The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-07-08
N|EET|NG or POLICE JURY.
8ayou Bijou Drainage District Gre
ated and Commissioners Appoint
ed-ParochiaI Lawn akers, Sitting
as Board Of Review, Approve AS
sessment Rolls for Current Year.
lQfficial Proceedings.)
(OfficiaI Proceedings
Donalusonville, La, June 20, 1911

Donalusonyille, La, June 70, 1911.
The police. jury of Ascension parish
met this day in special session, at the
courthouse, and was called to order at
II o'clock a. m. Present-George B.
Reuss, president, first ward; K. A.
Aucoin. second ward; Adolphe Meter,
third ward; FL. L. Well, fourth ward;
L. w. Armitage, fifth ward; J. c. Klos,
sixth ward; Oreal Gonzales, seventh
ward; 81. a. Webb, eighth ward.
After roll-call, the jury took a re-
cess until 1890 o'clock p. NJ.
AT 1890 p. m. the jury reassemb1ed
and the following ordinance was read:
AN ORDINANCE .
Organizing and creating a drainage
District, composed of certain lands
situated in the parishes of Ascen-
sion and Iberville; declaring the
powers of said body, and carrying
into effect the provisions of Act
IS No. 317 of the General Assembly of
the year 1910, and the provisions of
Article 281 Of the constitution of
1883.
Section L. Be it ordained by the po-
lice jury of the parish of Ascension,
That whereas, in the opinion of the
police jury of the parish of Ascension,
u
general welfare of certain property
owners of the parishes of Ascension
and Iberville that drainage district
be organized and created comprising
ishes of Ascension and Iberville, for
the purpose of more readily draining
the said lands in said parishes;
1t is, therefore, ordained by said po-
lice jury, That, by virtue of. and in
pursuance to, the power vested in this
body by Act No. BIT of the General
Assembly of the year 1910, all that part
of the parishes of Ascension and Iber-
vile lying on the right bank of the
Mississippi river, and embraced within
the boundaries following to-Wit,. shall
constitute and form, and be embraced
in, the limits of a drainage district to
be known and styled BAYOU BIJOU
DRAINAGE DISTINCT:
Beginning on the right bank of the
Mississippi river at the line between
the Celeste and Cannon plantations in
lbervilIe parish, thence in southeast
per line of the Old Hickory plantation,
thence in southWesterly direction
along said line to the upper back
corner of Old Hickory plantation,
thence in an easterly direction along
the back line of Old Hickory plantation
and Claiborne plantation to the corner
common to Claiborne and Celeste plan
tations and the swamp lands belonging
to New Hope plantation, thence in a
southWesterly direction along the back
line of Celeste, Belle Grove and a por-
tion of Laurel Ridge plantation to the
line between sections one and two in
township IL, south, range 10, east
thence south along the line between
said sections one and two to the cor
ner common to sections one, two
eleven and twelve, thence west along
the line between sections two ant
eleven to the quarter section corner
thence south along the center line OF
sections eleven and fourteen to the
center Of section fourteen, thence easl
along the center line of sections Il
and IS, to the quarter-sectlon corner
of section IS on the township line Of
Sacramento road. thence north alons
the line between township IL, south
range IS east, and township II, south
range II east, to the corner common t.
| sections one and twelve and six a.nt
seven. thence east along the line be.
| tween sections six and seven to tiat
! SO -arnent Line of McCaHs McManol