The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-03-02
TOw1, Council.

Town SOIIEiclEs
ABBEvILLE, La. Feby 10, 1889.
The Council met this day pursuant
to the call Of the Mayor there were
present DR.. Z. Bourne, Mayor, and
Messrs. Wise, Mills and Wall, absent
Mr.. Coastal.
Reading Of the minutes of the previ-
GUS meeting was dispensed with.
The Mayor stated the objects of the
meeting to be, first, to amend the Ii
icense law adopted Jany. IA, 1889; and
secondly, to consider and act upon pc
titions of citizens asking that the cor
porate limits of the town be extended
and enlarged SO as to include certain
territory al set forth in said petitions.
On melton of AIr. Wall, duly second
ed. resolved that section 4 Of the Lii
license Ordinance of the town OF Able
vile, adopted January IA, 1889, be
amended by adding thereto, the follow
ing: Thatfor every business Of bar
room,ootfee- house, beer sa6oon, drink
ing saloon, liquor house, 43tog-shep or
any place wksre any distilled, vim
Gus, malt or mixed liqnOrsar any kind
of Intoxicating liquor is sold the license
shallbe basedn the gross annual ~
ceipts of said baMness, as follows:
Class L. When said gross annual 70.
eeipts are more than $4,000 the license
shall be seventy-fve dollars. $500.
Glass 2. When said gross annual re-
ccipts are $4,000 o less, the license
shall be fifty dollars, 90.
The following petztions We're pre-
sented and read:
Ratitionef1Napanfy ta1-payers'f town
.eftbbe&i1e.
56o The Hon. Mayor. and Aldermen of
the town of Abbeville.
The petition Of the undersigned prop
erty taxpayers of the said town of Alb
beville with much respect represents:
LIST. That they represent at least
one-third of the property taxpayers of
said town; and that it is their desire to
take advantage Of the provisions of
! section enc OF act number 10 Of the
General Assembly Of Louisiana, ap-
proved April 10, 1880; providing for
the amendment OF charters of cities and
towns in the State of Louisiana, to
amend section Of the charter Of the
said taWn Of Abbeyille, as amended by
| act number 179 of the General Assem-
bly, Of the State of Louisiana, approved
March Is, 1855.
Cd. Petitioners desiring to extend
the corporate limits of the town Of Alb
beyille ask that said section one of the
said charter "as amended" be further
amended sc as to read as follows:
Commencing at a point on the
"Bayou Nermilion at the mouth of the
"%coulee between the land of Walter A.
"White and VIM D. White, thence fol-
Glowing said coulee to the south line of
Gland belonging to W. W. Edwards,
.thence in an easterly direction on the
cline between the land of ". W.. Ed
awards and Mrs. II. b. Lyons, thence
con line dividing the land of W. W.
Edwards and Mrs. Widow Chevis and
"'heirs, thence on line between land of
"W. w. Edwards and Mrs. widow Che
avis and heirs to a road now open be-
"tween the land OF Mrs. widow Chevis
land A. L. Leblanc and others, thence
-'in a southerly direction on said road
w JIG puuitL lOdA lod0ilS Cdct llUi1
"Abbeville, thence across said public
"road to the road now leading to Cald-
"welPs brick yard, thence on said road
ITO the corner, thence across the land
"of j. NJ. Beauxis, thence across the
Gland Of +. F. Young to the northeast
"corner Of land belonging to Lastie
"Broussard, thence between lands Of A
&c. Maxwell and Lastie Broussard.
''thence between lands of III X Robinson
"and A G Maxwell, thence between land
"Wilson Melton and VIM F Area,
"thence across land of VIM F Area to
"the Usage Orange hedge, thence in a
"westerly direction following the line
"of said Usage Orange hedge to the
"public road leading south from Able
"ville, thence across said public road to
"the Usage Orange hedge, thence fol-
Glowing said Usage Orange hedge to
"the Bayou Vermilion, at a cypress
"tree now Oh the line between the lands
"of Smedes & Lege aud VIM F Area,
"thence in a northerly direction along
"said Bayou Vermilion to the point of
"~beginning."
Sd They further show that a special
election should be held to take the
sense of the qualified electors of the
said town Of Abbeville whether said