The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-13

xisted no legal valid debts or obligations
due or owing by the parish whose pay
ment had not been provided for.
The petitioners are Informed, have good
reason to believe and 50 charge, that all
warrants and acknow. Judgements of debt
issued bv the officers Of said parish on the
Treasurer thereof, and not outstanding and
unpaid We're issued in excess of the reve-
mes of the years in and for which they
were issued, and for causes not authorized
by law, in fraud of the taxpayers Of the
parish, and Of the corporate rights Of said
parish and police jury, and were issued for
pretended debts which had no existence in
| fact or i'm law.
| That petitioners believ. and 80 chare that
the said Butler aud Mahoney, intending to
circumvent and defeat the law and the deci-
sions Of the courts declaring police jury
warrants of similar kind and character as
those issued by the police jury of this par
ish, illegal, null and void, procured the pas
sage of said act; and aided, allotted and as
sisted by Oscar B. Sarpy, one of the commits
sioners designated in said act, member of
the polio. jury and sheriff Of said parish, and
one Patrc~ Leonard, secretary Of said police
jury, deputy sheriff and public administra
| tor, have issued some and are about to issue
more Of the bonds provided for in said act, to
their accomplices and confederates, in lien
and stead of the aforesaid illegal and void
warrants. etc.
That the preliminaries required to be per-
formed by said commissioners previous to
issuing said bonds, have never been conf
piled with by them. That they have never
ascertained and determined the amount of
the debts due by said parish, nor did they
make any report to the police jury, as re-
quired by said act, as petitioners are in
formed and believe.
Petitioners aver and charge that, so far as
til" said Edward Butler, Harry Mahoney and
Oscar Is. Sarpy are concerned, they are
totally incapacitated and disqualified from
making any such report as that contem-
plated by said act, and the other parties
therein named, as petitioners are informed
were never notified to attend, nor have they
attended any meeting Of said commission
ers.
That said Butler sarpy. Mahoney aud
Leonard have combined. cOllu ed and con-
federated together, and have issued (as pc
titioners are intormed) some and are about
to issue more of the bonds of said parish
under said act No. "a Of 1874, without com
plying with the preliminary requirements
therein contained, to the great injury and
detrment Of yonr petitioners, and in viola
ton of their sworn duty as public officers.
charged with the protection Of the property
Of the taxpayers of said parish.
That petitioners are informed and so
charge, that Butler, Mahoney, Sarpy aud
Leonard, ut the instance of said police Jury
whose action is influenced and controlled by
them, have caused bonds of the sum of one
hundred dollars each, amounting, in the
aggregate, to sixty-eight Thousand dollars
to be engraved, printed and prepared to be
issued under said act, and that some of said
hOn0S hlv hlan nth vii In.
placed upon the market. ......
That said Ac:. No. "a OF lS14, is unconsti-
tutional, imperative, null ana void, as
petitioners are informed and believe That
the police jury OF this parish have assessed,
and will continue to levy and assess, taxes
at ruinons and oppressive rates to pay SAID
illegal bonds and warrants, unless restrained
by injunction.
Tha Sias W. Sawyer. tax collector of
said parish wrongtully receives, and will
continue to receive said warrants in pay
ment OF the parish dues and taxes, and
turns them over to Armand Lartigue, Par
ish Treasurer, who likewise accepts them in
payment and extinguishment of the parish
taxes.
That the affairs Of this parish have been
so carelrssly, corruptly and ignorantly
managed and conducted, that it is impossi-
bic tor your petitioners to correctly ascer-
tain from the Police Jury the nature, char
acter and amount Of each claim assessed
and made against this parish-when cor
tracted, and for what purpose, by whom
presented, in what shape said claims exist,
whether in approved bills, Judgments, war
rants, bon IL, or otherwise.
That an auditor should be appointed by
this honorable court to examine the books
and accounts OF the Police Jury, and to re-
port the condition of the affairs of said
parish, in order that the said unlawful and
claims and demands made
against said parish may be specifically |
as' .ertained, described, Disseminated, ex-
clnded and separated from the legal indebt-
edness thereof, if any such there he. |
Wherefore, petitioners pray, the annexed |
attidavits considered, that wrtS OF mi junction
do issue herein, directed to the Police Jury of
the parish of Plaquemines, and to Edward |
Butler, Harry Mahoney. Henry Taylor, Silas
W. Sawyer. Oscar B Sarpy members, and to |
Patrick Leonard, Secretary thereof, com
handing, forbidding aud prohibiting them,
and each Of them, from levying, assessing or
collecting any tax or taxes to pay either the
or interest on any bonds or war
'ants heretofore authorized or issued by said |
Police jury of the parish of Plaquemines,
is officers or agents; and from issuing, or
lansing to he issued. either directly or indi-
'ectly, any bonds or warrants of said parish
n Police Jury. That they and each Of them
'e further prohibited from in any way recog-
,izing the validity of bonds and warrants.
md from finding, registering, redeeming,
or receiving bonds or warrants
n payment and extingnishment of any
lebts. dnes or taxes owing the parish Of
olaqnemne.
That Silas w. Sawyer, tax collector, and
Armand Lartigue. treasurer Of said parish.
" likewise enioined and prohibited from
either directly or indirec tly. any
,onds or warrants in payment Of the parish
Ines and taxes and from collecting any
'arish taxes to pay either the principal or
interest on bonds and warrants. .ra
That the police jury OF The parish of
Edward Butler, Harry
Oscar b. sarpy, Henry Taylor
md Silas W. Sawyer, members Armand
1artigne, Treasurer; Patrick Leonard, Sc
retaIy: and Silas' w. Sawyer, tax col
ector, be severally cited to answer this Pc
ltion. That an auditor be appointed to
xamine the hooks Of the police jury, and
+ the respective officers thereof, tor the
'nrpose Of ascertaining and reporting the |