The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

may be necessary to erect two small bridges
one in Damon Devile's lane and the other il
lane between S. Haas place and Onezime
Vidrine's. -
On motion of Mr.. Heath, Mr.. j. B. Frillot
was appointed Road overseer, 4th ward, or
road leading from Sacket landing to Sacket
levee inclusive.
On motion of Mr.. Durio, Mr.. Aristide Gull
lory was appointed road overseer, LIST ward
instead of - Fisher, on road leading from
Joubert's bridge t" Catholic Church, and Mr.
j. j. Thompson on road leading from his plan.
tatiou to Opelousas.
On motion of Mr.. Dossmau, Resolved, tina
the petition of Jack Melaneon, Courthouse
%janitor, for an increase of salary be indiinite.
~ postponed.
On motion of Mr.. Haas, Resolved, that the
bid for Public Printing of Messrs La L. A.
Sandoz and j. w. jackson be accepted, and
take effect after the expiration of the present
contract, said printing to be done according
to resolution Of July Sd, 1888. :
On melton the Police Jury took recess un-
til 800 o'clock p. M.
EVENING SESSION.
The Police Jury met at $50 o'clock D. III. .
Present L. NJ. Boagni, President Messrs.
Heath, Stage, Bihm, DuriO, Barry, BOSNIAN
and Haas.
On motion of Mr.. BOSNIAN, Resolved, that
IL committee of three be appointed to receive
The assessment rOll9 from the Assessor.
The President appointed on said committee
Messrs. Dossman, Stage and Durio.
On motion of Mr.. Stage, Resolved, that a
and cancel vouchers in hands Of ex-Treasurer.
The chair appointed Messrs. Stage, Barry
and Heath. The committee reported through
their chairman, Mr.. Stage, that they had ex.
ainined and counted the vouchers presented
by the ex-Treasurer, amounting to $287 90,
Et-o .,1n1 n-l IL 80. I 4 90
per his statement filed, that the amount cor
responded with items ON the Cash Book, when
on motion it was resolved, that the vouchers
be cancelled and that the ex-Treasurer have
credit for that amount, and the vouchers were
accordingly cancelled. Committee further re-
ports that they find that the said Treasurer
paid in excess of money on hand five 6OIlOO
dollars which should be placed to the credit
of the Treasurer.
Mr.. Durio was called to the Chair.
Mr.. Boagni offered a resolution stating why
he and Messrs. Heath and Barry had voted in
the morning against the resolution of Mr..
Bihm, relative to suit No. l434O, Thos. III.
Lewis, attorney. A vote was called for allow
ing the resolution which reenlted as follows !:
Nay-Mr. Stagg, saying the time had passed
when the explanation should have been made.
Yeas-Boagni, Heath, Barry and Durio.
Messrs. Haas, BOSNIAN, Bihm and Robin
voting blank. Messrs. Boagni, Barry and
A1CdLAo IA uthCIk FoL0 uo =
We voted against allowing MIR. Thos. Il.
Lewis a commission of 10 oIo as Attorneys
fees, on the amount of Special Courthouse
town tax, collected by the town tax collector
for the reasons: That Mr.. Thos. 81. Lewis be-
ing employed by the Police Jury to collect
from the persons, who are the sureties of the
town of Opelousas for the unpaid balance OF
the $4,000, special Courthouse tax, was to re-
ceive a contingent fee on the amount SO col
lected. That the fee is contingent and moth
ing is due Mr.. Lewis now, as the matter has
not been settled yet. That the amount col
lected by Mr.. JEFF. Thompson, town collector,
was collected directly from the tax payers.
That this amount was voluntarily paid by the
tax payers and was not collected by or
through any effort of Mr.. Lewis. That TIE
money collected by Mr.. JEFF. Thompson, was
collected from persons, not parties to the suit
instituted by Mr.. Lewis for the parish. That
Mr.. JEFF. Thompson collected this money by
his own diligence, and was paid a commission
by the town for so doing.
On motion of Mr.. Stage, Resolved, that Il
committee be appointed to sell contract to
keep ferry over bayou C~ourtableau, until the
bridge is built. The chair appointed the fol-
lowing committee Messrs. Achille Dupre, r.
s. Wilkins and Leon Wolff.
On motion of Mr.. Haas, Mr.. Stage was add
ed to the above committee.
On motion of Mr.. Durio, Resolved, Il. vt the
committee appointed to sell contract to keep
ferry across bayou Courtableau at Washing
ton, be empowered to sell the remainder of
the old draw-bridge across the side bayou, to
Pthe highest bidder-the proceeds of said sale,
or so much thereof as ia needed, to be used to
pay for the keeping of said ferry; provided
said adjudication be not made for less than
SIS 90.
On motion of DIR. Barry, Resohged, that 2.
committee of two be appointed to make a
final examination of the GDoks and bring q
-nnnuk rs kf,o ,-ar1on 81 al nuar and 0rnrtrnf
of Indebtedness of the parish, up to the date
of the meeting of the new jury, and that the
clerk ne instructed to assist said committee.
The chair appointed Mr.. Stagg and DIR. Barry;
on motion of Mr.. Stagg, the president was
added to the committee.
On motion of Mr.. Robin, the resolution to
appoint q committee of three to make final
examination of books and report was recon
sidered; on motion Mr.. Haas was added to the
committee.
On motion of DIR. Barry, Resolved, that the
resolution of July 10th inst, relative to defer
ring the approval of all claims until the next
regular meeting be reconsidered, i'm SO far as
to ALLOW I. s. Fonten0t, Sheriff, the SUM of
one hundred and seventy-two 20Il0O dollars.
for cash paid out in the discharge of his off
cial duties. ~
Messrs Bihm, DossmaHaP andsoBarry having
been appointed q committee to examine the
cash claims of I. s. Fantenot, Sheriff, against
Tue parish, E9orCou through their cnaIfHan,
Mr.. Bihin, that they examined and found them
correct to the amount If one hundred and sew
enty-two and 2OIl00 dollars.
On motion of Mr.. Durio, Resolved, that the
road overseers throughout the parish be and
are hereby instructed not to consider any GER
~tiicate of exemption issued by any M. d. as
exempting the holder thereof from road duty,
unless said certificate be issued by the Coro-
ner or one of his deputies.
On motion of Mr.. BOSNIAN, the Police Jury
adjourned until August 18th, 1883, at $50
o'clock a. m, when they will meet for the OK
press purpose of receiving report of commit.
tee appointed to examine books.
Attest: E.. Nj. BOAGNI,
j. j. BARRY. Clerk. President.