St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-03-08
Proceedings Of the Police Jury.
opELousAs. La, Feb. nth, 1884

OPELOUSAS, La, Feb. 18th, 1884
The Police Jury met pursuant to adjourn
ment, present Messrs A. Perrodin, d. Meche,
T. A. Hicks, E. Dubuisson, s. Haas /. Young,
T. c. Chachere, and B. E. Clark.
Mr.. PerrOdin in the chair.
The reading OF the minutes OF The last meet
ing was dispensed with.
Whereas, Mr.. Felix ReYnaud land agent of
the New Orleans Pacific Railroad Company,
has applied to this body to resclnd It's resolu-
tons adopted October 8th, 1883, relative to
forfeiture of the land grants claimed by said
company, and
Whereas, This body sees no reason to repeal
its said action in the premises, and are salts
fled to leave the matter as it stands in the
hands of Hon. E. T. Lewis member of Congress
OF this District, therefore be it
Resolved, that this body refuse to accede to
the request of said Felix Reynaud and that the
clerk furnish him copy OF this resolution.
The reports of the road inspectors for last
quarter of 1883, were read, accepted and or
dered filed.
The committee appointed to lay out road
from Onezime Boudreauxs bridge to Pot Cove,
reported that they had laid out the road as
prayed for, when on motion the report was
accented and committee discharged.
petition of James Virgins was read, pray
ing for changein that portion of the Vile
Platte and Chicot road which passes on his
land, so as to run on his south line, which was
granted, the change to be made i'll accordance
with section road ordinance.
On motion of Mr. Young, L. c. Nannette is
authorized to change the road passing through
Il,
accordance with section OF road ordinance.
On motion of Mr.. Chachere Messrs. Oibe Man
uel, Ursin Miller, Jr., Edward Dardeau, ZenOn
Vidrine VIM. Ashford, D. COurville ST., and
Paul Fruge were appointed committee to
designate the public road from d. C0urville to
where it fnterseets the Opelousas and Calcasieu
road, asrep0rted by the committee in June
1874, which were appointed Tor that purpose
IN March after the same year:
Upon representations made by Mr. Leon
Wolf i'll the name of the council of the town of
flnHvN In
of the bridge across Bayou Courtableau, it was
Resolved, that for the term OF three 80 years
from this date the town OF Washington shall
nav the keeper of said bridge, and that at the
expiration Of that time, the parish shall take
exclusive charge of said bridge. Messrs +. s..
Wilkins, Charles Antonio and Gilbert BailliO
were appointed committee TO ascertain the
cost of repairing the above mentioned bridge
and report
whereas, the tax collector has collected from
the tax payers of the incorporated town of
Rayne the full amount of the parish tax say 10
mills on the dollar for the taxes of 1883, there
fore it was resolved that the tax collector be
and is hereby instructed to refund to them five
mills {5) on the dollar being the amount col
lected in excess, ON presentation OF their tax
receipts.
The following road overseers were appointed:
1st WARD.
Camille Richard-From opelousas to Callahan
Louis p Louaillier- From Joubert's bridge to
Catholic church.
L. sybille From cou1on's bridge, to
Charles Guitod.
4th WARD.
W. N. Dunbar-From north bank Bayou Petit
Prairie to ChurchVille.
Geo. V. Dodez-From Churchville to Bayou
Current.
Ray Har7ey-From Bayou Current to parish
H. N. oden-Frorn Bayou Current to Faux
ners ferry.
j. P. Cailiionet From Taylor's ferry to
Chevis' lower lime.
Augnstin Guidry-From school house to Sacket
landing.
5th WARD.
Frederick Roberi-From Moore's upper line
to Bayou Petite Basse.
Noise J0ubert- From Opelousas and Vile
Plate road via Poiret's bridge to Washing
fODroad.