Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1876-04-15

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whose character to" ignorance and corruption o.
a sablect o. paintYl rejection to people who are 60 ~
PEELED 70 Hv>, am 10 ~ impoverishsd under 0.slSs
ruiz; Y, 81. kt. Z VI. s
The administration Of oRr parish affairs in the
hands Of such nneh has becn marked by extrayeg'l
ance, illegally and Undesirable corruption. |
on examination Of Inc number OF illegal. exttas
VACANT and fraudulent claims which have beenSatts]
o~cd w INC foIce Jury. and PAN ~ the 4ayyMe]
sfs: would make a report A. vo'a!"ino"s rs she W
archives OF that body. Aeace ws have selected .ossei
discovered, and which will fairly illustrate the char
ncter of these so-called financial operations.
slo-For Instance we see ibis illustrious body
spending for the printing of,their proceedings the
enormous sum Of, $ll30,25.s from March 1873 To
Zone thousand dollars" an appropriation sufficient.
" cxtrnvagant for q Bankrupt parish; and thus add
to this expenditure, on March lst 1873, q
2o,-An additjoaat SUN of five hundred dollars
allowed 10 Geo. f. Bovee, for litlograplling ''ccr.i-
fcates' Of indebtedness" circulating, negotiable
notes. which were iss',ed III direct violation. OF law.
~ expo.mded by the Supreme Court in % Annual
-g3s-25l, in "a Annual--45s,a aud in u Annual
-5O.
give also find a sum Of sforty-fvc dollars all,
owed Of, the lst. Of March 1873. to Henry Cohen
Clerk Of Court, fF al "Ofice stove; and no stove
Ia "o JSs Cosst iUVtcu y NV COWtptb VI AuAb uniCc
Eve see the Police Jury, on the 10Th. of Apri,
1873, allowing to a aborer. II, Bolding: 1890 tor
three days labor in front Of the Court House yard,
loh july lsth. ls73) 5000; and again, Oil Novem-
her 9th. 1873, allowing to the Same man for white
washing the Court House fence the sum Of thirty.
eight dollars, thus paying a common laborer At the
rate Of three to flve dollars \ day, At 4 time when
such labor was to be essily procured At one dollar .
dayi anu lhcse wages We're allowed TO a man WHO,
rs road o'erseer on the lett Bank OF the Rlver,' was
receiving a salary OF $3.50 per annu,n, as shown by
quarterly warrants Of $6s 5orfg"larly issurd to ldsv.
we may askA Icfe mat the same salary was being
lLawn ny Ortere Perlguc as road oversrcr on the
Right bank OF the River; thus showing an exren-
diture Of $500 per a'tilnr' to maintain our public
roads. on which lhe repairs arc made by tho iiparAA
o"ners Of lands. IT, ~
5o.--We further find the Police Jury, on July
I'm; 1913, spending Slo6,so Tor a Surveyor and
$o.Vy to a help. for surveying. in thirty.one lots, the
old Voeherie Road, which was sold by the same
administration about one yenr later. in block, for
five hundred dollars in parish scrip, > to one, 8. +.
Siskron Parish ]ndsc and member Of tho School
Board. Let US also state incidently, on account Of
inc "tarher,e Road and "Vacheris fund, " that tie
sum Of $3.50 collected from o. T. Huusskcr on
account Of said ftnd by Legendre and Pocl,e at.ys.
At law. were illegally, converted by the Police Jury
in Court-House funds.
62-Acting with the same spirit Of proRigats &c
%.r.osity, We find the Police Jury, on July llti.
!o7a' allowing TO }. ke'rigan $4o,05 and to another
person $1,000 Tor a small pox Hospital in 1873, in
tfont OF H. e'u'dFy.s premises, when il is a notorious
tact that no SUCH hospital was erected at that point
or anywhere else in the Parish; and Ii is we'll known
that the Police Jury had no power or authority in
law 70 build a hospital OF other improvement Of the
kind.
I;-Anotiler charactcristict expenditure madeb by
TINS Body is to DC found IN a sum Of Sal allowed
to Morris Marks Esq +, as Counsel fees, st the rate Of
~ 90 on the amount sued lor = suit Of the Parish,
against y 5. Hunsaker. when, by law. said suit
should have been entrusted u tho Parish Attorney
with a fee OF 90 fined by law; instead Of being
RFhlss e IL -, tie hands Of n: Marks who was no. nn
%W;ncLes a"s ~. .,e la'lsh attorney al ihat time, J. K
osmt,onsn =. o, "e. y" ~ a.'e lawyer and an estimab!e
= go mW. y .usIsn ms once
me,,i me- s, ~ eonc'Iae ui,s ns,,scating detail by
" I",'' In" .u' sun allowed to l.. 7. Patnreau, oil