The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1911-07-29


ish, thought it was best to have it an
swered for fear that some citizen
may think that something was wrong
The f: cts are these and nothing else
In our June meeting, when all the OF
ticials were reelected, the subject O
the Official journal came up. Our at
torney, Mr.. Thorpe, arose and sal,
that 81 new act had been enacted viz
Act No l34 of 1910, which reads a
follows:
| Section |. Be it enacted by tn,
General Assembly of the state of Lou
isiana that an their first meeting on O
after the first day of July, 1910, ant
annually thereafter. at their frs
meeting in July, the Police Juries
School Boards. and City or Towr
Councils throughout the State, the
Parish OF Orleans excepted, are au
thorized and it shall be their duty Il
elect Parish. School Board, Town OF
City Printer for their respectiv.
towns. parishes, school board, or cities
for term not exceeding tour years
who shall he the owner or represen
tative of some established newspaper
published In the Parish. which has
been in existence for period of one
year preceding the election, etc.
After hearing the opinion of the
learned attorney and having taken
note of the above Act, the Police jury
decided to postpone the letting Of the
contract for the printing. and, also
the appointment of the janitor, to the
next meeting in July, which was on
the 9th. On that day there was q
heavy rainfall and only the following
members were present: Carlos Mes.
tayer, Rene DelaHoussaye, Arthur
Leblanc, A. Thibeaux. and the Presi
dent. There being no quorum, SIX be.
ing required to make quorum, the
members went home, fixing no date
for future meeting as the weather
was too unsettled. On Sunday. the
10Th instant, Mr.. Rene DelaHoussaye e
called on the President and informed
him that the Secretary said the Audi
tor found more work in going over
the Parish books than was expected,
and that the Secretary said he thought
a meeting would be necessary, as sew
eral other important matters, such as
payment for work which was let for
cash, the getting of a list of properties
for the assessor, etc, should be at
tended to at once. Mr.. DelaHoussaye
also stated that Mr.. Leblanc and MIR.
Curtis asked tor meeting; therefore,
the President told Mr.. Delahoussaye
to request the Secretary to call a
meeting any day he thought we could
hold one. A call accordingly was
sent out by the Secretary to meet on
July 2Ist. One of the Secretary's
calls reads: II this day notified the
members of call for special meet
ing, and have fixed Friday, the 2lst,
as the date, which shall give ample
time". In this call, we think. it was
understood that all business, which
was not transacted on the 9th Of July,
should be gone through with.
On the 2lst of July the Jury met
with all members present except Mr..
Gonsoulin, member of the third ward,
near New Iberia. After all the unfin-
ished usual business generally trans
acted by the Police Jury was over, the
Jury, having taken up most every.
thing that was presented. having
heard large delegation of taxpayers
from the 9Th ward concerning drain
age. etc.. the election of Parish Prin-
ter and JaDitor was called. Some
members thought it should deferred
to the next meeting, there being
division of opinion. The member OF
the 2nd ward, Mr.. Romero. moved
and Mr.. Thibeaux seconded, that
vote be taken. The result was six for
electing the Parish Printer and Jani.
tor and four against. The election of
Janitor was held and Mr.. ViatOr was
elected. When the election of Prin-
ter was called it was decided to ad-
iourn nntil g 30 p NJ. to give time to
the different printers to he present
Therefore, at 10 P. NJ. the Jury ad-
iourned to meet again at 2.3O. In the
meantime Mr.. Houssaye called
M. by phone, the editors of the En-
terprise and Iberian and informed
them Of the afternoon session and
purpose of same.
At23O P. NJ. six members of the
Jury were present; at 3.l5 P. M. no
more members appeared; the secre-
tary also being absent. As the hour
was getting late some OF the members
were complaining about the most i'm
condition OF roads ana.
having horses that were exhausted
from the morning trip to the room OF
the Police Jury, it was decided to call
some one to act as secretary protein
to finish the incompleted business OF
the forenoon session. The Jury met
with quorum present and completed
the sitting by electing the Parish
Printer and also attending to some
other business. The Jury then ad-
iourned at 3.35 p. n.
The contract for the printing Of the
Of the Police Jury. last
year was awarded free of cost to the
Parish To our knowledge that was
the first time that this ever occurred
n the history Of the Parish Of Iberia.
Heretofore the parish has paid thous-
ands OF dollars for parish printing. 1t
is true, that besides free and gratis
of the proceedings. bonus
Of 1900 was offered. which 10 not yet
settled: bot the Official Journal has
lob work done for the parish which is
due him and has not been paid. If
there is any difference, one wav or the
other. the matter will be settled and
the parish will lose not cent on their
contract.
We. the undersigned. think We have
acted in good faith and exactly the
wav the law reads And again. we
thought that the one who had printed
the proceedings for one whole year
free. was justly entitled to the Print,
ing Of at least another year. We feel
We have done our duty and simply
write the above to give out the facts.
Yours truly.
r. F. DELAHOUSSAYE.