The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-08-05
PROCEEDINGS OF POLICE JURY.
REGULAR MEETING.
Parish of Ascension.

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Donaldsonville, La, July IL, 1911.
The police Jury Of Ascension par
/ ish met this day in regular session,
at the courthouse, anG was called
to order at 1880 o'clock a. m. Pres
ent-G. B. Reuss, president, flrst
ward; K A. Aueoin, second Ward'
! Adolphe Meter, third ward; ii. u.
We'll, fourth ward; L. w. Armltage,
fifth ward; j. G. Klos, sixth ward;
Oreal Gonzales, seventh ward Ab-
sent-H. A. Webb, eighth ward.
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The following ordinance was read:
AN ORDINANCE.
Organizing and creating a drainage
4 District, composed of certain LANDS
situated in the parishes OF Ascen-
sion and Iberville; declaring me
! powers of said body, and carrying
into effect the. provisions of Act
No 317 of the General Assembly OF
the year 1910, and the provisions OF
Article 2s1 of the constitution OF
| 1898.
Section 1. 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,
general welfare of certain property
owners of the parishes of Ascension
and Iberville that drainage district
be organized and created comprising
certain lands situated in the said par
| ishes of Ascension and Iberville, for
| the purpose of more readily draining
| the said lands in said parishes;
It is, therefore, ordained by said po-
/ lice jury, That, by virtue OF, and IN
pursuance to. the power vested in TINS
body by Act No. ST of the General
Assembly of the year 1910, all that part
| of the parishes of Ascension and lber-
vile lying on the right bank OF the
Mississippi river, and embraced within
constitute and form, and be embraced
| in. the limits of a drainage district to
be known and styled t'BAYOUz BIJOUs
DRAINAGE DISTRICT:
Beginning at the right bank of the
mississippi NJ river in Ioeryllie parish,
4 Celeste planta tons to the upper line of
Old Hickory planta ton, thence along
SAID line of5 Old Hickory plantat lion to-
down the eighty aTpent line Of Old.
1 hickory, Claiborne, Chatham, Ascen-
4 sion and New Hope plantations to the
line between New Hope and McManqr
plantations, thence along said line to
along the right bank OF said river to
the Mississippi river, thence up and
the point OF beginning, being partly in
the parish of Ibervilie and partly in the
parish Of Ascension.
T. SSStlOA q. be II TuFCher- ordained,
ETC., That there snail be five co1u-
Lnlssioners for said drainage district.
VINO, or whose wives, Shall be assessed
With at least rive hunured doliars worth
OF Teal estate III said district, and VINO
snail pe citlzens or the state or Lou
4sAaIla; Two OF which said commissioners
'naiI oe appointed by rile police jury of
tLle parish OF Ascension, which has the
greatest area in said drainage district,
one by the police jury of the parish
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| oy the governor OF the state of Lou
| isiana.
Section 8. Be it ordained ETC., That
| said drainage district is hereby con-
stltuted a body corporate with all the
/ powers of corporation; it shall have
/ perpetual existence; shall have the pow
er and right to incur debts and contract
obligations; to sue and be sued; to
/ have a corporate seal and to do and
/ perform any and all acts in its COR
porate capacity and in its corporate
name, necessary and proper for the car
rying out of the purposes and objects
1 for which the said Bayou Bijou Drain
age District is created under this or
| dinance It shall have the power of
expropriating property for the purpose
of acquiring sites for pumping stations
or acquiring lands for any other purpose
that it may find necessary;it shall also
| have the power to acquire machinery,
to maintain pumping plants or any ma
chinery whatever that may be found
necessary for the purpose of draining
or retaining any of the lands embraced
within it's limits, and it shall own the
RIGHT of way for canals and ditches and
all sites which it may acquire either by
| donation, purchase or appropriation, IN
\ full ownership. Its commissioners, Tor
! the purpose of securing proper Quiet
4 for the waters of said drainage district,
shall have authority to extend canals
or bitches, or both canals and bitches,
/ beyond the limit of said drainage dis
/ trict, with the same power and author
| ity of expropriating the right q way IN
4 the same manner and to the same ex-
/ tent as if such canals and bitches were
| wholly within the said drainage dis
trict. The domicile Of this drainage dis
lrict bayou Biiou Drainage District
shaall be, and the same is hereby
fixed at Germania, Hohen solns r. O.,
1 in the parish of Ascension, at which
domicile it shall be- sued and service
of citation made on the president, either,
in person or on some person in charge
of the office.
Section 4. Be it ordained, etc, That
the drainage commissioners, after they
shall have been duly appointed and
qualified, shall convene at the court
house, within fifteen (15) days after
all of them have been duly appointed
| and qualified, and a majority of said
/ commissioners shall constitute a quo
rum for the transaction of business,
| Wnen lhey snail organize by eectlng,
from their own number, a president and
a. vice president. tt shall be the duty
/ OF the president to preside over the:
meetings of the board and to perform
such other duties as are usually re-
CURED of presidents of corporations It
shall be the duty of the vice president
| to act in the absence of the president
| IN case of absence #or disability; said
drainage commissioners shall also elect
a secretary and treasurer, who shall
furnish bond in a sum to be fixed by
them and whose salary they will also
Tx at q. sum not to exceed fifty dol
/ lars per month and he shall perform
/ all duties required Of him by said board
/ of commissioners; said drainage COM
nlissioners shall select one of the sol
vent chartered banks of the state,
where all moneys shall be deposited,
which bank Shall pay interest at not
less than three per cent per annum on
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