The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-06-25

purpose of building and completing
: jail, and funding $4,000 bonds, to issu
S 3o-year bonds to said extent and to lev,
special tax of three-eighths of a mil
/ per annun on the dollar of assessed
i valuation upon the property subject t.
: taxation in said parish for thirty years
| until sufficient amount is provided t.
paw the principal and interest of sale
: debt.
Passed its first reading and, the vote
being taken, the above PRONUNCIATION was
carried as follows:
Il Yeas: Alexander, Huckabay, Hutch
: inson, Monkhouse, Means, Noel, Oden
Penick, Rives, Harkey, Winter, Wynn
and Young
i Nays: None.
4 On motion the secretary to be and is
hereby instructed to advertise for bids
for bonds, bids to be opened July 20,
tIoo3.
| Messrs. Young and Penick excused.
The jury on motion adjourned for
dinner
| At 2 80 o'clock the jury reassembled,
P. P. Keith presiding and the following
members present: Alexander, Huckabay,
Hutchinson, Monkhouse, Means, Noel,
EOden, Rives, Harkey, Winter, Wynn
| The petition for appointing freehold
ers to lay out road where public road
crosses K. c. S. railroad signed by
/ Railsback and others laid over from last
meeting was then taken up.
Moved by Mr. Rives that the jury ap-
point said freeholders. Z"
The vote being called the motion was
lost as follows: 49,, ..-
| Yeas: Alexander, Huckabay, Monk
| house, Oden, Rives.
! Nays: Means, Harkey, Winter, Wynn
i and Noel
There being a tie, Mr.. Keith voted no.
WARD ONE.
COMPLAINT having been made that
Messrs. Kelly & Cochran had erected
wire fence obstructing road from Ca
vets to Erwin Bluff, contrary to pub
lie travel, therefore za T.. ..>....>f
Be it resolved that Messrs. Kelly &
Cochran be and are hereby requested to
remove said obstruction from said road
at the earliest moment possible.
Carried.
Petition to change wagon road in
Ward Eight continued.
Moved by Mr.. Rives that the Sam
Perry road be granted, all necessary
deeds of dedication having been filed,
and that said road be declared a public
road. Carried - =. = z -. ..-.,
By Mr. Winter: That the sheriff be
and is hereby authorized to remit the
parish tax on lot ]. K, Smith subdivis-
ion known as Jesuit college, -.-.. A..
Mr.. Means is hereby authorized to
have new cover put on Kelly bayou
bridge from Ida to Missionary, also to
request Mr.. R. T. Douglass to have a
3o-foot bridge built near Gillian.
Mr.. Wynn reports Black bayou bridge
repaired at cost of $5I.4o.
Mr.. NJ. E. Oden filed bond for Doggy |
bayou bridge.
Petition to change road from Rodessa !
TO Missionary crossing of T. & P. rail- !
road near Richard Fortniers to Ida, read |
and laid over under the rules.
No action taken in matter of Paupe |
Hu1se Robertson.
So WARD TWO.
Sarah Robinson placed on pauper list
at So per month
II. H. Huckabay is hereby authorized |
to purchase oar locks and a couple of
rollers for Erwin ferry.
WARD THREE.
A. E. Kroah and Syrene Wesley
placed on pauper list.
. ]. S. Noel is hereby authorized to
have bridge built in Fly's lane.
WARD FOUR.
No action taken in regard to matter
of appropriation for keeping up public
school grounds
By Mr.. Winter
BUDGET FOR 1903.
Be it ordained by the police jury of
Caddo parish, La, in legal assembly con-
vened, that the following budget of ap-
preparations for the year 1908 be and
the same is hereby adopted, and that the
sum set apart for the following items
and departments of the parish govern
nent, Or so much thereof as NAV be
necessary, be and the same is hereby ap-
'roprlated as follows, to-wit:
Resources 10 mill tax $4,000; licenses
5000; total 100000.
Expenditures: Public schools $27oo:
PARISH official salaries S255o; sheriff's
salary $500; city court salary $1,000;
Justice of the peace and constable's sal
lf1es 1890; district attorney fees $375o:
assessor $500; maintaining prisoners
n Jail 5000; conveying prisoners and
insane SIIoo; criminal expenses $4,000;
sheriff court attendance 5000; juror and
witness fees $500; repairs and expense
'ublic buildings $4,000; ferry fund SI2oo:
ridges and road supplies $500; interest
md sinking fund $1,000; paupers, health,
'rphanage and sanitation $1,000; election }
expenses 5000; maps $1,000; clerk dis d
riot court $500; public roads $4,000;
'rlnting and Job work $500; incidenta1s ]
'II,2oo Confederate monument $1,000; /
ota1 100000. ~ -..s -
The budget for 1908 havin~ passed its ]
nal Fading was UNANIMOUSLY adopted,
S folsows d
Yeal Alexander, lIuekabay Hutchin- L