St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-04-09
Proceedings Of tho Police Jury
OpeIonaaa. La.. April q 1910

Proceedings Of tho Police jury
Opelousas, La, April 4, 1910.
The Police Jury met ID regular SEES
sion this day with the following mem.
bers present: DR.. w. r. Clopton,
President; Nessrs. st. Cyr, Daley,
Lanclos, Doucet, Singleton, Durio, W.
2. Fontenot.
Motion by Mfr. Doucet-
Be it resolved that the report OF
committee appointed to contract for
q fiscal agent for the parish of st.
Landry for the year 1910, be received
and accepted committee discharged
and the said report and contract or
dered spread upon the minutes; re-
solved further that said contract and
report be and the same are hereby
approved and ratified BY this Police
Jury. Motion carried.
To the President and Members of the
Police Jury
Your undersigned committee APP
pointed on The 9Th day Of February,
1910, to advertise for bids and to
contract with any bank OF banks
within this State to act as fiscal
agent for the Parish Of st. Landry
up to April 1st, 1912, under the
terms and conditions of Act No. %
Of the Extra Session Of the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana
for the year 1907, approved Decem-
Der Bird, 1907, beg leave to report
that your committee advertised for
bids in accordance with their instruc-
tons and the law in such cases made
and provided, in the st. Landry
Clarion, the official journal Of the Pc
lice Jury, but received no bids in an
swer to said advertisement, and that
your committee thereopon entered
into a contract with the st Landry
State Bank to act as fiscal agent of
the parish up to April LIST, 1912,
which your committee considered for
the best interest Of the parish that
your committee herewith submits said
contract for the approval of this
Body.
Respectfully submitted,
]. q. DALEY,
JOS. q. ST CYR.
WILLIS .F0NTENOT.
Committee.
State of Louisiana,
Parish Of ST Landry.
The following contract made and
entered into by and between the Po-
lice Jury Of the Parish Of st. Landry,
herein represented by j. e Daley,
Joseph T. st. Cyr and Willis P. Fon-
tenot, a committee Of said Police Jury
appointed on the 9Th day of February,
a. D. 1910. as per copy Of resolution
hereto annexed. hereinafter called
the parish, and the st Landry State
Bank, located at Opelousas, Louisiana,
herein represented by DR.. Jno. A.
Haas, its President in pursuance to
authority in him vested By It's Board
Of Directors, hereinafter called the
Bank,
WITNESSETH:
Whereas the Parish has advertised
for bids from bank OF banks to act
as the fiscal agent of the Parish up
to April LIST, 1912, in pursuance to
the provisions Of Act No. % of the
Extra Session of the General Assem-
bly, Of the State of Louisiana for the
year 1907. approved December 8,
1907, and
Whereas the Parish has received
no bids in response to said advertise
ment. and
Whereas the Bank has agreed to
act as fiscal agent of the Parish up
to April 1st, 1912, as hereinafter
stipulated,
Now therefore, the parties hereto
have agreed and do hereby agree in
the premises as follows, to-wit:
The bank agrees, first, to act as
fiscal agent for the Parishu up to April
1st 1912, and as such to. pay all war
rants of the Parish drawn against
the several budget appropriations ac-
cording to law, and the witnesses
and Jurors certificates when drawn
and issued according to law, up to
the amount of the several budget APP
preparations for the years 1910 and
1911; and
Second, to take up and carry at
their face value such warrants and
jurors certificates issued against the
budget appropriations of 1910, as
may have been taken up and paid by
the 0pelousas National Bank under
its supplemental contract with the
Parish executed February 9Th, 1910,
In consideration whereof the par
ish agrees to pay to the Bank inter-
est on daily debit balances at the
rate Of FIVE (5) per cent, per annum,
payable monthly, and to pledge, and
it does hereby pledge to the Bank all
Of the revenues to be raised by the
Parish under it's ad valorem and
license tax ordinances levied for the
years 1910 and 1911, said taxes to
be turned over to the Bank by the
Parish Treasurer in liquidation Of the
advances made hereunder as afore-
said as fast as said collections shall
be turned oyer to said Parish Treas
urer By the Tax Collector; and the
Parish further agrees that the Parish