The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-10
Proceedings of the Parish
school Board.
SATURDAY, January 8, 1880.

lhls Delng inc uay appointed Dy law IOl
regular meetings OF Parish School Boards
Messrs. j. w. Bryan, Allen Gilly, d. d. An
| drus and y. d. Read members Of the Board
| Of Calcasieu Parish presented themselves as
| and were called to order by the President, j.
| w. Bryan, but there being no quorum the
Board adjourned until O'Clock P. M.
| o'clock 2. M. same day--The Board met
| aud a quorum. The Board was called to or
der by the President. The minutes Of the
October special and regular meetings Of 1879,
were read, and adopted as read.
Report Of committee previously appointed
to investigate charges preferred against Mr..
Louis Doulanger for rendering false monthly
school reports, ETC., was presented, read and
adopted, and the committee discharged, which
report is as follows:
To the President and members OF tho Board
Of School Directors, for Calcasieu Parish,
La.
Your committee appointed to investigate
charges of fraudulent practices on the part of
Mr.. Louis Doulanger, public school teacher
of this parish, while employed Us SUCH In rem
dering monthly school reports, do report;
That we notified, by mail, the parties maxi
ing the charges ais well as Mr.. Doulanger to
appear before this committee on Friday, Jan.
2, 1886, the day fixed for such investigation,
and to produce such evidence as they might
have to present On which said day your com
accused presented themselves, nor furnished
any evidence. Your committee called In Capt.
j. w. Bryan, President OF your Board, with
request to produce such papers as might tend
to prove or disproye the aforesaid charges,
and after careful consideration OF the eyi-
dence thus obtained, and the daily and term
register OF Mr.. Doulanger,. previously for
warded by him, at request OF committee, we
arrived at the following facts
On the 18th day of December 1878, Mr.
Doulanger contracted with your President to
teach Lacasine school No. B, for q term Of
three months, beginning on that day. That
the first monthly report rendered by him there
under was filed Feb. 4, 1879, and for month
ending Jan. IL, same year. Second monthly
report was aled April 9th, purporting to be
for month ending March 8, and third monthly
report was filed May 8, pnrporting TO be for
month ending march 81, all Of year 1879. Said
monthly reports exhibited, respectively, an
average daily attendance OF IL, IL and 10
scholars.
We further find from Mr.. Doulanger's daily
and term register that the report first above
mentioned embraces period OF time begin
ming Dec. 23, 1873, and ending Jan. rs, 1873;
that the second above mentioned report en-
braces period from Jan. 23, 1879, to March
%, 1879, and that the third above mentioned
report embraces a period from April !, 1879,
to May Both, 1879.
That while these reports show average
monthly attendance, respectively, of IL, IS
and 10, as aforesaid, and of three months OF
20 days each, beginning January 18th, 1879,
and ending March 3lst 1879 they should have
shown respectively as follows list Report,
20 days session, with an average attendance OF
of 10 scholars I'd Report should show a 40
days session with average attendance of 10 8I40
scholars, and Sd Report, a 45 days session with
an average attendance of 8 SI45 scholars.
That under contract for three months