The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-10-19
Official Proceedings of the Police Jury Of
the Parish of Grant.

Official Proceedings of the Police Jury Of
the Parish Of Grant,
CoLFAx, La. Oct. 2. 1889.
The police jury met and on be-
ing called to order by the president
the following members answered to
to their names: G. C. Nash, w. d.
Irwin, B. F. Moore, H. M. Hutson,
w. H. Mathews, w. w. Smith and
II. V. Mccain.
On motion the wards were called
in regular order for each member
to report respecting the matter of
paupers from his ward.
On motion and in accordance
with a resolution passed at July
meeting, 1889, the following parties
were stricken from the pauper list
of the respective wards:y
Ward Nancy Miller, Nancy
Smith, Bob Gee, Lewis Mills, York
Johnson, and Polly Ann Morgan.
Ward Eddy Smith, removed
from the parish, and Mrs. Emiline
Hagan.
Ward 3 Mrs. Mary Golfer.
On motion the clerk of the police
jury was requested to communicate
with the president of the police
jury of Calcasieu parish relative to
the poor house established there.
BY III. V. Mccain
Ro;k o-Io;uol "a Al.
reviewers appointed at our July meeting
to review out road from Summerfield
church to Couty's Bluff on bayou Nan
tachie,. vice Beauty Hill, be and the same
is hereby adopted, and that DR.. M. A.
Dunn be appointed overseer to open said
new road. Ordinance adopted.
By II. V. Mccain
Be it ordained, That the Montgomery
and Colfax river road on the north side
of Nantachie bayou be changed so as to
cross said bayou at Couty's Bluff, and
that f. NJ. Sharp, p. H. Smith and F.. L.
Craig be and are hereby appointed to re-
view said change, and that the overseer
on said road be and is hereby authorized
to open said road on said review.
Ordinance adopted.
H. Y. Mccain presented report
of reviewers, and thereupon offered
the following ordinance:
Be it ordained, That the additional
sum of forty dollars, to be paid out of the
funds of 1889, be appropriated for the
building OF bridge across the Nantachie
bayou at Couty's Bluff, on the Colfax and
Montgomery road. Adopted.
By III. M. Hutson-
Be it ordained, That the commissioners
appointed to have bridge built on Three
Notch road, leading to Pineville, across
Indian creek be granted further time to
make their report, and that the addition
al sum OF twenty-five dollars be appro-
priated out of the funds of 1889 for COM
plotting said bridge.
On motion a recess was taken
until 2 p. m.
The hour having arrived the
body was called to order by the
president.
By H. V. Mccain
Resolved, That the two hundred
dollars appropriated at our July
1889 meeting for painting the court
house and other public buildings
be and same is hereby repealed.
On motion of H. M. Hutson the
ordinance passed at the July meet
ing, appropriating five hundred
dollars to the school fund was re-
pealed, and the treasurer was Or
dered to transfer said sum back to
the regular fund.
H. V. Mccain offered the report
of the finance committee and the
treasurer's report which were re-
ceived and adopted, as follows:
To the President q Members of the Police Jury:
Your finance committee having exam
ined the treasurer's books and report
would respectfully report same correct,
and suggest that the accompanying
vouchers be destroyed by being burned in
the presence of the police jury in session.
The report is as follows:
To bal. on hand last report. -. sii04 81
Sasn taxes ...-.-.-...-..... lOl ~
ocrip ,.--..-.-. Oh W
Oash licenses 20
$l562 o.