The Opelousas courier., 1885-01-31
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and that to secure that amount, a tax OF II
mills on the dollar is hereby levied on oil pro
perty borne on the assessment roll OF the par
ish, and not included on property on the as
sessment roll situated within the incorPoras
cd towns of Opelousas, Washington, Crane
Coteau, Vile Plate, Arnaudville and kayne
and that on the property situated within
these incorporated towns, to detray their pro
portion of the expenses of the criminal pro
ceedings, there be levied in accordance Win
section 90 of the General Assembly of Loulsi-
ana, regular session 1878, approved March A.
1873, a tax Of 5 (fve) mills on the dollar.
The licenses for the current year, 1859, on
all trades, professions, &C., will be the same
as those imposed by the State for the same
year.
was read, asking that that portion of the Vile
plate aud Nez-Piqu6 road near Hypoilte Lam
dreneau's and German Fontenots be chang
ed, so as to follow the lines of said Landre-
mean and Fontenot running dueeast and west.
| G~ranted-said change to be made according
to sec. 9 of road ordinance.
A petition from residents of Mallet was
read. asking that the public road from ST.
mien's bridge to Mallet woods be changed
from Napoleon Cortez's to the old road.
Granted-subject to sec. 9, road ordinance.
The committee appointed in December to
lay q road from the Vile Plate and Opelou-
sas road to the Vile Plate and Anse-aux-Pail
les road, reported hat they had laid put the
road as prayed for, and that damages to the
amount of 500 tone hundred doIlarsl were
assessed.
On motion, the report was accepted, except
for damages which are not granted, and the
committee discharged.
On motion, Messrs. Gerand Forest, Hide
vert DeshoteIs and Gabriel oubert were ap-
pointed a committee to ascertain the cost to
build a bridge over the coul6e near Mrs. Cy-
prien Fonten9t'sr and report.
y I'm ranfinp Resapr A1hark2 Rur1Asnla Andre
Meche and Sylvestre Smith were appointed a
committee to ascertain the cost to repair the
bridges on the road from Grand Coteau to
Bellevue station, and report.
On motion, Messrs. j B. Thibodaux, Philo-
gene Richard and Evariste Savoie were APP
pointed q committee TO ascertain the cost to
open a canal from Bourbeux fiat to Bourbeux
Bayou, on the road from Grand Coteau to
Bayou Bourbeux.
On motion, Resolved, that the road hands
ON Camp Hamilton Plantation will hereafter
work on the public road from Opelousas to
Meats old place.
Resolved, on motion Of Mr.. Z, Perrodfn, that
execution Of the judgments An the cases Of
Robt. Bowman and Jos. Reed, for bonds for
feited at the last term of the District Court,
be stayed until March term of the sadie Court !;
provided, that the securities on said bonds
pay the fines of the Dist. Attorney and the
other costs incurred by said forfeiture.
On motion, the Clerk is authorized to issue
a warrant against the INDECENT fund. in favor
of Hypolite Bergeron, an INDECENT, TO pay his
passae Q and expenses to the Charity Hospi-
tai in New Orleans.
On motion, Resolved, that from and after
this date no more accounts of eonstables and
magistrates will be approved by the Police
Jury in road cases. and the magistrates and
~censtables throughout the parish of st. Lam
dry are hereby notified that in all such cases
they must make their costs out Of the person
sued.
TAX COLLECTORS REPORT.