The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-05-18
PROCEEDINGS OF. POLICE JURY.
REGULAR MEETING.
Parish of Ascension.
DonaldsonVille. La. MAY s, l9:

| REGULAR MEETING.
Donaldsonvile, La, May 8, 1912.
The police jury of the parish OF AS
cension met this day in regular ses-
| sion, at the courthouse, and was called
| to order at II O'Clock m. Present:
Geo. B. Reuss, president, first ward;
K. A. Aucoin, second ward; Henry L.
| Well, fourth ward; L. w. Armltage,
| fifth ward; j. c. Klos. sixth ward;
| Oreal Gonzales, seventh ward. Alb
| sent-Adolphe Meter, third ward: II. A.
| Webb, eighth ward.
The minutes OF the last preceding
| meeting were read, approved and signed.
| With reference to the claim OF the
Southern Bituiithic Co, for paving OF
street in front of the Donaldsonvile
| high school building, which matter mad
| been referred TO district Attorney p.
| II. Gilbert Tor examination and report
ported that he had examined the title
| to the school property situated in
IRailroad avenue, and found from the
original donation OF the land to the
donaldson, as shown by the original
| map, which he produced, that the prop
| erty whereon is situated the school
building was dedicated by the donor
| Tor the erection OF public edlflces;
| that the said property having been
used by the school board for the pur-
| pose OF erecting a school building, in
| his opinion it is now the property OF
| the school board, and the school board
| is liable for the debt for paving. on
motion, duly seconded and carried. the
report was ordered received.
| On motion of MIR. Armitage, seconded
| by Mr.. Aucoin and carried, the finance
committee was directed to prepare and
publish, as required by law, the budget
| of expenditures OF the parish OF AS
censlon, for the fiscal year lJ1z-19l5.
Mr. Well offered the following reso-
| luton:
Be lit. resolved, That the sum of ten
dollars be and the same is hereby APP
| populated to pay for the map OF the
| plan of the town OF Donaldson. show
| ing the original donation of land by
| the late ohm Donaldson.
| The resolution was seconded by MI.
hlos, and on roIi-call adopted by the
following vote. eslsH euss. Aucoln,
sYeiI,s klla til * los.s GONZALES 1lsa -
none. eIIsl. ~ ebb.
he lowing ords nance was read
AN ORDINANCE.
] An ordinance organizing and creating
a. dia lilage district composed q
lands situated in the Ilftn. sixth
! and sevsntn. wards of the PARISH
OF ascension. state OF LOUISIANA,
TO Le known as the bayou ConWas.
Drainage District of the parish OF
Ascension; constituting sad ooarl
OF commissioners OF said drainage
district a body corporate with all
carrying. into effect the provisions
OF Act No. 317. OF the general as
sempiy OF the year lsl0, ana the
provisions OF Article NO ~ o. o..
the constitution OF the state OF
! Louisiana OF 1885.
Section /. BE it ordained by the po-
| lice 1uIy OF the parish OF ASCENSION,
La, That Whereas i'll the opinion Oh
/
| OF irnmenses benefit and conducive to
| the interest and welfare of the property
owners OF the fifth. sixth and seventh
wards OF the parish OF Ascension. La,
tnat d drainage district be organ1zea
and created comprising lands situated
IN the fiftib sixth and seventh wards
purpose OF more readily draining SAC
lands in said portions Of said parish.
1t is, THEREFORE, ordained py saIo Qo-
lice jury that BY virtue OF and pur-
suant to. the power vested in this body
py Act No. 3l1 Of the general assem-
oly OF the Year 1917, all tnat part OF
the fifth, sixth and seventh wards OF
the parish 81 ascension. Louisiana, en-
braced within the boundaries folloW-
| ing, lo-Wit,5 shall constitute and form
ana be embraced III the limits OF q
styled: Bayou Conway Drainage Dis
| erict OF the Parish OF Ascension
Beginninsaat the upper line of Ash
land plantation on the mississippi river;
the upper line OF RIyerton plantation:
Inen along the said upper line OF s3tld
ltiverton plantation to the back eanai
of said plantation near the forty ar
pent corner, then following the back
1anal ana ievee OF the iilyerton anu
donaldson Plantations to the lower line
OF DonatdsOn planGatloii, tuen aioile
said lower line OF said donaldson plan
tation to It's intersection with the
eighty arpent line; then along the
eighty alpeht line to it's intersection
lk1EjT h sort Ii fNE,tJs
and A., in township IL, east;
then following said section line to the
common conner Q! sections 81, a. -
same direction, then north one-haIl
mile; then east one-half mile to the
esst boundary line of township 10,
east; then north along township line
Two miles;E then west one-haif mile
then north one-half mile;then west one
half mile to common corner secs. 10, II,
% and 24;then north one-half 1nile;then
west one-haaf mile; then north one-naH
mile; then west two miles: then NORTH
one-nalT mile; then west two and one
half miles, to the western boundary
line OF township 10, Il + 8 east; t leI
west along the north boundary line oi
section eighty to the rear line OF Assn
land plantation; then following Ine
west boundary line OF SECTION elghts
i southWestery direction across tins
Ashland field to the first headlaQd
rom the Srlver; then northWesteEi3
along said headland to the upper me
Of Ashland plantation; then southwest
arly, along said upper line to the the pom,
1T is Understood that when the dis
5lict shall have been organized the Worl
Of dredgings shall begin and be carried
on from beth ends of Bayou ConWas
simultaneously, or at some point at ttlf
upper end 9f the district that will in
elude one Or both of the canals KNOW
as Point and wyatt or COMPANY
Canals.
Section p Be it further ordained, etc,
That there shall be five commissioners
for said district, who. or whose wives,
shall be land owner in said district
TO the assessed value of five, hundred
dollars, whittier he be a resident OF
nonresident of the district, provided
he be a cilzen of the state Infee .
said commissioners to be appointed b,
this body: two for term OF two Year,
and one for: term of four years, ano
I'll selections by this police Jury there
after shall be for a period of four Se%E5
the remaining two commissioners snail
be appointed BY the governor Of the