The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01
POLICE JURY PROCEEDINGS.

September q, 1880.
The Police Jury met at the Court
House, pursuant to the call of the
president.
Present-W. G. Kennedy, president;
A. d. Russell, J. w. Scarborough, F..
III. Cam, Uriah Miiisaps, w. w.
Patrick, w. G. Dunn, Alex Myatt and
B. F. Thomas.
The minutes of last meeting read and
approved. The Court House being oc-
cupied by the Court in a preliminary
examination, on motion of Mr.. Scar
borough, the Police Jury moved to the
Sheriff's Office.
A petition from J. NJ. Wommack
and others, of ward 8, asking a change
in the road from Castor to David Nc
Grantees Landing, was received and
read, and on motion Of Mr.. Thomas,
laid on the table.
Petitions from the Monroe Board of
Trade, asking an appropriation to the
I.afourche bridge;
| From citizens of the 5th ward, asking
an appropriation for new bridge at
the Arant crossing on the Cheniere;
From citizens Of the 9th ward, asking
an appropriation to bridge Walters
Creek, received, read, and on motion,
laid over to the December, 1880, ses-
sion.
A petition from citizens of the Sd
ward, asking a public road from the
ferry opposite Cheniere Landing
around the Lilies bend to the south cor
ner of the COpley plantation, read, and
on motion, laid over to the June ses-
sion, 1881.
On motion of Mr.. Myatt, John J.
Coon, Jr., is instructed not to work the
'<Winfield and Trenton road, from the
Fenner road to the line of jackson
PARISH" of which he was appointed
Overseer, any further than said road
has been surveyed.
| A petition from citizens of ward s,
asking for public road from C. Nc
Culloch's plantation north to the "Old
West'' road, received and read. On
motion of Mr.. Millsaps, the president
appointed as commissioners to survey
ond lay out said road, H. Labaum, r.
M. Crowson, c. McCalloch, I. +. Bur-
nam and VIM. Allen, and that they
report at the next meeting of the
| Police Jury.
The following ordinances were intro
duced, read the first time, the second
time by their titles, on motion the
rules were suspended, and after a third
reading the ordinances were adopted !:
ORDINANCE NO. All.
Amending and re-enacting portion of
of section I, of Ordinance No. 3O2,
entitled An Ordinance fixing election
precincts and polling places in the
Parish of Ouachita.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the
Police Jury of Ouachita Parish, That
in consequence of the destruction of
Union Church, on Bastrop road, (the
polling place of precinct 3, ward 2,)
that portion of section I, Of Ordinance
No. 3O2, and which reads: :sThe polling
place is hereby fixed at the Union
Church, on the Bastrop road" be
amended and re-enacted to read as fol-
lows: The polling place is hereby fixed
at the Colony school house.
SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, etc.,
That all ordinances or parts of ordi-
nances in conflict herewith are repealed,
| and that this ordinance take effect from
and after its adoption.
Adopted September q, 1880.
w. g. KENNEDY,
JOHN r. HANNA, President.
Clerk Z. j.
| ORDINANCE NO. 4I2.
Appointing commissioners and clerk 8
of an election to be- held in Ouachita
parish, La, on Tuesday, the 2d OF
November, 1880.
Be it ordained by the Police Jury of
Ouachita Parish, That in accord.
ance with the provisions of section IL,
of Act No. SO, extra session of the
General Assembly of Louisiana, APP
proved April IL, 1877, that the follow
ing persons are appointed as
commissioners and clerks of an election
to be held in Ouachita parish, on Tues.
day, November 2, 1880, and that they
are assigned to the various precincts as
hereinafter specified:
| wARDf.
Precinct I, farmers schoolhouse-R.
J. Wilson, w. 8. Rhodes NJ. Nj. Grady,
commissioners !; James Shaw, clerk.
Precinct 2, Logwood's place-G. G.
Phillips, l.. NJ. Pullen and Giles John
son, commissioners; j. p. Hampton;
clerk.
| WARD2
Precinct 8, Colony schoolhouse-A.
H. Scriber, John b. Pickett and w.
D. Wimberly, commissioners F. e.
ROwman clerk