The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-12-14
Police Jury Proceedings.
Abbeville, La, Dec. 4, 1895.

Abbeville, La, Dec. 4, 1893.
The Police Jury in and for the parish
of Vermilion met this day in regular
session.
Present.. T. Broussard, President,
and Jules Thibodeaux, G. Godchaux,
NJ. Sarver, Ernest Broussard, j. A. Lee
blanc and A. Lacour.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were approved after due reading.
Moved and seconded, Be it resolved,
that the public road between the lands
of David Meaux and 10 Lege be and
tn same is hereby located on and along
the dividing line of their respective
tracts of land as surveyed by Roman
Francez and established by judgment
of court in the suit entitled David
Meaux VS. j 0 Lege, No SGT Of the civil
docket of the district court of Vermil-
ION parish, taking a strip Of land fifteen
feet wide along said line from each OF
said tracts.
That any and all parties having any
fences or other distractions upon the
said road are required to remove the
same. That theroad oyerseer of that
road district is required and notified to
open up and work said road. Adopted.
The bridge committee submitted the
following report which was ordered
spread on the minutes. to wit:
To the Hon President and Members of
the Police Jury of the parish of Yer
million.
Your undersigned chairman of com
: mittee on letting to contract the build
ing of a Steel Drawbridge at Abbeville,
would respectfully report as follows,
viz :: That having obtained the permits
sion of the Hon. Secretary of War for
the erection Of said bridge over Bayou
Vermilion we caused plans and speci-
fications for a Steel Swing Bridge OF
40 feet draw span to be prepared and
advertised, the contract to be let to the
lowest bidder, in the Engineering News
/. of New York, and the Abbeyille news
E, papers, and also sent out about loo
{ circulars to that effect, said bids to be
,sepened on Nov. Is, 1895, and on said
day Nov. 18th we received IL sealed
bids for said bridge, and one by tele-
graph not considered. On opening said
.bidsin the presence of the bidders or
their agents we found that the bid OF
the Penn Bridge Company, of Beaver
Tails, Pennsylvania, through their
agents Messrs. E. P. Alsbury &c Son at
Houston, Texas, to be the lowest bid
der for said bridge complete, their bid
being $l0,550, other bids ranging up to
$l2,530.
These bids were all based on a cash
payment on completion of the work.
Your committee having duly consider
ed these bids, accepted the bid of the
Penn Bridge Co., and SO notified the
Messrs. Alsbury Il Son then present.
Your committee therefore recommend
your honorable body to enter into con-
tract for said bridge at said price of
$I0,55O, with said Penn Bridge Co.
Said bidders were duly notified before
bidding that they would be required to
give a bond and surety in the sum of
$500 in case said contract was award
ed to them, said bond to be given at
the time of signing the contract.
Respectfully submitted,
w. W. EDWARDS,
Chairman of Bridge Committee.
On motion of Mr. Sarver, resolved
that the President of this body be and
is hereby instructed and authorized to
enter into a contract with the Penn
Bridge Co, of Beaver Falls, Pa. forthe
construction of a steel draw bridge
across bayou Vermilion at Abbeville,
Louisiana, in accordance with plans
and specifications now on file with the
bridge committee. Adopted.
On motion of Jules Thibodeaux, duly
seconded, the report of the jury of free
holders appointed to trace and lay out
a public road in the I'd ward beginning
at the north east corner of lot No 2. s
"A, TIP Ii, SR 4 east and running north
$50 east to the Bayou Tigre was re-
.ceived and the same was adopted and
declared a public road, and the follow
ing amounts were assessed as damages
and the President and Clerk of this
body is instructed to draw warrants in
favor of the following named proprie-
tors, as follows
To Valsin Broussard, value of land
$12 so, priyation of land and use there
of and removal of fence, So so $15 90.
Aurelien Mallet. value of land $40 81,
~privation of land, removing of fence
and making a ditch $40 90 500 81.
Aurelien Broussg-d, value of land
$25 90, privation Of same Sd 90, $28 so.
Mrs Dorestant Thibodeaux, for value
sof land $40, privation Of use of land and
sremoval of fencing, So 80, $50 90.
Oleus Thibodeaux, for value Of land
81 rs, ~priyation Of use Of land, So %,