The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-06-12
TuEsnAY lime nd 1874

TUESDAY, June I'd, 1874.
The Police Jury met pursuant to adjournment
Present john Roy, President: T. s. FOntenot
T.C Chachere, TheOdule Fontenot and Homer
Durio. J. p. Ez, #-EE ~ -
On motion of Mr.. Chachere resolved that +he
tax collector be authorized to correct an ineor.
rect assessment made in the assessment OF 10
seph Camy in 1878. @ egaa - t8l
On motion of Mr. T. S. Fontenot. resolved.
Landreneau be appointed a committee to select
q site and report the bill of lumber necessary to
build a bridge over the eOulee near J.. Landre-
neau, ST., in prairie Mamoth, and report at the
next meeting OF this Jury. ul ~ > -srt g.,
On motion of Mr.. Theodule Fontenot. resolved,
that whereas a counter petition has been pre-
sented this day for the rebuilding of the Sackett
levee, be 1T therefore resolved, that the amount
appropriated to repair the leyee may be used to
build o bridge, provided the same does not ex-
eeed the amount appropriated. r-.
To the President and members of the Police III
~. i'll and for the parish of st. Landry:
Your petitioners, with respect, represent to
your honorable body that the late high water
has so injured the Toulouse levee that, in their
opinion, it will require at least, four hnlndr6d
dollars ($400) to repair it. That amount will
build it above high-water mark, and will not re-
qulre any further appropriation for some ten or
twenty years; that had bridge stood where the
levee did. it would have been all swept away;
that q leVee can be guaranteed tostand any high
water, If properly built, Your honorable body
appointing commissioners to Superintend the
work. Respectfully yours,
A. I. Fisher, J. A. TAYLOR.
mos a. COOKE, 1h0S. A. Dunbar,
CT. Hawkins John Fahey.
A. r. Hawkins, VIM. j. Offutt.
Pat Kehoe, Vim. Offutt,
f. W. Sylvester. o - "t"5
Inc committee, MesSrs. A. 7. Fisher, Col, W,
Offutt and &C. Comeau, appointed Yesterday
for the purpose of examining and making an eS-
innate of the probable cost of repairing the TOn-
louise leyee; reported verbally through Messrs.
Fisher and omeau. The above committee agree
ing as to the amount of earth necessary to repair
the IeVee; and Mr.. COmeau reported that he had
consulted with Mr.. J. Fitch, a mechanic, who
mad made for him the plan of a culvert, which
could be built, material and lumber included,
Tor one htndred and forty-twO dollars and a half,
winch plan he exhibited to the Police Jury,
WheTeupon motion of Mr. Theodule FOntenOt,
that the sum of two hundred and fifty
dollars, or SO much thereof as may be necessary,
be and the same is hereby appropriated, pay
able out of the Internal Improvement Find Of
the current year, when collected, for the pur-
pose OF repairing the Toulouse levee, under the
OF Col. Wm. Offltt, A. 7. Fisher and
DR.. j. A. Taylor.
1t is understood that the said levee is a part of
the public road, and that all persons liable to
road duty, on said road, may be used by the said
In the aforesaid work. Messrs. The
dule Fontenot, I. C. Chachere and FL. Durio,
voting aye. Mr.. T. s.. FOntenot being in favor
of the culyert voting nay. IT,
Dr. /. Chachere presented the following GER |
tificate:
OFFICE UPSTATE PARISH TAX Corr rc7,,p , |
Parish of st. Landry, |
MI. 0pel0usas, La, June I'd, 1874.
rms Is to certify that DR.. I. Chacher6 and M.
Csarron We're the purchasers of certain tracts of
land, sold in 1870, by D. c. Sittig, in his capacity |
tax collector for the parish of st. Landry, said
land had been assessed in the namesofT Jonas
Veil and d. Carrie, and was sold for taxes of
1868. 1t was discovered afterwards that the said
had been taken erOneouslK, the said
lands lying in the parish of Lafayette. ...
The parish of st. Landry collected the follow
ing amount OF taxes through said sale, to-wit:~
Parish tax of 1865. S14 IS
Parish tax of 1871 -. i. . n
Parish tax OF 1872 4 "a