The Bossier banner., 1892-08-25

%. GrappetW ID Mercer'sl 10000
23. Phillipst Pickett heirs) 10000 "
"a. Dorteh and Mercer's- 10000
70. Magenta. .-...---..--. 25O00
26. Magenta to Lower
boundary of District. 100000 "
Total estimate present
requirements. ..2, 10000
The Board of State Engineers would recon-
mend that your Board first put under con-
structiOn the levees necessary to close the
breaches and lapses in the line extending from
Willow Chute to Magenta, the improvement
in location, and in raising and enlarging of the
intervening parts of the line, and the extern
sion and ultimate perfection of the system to
follow as rapidly as the means and the policy
of the District will possibly permit.
Following this Recommendation, the levees
required at Willow Chute, Gold Point, Cash
Point, Pandora, Chalk Level, Nicholsons
crevasse, SunhOwer. Curtis, Childers, Scopeni,
Dortch and Mercer's, amounting to about
10000 cubic yards of earthwork, should first
command your earnest attention.
For the work done in the parish BY the State
and Parish, as far as known, within the past
two years, you are respectfully referred to the
report of the Board of State Engineers to His
Excellency, the Governor, dated April 20, 1892
But one contract entered into by the State
for levee work in Bossier parish, payable from
the fund known as the "Caddo Sub District
for the construction of levee at the CLAY
place, amounting to about $4,000 cubic yards,
and costing about $1,000 90, and let to Jas. HI.
Fullilove: This work has to-day been reported
completed, and will be at once measured up
for final settlement.
The share of the General Engineer Fnnd tn
which Act No 80, of 1892, refers, can not at
this date be estimated at more than about
SiOOO 90, that's, about one-third of the amount
annually required by legislative enaction, to
be set aside and expended by the State in the
Sub-Districts of Caddo, BOssier, Red River
and part of NatchitOches, and the State is pre-
pared at any time to contract for chat amount
OF work at any point in the District requiring
ievee work that your Board may designate.
Very respectfully submitted
THE BOARD OF STATE ENGINEERS.
Per FRANK M. KERR,
Assistant State Engineer.
On motion recess was taken for
thirty minutes.
Present: w. Fl. Hodges, Presi-
dent; Messrs. Arnold, Lenoir, Moss,
Nicholson and Pickett. Absent: T.
W. W. Stinson.
On motion of Mr.. Nicholson the
State Engineer in charge was author
lied to employ, at the expense of the
Board of Commissioners of the Bos-
sier Levee District, such Assistant
Engineers and Rodmen-at a rate
not exceeding $125 per month for
Instrument men and $75 per month
for Rodmen-as may be necessary to
execute with vigor and dispatch the
engineering work required.
Mr.. Arnold asked to be excused
from further service on the Board at
this meeting.
The request was granted.
On motion duly seconded, The
Board of State Engineers was re-
quested to continue the contract for
the Clay LeEee to include the work
at Chalk Level and Sunfower.
MIR. Nicholson offered the following
resolutions, which were read:
Resolved, By virtue of the power
and authority conferred and granted
by section 6 of Act No. 80, of the
General Assembly of Louisiana, ap-
proved July 6, 1892, "a District Levee
tax of ten mills on the dollar of its
assessed value, on all property sub
ject to taxation for levee purposes in
said District, be and is hereby levied
for theyear 1892. .z
Resolved further, That local as
sessment- or forced contribution of
five cents per acre on all lands within
said District, and $50 per mile ON all
standard gauge railroad lines within
said District, be. and is hereby levied
for the year 1892.
Considering that the funds hereto
fore provided in said Act by sections
6 and z, and this levied, are made
quate to locate, construct and repair
levees so as to prevent disastrous
floods,
Be it Resolved, That a special as
sessment or forced contribution of
fifty cents per bale on all cotton pro.
duced in said District, upon land sub
lect to taxation under the previous
OF said Act No. SO, be and is hereby
levied for the year 1892.
Resolved further, That the Secre-
tary be and is hereby directed and
ordered to forward at once copy of
the above resolutions to the Auditor
of the State of Louisiana and to the
Assessor and Tax Collector of the
Parish of Bossier.
On motion duly seconded, The
above resolutions were unanimously
adopted.
The President appointed Messrs.
Moss and Lenoir as members of the
Executive Committee, and Messrs.
Nicholson and Pickett as members of
the Finance Committee.
Iha following resolution, rrnn roo 4.