The Lafayette gazette., 1899-03-25
REPORT OF THE GRAND JURY

nc IIahu jury lmpaneled TOR
the present term of this Honorable
Court having completed their in
vestigations, before asking your
honor to discharge them, beg leave,
through their undersigned foreman,
TO respectfully submit the following
! report.
We have considered and care
fully examined all violations of the
the law which have come to onr
--knowledge, through the different
magistrates of the parish, through
other sources, and through our own
information and the results of our
investigation have been true bills
which we have reported to your
honorable court. The other cases
brought before US were unimportant
and g1oundless accusations un-
worthy of your attention and which
were therefore thrown out.
We have examined the parish Jail
and visited the prisoners therein
and found that said prisoners are
properly and humanel, treated, and
that the jail building is in good
condition, but the sewerage or eva
Porating system in the Jail does not
seem to be satisfactory.
those of the parish treasurer were
carefully examined and it is a
source of pleasure to the Grand
jury to state that they were found
to be well kept and correct
The clerks office was also visited.
All books and documents therein.
were fouad to be in good order and
intelligehrly kept. The clerk sug-
gests the .advisab biiity of improving
certain shelves on which are Kept
very heavy books in order to faci !
litate the handling of the books |
with the least injury to same Be
lieving the suggestion to be good,
we beg to call the attention of the
Police Jury to the matter. Our
attention was also called by |
the clerk to some cracks in
the wall of his office, which we
believe should he examined by an
expert and if there is any danger Of
futher damage to this. fine building
we are of the opinion that the Police
Jury should ADOPT such measures
as may be necessary to stop further
damage.
We have hunted high and low for
crap shooters, but the practice is
either discontinued or kept very
secret !
While we are confident that the
ish law has been violated, VIC were
inable to locate the crime against
PARTICULAR party or parties.
We have requested and received ,
report from the superinintendent :
If schools in regard to the general /
condition of the public schools. AS
whole we find .he report satisfac-
ory as ia! it goes. But we beg
D call the attention of the School
'oard to several complaints in re-
ard to school houses throughout
le parish. We call the special S
ttention of the Board to gross ,
regularity or neglect of some ones "
uty in regard to the school in .,
le 9th (Carencro.) al
We have also ascertained that til
ne of the schools in the third &C
ard has more children in atten 'i'
ance than the teacher can properly mr.
tend TO. NJ G
No branch of the parochial gov IN
nment should be more jealously -,
-arded and fostered than the proper ar
orking of the public roads and the w
vful disbursement of the funds SCI
art for that purpose. The public Es
ghways are the means of com
cree, improvement and prosperity,
d without them nothing can be
pected but stagnation in business,
ich leads to poverty. Fully ap r
these facts, we have 7-N
ZEN this subject our careful atten- =.
n, and have ascerta<ss.1 that the ~
bile roads are in bad condition. "
is true that the continuous rains