The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-09-12
POLICE JURY.
Reports from q Number OF Commit
tees. Iron Bridge at Darmas
Br0ussard's Under Consid'
Grafton.
Ordinance Accepting Donation OF
Road. Delinquent Road Tax
Statement. Accounts Ap.
proved. 3
Lafayette, La, Sept. 6, 1906.

Lafayette, La, Sept. 6, 1906.
The Police Jury me this day with
the following members in attendance:
Nj. Billeaud, Jr.. presiding. Cornelius
Spell. Albert Theall, p. X. Landry,
Alfred A. Delhomme, j. H. Connolly,
r. G. Breaux, and j. Edmond o
ton. Absent: Valery BOudreaux.
The minutes of the last regular meet
ing were read and approved.
The committee on ordinance re-
garding the location of houses of i'll
fame within one mile of the Industrial
Institute reported as follows:
To the President and Members Of the
Police Jury:
The undersigned appointed a CON-
mittee to draw a suitable ordinance in
compliance with the request of the
Board of Trustees of the Southwest
ern Louisiana Industrial Institute rel
alive to houses of i'll fame located in
the vicinity of said institution respect
fully submit:
That they have carefully examined
the several statutes comforting powers
on the Police Juries of the parishes
and they have found none au-
thorizing said Police Juries to
pass I'M regulations concerning
brothels or houses of i'll fame.
ssPolice Juries can only exercise
such powers as have been granted to
them in express terms or such as are
necessarily implied from or incidental
to powers SO expressly granted. 41st
Annual page So ct seq. and 44th
Annual page 615.
''The Legislature has not made any
general grant of police power to the
Police Ju. les of the parishes; but has
very carefully detailed, defined and
limited the powers granted" Breaux
Digest page SO5.
Your committee respectfully refer
O to. section 9O8 of the Revised
Statutes of Louisiana, which says:
"Whoever shall be guilty of keeping
a DISORDERLY brothel (house of
i'll fame) shall suffer line or imprisOn-
ment or both at the discretion of the
court.
Respectfully,
G.. H. MOUTON,
FELIX H. MOUTON,
Committee.
The report is accepted and no fur
Their action taken.
Mr.. Theall reported having con-
ferred with the Vermilion parish OFF,
cial relative to the scraping and paint
ing of Olidon Broussard bridge, that
the said official authorized him, for
Vermilion parish, to have the work
done. The Jury instructs Mr.. Theall
to advertise for bids and proceed ac-
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scraped and painted. VermiliOn par
ish to incur one half the expense.
Mr.. Breaux reports the bridge be-
paired. Accepted.
Mr.. M~outon, on behalf of the third
wards standing committee, reports
their inability to meet with Mr.. Mem
tor Richard on whose property the
drain to be opened passes. Commit
tee continued.
Mr.. Billeaud reports, after due no.
tice to the ST. Martin Parish authOri-
ties, having rebuilt the bridge on
Bayou TOrtue. The said bridge be-
ing located on the dividing line of the
two parishes. Report accepted.
Mr.. Breaux reports the refusal of a
resident of the eighth ward to let his
road-Overseer use the dirt of a piece
of land, near the said residents prop
erty, to fix tine public road, exhibiting
an act of sale showing that the land in
question is the property of the parish.
MI. Breaux was instructed to again
interview the party and show him
where the land in controversy is the
parish's property, and to proceed to
use same.
Hon. VIM. Compbell, by request of
a committee of citizens of the 4th and
9th wards, appeared before the Jury
urging the building of a bridge across
Bayou vermilion at Darmas Brous-
sard; stating that some time ago the
Jury was petitioned by some 400 tax
payers of the parish, praying for the
building of the said bridge, and that
upon their behalf he renewed the de-
mand: that Mr.. E. D. Broussard prom
Uses to put the road on each side OF
the bayou in first class condition free
of charge to the parish, considering
the worth of this work to be about
$500.
After discussing the proposition
thoroughly, the distances from the
proposed location to Pin Hook and
Olidon Broussard bridges, the advis.
ability of locating the bridge be-
tween the Pin Hook and Olidon
Broussard bridges instead Of
at Darmas Broussard crossing, the
cost, the probability of having to,
later on, build q bridge between the
proposed one and Pin Hook, it was
moved and seconded, that the secre.
tary write to the War Department al
Washington D. c., and obtain per.