The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-03-17
Police jury Proceedings
ABBEvrELE, La, March 6, 1894

The TOlCe jury Pu au" HI aa0
Parish of Vermilion met this day in
regular session.
Present: J. T. Broussard, Pres
ident, and Messrs. J. Alo6e Leblanc,
Jules Thibodeaux. Gus Godcbaax,
NJ. Sarver, Ernest Broussard aud
A. Lacour.
The minutes of the previous meet
Jug were read and approved.
On motion of Mr.. Godchaux duly
seconded the regular order of busi-
ness was suspended to allow particles
present to make known their wishes.
BY Mr.. Godchaux, resolved that
the resolution adopted by the Police
Jury acting for this parish adopted
on Nov. 10, 1891. exemptlng the
Iberia& Vermilien railroad from
taxation be hereby repealed, secs
onded by Mr.. Sarver.
Mr.. Parkerson general agent for
the railroad, presented the following
communication against said .resolu-
ton:
To the Honorable, the President and
Members of the Police. jury of b Pbr-
ish of VermiliOn, State of Louisiana:
The undersigned respectfully repre-
seuts that as one of the inducements for
thelbuilding of the Iberia d Vermilion
railroad, q resolution was adopted by
your Honorable body at it's meeting on
November 10th, 1891, e~xempting said rail-
road from Parish taxation for a term OF
ten years from the date of final competition,
that under the agreement and with this
understanding, the railroad company has
expended q large amount of means and
built q good road bed, with creditable
necessary buildings n equipments, CIV
ing you q good service, thereby opening
up and developing your country.
That much to the surprise OF the man.
:agement, it is now asked to pay a.Parish
ish tax of three hundred and eighty-slx
dollars and seventy-five cents tSS3S6.75l
for the year 1893. Wherefore, your Pc
titioner respectfully asks, that pursuant
to said resolution, so adopted on Nov. 10,
1891, you will authorize the Tax collector
to cancel the railroad Parish tax as eX-
tended on the assessment roll of 1893, and
that you will instruct the assessor, in h
Parish tax on the roll against said rail-
road tor the term of the ten years.
Respectfully submitted,
j. 6. PARNERsON-
General Agent.
Abbeville, La, March 6, 1894.
Messrs. J. Ell. Putnam and DR.. w.
d. White also made remarks OBJ
jecting to above said resolution ON
the question being put the following
is the record of the vote as cast:
Yeas: Gus Godchaux, Ernest Brous-
sard, A. Lacour and NJ. Sarver.
Nays: J. A. Leblanc and Jules
Thibodeaux. Adopted.
w. P. Edwards having presented
a petition asking the right to make
O complaint to this body, and there
being no objection Mr.. Edwards
stated that there being q public
road laid ont during the month of
August 1892, that the jury of Free
holders made a report with plat ETC..
establishing road all parties agreeing
thereto that in his opinion the report
was informal and not made Accord
ing to the road laws that since trac-
ing said road that a survey has been
made and changed said road from
where it was originally traced.
Mr.. Godchaux reported that he
had visited the road near DR.. F. f..
Young's rice farm, and found that
the DR.. had made a canal to drain
his field, and made a levee to protect
his field. Therefore on motion OF
Mr.. Godchaux the following gentle
men were appointed a committee to
investigate the natural drainage of
the road at said place to wit:
Messrs. Gus Godchaux and J, AlcGe
Leblanc.
A petition n%umerously signed was
presented asking the laying out o
public road leading from the termi-
nation of State street of the town of
Abbeville running on the south side
of the track OF the /. & V. railroad
to the depot of said road. Mrs.
Godchaux agreeing to donate the
land for said road provided that the
parish make n plank walk and run
q line of fence along said road.
Therefore the following named gen
tlemen were appointed a committee
to investigate and report TO this