The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1880-02-25
CORPORATION AFFAIRS,

The Board of Aldermen for our
Town are elected to serve two years,
and as the present Board have only
served one year of their term, it is
rather premature and slightly unfair
to commence snarling at their doings
for this year, 1880, only two months
of which have expired, and invite a
comparison with their whole first
years doings. AS the invitations
have been issued from the old Board
at least their friends have gone of
half cooked in their wholesale con-
demnation of the present Board, we
propose to accept the invitation and
make the comparison in the only
legitimate and fair way it can be
done; which is to take the last year
of the old Boards management,
which was for the year 1878, and
that of the present Board for their
first years management, which was
last year, 1879.
The receipts from all sources Of
the old Board for the year 1878 foot
up the full sum of three thousand
eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars
and Lightweight cents ($3s57.sS.
Their expenditures for the same
year, for which cash warrants were
issued aud paid amounted to the full
sum of three thousand nine hundred
and ninety-four dollars and fifty-four
cents ($3994.44.) To their expen.
ditnres must be included and added
the sum of nine hundred and sixty
nine dollars and fourteen cents,
($969.14, which amount they left
unpaid, eight hundred and forty. four
dollars and fourteen cents ($844.14
of which the present Board assumed
and have paid up in cash.
The receipts from all sources OF
the present Board for the year 1879
foot up the sum Of three thousand
four hundred and sixty-five dollars
and seventy five cents ($3465.75. y
Their expenditures for the same
year, for which cash warrants were
issued and paid, amounted to the full
sum of three thousand FIVE hundred
and twenty.one dollars and seventy.
seven cents ($3521.77.) To their
expenditures must be added abou,
three hundred dollars, which they
owed on the LIST of January, $780,
Then to their credit must be placed
the sum of eight hundred and forty.
four dollars and fourteen cents
($SA.14) of the old Boards debts
which they paid, besides the sum OF
eight hundred dollars ($s0o) which
they have paid as an advance to the
Parish for the building Of. the bridge
across Bayou Rapides, on Fonrth
street. This bridge cost about
twelve hundred dollars, about four
hundred dollars being subscribed
and paid by few merchants aud
other liberal citizens.
Thus it will be perceived that the
receipts of the old Board amounted
to the sum of three hundred and
ninety-two dollars and thirteen cents
($392.13) more than those of the
present Board, and that they paid
out in cash the sum of four hundred
and seventy-two dollars and seventy.
seven cents ($472.77 more than the
present Board, besides leaving debt
of nine hundred and sixty-nine dol.
lars and fourteen cents, ($969.14,
which the present Board had to pro-
tect and pay.
The same parties who are the fault
finders in this matter have also
slightly limited at the increased ex.
penses lately incurred by the present
Beard in the matter of the Police
That is soon satisfactorily explained
and answered. The change was
made at the last meeting of the
Board in obedience to a petition OF
|nineteen-twentieths of the proper
ty'holders and tax payers of the Cor
poration, and the salaried officials OF
the Town, now increased to two Con.
stables instead of one, all together
receive five dollars month more
than they were paid when only one
Constable was employed; therefore,
we have gained and put on duty one
extra Constable, for the extra pay
for the year of sirty dollars, and the
present Board in thus acting have
done so in obedience to their "sov.
ereign masters" the property hold
ers and taxpayers Of the Corpora,