The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-08-05
lOFFICIAL.
POLICE JURY PROCEEDINGS.
FRANKLIN. La. August /. 1903.

The Police Jury met this day Il
regular session. with the tollowin!
members present: j. A. Peterman
President. F. c. Marsh. Hy. Han,
mann, T. Aucoin. Fly. Penn, a. Al
lain, b. Levy and II. +. Milling
Absent: Simon Leopold and b. O
O'Brien.
The minutes of last meeting were
read and adopted.
: The President reported on the stand
ing Of Cadet Hanagritf.
On motion duly seconded. thai
Cadet Hanagriff be returned as a bene.
ficiary cadet from St. Mary to the
State University at Baton Rouge.
The following communication Wa
read:
ASHTON. La July 9th. 1903.
To the Hon. Police Jury. Parish OF
The II cana canal tollowing the public road
from Mrs. DOlze BOdin's plantation
along the Provost Bros. plantation
in the It'll ward. is in great need of
cleaning and charging. The length
of this canal is but about five or six
acres and the cost to do the work
would amount to very little, and We
the undersigned are willing to pay
One-third each. and ask that the Po-
lice Jury appropriate the other one
third to do the work.
Respectfully,
JULES o. BODIN, Agent.
ERNEST PROVOST. M or.
Moved by Mr.. Allan and seconded.
whereas this is a private canal. the
Police Jury has no right to spend
public money thereon. Carried.
The following letter was read
ASHTON, p. o. July, %, 1905.
Mr. Bernard Levy, Louisa, p. O.. La.
Dear Sir: beg respectfully to call
your attention for the second or third
time to the ''coulee' passing through
Demas Prevost's field. across public
road then through my field. The
coulee. as you must be aware of. is
entirely to clogged up and narrow to
take care of all the water coming in it,
the consequence is that it overtlows
the public road for acres on each side
and the water then spreads all over
my field.
- If you are not thoroughly CONVEX
SAINT with the situation, | would sug-
gest that you use your good Office to-
wards investigating the matter in full.
in view of cleaning and charging the
said coulee, as really the situation 5
it is, is detrimental to the public road
as well as all the surrounding fields
1t my recollection serves me right.
it strikes me as ! brought you in my
field sometime since. and showed. you
to your satisfaction that the coulee
overfows all over my field
F1n1aSS Snmofhipu iS done to,rapdu
this coulee, will for the protection
of myself levee my field against tho
public road also on each side of the |
proper course.
Trusting you will give due consid- |
GRAFTON, remain,
Very respectfully.
j. b. RODRIGUEZ.
On motion duly seconded. the Police
Jury could take no action in this mat
ter, as there are no monies appro-
priated to clean out coulees or bayous
IN the opinion of this Jury. the pro-
per relief for them would be to create
J drainage district and to levee
special tax for the purpose of dredg-
ng out this coulee, as has been done
~ other citizens of the parish.
Adopted.
Petition as follows from citizens of
Baldwin was read:
% the Honorable members OF the
Police Jury:
We, the undersigned citizens Of the
own of Baldwin, Parish of st. Mary
nd State of Louisiana. do hereby
resent the following statement of
acts to be carefully weighed and con-
Idered by you, the honorable men,
ers of the Police Jury.
First. That the public road from {
le Town of Baldwin to the railroad {
;ation OF the Morgan Louisiana & /
exos Il. r., is of the greatest. value I
the citizens of Baldwin than any |
fher pubic way leading hereto.
Second. That the condition of this L
BAD is very poor in both a sanitary
nd transporting way, as the said
nblic throughfare is full of rlrts and
Dles, and the bitches are foul with
agnant scum, trash and weeds.
Third. That the present condition
the said public way is caused bv 1t
e inattentiOn of the roadmaster. S
Fourth. That the said inattention CT
sthe rOadmaster is. caused because v
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~ because of the other roads that ID
we to be repaired by him. L
therefore we, the undersigned, do L
tition- you, the honorable members L
OF the police Jury, to appoint some Is
g "a this Town to have this work J
me; that this work shall consist Of N
gaming, working, and draining of v
Is public way. v
feutioners pray further, that you J
eshOnorable members of the Police 4
.ry, give this matter your prompt 3
IGNITION, as the winter season is com G
& on and SO that some headway can p
made on the improvement of this Z
bile way before this season comes A
J. we are, very respectfully yours, II
d Martin, e S Martin. rs
!, Boudreaux, Jno Baldwin, .Jr., OF
Bank of Baldwin G