Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1902-07-18

The United States engineers will
advertise work to the extent of the
allotments for their several districts
and the state and district levee au-
thorities will confer with them and do
the most possible good with combined
funds in hand.
Respectfully,
j. T. MCCLELLAN,
President.
STATEMENT.
Showing amount of yardage re-
quired to complete existing contracts
for levee work, and cost of same:
Hsrpers to Stockbridge levee, 81, 5S7
cubic yards at 800, IS, 261.10.
Pecan Grove to Henderson leyee,
IS, 973 cubic yards at 1897 and re-
serve, So, 472.22.
Upper Bougere, sections / and 2,
100, 900 cubic yards at 1870 and re-
serve, s26, 720.
Upper Bougere, section 8, 100, coo
cubic yards at 3l.46 and reserve,
$31, AGO.
Total, 500, 9iS.32. &
On motion of Commissioner Gold
man the following preamble and reso-
luton was adopted:
Whereas, for many years certain
portions of the parish of Concordia,
in the Fifth Louisiana Levee District,
have been subject to annual overflow
from the waters of the Mississippi
river coming through Bougere cre-
vase; and
Whereas, such lands In said parish
of Concordia have by resolution of
this board been declared exempt from
the payment of the acreage and cot
ton tax annually levied by this board {;
and
Whereas, contracts have been let,
and work is now in progress, for the
joining of the present leyee system
with the Texas and Pacific railroad
embankment in Bougere crevasse,
thereby giving such lands additional
protection from overflow. Therefore,
be it
Resolved. That all former resolu-
tions of this board declaring lands in
the parish of Concordia exempt from
the payment of acreage or cotton tax
be, and the same are hereby repealed,
and the assessor of the Parish of Con-
cordia is hereby ordered to place all
lands in said parish on the assessment
roll for payment of acreage tax, and
the tax collector of said parish is
hereby ordered to collect said tax at
the same time and in the same man.
ner as other state and parish taxes are
COLLECTED, and the said tax collector
is further ordered to collect the cot
ton tax Of one dollar per bale on all
cotton grown in the parish of Conoor-
dia on lands subject to taxation in
the manner provided in instructions
heretofore given MIN.
On motion of Commissioners Ward,
the following resolution was adopted
Be it Resolved, That pursuant to
Act No. A of 1886 and Act No. S OF
1906, q local assessment or forced con:
tribution for the year 1902, of one
dollar per bale, for bales of cotton OF
the gross weight of (52s) FIVE hun.
dred and twenty-eight pounds, il
hereby levied upon each and every
bale Of cotton of the crop of 1902,
1908, produced within the limits OF
the Fifth Louisiana Levee District
upon lands subject to taxation, and
| the tax collectors of the several
parishes comprising said district are
hereby ordered to proceed with the
Ieollection Of the same in the manner
provided in instructions heretofor,
Igiven them.
| Be it further Resolved, That 10
cal assessment or forced contribution
for the year 1902, of fifty cents pc,
bale, for bales of cotton pressed b,
the Lowery or other round press no
to exceed (275) two hundred and sew
enty. five pounds in weight, is hereb,
levied upon each and every bale o
cotton of the crop of 1902-1903, pro
duced within the limits of the FIftI
Louisiana Levee District, upon land
subject to taxation, and the tax col
iectors Of the several parishes com
prising said district are hereby or
dered to proceed with the collection
of the same in the manner provide,
, in instructions heretofore given them
! On motion of Commissioner Ward
the following resolution was adopted
1 Be it Resolved, That pursuant {
Act No. Al of 1886 and Act No. 6, O
, 1902, local assessment or forced con
tribution for the year 1902, of fiv
cents per acre, on each and every acr
of land situated within the limits O
the Fifth Louisiana Levee district
and of one hundred dollars per mile O.
each and every mile of railroad O
standard gauge, or gauge greater tina
standard gauge, and twenty dollar
per mile on each and every mile Q
railroad of less than standard gauge
situated within the limits of tn
Fish Louisiana Levee District i
hereby levied, and the tax assessor
OF the several parishes comprisin
said district are herehv ordorad> :