The Bossier banner., 1908-08-27
Police Jury Proceedings.

August 24th) pursuant to call, with the
following members present at roll call,
to-wit:
}. Z. Logan, ward two.
F. r. Garrett, ward three.
6. I. Mays, ward four.
A Hoffpauir, ward five.
J. w. Elston, ward six.
The following petition was received,
filed and ordered spread on the minutes,
to-Wit:
To His Excellency, J. Y. Sanders, Governor of
the State of Louisiana, and the honorable
President and Members of the Police Jury of
Bossier Parish, State of louisiana:
We, the undersigned property owners
Of Bossier Parish, do most respectfully
itself Of Act No. 12 of the General AS
sembly, approved June q, 1900, and Act
No. ia of the General Assembly, ap-
proved July II, 1900, and Article 261 of
the Constitution of 1898, and the laws
passed in pursuance thereof, and organ
ize a Drainage District in that portion
of the parish bordering on Red Chute,
commencing at the upper end of the said
parish, and the entire length of said
bayou (Red Chute) in the said parish,
bounded as follows:
All lands subject to overflow, from Old
River, opposite Benton, La, to the
north, to Loggie Bayou to the south,
between Red River to the westward and
the highlands above overflow to the east
ward, all in accordance with survey and
property map, to be made --, and
lines to be drawn SO as to determine all
the lands whose waters naturally flow
into said chute, and drained by the same.
Your petitioners request that your
honorable body name three Of the five
members to be appointed commissioners
of this said district, and the other two to
be submitted to his Excellency, the
Governor of the State of Louisiana, for
appointment, and that the said COM
missioners, as appointed, be empowered
to order and direct the necessary survey
to determine the most economical way to
drain the said lands, to make approxi-
mate estimate of cost thereof, to compile
an assessment roll of the drainage dis
trict, being guided therein by the pres
ent assessment roll of that property, to
estimate the rate of taxation for perioG
Of forty years, or less, if necessary, tc
defray the cost of the work, and to re.
port to the Police Jury at their earlies
convenience, and ask that an election bt
held to determine whether the drainage
will be accomplished, and your petition.
ers further request that the name OF tht
drainage district be styled, The Rex
Chute District, and that its domicile bt
in the Parish of Bossier, and in the even
of a negative vote by the property
owners, we, the undersigned petitioners
do hereby bind ourselves to prorate tn,
expenses of the survey and other pre-
liminary work incurred by the commits
| sioners in proportion to the respective
amount OF our assessments.
E. B. Herndon. A. G. Skannal.
J. W. Prince. Tom Hickman.
H. N. Carlton. w. J. Fullilove.
D. J. McAnn. A. Curtis.
w. E. Millsaps. 7. A. Tidwell.
J. Y. Snider. w. T. Colquitt.
H. l.. Skannal. J. S. Alison.
w. B. Hickman. J. H. Fullilove, jr.
w. L. Foster. Jack P. Fullilove.
Mrs. J. NJ. Foster, Taylor G. McDade.
per W L. Foster A. F. McDade & &C
J. M. Foster, CIV. Smith.
per W. L. Foster. M p Cnll;nan
G. J. Foster & Co. M IT parro+
H. P. Moore. hvT G. Barret
The following petition, opposing tn
creation of the Red Chute Drainage Dis
trict and the ordering of an election, We
received and ordered filed, to-wit:
To the Honorable Police Jury OF the Parish
Bossier:
We, the undersigned citizens and ia,
payers of your said parish and livin
within the proposed drainage distri'
sought to be created out of certain tel
ritory in your said parish, most earnestl
| protest against the incursion in said dis
trict OF our property, for the reason tn;
the said district will be of no benefit
our property, and besides, we are no
taxed to the limit of our endurance, pay
ing both State and parish, school ar
levee taxes and contribution, and tt
imposition OF an additional drainage tt
on our property will almost amount to
confscation thereof.
On account of the recent high waite
; MANY of us will make almost a failure
our crops, and to now add to our alreae
S heavy burdens will be unfair, unjust al
, indefensible from any standpoint. "
= have no objection to the creation OF SUI
drainage district, to include the proper
a of the petitioners therefor, but we me
: earnestly insist that it will be OF no a
y vantage to us, and we ask in the name
fairness, justice and fair play that we
:. not included therein.
f A. C. Berneke. Miss Estelle Vance
C. G. House. st. l.. S.-W. R'y I
w. J. Owsley. by ). d; y Wilklnson. ln :ean
Il l.. f. Schools. Joseph ID. oiiil,h,
= =. ~ % u'lioM' LIN Mrs. Nina Vance.
Diyanr .. ooiA0o' S. S. Hunter.
IS = p n. n nuo9. J. New. Ford.
: Il, Il, W. wv. wv o.inaon' S. w. Vance.
" =. Whioenan'' Mrs. L. A. Brownie
M. Sillln. by G. W. Arnold.
w. +. Coleman. Mary Lee Scovell
, T. P. Switzerland. by S. W. Vance
II Simon Lane. J. G. Ogden.
% John A. Sorrell. Gray Stlnson.
r Charles Smith. S.Willer.