The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-05-10
Respectfully submitted.
DE. ZONES. Nv e,

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Respectfully submitted.
DE. JONES, by. Collector.
Whereupon the following letter was read and
it was unanimously resolved that the request
made be and is hereby granted and that the
Finance Committee are hereby authorized and
instructed to carry out the obje t of this reso-
luton by executing the same in due form:
SHERIFF. AND TAX CoLLEoToR's OFFICE,
Donaldsonville. La May 8, 1884.
10 the Hon. President and members of the
Police Jury, parish of Ascension
Gentleme,,.-The Finance Committee of your
Hon. board having examined the accounts 0s Of
the Parish Tax Collector for the years 1885,
1881, 1882 and 1888, for all parish taxes and
licenses collected by him for the time above
mentioned. together with the licenses of 1884 to
date, with all back taxes. and having found
them correct and to correspond with the books
OF the Parish Treasurer. would respectfully
request that the Hon. President of your Board
be authorized to issue to P. a. Jones. Sheriff
and eT-obicio Tax Collector, general u,1ietus
Tor the time above specified.
Respectfully submitted,
DE. JONES,
by. Sheriff and Collector.
The committee appointed to confer with the
School Board in reference to the proper use of
moneys held by the parish for purposes of etlu-
cation were not prepared to make a full and
final report of the matter under consideration
The School Board was represented by DR.. A. G.
Love, President and q. N. Pugh, Esq, Secre-
tary. The President of said Board pointed ont
some of the features of the subject which, in
his opinion, involved important questions of
law and facts, which were not determined with
that precision which precluded serious doubts,
and until these questions were properly deter
Y1irnI md at bn
factory report.
The Secretary agreeing with the President,
Mr.. Mccall moved that the whole matter be
left to the succeeding Police Jury. Adopted.
The old warrants formerly received by the
Fax Collector in payment of taxes and licenses
by virtue OF sundry resolutions of the Police
jury and by him returned to the Parish Treas
urer In lieu of cash for said taxes and licenses
having been previously examined by the FL
nance Committee and found to agree and cor
respond with accounts of taxes and licenses
received and paid in the parish treasury were.
on motion duly seconded and adopted, de-
stroyed In the piesense of numerous witnesses.
There being no further business before the
jury, Mr. Blouin offered the following pream-
bic and resolutions. which were seconded by
Mr.. Kopnan and unanimously carried:
WHEREAS, The term Of this Hon. body ends
probably with this meeting. and
WHEREAS. II is but meet that some token of
respect should be manifested by the members
OF thus body towards our worthy President: and
TO snow our appreciation of his faithful and
impartial services while 50 long presiding over
TINS body and 80 ably dischargirlg the artIuou
duties of his position; be it
Res0tted. That the heartfeitkhanks of the
members OF thus body, collectively ard inii-
y5duaily, ar. hereby rendered to our Hon. Pres
ldent for the ability. assiduity and integrity
with which he has SO long and so ably presided
parish. = 80
Resolsed, That it is with fealinas francbt
with painful emotions that our agreeable and
happy connection as a body representing the
people OF the parish is to be severed, and that
possibly we may lose the able and efficient ser
vices OF our worthy President.
The President with marked emotion thanked
his colleagues for the compliment they had SO
gracefully expressed. He would not say that
he had done his duty as their President, but he
would not hesitate to affirm that he had always
endeavored to do SO. He disclaimefl any credit
for simply doing his plain duty, but he did not
wish to conceal his qualification at their ap-
preclatlon OF his services. Next to the reward
which Is to be found in ones own breast and
which too frequently remains the only solace
when misrepresentation and blame assail us
there is none more grateful than the approba-
ton OF good men. The true question, there
fore IS not: Do we possess it but it is this:
$ Do we deserve it? ~ Not to mention the or
of a Board of Health, which has
brought relief to the hearthstone of many an af-
dicted family, and which even now is quietly
working the object of its ereation-not to mem
lion the organization Of local board for the pnr
pose of preserving cur leYees--t only bnlwars |
against an increasing danger which returns |
With each succeeding spring-not to mention
two scholarships in the Louisiana State Uni
Tersity. opened to the free competition of every
Tptth IN the parish on the sole condition that |
he returning graduates shall serve two years
Is teachers, and thus for the giving OF irlstr1,e
ion to a few to receive in return instruction |
OF many = not to mention these and more.
very member of this Police Jury may look
WITH honest pride on the following facts: They
ound the Parish grooming under debt ex.l
'eedlng $4,000, and they leave it without a
iebt; they found the treasury almost empty.
and they leave 1t with mora than $4,000 cash
m hand; they have paid all expenses up to the
resent day cash on demand; since the first aav
Il January they had to disbnTsa more Aaan
'lfsN for the maintenance of layees alana.