The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-01-13
Hcial Proceedings of Police Jury of
Grant Parish, Louisiana.
Continued from first page.

CSoteS Tor Mr.. StIilth, itO-wit: Messrs.
Purvis and Bullitt, and three votes
Tor Mr.. Johnston. to-wit: Nessrs.
Bradford. Nugent and Jones, and
AIR. johnston VAS declared duly cleo
ted.
On motion duly made and second
e'i. the HANK OF Conax WAS ordered
paid for loans to rhe parish. (Se-
Int Of wnrrunts).
On motion of NJ. Purvis, seconded
by Mr. Bradford. .h- sum of two
hundred dollars WAS appropriated to
build bridge over the D'Lnl tigo,
til the Montgomery and Hurrisor-
Lnrg road, and the following ruur-
mittre was appointed to LIT the sn me
Ont according to INV: Mrssrs. e.. j &.
Hutchinson, j. l.. KEGS and G. l..
Gsrwttf
,-'t'n motion 81 Mr.. Purvia. seconded
iy MI. Bullitt, the sum OF twputy-
i've dollars Wis appr, printed To "a
pair bridge ind an old slough nea,
the D'Lartigo on the Vrrda and Pol
Lick road; also Ia repair bridge over
Fushniire creek on the Redemption
road.
On motion oT Mr.. Nngent. seconded
Ivy Mr.. Bullitt, the following resolu.
t,on was sdopted:
Whereas. under Act 40 of 1910
the police jury. in Settlements Of til.
Claims Tor rights-of-way for model
r.,ads. ARE limited to paying donbl,
the sssrsement per acre of the party
whose hand the road crosses, this
matter in called to the attention oi
the public, in order that claims NAV
be itemized, land described. and as-
scssfnent thereof referred TO, in all
bills hereafter submitted; and nttpn.
ton IL called also to the fact that
the Assessed value, and not the
market value uf the timber il thr
rule governing the settlement for
claims for timber. az per said act, IL
all cnses where the timber is assessed
separstely from the land.
The bill of the Grant Timber and
Manufacturing Co.. for the market
value OF the timber on such right-of-
way IL. therefore, disallowed.
On motion of Mr.. Jones, seconded
by Mr.. Nugent, the following resolu-
ton WIS adopted: Resolved, that
the road leaving the Colfax and Pol
lock road hetween the eighteen AM;
nineteen mile posts, running theme.
tO intersect the Pollock, Selma ami
wainwright Ferry road ut Sand Spur
be reinstated as a public road, ana
the sum of seventy-five dollars b4
and the same is hereby appropriated
for the repnir of the bridge over
Big Creek on the said road. That
Mrssrs. j. ". Barron. John Foster
and Ell Mrrcer be aud they are
hereby appointed commissioner.
: to let the road uut to the Invest
bidder according To law.
On motion Of Mr.. Jones, seconded
by Mr.. Nugent, the following resolu-
ton WAS adopted. to-wit:
BE it resolved that the privat.
road, running from the verJa and
Pollock road near Hebron Church
tntersecting the Co!fux and Pollock
road nrar. Cholera Branch, be and
the Same IL hereby dpclnrpd a public
Fond, and the following six frevhold.
ers are hereby appointed TO specia
cally locate, mark out and straighten
the said r0ad. aud plnce the same in
new and better location where DOS.
sible. ro-wit: Messrs. e. G. Jones, N.
N. Corbitt, Jesse Blount. W. o. Hut
Crimson. Edgnr hurry aud Wiley
Faircloth. az per Article Three of the
Road and Estray Laws of Grant
parish.
MIR. Tom Flanagan appeared be-
lore the police jury and requested tn.
body to formulate some piun for the
betterment of the public roads.
On motion of Mr.. Builitt, seconded
by Ar. Nugent, it was ordered that a
warrant in full settlement Of his bill
for moving ieuce, burn, ETC., on mod