The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-09-20

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all the swamp and OVERLOOKED
lands made unfit thereby for cul-
tivation at said date, and remain
ing unsold at that time were grant,
ed and donated to the several
States respectively in which said
lands were situated, for the pur-
pose of constructing drains and
levees to reclaim said lands, and
Whereas, The State of Louisi-
ana, one of the States included in
said grants, through its General
Assembly by Act of 1892, did, in
the same act creating the Bossier
Levee District, grant, donate,
convey and deliver, for the pur-
pose of carrying out the object of
said Levee District, all of its allu-
vial lands and those subjects to
overflow from the waters of Red
River, or it's tributaries or outlets,
as we'll as all other lands then be-
longing to the State to be found
on the east side of Red River
south of the line dividing the
north half from the south half of
township twenty North, and north
of the line dividing townships Is
and IA between Red River and the
hills which border the alluvial
lands on the east, being in town
ships "A, Is, 16, II, Is, 10 and the
south half of 20 North, ranges 10,
II, IL, 10 and IA West, in Bossier
parish, Louisiana, and
Whereas, There are several
large bodies of land within said
grant which have never been sur
veyed by the United States, or
the State. on account of its
swampy and overflowed nature,
but which have been reclaimed by
the said Levee Board through it's
system of levees; and whereas, it
is necessary in order to definitely
locate said land in order to put
them upon the market, that the
same be located, surveyed and
plated; therefore,
Be 1t ordained by the Board OF
Commissioners of the Bossier
Levee District, duly convened on
this, September Is, 1900, That
the President of this body be, and
he is hereby authorized and en-
powered, to have q survey and
plats made of all unsurveyed
lands belonging to said Board and
being within the said Levee Dis
trict, and in order to carry out
the purpose of this ordinance he
is hereby empowered and author.
lied to contract with the Parish
Surveyor, or any other authorized
Surveyor, subject to the ratifca.
ton of this body, to make a sur.
vey and plats of said land and
furnish this body with triplicatt
field notes, plats, maps and al
other necessary evidences of sale
survey. Said Surveyor shall tax.
as a basis for his survey the orig
| inal survey of the United States
Surveyor, with field notes, plat
} and maps and other evidences a
on file in State Land Office, ant
; shall make q full and complet'
process verbal of said survery
} including a report on the natur
: and character of said lands, as h
! may gather from the original sur
: vey and other evidence.
Said survey to be made as earl.
. as possible, in order that said land
may be put on the market.
j. w. Jeter, President, and "A
: J. Murff, special attorney, wer
!. appointed as a committee an,
Q authorized to employ a competen
! surveyor, and if necessary an as
. sistant surveyor, to proceed wit
: the work of surveying all the Ian
! recently donated by the State t
/ the Bossier levee district, as 500
t as practicable after the next reg
ular meeting, to be held Octobe
q 18th next, when the committee wi