St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-08-30
proceeding. of the Police Jury.
opELoUsAs, July 18th, 1884.

OPELoUsAs, July eth, 1884.
The Police Jury met pursuant to adjourn
ment. present: Auguste PerrOdin, +. DuDuls-
son, l.. Young, 8. Haas, =. Y. Chaenere' an" D.
The reading of the minutes OF the last meet
ing were dispensed with. A petition from the
residents OF Pine Woods, praying tilat tne pup,
lie road he laid out starting from the ol9
Matthew Nugent's place, via Snldef's saw MN
to interscct the Wade road near l.. Carpentef.
was read when on motion MessrS. A. u. SnIdef,
~ g. Wister, u. Bntchie, Solomon Cole, y l..
Smith, r. B. Singletary and X. 4 Chaddlck
were appointed a committee to lay OUT the
road as prayed for and according TO section
road ordinance. Il W.T.; ,.,
ing for the public road from N0iands upper
line to Richards lower line, thence across inc
BAYOU TO VIM. DuckwOrths place was fea1
when on motion Messrs. Geo. 1cDanlel, halpn
w. Adams VIM. Duckworth, Clement Richard,
". n Ducl{worth, Richard Winfield and John
NJ Martin, were appointed a committee 10 lay
out the road according to section OF road or
On petition from the reeidents OF Plaisance,
Messrs. Henry JOubert, P. L. Blackshear, Eu-
gene Lachapelle, Delozier May, Antoine
FT.onchbois Edmond Norman and John SlmIns
were appointed committee to lay out road
from Henry Joubert's running between Black
shear, Simms and Latieur, and to lntersect the
OpclouSas and Vile Plate road in accordance
with section road ordinance.
The committee appointed to sell the contract
to build Wyble bridge reported that the con-
tract was sold to Alexandra Nezat according TO
law for the sum OF $4,000 Four Hundred Dol
lars that the work was done according to COLI
tract and accepted by them and recommend
that said Neat be paid for same. when on
motion me report was accepted. the amount
ordered placed to the credit OF sad AieXahdfe
Nezat and committee discharged.
On motion, Messrs. u. III. Martin, Iheo: daW-
kins and Lee g. DuckwOrth were appointed
committee TO ascertain the cost to repair tne
bridges ON the Waxia road damaged or des>
troyed by the last high water, and report. On
motion Messrs. e. w. Sylvester, 1. A. HICKS,
and Prevail Rideau were appointed committee
to ascertain the cost to repair the bridges on
Bay0us Waria, Petite Prairie and Cow, which
were damaged or destroyed by the late over
| flew. =
], b. BHldtlI was appointed road overseer, on
| road from Wyble's bridge to AuzenneS bridge
ON motion of Mr.. Young, Messrs. j. =. A.
! Fontenot, Hilaire Boutte, aud j. BITE. Eusll-
| lier were appointed committee 10 sell the
cuntract to build Bordelon bridge, tne c0 Hnt
mitfee appOinted for that purpose at the last
meeting having failed to act in the matter
IN merton the sum Of $50 one hundred and
| fifty dollars is hereby appropriated TO pay the
guards over the smallpox cases on the OAK
| land plantation, payable out OF funds not otl-
erwse appropriated, ana Enat W.. Sraes ~
! tonic IS appointed. IoF Tue uisbuIselhoh' VI
Mr.. r. s. Richard was appointed commits
sioner for the sale of unbranded stock IN the
~ IN mn morton. Dr.. ". NJ. Thompson. parish
physician is authorized to purchase vaccine to
nn,1ic se the same TO be paid for on his order
bv the parish treasurer. the amount not tc
exceed $1,000, Ten Dollars.
TAX COLLECTORS STATEMENT,
For MI parish taxes collected during The
i months OF April and May, 1884.
i APRIL
Parish Back Taxes l880-S3 542 q
Parish Licenses, 1854, 800 "
4 s1O77 y
Less taxes refunded S35 70
Less collectors commission 50 10 81 8
Net amount paid to treasurer 8 $50 8
i MAY
Parish back taxes, 1885 100 5
Parish Licenses 1884, 2'o
i Less taxes refunded $500 4S9 8
Less commission Il 66 "A