The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-08-10
THE LEVEE BOARD.
Official Proceedings Of the Meeting Held
at Bossier City Last Thursday.

The Board of Commissioners of the
Bossier Levee District met this day
(Thursday, August 81 in special session
at l O'Clock pm. Roll call showed the
following members present:
w. 7. Colquitt, President; T. w. w.
Stinson, H. N. Carlton, w. E. Ivey and
L. M. Pruitt. Absent: ]. G. McDade
and DR.. H. E. Atkins.
A quorum being present the Board
proceededed to business.
Minutes of the last meeting were read
and approved.
Upon motion, duly carried, the Board
went into executive session.
Upon motion of Mr.. Carlton, duly
seconded and carried, the Secretary was
instructed to write the Auditor Of State
and request him to furnish to the Sec
retary of this Board each month a state
ment OF the receipts and expenditures
for account of the Bossier Levee Dis
trict; and the Secretary was also in
structed to write and request the Tax
Collector of Bossier Parish to furnish
the Secretary Of the Board a monthly
statement showing the amount Of taxes
collected for account Of Bossier Levee
District, specifically stating the amount
collected on 10 mills, on acreage, on
produce and for what year, and also to
furnish the dates of his deposits with the
Auditor, together with the amounts de-
posted.
Upon motion Of Mr.. Carlton, duly sec
onded and carried, the Shreveport Blow
Pipe and Sheet Iron Works bill for
s496.29, for supplies at Ninock Bayou,
was allowed and the President and Sec
retary authorized to issue a,warrant for
same.
Upon motion OF Mr.. Stinson, duly Sec
onded and carried, Mr.. B. A. Kelly's
bill for s18, for making certified copies
of deeds to Levee Board lands, was al
lowed and the President and Secretary
authorized to issue warrant for same.
Upon motion Of Mr.. Ivey, duly Sec
onded and carried, that the President
and Secretary be authorized to draw a
check on the Merchants and Farmers
Bank and Trust Company, of Shreve-
port, in favor of T. M. Yarbrough for
$500, and to take up Warrant No. 326,
issued July 6, 1905, to T. NJ. Yarbrough,
for $t666.67, and to issue another war
rant, dated Aug. 8, 1905, to T. M. Var
brough for s1466.67, payable Aug. is,
1905.
Upon motion Of Mr.. Stinson, duly Sec
onded and carried, the Secretary was in
structed to write to Gov. N. C. Blanch-
ard in regard to the contemplated new
levees to be constructed within the Bos-
sier Levee District, and to furnish him
with an itemized statement of Bossier
Levee District finances, and also ap-
proximations of the revenues of the dis
trict for the years 1905 and 1906.
Upon motion of Mr.. Stinson, duly Sec
onded and carried, Mr.. Gervais Lom-
bard, Assistant State Engineer, in
charge of the Bossier Levee District, is
requested and instructed to write the
Governor and furnish him with state
ment of the existing conditions in the
Bossier Levee District, giving him list
of new levees to be constructed, approx
innate contents in cubic yards and ap-
proximate cost of same, and he will
please state what portion of the new
work has been undertaken by the State
Board of Engineers and what portion
remains to be undertaken by the Bossier
Levee District; he will also express his
opinion as to whether or not he thinks
it absolutely necessary that the Bossier
Levee District sell the remaining
$5O, 900 worth of bonds (now on deposit
with the State treasurer in order to pay
for the new contemplated levees to be
constructed by the Bossier Levee Dis
| trict.
Upon motion of Mr.. Carlton, duly sec
onded and carried, the Secretary was
instructed to open the sealed bids in his
possession on the Magenta and Gold
Dust levees.
The following bids were received on
the Magenta levee:
Jordan Bros, 1920 cts per cubic yard.
Mike Hunt, 18 cents.
Burt Construction Co., 1910 cents.
The following bids were received on
Gold Dust levee:
Jordan Bros, 1910 cts per cubic yard.
Mike Hunt, 1890 cents.
Burt Construction Co., 1910 cents.
Upon motion Of Mr.. Ivey, duly Sec
onded and carried, the Burt Construc-
ton Company's bid Of 1910 cents pei
cubic yard on the Magenta levee was
accepted (it being the lowest) and the
contract awarded them, with instruc-
tons to begin work on said levee on OF
before Aug. Is, 1905, and to have il
completed by or before Nov. 1, 1905.
Upon motion Of Mr.. Ivey, duly sec.
/ ~-l>l onl ocrr:od M;l>o LI,,r&5o hid a.