The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-07-01
MEETING Of POLICE JURY.

fHaA@ tiaO VI OLEO - VVtA Ia
Bayou Bijou Drainage District Gre,
ated and Commissioners Appoint
ed-ParochiaI Lawn akers, Sittin!
i as Board of Review, Approve AS.
sessment Rolls for Current Year.
(Official Proceedings.)
Donaldsonvil1e, La, June 2S, 1911.
| The police jury of Ascension parish
met this day in special session, at the
courthouse, and was called to order at
IL o'clock a. m. Present-George B.
Reuss, president, first ward; K. A.
| Aucoin, second ward; AdoIphe Meter,
third ward; H. L. We'll. fourth ward;
L. w. Armitage, fifth ward; J. c. Klos,
sixth ward; Oreal Gonzales, seventh
ward; H. A. Webb, eighth ward.
}. After roll-call, the jury took re-
cess until 1880 o'clock p m.
At 1890 p m. the jury reassembled
and the following ordinance was read:
AN ORDINANCE.
| Organizing and creating a drainage
District composed of certain lands
situated in the parishes of Ascen-
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 Isl of the constitution of
1888.
l.. Section 1. Be it ordained by the po-
lice jury of the parish of Ascension,
mat whereas, in the opinion of the
ponce jury OF the parish of Ascension,
It is necessary and conducive to tn {
] general welfare of certain pronertV
owners Of the parishes of Ascension
and Iberville that drainage district
pe organized and created comprising
certain lands situated in the said par
ashes 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
oody by Act No. 317 of the General
Assembly of the year 1910, all that part
of the parishes of Ascension and Iper-
vile lying on the right bank of the
Mississippi river, and embraced within
| the boundaries following towit, shah
constitute and form, and be embraced
in, the limits of a drainage district to-
De known and styled BAYOU BIJOUs
DRAINAGE DISTRICT:
Beginning on the right bank of the
Mississippi river at the line between
! the CeIeste and Cannon plantations in
iberVllle parish, thence in a southeast
erly direction along said line to the up
per ljne of the Old Hickory plantation,
along said line to the upper back
| corner of Old Hickory plantation,
tnence 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 diSection along the back
nne Of GelestessBHilFf aeaye and a por-
tlon OF Laurel Ridge plantation to the
ilne between sections one and two in
township IL, south, range IS, 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 ana
eleVen TO the quarter section corner,
thence south along the center line OF
sections eleven and fourteen to the
eel,ser e1a o. sectlon fourteen, thence east
along the center line OF sections IA
ana Is, to the quarter-section corner
of Sectlon l3 on the township line OF
sacramento road thence north along
the line between township II, south,
range 13 east, and township IL, south,
range IA east, to the corner common to
sections one and twelve and six and
seyen,s thence east along the line be-
w cen sections six and seven to the
s0-arpent line of McCal1:s McManor
eA'NttSeth1S "AS n,
enehee IN noftheasterly direction
along said S0-arpent line to the back
corner common to McManor and New
Hope plantations, thence in south
easterly direction along the line between
| McManor and New Hope plantations to
the Mississippi, thence up the right
bank of said river and along the mean
der thereof to the point OF beginning
Section 2. Be it further ordained,
ETC., That there shall be five COM
RI moo 4 lie,%.n;
VINO, or whose wives, shall be assessed
with at least five hundred dollars worth
of real estate in said district, and who
snail be c1tlzens or the staee OF Loue
lSlana; TWO OF which said commissioners
snail be appointed by the police jury OF
the parish of Ascension, which has the
greatest area in said drainage district
one by the police jury of the parish
of Iberville, and two shall be appointed
by the governor OF the state of Lou
iSiana.
Section 3. Be it ordained, ETC., That
said drainage district is hereby con-
stItuted a body corporate with all the
powers of a 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 anys and all acts in its cor
porate capacity and in it's corporate
name, necessary and proper for the car
rying out of the purposes and objects
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 dralnlhs
or reclaiming any of the LANDS empfaesa t1sa
within it's limits, and lit shall own tiig
rieht of way for canals and bitches, ana
| all sites which it may acquire either py
| donation. purchase or exproprlat1on, IN
| full ownership. Its commissioners, !, iol y
| the purpose of securing, a proper ou.let
!, for the waters of said drainage dlstrlct,
! shall have authority to extend canals
ar bitches. or both canals and ditches,
bevond the limit of said drainage DIS
4 trict, with the same power ana sautloI-
| ity of expropriating the right OF way IN
1 the same manner and to the same eN-
#tent as if such canals and ditches were
/ wholly within the said drainage dis
trict The domici!e of this drainage 1ls
triet (Bayou Bijou Drainage DISTRICT
shaalI be, and the same is hefepy
/ fixed at Gernania, Hohen Soims r. ",
/ in the parish of Ascension, at when
domicfle it shall be sued and service
! Of citation made on the president, either
1 in person or on some person in chafse
/ Of the office.