New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1900-09-15
POLICE JURY PROCEEDINGS.


New IBERIA, La, Sept. 9th, 1900
The Police jury convened this day in re
gular session with President pro ten
Decourt. in the chair and the followin.
members present to-wit: Messrs. Boutte
Decur Delcambre, GOula, Ortte, Romer
and Suberbielle; absent. Pres't Britain.
Tho following communication was sub
mittcd, after due reading of which, ant
on motion duly cared, the following reso
luton was adopted, to-wit
New Iberia La, Sept. 1st 1900.
Hon j. +. Britain, President and Member
Police Jury of iberia Parish, New Iberia, La:
men-Representing as attorney
the Iberia and Bayou Carlin Drainage Dis
trict, we have advised the Board of Com
missloners of said district of the supposed
or real conflict between Act No. l2 anC
Act No. Ia of the acts of the legislator,
of 1900 upon the question of drainage
Other real or supposed contradictions exis
as between the municipal corporation ant
said Board, and to the authorities of thai
corporation we have presented .his matter
in slightly different shape to meet the diff
ferences in the conflict.
Our purpose in writing you is to have al
amicable suit to determine finally in whom
the authority is vested to do those things
which, by recent resolution, the BoarC
of Commissioners are seeking to do; that
is, whether the submission to the people
of the drainage district the question Of
imposing tax, create debts and issue
negotiable bonds, is one within tho juris
dicton of tho Police Jury, the municipa
authorities or the Board of Drainage Com
missiOners.
Act. No. ~ vests that authority with the
Board of Drainage Commissioners. Act
No. ia seems to vest the same authority
in the Police Jury as to that portion of the
district situated in the parish, and in the
municipal authorities as to that portion OF
the district situated in the corporation OF
New iberia. =
1t is all important, if this necessary pro
jcct is to be carried out, that these ques-
tions be determined in advance to the end
that the corporation having the authority
to perform these things may take charge
of them.
The Board we represent is not actuated
by any desire to secure any particular
credit to itself for the construction of this
important work, but are looking solely to
the construction of the work under the
proper authority ; and the disposition of
the bonds, the incurronce of the debt, and
the collection of the tax, together with
the submission of the questions to the
qualified electors must be settled if it is
desired to obtain the best price possible
for the bonds. We therefore hope that
you will see your way clear to enjOin this
Board in amicable suit so that these i'm
po,tant questions may be finally deter
mined before anything is done looking to
the construction of the drains in question.
Very respectfully,
BROUssARD, DULANY & DUNBAR,
Attorneys New Iberia and Bayou Carlin
Drainage District.
Be it resolved by the Police Jury of Ibe-
ria Parish, in regular session assembled,
that the President, Hon. j. F. Britain, be
and he is hereby ordered and empowered
to resort to the writ of injunction, or any
other writ that may be necessary in the
premises, to prevent the Board of Commits
sioners of the New Iberia and Bayou Car
lin Drainage District from snbmitting@to
the qualified electors of said district as
described in the resolution adopted by
said board. on the 29th day of Aug. 1900,
and advertised in the official journal of the
Parish of Iberia, and intended to be sub
mitted to the qualified electors of said
drainage district included in the Parish of
Iberia, and outside the corporate limits of
the city of New Iberia, to-wt
Whether said Board of Drainage Com
missiOners shall be authorized by said
qualified electors to impose tax of five
(5) mills on the property situated in said
Parish, within said drainage district, and
outside of the City of New Iberia, for the
period of twenty (20) years, and to collect
the same.
Whether said Board of Drainage Com
missioners shall be authorized to incur
debts for the carrying out of said system
of drainage for said drainage district, and,
Whether said Board Of Drainage Com
missioners shall be authorized to issue
One Hundred Thousand ($1O0, 100000
Dollars, five (5R) per cent interest bear
ing, twenty (20) year negotiable bonds.
The following ordinance drawn and
ordered by the Police Jury of the Parish of
st. Martin creating the st. Martin, Iberia,
Pointe Claire Drainage District was read
and ratified
AN ORDINANCE
Creating drainage district to be known
as 1.-THE st. Martin, iberia, Pointe Claire
Drainage District; appointing one CON-
missioner therefor fixing the limits there
Of !; designating its domicile and time and
place for the meeting Of said commissioners
for organization Of their Board and con-
forming with Act 12 or the Acts of 1900,
of the General Assembly of the State of
Louisiana.
Section /. Be it ordained by the Police
Jury of the Parish of st. Martin in legal
session convened, that a drainage district
to be known as "The st. Martin, Iberia,
Pointe Claire Drainage District" be and
is hereby formed in the parishes of st.
Martin and Iberia, State of Louisiana,
Of the territory lying and being
situated in said parishes, as follows, viz !:
All of the land included in the limits
hereafter given and lying partly in the
first and third wards of st. Martin Parish,
and in part of the fourth ward
of Iberia Parish, Louisiana, as follows,
to-wi
In the Parish of st. Martin, the limit of
said drainage district begins ut point
at the upper limits OF the
Parish Of Iberia, on the East side Of
Bayou Teche, at at Bayou Teche, following
said Bayou Northerly to the Southern Cor
porate limits of the Town of st. Martin
vile, La, at Bayou Teche, thence fol-
lowing said limits to its extremely Eastern
limits, thence following the Eastern limits
of said corporation in straight line to
the upper limits Of the property of Victor
Vautier, at the public road, thence from
the upper limits of the vautier property
in an Easterly direction following the
upper limit of the vautier property to the
public road back of the forty arpents,
thence following said road until it reaches
the upper corner Of Sec. AZ, TIP. 10. s. X.
z, E., thence following the lines of said
Sections AZ and 43 in straight line to the
Northeast corner of Section "a, thence
the upper lines of Sections
35 and 36, in TIP. 10. s. X. 7, E., thence
the same section line Of Section
81, in T. 10, s. r. 8. E.. to the North
east corner Of said Section 81, TIP. 10, $.
X. 8, E., thence following the Eastern
line Of said Section to Section 5, in TIP.
IL, s. r. s, E., thence in an Easterly di-
rection, taking in Section SO, TIP. IL, s. X.
s, E., thence following the Eastern limo
Of said Section 36, in southern direction
and across Bayou Portage, where it strikes
the Northeast corner OF Section 81.
And the following lands included in
said drainage district, situated in Iberia
Parish, Louisiana, within the following,
limits, to-wit: Starting at point on Bayou
Teche, at the upper limits Of Iberia Parish,
where it joins st. Martin Parish, on the East
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