The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-04-19
Police Jury.
Regular meeting Of the Police Jury Of
the parish Of st. Martin, held
April 1th 4. T.. 1890.

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'o'clcck A. ". The roll was called aud
Che following named members were pre-
sent: Hon. +. s. Duchamp, President,
and Messrs. GutekHnst ard ST. Germain.
We're absent: Messrs. Savoy and Ledouy.
The minutes Of the last meeting were
then read and approved.
Mr.. Gutekurste excuse for failing to
attend last meeting was accepted.
Action On petition asking 10 abolish
the vacancy On cattle in ith ward dur
ing the night was postponed to next
meeting.
On motion Of AIr. st. Germain sec
onGed and carried be il resolved that
Road 0yprscers failing to perform their
duty within a reasonable delay shall be
reported 10 The Grand Jury Il the next
term Of court 10 be dealt with according
to law.
Tie Parish Treasurer calls on tdis Bn-
dy and makes a settlement for the
months o. February and March. Ills
accounts were found correct and re-
ceipt issued to him for nine hundred
and tWenty-eight 5l,oo dollars, for this
amount he turns over 10 this Body. Par
ish checks, and witness certificates
which were al destroyed after having
been properly cancelled.
The Clerk as accountant for the Police
Jury exhibits his book by which it ap-
pears that the has issued to March 3lst
1890, on the Parish Treasurer 112 cheeks
against the various appropriations of !
the schedule of 1890, said cheeks amount |
ing to the sum Of 81, $50 1921.
District Attorney T. d. Foster calls on
this Body and submits his written Opin-
ion in reference to the Levep Tax. The .
Clerk WAS directed 10 spread same Oh the .
minutes.
New IBERIA, La, April 2nd, 1880.
To the President and members Of the
Police jury OF st. Martin Parish, La.
Gentiemen-Your President has sub
mittcd TO me for an opinion the follow
ing question tO-wit:
Are persons owning property on the
East bank OF Bayou Teche within the
limits Of your parish subject to which is
known az the leyee tax?'
The State under Act No. 80 of 1879 is
divided into five levce districts composed
Of the alluvial lands within certain spe-
ci1ed limits.
Section 9TH Of said act designates what
parishes and part of parishes compose
each OF these districts. | find as COM
posing the Fourth Levee District "all
parishes and parts of parishes South of
the Red river and between the Nississip-
pi and Lafourche on the East and the
township line dividing ranges four and
five East, down to Bayou Petite Prairie
down Bayou Petite Prairie to the Atcha-
falaya River, down the Atchafalaya Ri
yer TO the Northern BOUNDARY of st.
Martin along this" Line to the Teche.
thence down the" "Teche and thence
down the Atchafalaya,' tO-wit: Parts
OF AyOyelles, POinte COupee, West Baton ;
Rouge, parts of lberviIe, part of Assem-
sion. part Of st. Landry, part of st. Mar
tin. part Of Iberia, part Of st. Mary, part [
OF Assumption, part of LafOurche and .
Terrebonne.'
An examination Of the map of Louisi-
ana with the view of locating precisely
the territory included III this leyee dis
trict will show that ii unguestionably
includes that part Of the parish of st.
Martin lying on the East side of Bayou
Terhe.
This being so, it necessarily follows
that those persons owning lands on the
East side. of Bayou Teche fall within d
said leyee district and falling within il
their properties are unquestionaby. in .
my opinion, subject to the leyee tax now Z
imposed by law on the alluNial lands.
Ii matters not if the laDG7 of your par- A
Ism within The limits of said District :
nave never i'll fact been OVERLOOKED by q
any high water, they are still liable for &
the leyee tax. The fact that they have n
never been 0yeril0wed does not and can p
not exempt them from the liability of. II
ami payment Of said tax. This has no
thing to do with the decision of this
question. Bu,, in my opinion az soon ~ a
1t Is established that the property falls =.
within the territorial limits Of any one y
OF the aforesaid leyee districts. compos. d,