 1eas-
ing to our organization for the purpose
above stated o lot or portion of ground
situated IN the corporation of Donaldson
vile and fronting on the public square for
the space and term of twenty five (25l years.
Very respectfully your obetlien. servants,
w. g. WILKINSON,
JN0. 4: CHEEyERs, comm;ttso
JOSEPH FERRIER.
J. b. Hebert offered the following which
was unanimously adopted:
Resolred, That the fot belonging to this
parish, fronting ON LouisiaIns saEaaare. in the
town of Donaldsonyille, and situated be-
tween the lots leased by tho parish to the
congregation of the Episcopal church of
Donaldsonville and to .. c. Mathieu, be
leased to the president and members of the
Phoenix Fire Company No. |, of Donaldson
vile, for period of twenty-five years at the
rate OF one dollar per annuni, for the purpose
Of Building and erecting an engine house.
Resolrsd further, That the Parish Attorney
is hereby instructed to enter into contract
for that purpose.
To the honorable the President and Mem
bers of the Police Jury of the parish Of
Ascension:
Geaaemen-E hare full and complete file
of the official papers published in this parish
from April, 1853 to the present time. all
bound in book form, comprising:
6 volumes of the Drapcaa de fAseeasioa !;
: .. a''sa''''' Ess%1s
9 DonaldsonyiIls CHIEF
which would like to dispose of IN favor of
the parish.
! would respectfully recommend, in case
Your honorable body should be of opinion
that publie interest demands that the parish
should purchase them, to be kept among the
archives, that a committee should ire APP
pointed to fix the remuneration to be re-
eeived for the file of these papers.
Respectfully, etc., your obedient servant,
FELIX REYNAUD.
Laid upon the table subject to eaH on hae-
ton of H. Heyman.
DoNALDsosvILLE, March 81, 1874.
To the President and Members of the Police
Jury:
Geaaea,en-I respectfully ask of you to
appoint committee of your body, to ex-
anime into my Indebtedness to the paRisk
and they be authorized to settle the same.
Respectfully,
CHAS. F. SMITH,.
j. b. Hebert offered the following, which
was adopted:
Be it resolred. That q committee to be
composed of two members and Parish At
torney be appointed by the president to
examine into the accounts of &. r. Smith
former tax collector of this parish, with full
power to settle and compromise with said
Smith fer any Indebtedness which may be
found to be due by him to the parish E
REPORT OF WARRANT CLERK
To the honorable President and Members of
the Police Jury:
Tho undersigned warrant clerk respect
fully reports
That from the 10th day of December, 1879,
to the st of April, 1874, he has received $50
accounts properly approved amounting to
the sum of S., 493 500. for which he has is
sued 403 certificates of Indebtedness, charged
to the following accounts, viz:
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