Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-15
IROCEIcDIN
OF rHE
POLICE JURY.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish of Tensas.

BE IL known, That on TINS lltn
day of July, 1910, being the day
to which the regular meeting to
be held OH the 1st Monday of July,
had been adjourned, the HonI.
the Police Jury of Tensas Parish.
La, met at the Court House, in
St. Joseph, La.
There were present.: Mr.. f. H.
Curry, President, and Messrs.
John Murdoch. R. B. Lynch, w.
A. Register, D. Muir, r. F. Nc
Way and Louis T. Hunter, mem.
bers.
On motion q committee com.
posed OF Messrs. r. B. Lynch,
P. G. Smith aud J. G. Kline was
appointed to advertise for bids
for the erection of a pile driver
bridge at Young's. Bayou as per
specifications on file in Clerks
Office.
On motion Mr.. Murdoch was
authorized to have Gordon's Lane
road repaired.
Messrs. Jos. Curry, Jno. Hughes
and R. H. Whitney were appoint
ed u Committee to have sanitary
equipment in the parish Jail re-
paired and improved.
On motion the proposition of
the Flliott-Fischer Typewriter Co,
as to trade for typewriter now in
Clerks Office was rejected.
Mr.. Hunter was instructed to
advance to Page Rundell the sum
Of three dollars per month, she
being blind aud helpless and with.
out relatives or friends to care
for her.
On motion the Treasurer wns
instructed to collect the rent of
5000. 90 for the Parish Landing Mt
St. Joseph for the year 1910.
1t having been brought to the
attention of the Board that the
public roads in some places in the
parish were being flooded with the
water used in the cultivation of
rice, the District Attorney 10 re-
quested to write to the rice plant.
tiers, explaining the rights of the
parish in the matter. That said
District Attorney is earnestly
asked to enter prosecutions in oil
cases where the watering is not
needed and the nuisance abated.
Il Messrs. Muir and Murdoch were
authorized to have the road lead
ing across Lake St. Joseph re-
paired.
Il Mr.. Lynch was authorized to
have bridge across small bayou
near Saddletree Lake bridge re.
paired.
On motion, duly seconded, the
Sheriff is allowed fifty cents per
day for feeding prisoners in Jail,
and the fee of One Dollar as turn
key fee, heretofore allowed, 10
abolished.
On motion of Mr.. Lynch, duly
seconded, the following ordinance
was unanimously adopted:
Be 1t ordained by the Police Jury Of the
eight and three quarter mills on the dollar be
and the same IL hereby levied for the year.
1919 upon all taxable property within the Par
Resolved further That one and one half
mills of said tax be and the same IL hereby
set apart under the provisions Of Act No II
| OF 1905 OF the Legislature OF this State for the
payment of the interest to become due on
March LIST. 1911, on the parish bonds issued
by this parish under the authority contained
in said act.
| On motion of Mr.. Hunter the
following ordinance was upani-
mOusly adopted:
BE 1t ordained by the Police Jury Of Tensas
| Parish, La
= Section l. That OF the eight and three
quarter mill advalorem tax this day levied.
two mills are hereby set apart for the puf.
pose Of constructing and maintaining and re-
pairing OF the public roads of this parish.
| Section III. That a per capita tax OF One
Dollar for the year 1910 for road purposes ~
} provided in Article 29l of the Consultation be
? and the same Is hereby levied and imposed
F, liant Of this parish between the ages OF nf.
] teen and fifty-fve years.
. Section iii. That a license OF One Dollar
Z for the year 1910 for the purposes. as provfd.
| ed in Article POI Of the Constitution be ana
|, | the same Ii hereby levied on each and every
. | vehicle, including bicycles kept and used for
locomotion over the public roads Of this par
ish.
Resolved further, That the per capita tax
herein levied shall become delinquent on
| October LIST, next. and the Tax Collector 10
| hereby directed to enforce collection on thas
date.
ii On motion the sum of Two Hun
dred and fifty Dollars, or Us much
Thereof as will be necessary, was
~ appropriated as the share Of this
g parish in the erection of bridge
II across Bayou L'Argent, by the
,f Parish of Concordia and this par.