The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-08-20
Official Proceedings Of the Police
jury.
Continued from Last Week.

peared before police jury and asked
that the sum OF $1169 75-being the
amount paid into treasury for acct
of c. d. Kemp, ex-tax collector, by
bondsmen at April meting-be turned
over to State Auditor for account of
bondsmen of G. d. Kemp for the rea-
son that said amount was 1897 taxes
and that Kemp had settled with par
ish in full for 1897, and therefore said
amount was State funds and should
go to Auditor. But it appearing by
statement of parish treasurer that
said amount was money paid to
Kemp's bondsmen by parish treas
urer on accounts due Kemp by parish
for sundry accounts held by Kemp
against parish, said request was re-
fused by the police jury.
Ordinance by o. c. Watson
Resolved, That from and after JAN
uary /, 1899, all paupers supported
by the parish of Grant shall be kept
and supported on farm to be known
as the paupers home, which shall be
controlled and managed by Super
intendent to be elected by the police
jury.
Resolved, That from and after jan
uary /, 1899, the public roads and
bridges of the parish of Grant shall
be worked and kept up as provided
for in Article POI of the Constitution
of the State of Louisiana, adopted
1898, and that all public roads and
bridges and the paupers home shall
be kept under the supervision of the
superintendent.
The superintendent of the paupers'
home and public roads shall be elected
annually at the October meeting of
the police jury, and shall enter upon
the discharge of his duties on the LIST
day of January following his election;
provided he shall have executed a
bond as may be prescribed by the
police jury.
DUTIES OF THE SUPERINTENDENT.
He shall approve all bills for mate
rial used on the paupers home and
public roads and bridges. He shall
account to the police jury for all
monies, teams and tools that may
come into his possession and belong
ing to the parish.
TO RAISE REVENUES FOR THE Mantle
NANCE OF THE PAUPERs HOME.
The police jury shall make an an.
nual appropriation out OF the gener.
al tax of the amount necessary and
for the working the public roads and
building and repairing bridges, the
police jury shall appropriate annual.
~ out of the general taxes of the par
ish not less than one mill nor more
than two mills on the dollar on the
valuation of all the property assess
ed in theparish. Thepolice jury shall
impose a per capita tax OF one dollar
per annum on all able bodied male
persons between the ages Is and 81
years residing in the parish and We
hicle license of 81 on all heavy roaG
wagons and all log wagons; so cents
on all two-horse wagons; 25 cents OF
all one-horse vehicles; 25 cents on al
bycicles kept and used for locomotior
over the public roads of the, parish
provided that the per capita tax shall
not be operative in incorporated
towns that maintain their owl
streets.
| The superintendent shall receive fol
his compensation $500 per annun
payable quarterly.
ORDINANCE.
To enforce the collection of the pei
capita road tax and the tax upoI
| vehicles as per article 900 of the con
.vention of 1898; That it shall be th,
duty of the parish superintendent t.
commence to work and to finish al
rapidly as possible thereafter, an al
phabetical list of all persons in TIN
parish between the ages of Is and 81
years subject to road duty, and b,
the LIST Monday in February file {
copy of same with the clerk of tn
police jury, which shall be kept TO
future reference. This same list shall
also include list of the names of per
sons owning vehicles and their ia,
grade, each of which shall be checket
up from the report of the superinten
dent and marked paid on said list b.
the police jury at it's quarterly session
during the year.
TO ENFORCE COLLECTION OF PER CAPl
ia TAX.
1t shall be the duty of the Superin
tendent to call apon each person il
person or by agent and ask the pay
ment in cash and give a receipt there
for containing number and date ant
signed by him as superintendent
Should the party fail or refuse to pay
! then and there, he is to summons hin
either in writing or verbally and max
a memorandum of said summons witt
date, to meet him at some place to b
named by the superintendent, naming
the hour for meeting; and that b
shall without delay do good an
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