The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1891-09-19
City Council Proceedings.
LAFAYETTE, La, Sept. 7th 1870

Mayor. James Hannen, Numa Schavot
! j. E. Martin, Alfred Hebert, Felix De
manade, and l.. F. Risues. Absent Gus
Lacoste.
The minutes OF the last meeting wa
read and approved.
The following was read
10 the Hon. Mayor and Council of La
fayette:
We. the undersigned comrtittee. ap
pointed to see parties owning land through
which Garfield street was to pass max,
this our report Having seen Mr. Lee
Doucet. committee of one, appointed b,
proceeding Council, for opening of sale
street, we hereby submit his answer az
result of our investigation.
Gus. LACosTE,
N. SCHAYOT,
JAMES HANNEN.
10 Hon. Mayor and Council of LAFAYETTE
Having been appointed committee of
one to open Garfield street. | make the
following report: / find it impossible to
open said street with amount appropria-
ted for that purpose; the parties through
which said street opens refusing To sell
their right of way for anything like rea-
sonable amount. For committee,
LEO DoUCET. =.
Resolved that the report Of the commit
tee on street concerning the opening Of
Garfield street was sindefnitely postponed
The petition of persons and citizens Of
town asking that part known as the
Mills addition be properly ditched and
drained as to let the water have its issue,
was laid over, according to the report
made from committee on streets, which
read thus:
| We the undersigned committee ap
pointed to investigate demand of resi-
dents of Lafayette street and other streets
make this our report: We find that those
streets have no bitches. That ditch on
each side of said street and also ditch
to receive water of street bitches. would
be necessary to properly drain that neigh
borhood; that there are fences of resi-
dents on said streets; that it would first
require to move those fences from their
present position before being able to dig
bitches i'll their proper places We got
following informations concerning said
streets from Mr.. Bailey, mayor of pre-
ceeding council, and Messrs Gerac and
Pellerin, members of proceeding council.
They, state that they had the matter in
hands several times; that to put bitches
in their proper places, they would first
have to draw the right lines and also
move the fences. They saw a surveyor in
this town to draw the likes and he asked
one hundred and fifty dollars. They
then applied to another surveyor outside
of Lafayette and he answered, that he
needed two extra men to help him and a
member of the council to show him lines.
Also to properly survey the streets it
would require general survey of town;
that he would have to start from Bay GU
Vermilion, and that such proceeding
would cost more than the revenues of the
town were then able to meet.
Gus. LACosT,
n. ScHAYOT,
JAMES HANNEN
Resolved. that the report Of the FL
nance Committee, concerning the Mayor,
the Treasurer and the Collectors quar-
terly report is hereby accepted.
. Lafayette La. Sept. 7th, 1891.
To the Hon Mayor and Council of La
fayette, La:
The undersigned Finance Committee
having examined the books and reports
of the Collector and Treasurer up to Aug.
31st, 1891, beg leave to make the follow
ing report, to-wit:
The Treasurer's book shows balance on
hand as per last report, nine hundred and
four dollars and twenty-siX cts 1904 26
Amt. reed from r. c. Greig,
for Hall rent, 10 SO
Total. s915 7e
Warrants paid by him. No. to
33. and cancelled by US. amtsg
to five hundred and eighty-one
dollars and sixty-four cts. S5s1 81
Balance on hand, 334 13
Total, 1916 7e.l
amt delinquent tax roll 1889, S 90 SO
-" . .. . 1890, 151 Is /
Blank licenses issued by Treas. $50 90
81 dog collars, at 81 90. 81 90
10 cows, penalty collected rs cts. $50
Total, s579 81
By amt delinquent taxes Z, ,ea ,s9, S 50 So g.
't blank ltcenses on hand 1s5 90
:" bal. to be accounted for
collector, 231 80
Total, $579 81
The collector IS entitled to SIX per cent?
or seven and 60I100 dollars on collectiorl
of taxes and licenses, amoantingsto one
hundred and twenty-six and 80I10O dol
lars and warrant should be issued in I
his favor for said amount OF 81 70.
We have also examined the books of
the Mayor, up to date, Sept. 7th, 81, and
find that he has collected twenty five dol
lars for Bazars and sixty-one dollars and
seventy five cents for fines, making the |
total Of eighty six dollars and seventy
five cents, which is to be accounted for
by him.
Respectfully submitted,
! z1;a;; ! ! P;$1ssssi $,s;5s sssssr. Finance Com
Resols that the joint petition for