The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-08-04

No 3 being all that portion of the parish |
living on the left bank OF the Mississippi river |
See. p That there shall be appointed by |
the police jury for each district board OF
Ievee syndics, consisting Tor districts Nos
and of three members each, and for district
No. 3 of five members which said syndics shall
serve without pay and the road master for
each of the districts shall be member of
said board.
Sec. 3. Whenever the board of syndics
shall consider it necessary TO work upon any
lcvee III its district it is authorized to call
out the citizens of its district liable to road
duty for that purpose; and it is hereby
made the duty of the road master and the
Oyerseer of the road of the district to sum-
mon those liable to duty and to superintend
them ut work under the instruction of said
board of levee syndies or of the levee master,
in case the board appoint one. If the work
to be done on the levee consists of any
cleaning off the weeds and briars or filling
up roads or paths made i'll the levec, the
board of leyee syndics may direct that only
the citizens of the justice of the peace ward
in which the work is to be done be called on,
but when the work is of considerable extent,
or of much Importance, or in case OF emer-
gency, then the said board may call OH
citizens liable TO duty.
Sec. 4. If any person liable to work Oh
the levee should fail from sickness or without
good and proper cause, to appear at the time
and place specified, or should fail and neg
lect to work diligently and in obedience to
the orders of the leyee syndics, road master
or the overseer OF the roads, or the person
authorized to direct and supervise said
work. or should fail to continue to work
from day to day as he may be called on
until he has discharged all his obligations,
he shall be subject to tine OF four dollars
for each failure as aforesaid and in default
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oncd iii the parish ,jail-days unless pay
ment be made, and to the cost of conviction
shall be added the cost accruing after con-
viction for his maintenance and imprison-
ment Any violation of this ordinance may
be prosecuted by information or Indictment,
and all fines and penalties shall go to the
parish levee fund for the use of the district
i'll which it was incurred.
Sec. 5. That seycnty-fiye per cent. of all
licenses received by the parish shall be set
aside as a special parish fund, and that the
same shall be divided ON the books of the
treasurer. one-quarter to each of districts
Nos and ?, and one half to district No. 3,
and warrants thereon may be drawn by the
levee syndics when there is money to
the credit of their respective funds, payable
only after the approval OF the president OF
the police jury is endorsed thereon.
See. 6. The boards of levee syndics are
authorized to incur such expenses i'll relation
to the work on the levees i'll them respective
districts as may be urgent and proper pro
yided that the sums shall not exceed the
amount of the special leyee fund provided
for by the proceeding section, and when
there is no money to the credit of said fund,
the certificates Of expenses incurred by the
said levee sypdics, subscribed by q mtjori-
~ of them and approved by the president
of the police jury, shall be receivable i'll
payment of seyenty-tiye per cent. of parish
licenses of the next ensuing financial year
Sec. !. The boards of leree syndics for
each Of the three districts are hereby de-
clared to be parochial authorities within the
puGview ana meaning of see. of the said
above recited Act of the General Assembly
No. I40 approved May 9, 1877, and as such
each Of said board is authorized to call ON
the State Engineers for the performance of
the duties imposed on them by sec. of said
Act.
See 8. The board of levee syndics, the
levee master, the road MASTER or the over
seers of the roads are authorized to apply to
any person employing labOrers, for such aid
in the way OF implements, tools, or other as
sistancc as may be needed for work on the
leyees; that said application be i'll writing
or printed, and that all cases where such
assistance is given or withheld shall be re-
ported in writing to the board of levee syn
dies of the proper district and these reports
shall be forwarded by the said board to the
president of the police jury, and by him pub
Gcly read ut the next meeting of the police
jury after their receipt.
The police jury recognizes its want of au-
thority to domore III this respect, than appeal
to the pnblc spirit of the citizens to afford
such aid to their own authorities III the en-
deavor to protect the parish from overflow
and which entleavOrs will necessarily fail in
view of the scant available resources unless
it be strengthened by the material and sub
stantial aid and cooperation OF all the citi-
Zens of the parish.
See. 9. All persons liable to work on the
levees may obtain exemption from the same
by furnishing one able bodied uncited la
bOrer, or the payment of one ($l| dollar
for each day they are called ON, and such
payment to be made to the road master or
his 0Yerseer on the day and at the place when
the service is due, who will execute and give
duplicate receipts therefor, one OF which 1t
will be the duty of the party paying to trans
nit or give to one of the board of leHee
Syndics.
All sums derived from exemptions or fines
for failure to work on levee shalt be imlne-
diately paid to the parish treasurer and by
him credited to the special levee fund OF the
district from which it is derived.
See 10. \ days labor on the levee is heres
by declared to be nine full hours OF actual
work exclusive of stoppage for meals or
other cause and one hour after sunset is to
be credited as two hours work. Under this
provision the annual tax due by each citizen
liable to road duty is l0S honrs work on the
levees, and the account. of the time is to be
kept in hours. EtF
All notifications to work on the levee
shall be in writing or printed and delivered
to the party personally, and shall specify
tho locality of The work, the hour when it is
TO begin and shall request the citizen to
bring with him a spade or other desired i'm
plement 10 be used in the work. At the
hour and place designated the name of the
party cited if he fail to appear shallsb called
thrice in a loud voice, and upon his failure
to answer or to pay the Communication, or to
furnish substitute, he shall be liable to arrest
and 1ine, and the justice of the peace shall
forthwith Issue his warrant to arrest the de-
faulting party upon default being shown
and filing with him of the copy of the writ
ten or printed notice, together with the
affidavit of the party serving it.
Sec. IL. All employees of labor having no.
tice are hereby forbidden from employing
any person subject to work on the 'levee
during the time for which he may have been
cited to work on the leyee.
Notice to employers may be given by
leaving with them or in their absence from