Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-09-29
Proceedings OF the Police Jury
Parish of assumption.


/ The Police Jury of the parish o
Assumption met this 2nd day q
August, 1877.
Members present: VIM. w. Pugh
President Emile Tallieu, Dayi,
Levy, Thomas D. Cox, Moses r
Hite, BAIL Graves, Levy Williams
Members absent: VIM. B. Ratliff
John Webre, Jr.
The minutes of the last meeting
being read, on motion of BAIL
Graves, duly seconded, the minutes
of the last meeting were amended
ito increase the fees of the Sheriff
for the maintenance of prisoners in
the parish Jail, to fifty cents pei
diem instead Of forty cents.
Adopted by the following votes
Yeas, Tallieu, Cox, Hite, Graves
and Williams nays, Pugh and
Levy.
The following report of the Dis
triet Attorney pro tenn. was read
and ordered spread on the minutes
To the Hon. President and members OF
the Police jury,
By a resolution passed by your honorable
body at Your last meeting, the District
Attorney pro tenn. was instructed to report
at Your next meeting, sWhat is the Law
now in regard to the Road and Levee Dis
tricts in the parish; how many districts
there are. and how many Road Inspectors
can be appointed under existing laws, In
conformity to which beg leave to renort,
That article No. 40 of the session of acts
OF 1877, entitled an act to repeal an act
entitled an act to create board of State
Engineers, approved February "a, 1871, to
vest the control and management of the
public levees in the Police Juries, ETC.,
section | repeals act No. of 1871 Section
provides that the Police Juries of the
several parishes of the State are hereby
vested with the control of al public leyees
of the State, and are authorized and re-
quired to make such regulations as are
necessary and proper for the repairs and
construction of levees within the limits of
purposes they are hereby authorized to
call ont all persons subject to road duty to
work on such levees !; provided, they shall
n0trequire more than twelvet l2ldays work
on any or all of snch levees from each and
any of said citizens during any one year /:
and provided further, that they shall not
call ont said citizens except for the purpose
of making ordinary repairs on such levees,
or i'll case of einergency--whena a crevasse
is imminent or existing; and such citizens
shall not be required to work upon any
levees except public levees in the road dis
tricts upon which they are subject to duty.
etc. This act clearly gives to to the Police
Jury the right to make any police regula-
tions and to pass any ordinances they may
deem proper for the construction and re-
pair of the public levees of the parish.
In regard to the Road Districts of the
parish, they are five t5), and also five 81
Road Inspectors. at an annual salary of
two hundred t$200l, dollars, who are elect
ed annually at the first meeting of the
Police Jury after the first Monday in Dec
emher. any vacancy occurring In the office
of Road Inpeeter to be filed by the Presi-
dent of the Police Jury. tSee Rev. Code of
the laws of Assumption. p. 46. sec. 19.l
These ordinances having passed in pur-
suanee of the power vested in the several
Police Juries of the Strife by section 2743,
r. s., which give them the right to pass
all the ordinances they may deem neees-
sary relative TO the roads. bridges and
bitches, and to impose such penalties and
fines to enforce the same as they may
deem proper. This statute clearly gives to
your honorable body the right to pass any
ordinance relative to the public road of the
parish you may deem proper; you can also
appoint as many Road Inspectors as NAV
be deemed necessary for the proper police
Of the public roads of the parish, and of
course divide the parish into as any road
districts as yon may think proper.
Respectfully submitted,
lsigned| w E. HOWELL,
Dist Atty. pro tenn
The President APPOINTED the fol-
lowing committee to revise the road
law, said committee to meet at the
Court House, NapoleonvilIe. OH
Saturday. the 18th inst: Moses r.
Hite, Thos. d. Cox, F. E. Dupand,
Drauzin Himel, w w. Pugll.
On motion, duly seconded, The
resolution was unanim-
ously adopted:
Resolred, Thai George Drury bel
and he is hereby allowed the sum
Of three hundred dollars for the as
sessment roll of 1876 and stationery
provided. and the making OF said
assessment for said year. The same
10 be paid on the warrant Of said
Drury ppon the Parish Treasurer.
On motion. duly seconded,
Resotued, That the Coroner be
instructed to make a monthly re-
port of the number of inquests held
By him during the said month the
jinies by him summoned, and who
do actually serve upon said Coron-
ers jury; also the amount due
each juror.
Adopted.
On ,uotion Of Moses R. Hite, duly
.orrn1f.I