St. Landry democrat., 1884-02-23
r1,.ocee,Ijpws of the Police .Bury.

,an NE nresent Messrs A. Perrodin, d. GIeche,
r. a. Hicks, E. DubuissOn, S. Haas, j.. Young,
T. C. ChaGhere, and Is. T. clark.
Mr. PerrOdin i'll the CHAIR.
The reading of the minutes of the last meet
ing was dispensed Will
Whereas, Mr. Felix Reynau0 lana agent ol
the New orleans Pacific Railroad Company,
has applied to this body to resclnd It's resolll-
ti0ns adopted October 8th, 1888, relative to
forfeiture of the land grants CLAIMED Dy sald
company, and
Whereas This body sees no reason to repeal
IFS said action III the premises, and are satls-
fled to leave the matter as it stands III the
hands of Hon. E. L. Lewis member OF congress
of this District, therefore De IL
Resolved, that this body refuse to accede to
the renuest of said Felix Reynaud and that the
clerk furnish him copy Of TINS resoIGl on,
The reports of the road inspectors Tor lasI
quarter of 1883, were read, accepted and or
dered filed.
The committee appointed TO Jay OUT n4 G ROAD
from Onezime Boudreaux's bridge to Pot Cove,
ren0rted that they had laid out the road as
nTsypd for, when on motion the report was
accepted and COMMITTEES discharged.
A petition of James Virgins was read, pray
ing for a changed that portion OF the Nll!e
Platte and Chic0t road which passes on ms
land. 40 as to run on his south line, which was
granted the change TO be maze III accordance
with section road ordinance.
On motion of Mr.. Young, L. G. Nannette is
authorized to change the road passing through
his land, so as to pass on the south lile, ana III
accordance with section Of road ordinance
On motion of Mr.. Chachere Messrs. OIlDe Man
mel, Ursin Miller, Jr., Edward Dardeau, ZenOn
Vidrine, VIM, Ashford, D. COurVlle Sr., ana
Paul Fruge were appointed committee to
designate the public road from ID. COurVllle TO
where it intersects the Opelousas and Calcasleu
road asrepOrted by the committee in June
1874 which were appointed for that purpose
III March after the same year.
IIpon representations made by Mr.. Leon
Wolf in the name of the council of the town OF
Washington relative to the pay of the keeper
of the bridge across Bayou Courtableatt, it was
Resolved, that for tie term OF three ~ years
from this date the town OF washington slau
paw the keeper of said bridge, and that at the
expiration of that time, the parish shall take
exclusive charge of said bridge. Messrs r. s..
Wilkins, Charles Antonio and Gilbert BallllO
were appointed q committee 10 ascertain Ghe
cost of repairing the above mentioned bridge
and report.
whereas the tax collector has collected from
fine tax payers OF the Incorporated town OF
Rayne the tull amount OF the parish fax say ~
mills on the dollar for the taxes of 1888, there
fore it was resolved that the tax collector be
and is hereby instructed to refund to them hve
mills (5) on the dollar being the amount col
lected in excess, on presentation OF their tax
The following overseers were appointed:
LIST WARD.
Camille Richard-From Opelousas to Callahan
Louis P. Louaillier-From Joubert's bridge to
Catholic church.
+. sybine From Coulon's bridge, to
Charles GuitOd.
4th WARD.
w. NJ. Dunbar From north bank Bayou Petit
Prairie to ChurchYille.
Geo. v. Dodez-From ChurchVille to Bayou
Ray Harvey.From Bayou Current to parish
H. n. oden-From Bayou Current to Faulk-
ner's ferry.
Chevis' lower line.
Augustin Gudry-From School house to sacket
landing.
Frederick Roberi-From Moore's upper line
to Bayou Petite Basse.
Noise JOubert-FrOm OpelOusas and Vile
Plate road via Poirets bridge to Washing
ton road,
9th WARD.
Frank Moore-From Bayou Chicot to c. F.
H. o. Tnbre-From VIM Forrman to old toll
bridge ON Crocodile
18th WARD.
Lucius Johnson-FrOm Vile Platte to c. F..
sebastien Fontenot- From Vile Plate to Pointe
aux-Pins gully.
TAX COLLECTORS STATEMENT
For Parish Collections During the month of
January, 1884.
Parish Taxes 1888 .--...-...-..- --...-.. 6431 IS
Corporation Taxes 1883 ..--.-...--..-..-- 524 80
5000 rs
Less his commission. ............ s349 So
Less taxes refunded. ---...-.-..-, Is 356 10
Net due parish ............s 6687 So
Messrs. Clark Dubusson and Young having
been appointed a committee to examine the
vouchers in the hands of the treasurer, re-
ported through their chairman Mr.. Clark, that
they examined and counted the vouchers pre-
sent ed by the treasurer amounting to $10,418.-
a. Ten Thousand Four Hundred and Eighteen
and 74-1OO dollars paid by him to the 9th OF Feb
1884, as per his statement filed, which amount
corresponded with items on the cash book,
when on motion it was resolved that the
vouchers be cancelled and that the treasurer
have credit on the books of the parish for said
amount, and the vouchers were cancelled ac-
eordingly.
The Police Jury adjourned until Tuesday the
18th at 10 a. IN. AUGUsTE PERRODIN,
Attest: P. J. LEFEByRE. Clerk. Pres Pro- Tenn.
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