The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-04-06
POLICE JURY

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M. Broussard. Absent: P. R. Lam
dry.
The minutes of the regular meeting
held March 4, and the special meeting
held Mar. II, were read and approved.
P. R. Landry now present.
President Billeaud here took occas-
ion to compliment the Jurors and road
o]verseers of the third ward for the
splendid work done on the road from
Pin Hook Bridge to the corporate
limits of Lafayette, expressing the
hope and desire that the same would
be done throughout the parish. A gen.
eral discussion regarding the public
jurors reported the roads of their re-
spective wards in very good condi-
ton, and in view of the fact that the
road taxes for 1909 are now collecta-
BILE, ample funds would be available
to keep them in good shape.
Messrs. VOORHEES, and Martin repor-
ted having turned over to Justice or
the Peace o, P. Guilbeau a list of the
names of the delinquent vehicle tax
| payers for 1908 for the third ward,
with instructions that suits be entered
TO rthe collection Of these taxes. That
they regretted to state the fact that
a large majority of the vehicle tax
delinquents were residents of the city
of Lafayette, a number of whom ought
to be more than willing to pay this
small tax for good roads. Requesting
that Justice Of the Peace O. P. Gull
beau be called in to ascertain what
progress he had made with the suits.
Justice of the Peace o. P. Guilbeau
appeared and stated that Constable
Aatiolais had not yet made returns
of the citations issued against these
delinquent vehicle tax payers; That
he was ready and willing to prosecute
these delinquents if the Jury would re-
quest the constable of this ward that
they promptly serve the citations and
make returns OF same. Constable La
tiOlais being absent from town, further
action was postponed until the after
moor session.
Mr.. Landry for the committee re-
ported that as per resolution of this
body under date Of March IL, the COM
mittee had investigated the indebted
ness of the parish and had found same
to be eight thousand eight hundred
and ninety-seven dollars including in
terest. That the treasurer had execut-
ed notes to the First National Bank
the parish fiscal agent in that sum.
Report accepted.
Mr.. Landry reported the road in the
seventh ward from J.. E. BOnin's to
the MISUNDERSTANDING road, donated
by the citizens of the said ward, COM
pleted. Moved and seconed that the
said road reported by Mr.. Landry as
completed be and is hereby accepted
and declared a public road. Carried.
Messrs. Martin and VOORHEES,, a
committee to have the archives of the
parish moved into the old clerk of
courts Office building, reports having
attended to the matter aud of having
contracted with Mr.. Sidney Dupuis to
do the work for $40 and 81 for lumber
and other material. Report approved.
Jerome Mouton, Esq, in behalf of
Mr.. Osma Boudreaux, PRAYED that
the Police Jury abandon the streets
and strips Of land for public ward
purposes; dedicated to the parish by
Mr.. Boudreaux at the time he had cut
his property into lots, hat Mr.. Boud-
reaux had sold no lots and wished to
sell the property as a whole, where
upon the following resolution prepar-
ed by Mr.. Jerome Mouton, was uuan-
imously adopted:
On motion by Martin, seconded by
Breaux, the following resolution was
adopted to-wit:
Be it further resolved by the Police
Jury of the parish of lafayette,
Louisiana, in regular monthly ses-
sion assembled, hat the public streets
or roads dedicated to the public use
and benefit by Osma Boudreanx by
an act passed before F. K. Hopkins,
deputy clerk of court, On December
Is, 1908, and recorded in Book of
Missc. Acts E-3, D. 484. of the office
of the clerk of court of Lafayette
parish, Louisiana, be and are hereby
abandoned by the parish of Lafa-
yette: the streets or roads hereby
abandoned by the parish of Lafayette
being shown on a map of record in
the Office of the said clerk of court
made by r. j. Mouton, C. E., and
marked ne varietur for Identification
by the said F. K. Hopkins: the same
being particularly described as
a street running through the property
of Osma BOudreau, forty feet wide, in
westerly direction to the line of the
property of the Louisiana Western
Railroad Company formerly that of
George and Horta Lombard, thence
in a southerly direction the same
width to the public road south of the
property of Osma Boudreanx; and
also a strip of land ten feet wide