The Opelousas courier., 1898-02-05

"QuleUuS' may De SEduteu HILL.
Respectfully submitted,
SSAM'L HAAS,
+. T. LAFLEUR,
J.J. THOMPSON,
Committee.
On motion of Mr.. E. T. Lafleur-
Resolved, That the report of commit
tee appointed to sell contract for build
ing two bridges across washes on Du-
buiSsOn 'front.', be received INC accepted,
committee discharged and the sum of
$500 ordered credited to Jno. +. Bacon,
out of the internal improvement funds
of the 5th ward.
On motion of Mr.. Haas
Resolved, That the police jury resolve
itself into a committee of the whole to
approve claims.
Mr.. Haas in The chair.
Josey B. Fontenot, repairing bri'ge
18th ward. $12 90
J.. II. Boutte, nails and lumber, 18th
ward. 3 90
Ovignac Dore, spade broken, 3rd
ward. IS
S. l.. Darnall, conveying insane ne
gro to authorities, mileage, &c. 10 90
Geo. l.. Hazard, building bridge,
4th ward. 60 90
w. G. Gordon, Jr., conveying pri-
soner from Melville to jail. 8 60
Ednis Hicks, hauling dead cow
from road, 4th ward. 90
A. S. Williams, lumber, 4th ward 10 20
Peter Jacobs, hauling lumber, 4th
ward. 2 90
J. w. Pickett, building . bridges,
4th ward. 80 90
L. A. Hazard, burrving pauper 10 90
L. A. Hayard, lumber, 4th ward 5 OS
G.. T. Hawkins, hauling lumber,
&C., 4th ward 8 50
Ambrose Vidrine, repairing bridge
1st and 7th ward Is SO
H0nonr Vi0nnof rnroirior hriI0n
18th ward 40 90
Durelle Manuel, spade broken on
road, 9TH ward IS
Mrs. D.. P.Saizan, sundries for road,
I'd ward Is Sc
Mrs. D.. P.Saizan, sundries for road,
Sd ward 7 so
Paul Stage, nails, 5 ward 4 81
A. COshman, repairing bridge, 4th
ward 5 90
0. D. Fontenot, lumber, 5 ward 10 90
Ozeme Fontenot, nails, 5 ward 3 So
Napoleon Fruge, trees taken from
his land to repair public road, s
Mrs. D. P. saizan, cash paid A. Ne
Eat for building Yellow Jacket
bridge, I'd ward 90
Gibbons d Nicholson, lumber, 4th
T%heophile soileau, bridge labor, s
ward 2 10
On motion Of DR.. Clopton-
The committee on claims resolved it.
self into police jury.
Mr.. MCGEE in the chair.
The committee on claims having
arisen reported through their chairman,
Mr.. Haas, that they had examined and
found correct the bills as above detailed.
On motion of DR.. Clopton-
The report Of committee on claims
was accepted and committee discharged.
On motion Of Mr.. Prescott
Resolved, That the petition tabled
from meeting Of December 8, 1897, from
citizens of the 18th Magistrates ward,
praying for a repeal of the hog law in
said ward, be taken up from table, and
the same be and is hereby granted as
prayed for. :
On motion of Mr.. Prescott
Resolved, That the sum of $4,000, or
as much thereof as may be necessary, |
be appropriated out of the internal inn
provement funds of the 5th ward, 1898,
to repair the long bridge across bayou
at Washington, and that the
contract be sold to the lowest bidder and
work done under the supervision of the
following committees: Leon Wolff, j. j.
Carriere and Leon Dupre. The con-
party or parties to furnish bond
FOR said work.
Mr.. Manuel offered the following
to the road ordinances,
was unanimously adopted, as
Be it ordained by the Police Jury Of
The Parish of st. Landry, in regular ses-
sion convened. That Section Sixteen
'16) of road ordinances adopted March
1897, be amended and re-ordained so as
TO read, as follows:
Section Is. Beitfurther ordained, etc.,
That Road overseers shall not be allow
I'd any compensation for the number of
the road hands are required to
work, but they shall be allowed the sum
If $50 Zone dollar and fifty cents) per
lay for each days extra work, and no
lying the hands. That all road over
,eers shall receive the same per diem
md mileage Is witnesses for each and
every day they are summoned before
The police jury. 1t shall be the duty Of
Zach overseer to summon all male per-
IONS from the age Of eighteen to fifty,
such as may be exempt from
State, or by the police jury, to meet at
such places and times as to them, the
,aid overseers, shall seem convenient,
With the necessary tools, for the repair
ng or making of the public road or
.oads under their charge; and whoever,
without legal excuse, OR physical disabi-
ity certified to by some licensed physi-
ian practicing in this parish, shall, up
IN such summons, refuse OF neglect to
with the tools designated, and do
heir duty either in person or by send
ng in their place, and to be accepted by
he overseer Of the roads, an efficient
rand not subject to be called to work on
he public roads, shall pay a fine of five
and costs of court; said fine to be
covered by civil suit before any Ma
having jurisdiction of the per-
offending in the name of the Police
Jury on the relation of the Road Over
Ger and in the event that said fine and
osts are not paid in full within twenty
hours from the finality of the judg-
nent imposing same, the person or per-
ons offending shall be prosecuted by
or information in the name
t the State, and upon trial and convic-
of such neglect or failure to pay
UGH fine and costs, the said person OF
Nersons offending shall pay a fine of not
ess than twenty-five nor more than one
.undred dollars, or imprisoned not less
han ten or more than ninety days, or
9th at the discretion of the court; pro-
ided, that such prosecution before the
Court shall be no bar to the re-
overy of the judgment of the Magis-
rates Court by writ of fi-fa, which may
roceed concurrently with such prose-
ution before the District Court.
Provided, That any person SO sum-
loned shall be excused from road duty,
pom payment to the road overseer by
nom he may be summoned, Of the sum
I $I!OO tone dollar) for each day he may
g SO summoned, said sum to be pay
BILE within the "a hours next after the
lmmons may be served upon him.
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