The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-06-12
Adoption of Ordinance Creating the
Cypress Isiand-Lafayette Drain
age District.
Committee Appointed to Confer with
Town OF Lafayette in Regard to
Approaches to Pin Hook n
BeausejOur Bridges.
Treasurer Authorized to Borrow
$4,000. Dam Ordered Cut. Re-
port of Treasurer and Bills
Approved.
Lafayette, La. June e. 1907.

presiding. Alfred A. DelHolnine, vi
nelius Spell. j. Edmond Mouton. Al
bert Theall.. j. H. Connolly, +. K.
Landry. and L. G. Breaux. Absent:
Valerv BOudreaux.
The minutes of the regular meeting
held May =. were read and approved.
Attorney c.. Fl. MOutOn here read
act No. 1874 of 1906 concerning the
Board of Reviewers OF assessment,
%whereupon the following resolution
was read and adopted.
Whereas by act No. 1874 of 1906 the
Police Jury of this parish was to meet
for the purpose of sitting as a Board
of Reviewers of Assessment on the first
Monday of the present month of June,
and -,
Whereas the first Monday of said
month happend to be on the third day OF
June. which said third day OF June OF
each year is made a legal holiday by
act No. 3 of 1904. in consequence OF
which. said meeting of the Police
jury as Board of Reviewers has
failed.
Therefore the Police Jury being now
setting in regular session DO hereby
call the said Police Jury to meet on
Monday, June 10. 1907 at the Court
House at 0 O'Clock a. IN. without any
further notice to sit as a Board OF
Reviewers of assessment OF this
parish as required by act No. 1874 OF
1905.
State Senator r. J. Liable of Saint
Martin parish appeared before the
Jury in the interest of the formation
of a new drainage district between the
parishes of Saint Martin and Lafa-
yette. Mr.. Liable submitted a copy of
the following ordinance adopted by
the Police Jury of the parish of st.
Martin. and asked that this body APP
prove and ratify the same:
AN ORDINANCE.
Dissolving the Cypress Island
Drainage District and creating the
Cypress Island-Lafayette Drainage
District, defining the limits thereof,
appointing and electing. within and
for the Parish of st. Martin. Com
missiOners to constitute the Board for
said Drainage District: and referring
said ordinance to the Police Jury of
the Parish of LAFAYETTE, Louisiana.
for its approval and ratification as
the law directs.
Be 1t ordained by the Police Jury
of the Parish of st. Martin, Louisiana.
in regular session convened, that
upon proper petition of the Board OF
Commissioners Of the Cypress !Sian1
Drainage District, a majority in num-
Der and OF a number of property tax
PAYERS of said Drainage District,
which petitions being hereto annexed
and made part of this ordinance, the
Cypress Island Drainage District.
created by this body under ordinance
OF date
consisting of all that territory situated
in the parish of ST. Martin and the
limits thereof being fully given and
said territory fully described in said
ordinance, be and the same is hereby
dissolved in accordance with No. 159
of the acts of the General Assembly OF
the State of Louisiana for the year
1902 and the Constitution Ofthis State.
Be it further ordained, etc., that a
new district, under the name and
style OF the Cypress Island-L yette
Drainage District, be and is hereby
created. formed and organized. out of
q greater portion of said territory OF
said Cypress Island Drainage District
in accordance with said act No. 159 OF
1902. and the Constitution of the State
of Louisiana for the year 1893 and
amendments. thereof of the year 1906,
being Act 122 of said year 1906, to
consist of the following territory.
namely:
All the land included in the limits
hereafter given and lying partly in
the first. third and fourth wards oil
the Parish of ST. Martin, Louisiana,
and partly in the fifth ward of the
Parish of Lafayette.
Starting at a point in the first ware
of St. Martin parish commencing a
the division line of the Parishes O
Iberia and St. Martin on the public
road leading from St. Martinville Il
New Iberia: thence following sale
public road in o northerly direction K
the corporate line of st. Martinville
thence following the southern limit o
the corporation of st. Martinville; il
q westerly direction to the western
limit OF the said corporation of st
Martinyille; thence following tn
western limit of the corporation of st
Martinville in q northerly direction t.
q point where the eastern side of tn
Southern Pacific Railroad Right o
Way strikes the line of the corpora
ton of St. Martinville: thence follow
ing the eastern side OF the Southern
Pacific Railroad Right of Way in
northerly direction in the third an,
fourth wards of the Parish of ST
Martin to the Southern limit of Sec. 10
to and across Range line of T. 9 S. r
8 e. and 9 8. r. 6 E; thence followin,
southern line of section q TIP. s. r
5 E. formerly owned by Jean Charlie
Ougas to the township lire Of TIP. 8 S