The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-11-18
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Respectfully submitted,
A. i RRAIfD

reports.
lst The roads and bridges in my District
are, am glad TO say, in perfect order.
End. In regard to the levees in nv dis
trict, beg to refer you to my antecedent re-
ports.
3D.. would call attention also to the fact
that the following named parties ''notwith
standing previous notices. did without re-
gard to same" cut and place pipes leading
from Bayou Lafourche to the level of the
public road, viz:
f. Toups & Bros, Lake View Plantation.
j. N. Bourgeois, st. Sauveur
Lucien Guidroz, Lake View
U. Leblanc, White ksse -
l.. & r. Bleaux, Prosperity =
Awaiting further advlces from your Hon.
Body aud trusting that my reports will be
accepted,
am respectfully.
L. A. BELLANGER.
X. & l.. Inspector 3rd Dist.
Laf0urche, La, Nov. 9th, 1893.
On motion OF Mr.. Christen, seconded by
Mr.. Claude, the report Of the special commit
tee was read. rs follows
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parrish OF Lafourcbe. Nov. 9Th, 1893.
To the Honorable, the President and Mem
bers of the Police Jury.
Gentlemen Your Special Committee ap
pointed ut your session OF september the
5th last, for the purpose of inquiring into
and reporting upon the subject matters
forming the basis OF the different petitions
citizens of this parish, residing below the
point situated 10 this parish, on the Bayou
LafOurche, and known as the Cut OF, beg
leave to submit the following as their find
ing on the Drainage, Navigation, Levees
and Canals-as the same exist in that por
tion Of our parish below the said Cut on -
and your committee beg leave to add there
to, such remedy, as in their Judgment, they
deem proper, (after q careful study of all
the premses) for the existing difficulties
found in that section and which for n series
your attention by petitions and otherwise.
CUTS IN THE LEvEEs.
Your Committee made personal examin-
alton OF every cut made in the levces stu
ated just below the Cut OF, on the left bank
of the BAYOU, and extending down to u
OFF and we find, that, ut all Of these cuts
there are evidences Of musk rat holes, for
the closing OF which the owner of the lands
alleges that he had no alternative left him
in the matter, that is to-day, he had either
TO obtain dirt by cutting down in the crust
of levee at a little distance for use in closing
the ratiholes or allowing the holes to run
and these parties allege further, thai the
cut and canals made in the batture Of the
bayou just below their sectiod had at that
OF their levees, and that hence they had no
other dirt at hand for closing rat holes in
the levee on their fronts except such as was
afforded by cutting the crust of their le-
vees-Now,-an the excuses alleged may
be correct,-yet, in the opinion OF your
cOmmittee,-all cutting was done carelessly
-wantonly and without any respect for the
public levees erected by the State and Par
ish on their front, at tremendous cost, not
only for their protection, but for the pro-
te ,tion of all their section and thus, your
committee believe that every cut 50 made
in the Public Levees should be promptly
repaired at the cost of those who made or
caused the cuts to be made,-and to that ef-
feet we recommend that positive instruction
be given to the K. and Levee Inspector of
said distinctive further beg to state that,
your committee were favoraDly impressed
with the extent and fertility or lands lying
Immediately in the rear of the aforemen
toned cut levees and that said section is
densely settled, with people whose interest
are fully worthy of the close attention OF
the State, Levee District and Parish Au
thorities.
CANALS AND CUTS IN THE BAYOU BATTURE.
On this subject your committee found that
the fact relative thereto, previously repO 1T
ed through various sources to your Honor
able body, were In the Imain correct but,
at the time of our visit all of these cuts or
canal We're closed by cams, more or less inn
lands through which these canals are made
propose not only to keep said cuts closed
in the future, but they also propose to con-
Struct, at their cost, leveeS on their fronts,
amply sufficient to prevent the overflow of
the bayou during extreme high water
Now, your committee would state, for the
information of the Jury, that the section of
country in which these canals exist is i'm
mediately below the section above reported
upon, say commencing at about miles be-
low the Cutoff and extending below about
miles or just beyond the LOrentz Chernm
Estate-You- COmlrittee's visit having
been made during low water, and ut time
when these canals were not in operation,
and therefore we had no means of judging
n Volumes them
to the interior,-except that offered By the
combined width OF all the canals, and
whereon-we do not hesitate to say that
said volume mus, have been fully equal to
the capacity of An ordinary cTevasSe-say OF
60 TO 80 IT.. in width and that such q FOL
ume OF water thrown into the rear swamp
must have, considering the Nat surface OF
the country. acted detrimentally on the
drainage of the entire vicinity.
On this last subject matter, your commit.
tee have no Recommendations TO offer, ex.
cept, chowever, that the ordinances OF the
parish bearing thereupOn be executed.
Your committee, while on the premises,
beses the Road and Levee Inspector Of all
that district lying below the Cut OF. on
both banks oflthe bayou, that section being
comparatively 9 new and mostly an unde-
veloped one there are new roads and le-
wees to be made, to which add thereto the
spirit OF factions, appearing to be actuated
by different interests IN all their opinions,
upon road and ievss sn. QUESTIONS n.s,v .nsa may
the welfare OF all that section that the Road
and Levee Inspector. appointed or elected
for said section should be q thoroughly
competent and energetic man. cOnver
with all theoduties OF his Office, and willing
TO perform them, and who would beside all
this, be q person belonging to neither OF the
two existing factions, and in which unbiass-
ed individual both factions could repOse i'm
pIicit confidence and respect, thereby as
suring hat his cOunscls and orders, .s the
case might be, would meet prompt obedi
ence. With such man, placed in authori-