The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1888-08-04

; Police Jury, to be paid ten per cent of all me
MES paid into the parish treasury by til
town of OpelOusas upon the special Court
house tax, after the institution of said suit.
r Resolved further that said attorney be in
structed to prosecute said suit to judgment.
On motion, resolved that action on Mr.
Heath's motion be postponed until meeting o
tomorrow.
, On motion the Police Jury adjourned unit
Tuesday the 3ist inst. at $50 o'clock a.. m.
Attest: Z. nj. BOAGNI,
j.. j. BARRY, Clerk. President
OPELoUsAs, LA., July 3lst 1888.
The Police jury met pursuant to adjourn
ment.
Present: E. M. Boagni, President, q. Il.
Bihm, Stagg, Robin. Durio, Heath, Haas, Bar,
ry and Dossman.
The minutes of yesterdays proceedings
| were read and adopted.
On motion Mr.. Heath withdrew his resolu-
tion of yesterday, relative to suit No. l4340,
Thos. H. Lewis, atty.
On motion of Mr.. G. 7. Bhm, the resolution
withdrawn by Mr. Heath was again offered.
Mr.. Durio was called to the chair, and %
vote was taken on the resolution offered by
Mr.. Bihm resulting as follows Yeas IS.
Haas, p. Robin, C. T. Bihm, p. Stagg, l.. j.
Dossman and I'll. Durio. Nays e. nj. Boagni,
E. s. Barry and II. w. Heath. Mr.. E. Nj.
Boagni in the chair.
| On motion of DIR. Barry, Resolved, that the
President be authorized to purchase 600 feet
of lumber and keg of spikes for road run
ming west from office of DIR. Shute.
| On motion of Mr.. DOssman, Resolved, that
he be authorized to purchase twenty. five dol
lars worth of lumber, or as much thereof as
may be necessary to erect two small bridges,
one in Damon Deyile's lane and the other in
lane between s. Haas place and Onezime
Vidrine's.
On motion of Mr.. Heath, Mr. j. B. Frillot
was appointed Road overseer, 4th ward, on
road leading from Sacket landing to Sacket
levee inclusive.
On motion of Mr.. Durio, Mr.. Aristide Gull
lory was appointed road overaeer, lst ward,
instead of - Fisher, on road leading from
Joubert's bridge to Catholic Church, and Mr..
j. j. Thompson on road leading from his plan
tation to Opelousas.
the petition Of Jack Melaneon, Courthouse
ianitor, for an increase of salary be indifnite-
ly postponed.
On motion of Mr.. Haas, Resolved, that the
bid for Public Printing of Messrs l.. & 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 motion the Police Jury took recess un-
til 2:30 o'clock p. m.
EVENING SESSION.
The Police Jury met at 2:3O O'Clock o. m.
Present E. nj. Boagni, President; Messrs.
Heath, Stagg, Bihm, Durio, Bury, Dossman
and Haas.
On motion of Mr.. Dossman, Resolved, that
committee of three be appointed to receive
the assessment rolls from the Assessor.
The President appointed on said committee
Messrs. Dos5nan, Stagg and Durio.
On motion of Mr.. Stagg, Resolved, that
committee of three be appointed to exam-he
and cancel vouchers in hands of ofex-Treasurer.
The chair appointed Messrs. stagg, Barry
and Heath. The committee reported through
their chairman, Mr.. Stagg, that they had ex-
amined and counted the vouchers presented
by the ex-Treasurer, amounting to $2S7. 90,
two hundred and eighty.seyen dollars as
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 furtherre-
port that they find that the said Treasurer
paid p excess of money onfnand nve 6OIlOO
dollar1 which should be pls eed to the credit
of the Treasurer.
Mr.. Durio was called to the Chair.
Mr. Boagni offered resolution stating why
he and Messrs. Heath and Barry had voted in
the morning against the resolution of Mr..
Bihm, relative to suit No. f4340. Thos II.
Lewis, attorney. A vote was called for allow
ing the resolution which resulted as follows
when the explanation should have been made.
Yeas-Boagni, Heath, Barry and Durio.
LMessrs Haas, D0ssman, Bihm and Robin
voting blank. Messrs. Boagni, Barry and
Heath explained their vote as follows:
We voted against allowing Mr.. Thos. Ii.
Lewis q 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. II. Lewis be-
ing employed by the Police Jury to collect
from the persons, who are the snreties OF the
town of Opelousas for the unpaid balance OF
the $4,000, special Courthouse tax, was to re-
ceive q contingent fee on the amount SO col
lected. That the fee ss 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 the
money collected by Mr.. JEFF Thompson, was
collected from persons, not parties to thesuit
instituted by Mr.. LewiS for the parish. That
Mr.. JEFF. Thompson collected this money by
his own diligence, and was paid commission
by the town for so doing.
On motion of Mr. Stagg, Resolved, that a
committee be appointed to sell contract to
keep ferry over bayou Courtableau, until the
bridge is built. The chair appointed the fol
lowing committee Messrs. Achiile Dupre, K.
y. WIlklnS anu LeOn WOiH
On motion of Mr.. Haas, Mr.. Stagg was add
ed to the above committee.
On motion of Mr.. Durio, Resolved, that 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
the highest bidder-the proceeds of said sale,
or so much thereof as is needed, to be used to
pay for the keeping of said ferry; provided
said adjudication be not made for less than
$500.
On motion of DR.. Barry, Resolved, that
committee of two be appointed to make
final examination of the books and bring
report of the monies turned over and amount
of indebtedness of the parish, up to the date
of the meeting of the new Jury, and that the
clerk be instructed to assist said committee
The chair appointed Mr.. Stagg and DR.. Barry;
ON motion Of Mr.. Stagg, the president was
added to the committee.
On motion of MIR. Robin, the resolution to
appoint committee Of three to make final
examination of books and report was recon-
sidered; ON motion Mr. Haas was added to the
committee.
On molten. of DR.. 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, in so far as
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