The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-11-24

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relping the benefit which my " labor
and expenditure, and tie labor aud ex-
pendfture OF the Drainage Commission
has expended In my behalf, as Que whose
drainage is down this natural Bayou,
hiGh Is my nRtnUal drainage.
In the face Of che above facts aud the
treatment / have received at the hands
Of Nj. MRgtnnis, l object to his laying
down conditions to me, as permission
to cut out q public stream, in which 4
am jointly interested in the matter Of
drainage. / understand he now says
there Rre bars IN said Bayou which
should be removed, If so where 2 and il
so, who was most likely to put them
there J he owning nearly all Of the
swamp and the largest portion Of the
land along this stream, Is not most
likely that IL is his outlets which put
the bars there, and ii 90, why should 4
be called upon TO take out bars placed
there by his own drainage in order to
obtain his permission to drain myself.
The matter of bars in the bayou, 1
firmly believe to be 3 case Of muking a
mountain ont Of q mOIe-hill. (Ihe fuct
Of the matter is, il there were such bars
in The Bayou, 1 could not come over
them with the Dredgeboat without
taking them out, which I would have to
Ia self defense.)
IL the Bayou belongs to Mr.. Maglnnis
Individually or to CaillOuet s. Magiunis,
then their permission TO come up it is
necessary, ii it belongs to the public,
then they can exact no conditions, it
Iaust be One or the other, a matter 1t is
agreed you gentlemen are TO decide,
Ash see it, aside from Mi. sAaginnis
dislike to have me come up this bayou,
Oaillouet 4 Maginnis have placed across
the Bayou Sale stationery bridges for
their personal benefit, aud Mr., Magin-
mis- does not like to take them W and
does not wish to acknowledge this
stream Notwithstanding il il q dredged
Bayou q public or natural uue for lear
1T may be declared sometime a naYiga-
ole III and he be- required u put tuFn
bridges over the same. All or any Of
these things may have u bearing un his
desire to keep his neighbors shut out Of
drainage.
Should Mr.. Maginnis claim this Bayou
not u natural drain / would request you
gentlemen to see it where it enters inv
place from WoOdlawn line, where it
mas not been dTedged. would also
ask what about upper Bayou Terre-
bonDej Bayou Little CaillOu and Bayou
Grand CalllOu, it this Bayou sale is not
a natural Bayou, are the others any
more so I
Nit, Maginnis Is now dredging Bayou
Grand Gallon with his own D~redgeboht,
will this fact make him the owner Of
Bayou Grand Caillou, Will heDe allowed.
% lay conditions on parties using BAYOU
Grand CalLlouE If SO, where is the thing
going to stop, how long will it be before
we will have to get permission to trave
the public roads, where the same passes
through the lands of property holders
VINO nave such exaggerated ideas OF
property rights 2 .
The Parrish DTedgehORb is now at
work iu Bayou Peiton, or Laoarpe,
which is the natural drain to the royu
of HOuma, and it is Il stream similar to
BayOu sale, This Lauarpe or PeItou
Bayou runs through land OF Oafloutt
81 Maglnnls when the work is finished.
VIII ar MAginnis say who shall go up
~ WAC snuH not, or will he be al
wed 70 40 IS he proposes to DO in this
ase OF bdyou Sale3 When dredging
Sets Up y enough for his purpose, seL
up olAlM that to drsdge further uD.
-aAAA INV 4AAAA0BO NO GlABA4N
Ads "A In view OF this fact he villa OBJ
ieCt to further work being done.
4 think l have said enough ON this
subject to show how [ feel and see tuis
matter, aud / leave it with you, sure OF
Justice aud right, and request in closing
Ehat should you deem me wrong in luy
views Of the matter, you plainly say 80,
and not try to let me down easy, by q
,4OvnVNVaOwnfnn HarEainn. MA 4 III .r.,l
expect the same kind OF decision re-
garding my opponent, Mr.. Maginuis,
whose views of property rights differ 80
widely from my own.
p, S, Should Mr.. Maginnis alIege
that there are bars in Bayou Sale,
please ask him the following: where
are the bars located, how far below
lands of Barrow, what caused these
bars, aud whose lands adjOin the Bayou
where these bars have formed
Any statement made by me in this
statement I am prepared to prove To
your satisfaction, II will be pleased to
answer any question you may deem
necessary TO ask.
September LIST. 1896, the Police Jury
authorized exsapprUpriAtiOn OF land for
Canal to connect Bayou ChAUViu and
bayou 9AlBy OEhlGldSG SOEuLllbSlDl bD-
propriated 100000 to work, aud paid
$67I,S in repair bills,
1.-THE DredgebOHt OF tina Parish, which
was used in the cutting out OF Bayou
Sale had been rented for the work
from an outsider owning n Dr6agebnat,
il would have cost at the very least
$4,000. 90. So 1 consider that the work
has received from the Taxpayers Of
this Parish through the Drainage COua-
mission @4s00.OO, IN use of the Dredge-
boat 100000 in cash and $GTl.8S in
repairs, making q total OF SB47I.SS,
Parish interest in Bayou Sale, besides
the amount contributed by others in
tePested.
The question is, did the Parish K
pend this amount for Mr.. Maginnis.
personal benefit, or tor she good Of
thOse Interested in bayou Sale drainage,
and il so am / one Of the people inter-
estedP
In reply 10 the question Of an addi-
tional quantity of water coming down
the Bayou Sale should it be dredged
up, / would say only the water
intended by nature and belonging to
this bayou as the natural outlet OF same
will be run down this bayou, but what
of the water it is now forced to carry
was never intended by nature to
dow dOWB 1t. I refer TO the water Of