The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-05-14
ment of the sections and grades of

ment of the sections and grades of |
the levees in the Bossier Levee Dis
trict must eventually be carried will
depend largely upon the lessons to
be learned from the future conduct
of the river, when, in it's changed
condition, by reason of confinement,
it will be put to test by the great
floods that will at some time or other
again visit it. Enough, however, is
now known to select the following
localities as needing such enlarge
ment: From Willow Bend to Dill
lard's, and, with the closure of Tones
Bayou, from Curtis to Knox Point
1t is, therefore, the opinion of the
Board of State Engineers, that the
best efforts of your Board, as we'll as
of all interested in the future welfare
and prosperity of the Bossier Levee
District, will be required for long
time to come to keep pace with the
work that will be required for extend
ting the system, adjusting grades and
sections to such dimensions as devel-
ments may impose, and for closing
breaches caused by caving banks, not
to speak of the care, preservation
and protection of completed work
REPORT OF TAX COLLECTOR.
To the Honorable President and
Members of the Levee Board of she
Bossier Sub-Levee District: I re-
specially submit the following se-
port of collections for quarter ending
March 81, 1896:
On 10 mill tax. --..-......S 2934 30
On acreage tax. ..-....... 2O36 05
| On 4144 bales cotton 2072 90
$7O42 35
Benton, La, April !, 1896.
| MIR. Moss moved that the Bossier
Levee Board ask for the issuance Of
an additional one hundred thousand
dollars of bonds with which to liaui.
date the indebtedness of certificates
and complete the system of the Dis
trict.
On call of the roll the following
was the result: Xeas-Messrs. Moss
and Lenoir-2. Nays-Messrs. Cash
Colquitt, McDade and Stinson-4.
And the motion WAS lost.
On motion of Mr. Colquitt, second
ed by Mr.. Moss, the Levee Board vii
meet as Committee of the Whole
with the Board of Reviewers in July
relative to looking into the equaliza
'. ton of assessments of property il
the alluvial District.
On motion of MIR. Moss, seconded
by Mr.. Lenoir, the following reseu
ton was read and adopted:
Be it Resolved, That the Presiden
> and Secretary OF this Board are hereb
authorized to withdraw from tn
Treasury of the State of Louisian
seven bonds of 500 each, OF thi
District, and negotiate same at no
less than par, to pay semi-annual in
terest due Hunter Bros. on amour
expended for building Knox Point t
Buckhorn Levee, said interes
amounting to $698 40.
On motion of MIR. Colquitt, th
> following accounts were examined
allowed and the President and Sc.
. rotary were authorized to draw th
following Warrants on State Audito:
No. 77-Leonard L. Randolph. Attor-
It neys, quarter to April $4,000
78-J. H. Cabeen. Secretary, quar-
@ ter to April 15..--........-... IS
"a. X. Thompson, cash paid eau
Is casian tor advertising Sc and
!, blank books 81 50............ 10
Il SOW. H. Hodges, expense attend
ing meetings Board. ......... 81
Sl-W. I. Colquitt, expense attend
~ ing meetings Board. ........ 90
82-H. J. Lenoir, expense attending
a meetings Board. ............ 80
S3-A. j. Moss, expense attending
d meetings Board. -......-..... As
84-J. T. McDade, expense attend
10 ing Board $45, interest on
Scopeni work IS l7.......... SO