The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-10-18
Police jury.
Proceedings Of their Last Meeting.
HAHNvfLLE, ST. Charles Parish,
EriIn,. oct Ii 12SI -


Friday, Oct. 10, 1884. 81
In Incompetence With call of the President the
Police jury met this day with a full Quorum. 4
On motion ofsNIr, Sarpy the reading of the
minutes oftle previous meeting was dispensed
with.
The finance committee having reported sew
eral bills for pprOyal which on motion OF Mr..
R0st were duly apprO, ed two communications
frjnI tile Board oi4State EHlneers and one from
tile District Attorney were read: aud Mr.. ROst
then presented the following resolutions which
were adopt d:
ResoIye,i, tnat in aecordance with the re-
port of the Board Of state Engineers tn this
Police Jury, and with The provis OILS OF section
three of Act eighty four OF 1884, the SynLics
and Road Oyerseers throughout the Parish are
hereby instructed to proceed to the removal OF
all rlce-tlunes III the Parish, within thirty days.
except those butt acc rdfhg TO the plan OF
the State Engineers; and this removal aud the
retiiling of the cuts shall be pad for by ti'e
Parish: provided, that any party applying 10
change an Old tiune into one on the Engin ers
| PLAN within tpirty days, shall be authorized
| to do SO by the Road oyerseer, pfUyidet.this
authority shall be gwen only for Ievees not
| over eight ieet in helgh
| Resolved, that the communication OF the
| District Al. orney informing chs Ponce Jury
| that he cannot prosecute parties tur cutting
| pubic levUes DC spreaa On the mi, utes and
published wI,h the proceedings vi the i'ohce
Jury.
| Resolved. that the oyerseers Of Roads
1 thruu. huut TIE Parish be requested and IN
sructrd to continue their efforts for the pro
lection OF the levees and give notice Of all pre-
| sent or future violations ui Che law OF 1881, n
relation to liee-dumes and cutting OF pubnc
| levees.
| Communication OF the District Attorney
fAkisn OF 81. john THE BAPTIST,
/ UeU0uer b. 1885,. J
| 10 the President Of The Police Jaay 81 charles
Dear oil: InfJrlued BY yohl secretary V'idt
an ordinance passed 0y yout AonOrdoit uodY'
1 requests me 10 prosecute certain parties 'or
| having cut ievees IN violation u Aci eighty
ioul. Oi 1854. am not INFORM When those
parties VOL ted the prut ispns Oi s,tLi Act by
cutting th., Ievee. Ii such ylO.atlous took
place prior to the first OF september iooi, II
would be loss OF time ana money 10 Prosecute
them Tor such ViU4atlOns uhder salt Act, ~ :
WUuid be .slyn IL retruautivy effect - sad Act,
| FIR the att only went into vnocU On
the htst OF September. tho very day ths
/ olice Jury passed lis ord malice OraeGiug
these prOseclit )Hs tsee Act eiSiity-louf, 100 :
Section sevenl Act eighty OF 1854 has NO
retroactive effect, it only apphes to Violations
occurring after it took etfec, iii involved
prosecu IONS nd penai Ties Ior vluatlOns "a It's
provisions, Which may nave happened PRIOR
| to first of aepembar 1854, 1t would IN ,hat
"s,se DC u.iconau Iuna, anu in direct conflict
4 with article LOO ot our CONSTITUTE II, NuM W
make my position more definite, hold that
! prosecutions and penaites prescribed Iur s.lui-
lar VIOLATIONS uiltier Acts 81 nty elgnt oI sou
iU4 OF 1875, atnendinG seetio three, LENT UYen
twelve ana fourteen OF ct 81 nty-eigilt; ceased
to be operative tue moment Act 81 vi oot Went
into operations; the latter specially repeats lnt
prlOr Acts, aud h.d prosecutions unuer StllG
Acts been pending at tile time Act 81, cam,
into operation, the same would nave cllued
under the wei-knJwu 10 akin 'cOlta tltuti1iIe!
te,npore posteii0ts pytsOres Sient MS que tpsO
prie rSeTiaHt - / J9j ~ SD; I3 a 4oU toJ
regret gentlemen that re force OF law lender
my vice V,tlueleas III the instant cases, In
you may rest assured that Tor any violations
which may hereafter be brought to my Otficia
NJ lice under instructions from your hOnOrabt
body, viii meet with prompt proseoutions,w
the undeIs anding that proof of viola tons vii
be furnished me At the tri / of offenders
remain gent eman, Yours tIuy,
GERvAls LGCHB. Dist atty
Application to the Police Jury for permission
to put rice-hunes aud a water-l"pe in the wee
having been read, the following resotltiul,
) were prs sented and adopted;
Resolved, thag The application of Il B0urgenl
to put liGr-tlume J., ais eve is reiusel IL
under the SlHte Law all rice-Humes now use,
ul to he useti must b. built ACCORDING to til
2 plan OF the stat Engineer.
Resolved, that the application Of Z z. 81
: Martin, tn place in e Patterson ,evre IA rio,
: Hume in tcCnttagcH with the specifications an
plan ot the state engineers be gran led and III
. road uVerseer OF the OH Ward stall sec tt;
said specifications are compiled with, aud sal
J work done within thirty days.
Resolved, that the app ieatiOu of A. Il 2.
lrou, to place in the ievce st The ProVidrnc
4 plantation a rio tlump to be hui in accardaue
with the specification aud plum Ol tho Stat
) Engineers be granted and the syndic OF the /,
Aard shall see that said specifications Al
. com, Piled with and said work done within ,
days,
. Resolved, that the application of Leon Sarp
!. to place a water pipe N his levee be grant;
provided the same be done within tnir1y day
and according to Act 81 of 1884 aud und,
specifications approved by the Board Oh olal
i Engineers.
ON motion of Mr. Rost the following name
| persons We're appointed rs clerks OF election
serve on Tuesday, Nov 4, 1884, at the poi
3 het Elm mentioned, viz: