St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-08-23
Proceedings Of the Police Jury.
opELousAs. July 18th. 1884.

OPELOUSAS, July 7th, 1854.
The Police Jury met pursuant to adjourn
ment, present: Auguste Perr0dln, Z. DuDn1S-
son. i. Young, s. Haas, T. c. Chachere, and b.
E. Clark Mr.. PerrQdinin the chair.
The reading of the minutes OF the last meet
ing were dispensed with. A petition from the
lie road be laid out starting from the old
Matthew Nugent's place, via SniderS Saw mlll
to interscct the Wade road near l.. carpenter,
was read when on motion Messrs. A; " s1IdeF'
D. C. Wist6r, d. Bntehie, Solomon Cole, G. l..
Smith, j. B. Singletary and Z. Z. ChaddlcK
were appointed committee to lay out the
road as prayed for and according to section
road ordinance.
A petition from the residents of Waxia, ask
ing for the public road from hollands upper
line to Richards lower line, thence across the
Bayou to VIM. DuckWorths place was READ
when on motion Messrs. Geo. Mcdaniel, Ralph
W. Adams, VIM. Duckworth, Clement Richard,
W. H. DuckwOrth, Richard Winfield and John
NJ. Martin, were appointed committee to-day
out the road according to section OF road or
dinance
on petition from the reeidents of Plaisance,
Messrs. Henry JOubert, Il. Blackshear, Eu-
gene Lachapehe, Delozler May, Antoine
Franchbois, Edmond Norman and John S1mms
were appointed q COMMITTEES to lay out road
from Henry JOEr1lert's running between Black
shear, Simms aud Lafeur, and to intersect the
OpelOusas 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-
law for the sum Of $4,000 Four Hundred Dol
lars that the work was done according to con-
tract, and accepted by them and recommend
that said Nezat be paid for same when on
motion the report was accepted, the amount
ordered placed to the credit OF said Alexandra
Nezat and committee discharged.
On motion, Messrs. j. M. Martin, TheO. Haw-
kins and Lee G. DuckwOrth were appointed a
COMMITTEES to ascertain the cost to repair the
bridges on the Waxia road damaged or deS-
| troyed by the last high water, and report: On
motion Messrs. E. W. Sylvester, {. A. Hicks,
and Prevail Rideau were appointed committee
to ascertain the cost to repair the bridges on
BayOus WaIia, Petite Prairie and Cow, which
were damaged or destroyed by the late over
doWs
j. B. Baldue was appointed road overseer, on
| road from Wyble's bridge to Auzenne'S bridge.
On motion of Mr.. Young, Messrs. j. e. A.
FOntenOt, Hilaire Boutte, aud j. Bite. Fusil-
lier were appointed a committee to sell the
cuntract to build BordelOn bridge, the conf
mittee appointed for that purpose at the last
meeting having failed to act in the matter.
On motion the sum of $3.50 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 9TH
arwise appropriated, and that Mr.. Charles An
| tonic is appointed for the disbursement of
said money.
Mr.. T. S. Richard was appointed commits
sioner for the sale Of unbranded stock in the
LIST Police Jury Ward.
On motion, DIR. w NJ. Thompson. parish
physician Is authorized 10 purchase. vaccine TO
be issued TO any physician in the parish for
pnblc use, the same to be paid for on his order
by the parish treasurer. the amount not 10
exceed $1,000, Ten Dollars.
TAX COLLECTORS STATEMENT,
For all parish taxes collected during the
months of April and May, 1854.
APRIL
Parish Back Taxes 188O-S3 S $40 70
Parish Licenses, 1884, $50 90
s1o77 70
less taxes refunded $35 20
Less collectors commission So 10 81 80
Net amount paid to treasurer $3.50 90
MAY
Parish back taxes, 1883 $ 1859 IS
Parish Licenses 1884, 270 90
Less taxes refunded $ 500 439 IS
&Sess commission 2166 q Sc
Net paid to treasurer S414 80
MessrS!@Clark, Haasa & Dubuisson having
been appointed 2 Gem 9ittee to , examine the
ed through their chahS IN, Mr. Clark, that