The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-08-02
JEFF DAVIS POLICE JURY
COMPLETES ITS LABORS
Adopts Ordinance Fixing Require
ments For Entering Parish Seat
Race. Locates Voting PrecInts
and School Districts, to Meet
Again Aug. II.

The second days session at the
First Police Jury of Jefferson Davis
Parish convened at ten thirty Thurs
day morning in the Lake Arthur Aud
itorium. Roll call showed all members
to be present.
The committee on lines of which Mr..
E. D. Conner, of Jennings was amen
Der asked for more time. and was
given until !: 80 TO make their report
The ordinance prescribing the quail.
ifcations necessary for towns to com
plv with in order to enter the parish
seat race, which had been laid over
from the previous evening. was again
taken up and discussed. The Jennings
contingent of the police jury were well
loaded with dilatory tactics, which
were tolerated with good humored
leniepcv by President Howell. and the
other members of the jury. a motion
was made to adopt the resolution re-
lating to qualifications, when Mr..
Conner moved a substitute requiring
that each town should be compelled to
hold q municipal election to determine
whether thev should enter the parish
seat fight. This substitute was lost on
a vote OF two to three The vote on the
original motion was then taken up. the
ordinance being adopted BY sections,
and then adopted as a whole, the vote
being three to two in each instance,
except on the first section. when Mr..
Merritt voted with the majority, maxi
ing the vote four to one. Later in the
day, the part OF tha ordinance relating
to the distance from which the court
house should be located from the post
Office, was called up for re-consldera
ton, by DR., Cooper, who offered as
substitute for the distance OF 100
feet prescribed in the ordinance, 1900
feet instead which amendment was
adopted.
The following are the principal re
quirenents of the above ordinance,
that any town entering the race for
parish seat must furnish free of en-
cumberance q plot of ground contain.
ing not less than $1,000 square feet, to
be located not more than 1900 feet
from the post Office, said plot to be
transferred to the president OF the par
ish police jury and his successors by
a warrant deed and an abstract show
Ing a good and nerfect title, with a
100000, bond as guarantee of title.
Each town must also furnish office and
furnitures for the parish officials and
court until the new court house shall
be built but in any case not for a longer
period than three years. A $4,000
bond shall he given as a guarantee of
the faithful performance of the same.
The date of the election for choosing
the parish seat was fixed for Soften.
Der oath.
After dinner the matter of dividing
the parish into wards taken up and
a map dividing the parish into nine
wards was presented by DR.. Cooper.
A description Of the boundrits of the
several wards was presented by Or.
Cooper and read. After some discus
sion the ordinance dividing the parish
as submitted by this committee WAS
adopted by vote of three to two,
MesSrs. Conner and Merritt voting No
a description OF the wards at this time
is hardly possible but we shall give
our readers map of the parish With
in few days showing the new wards
and other valuable date. AS now d.
vided there are four wards on the east
side of the parish, two on the west and
three in the center,
An ordinance dividing the parish
into school districts co-extensive with
the wards was presented by Or.
Cooper, and adopted by the unanimous
vote of all members.
The police jury then resolved itself
into committee of the whole for out
lining polling precincts and upon re-
converting adopted the following by
Unanimous VOTE
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