Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-08-09
PRoCEEDINGs
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POLICE JURY.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
PARISH OF TENsAs.

this Board adjourned, at its meetin
held on 4th June, 1912, the Police Jur
of the Parish OF Tensas, met at the Cour
House in St. Joseph, La.
There were present: Mr.. Frank II
Curry, President, and Messrs. F. L
Guthrie, L. t. Hunter, r. B. Lynch
B. F. McVay and Jno. d. Fultz, mem
bers.
On motion the Grand Jury at its mex
session for this parish is requested +
take such action as will put stop to tn
practice of farmers blowing into the roao
beds of the public roads of this parish
On motion of Mr.. Lynch, duly second
ed, the following resolution was unani
mously adopted:
Whereas by deed dated June 9th
1880, recorded in Conveyance Book 81, >
page 493, of the Recorders Office OF thi
Parish, w. G. Young, the Sheriff of sale
Parish, acting under a writ of Fieri Facial
in a suit of the Tax Collector of said Par
ish against Revee Lewis, sold and con.
veyed, to the Parish of Tensas, an undi
vided IA interest in and to the follow.
ing described land:
Township IL, North, Range 9, East,
Section SO, Southwest IA; West 1-2 Of
Southeast IA and East 1-2 of Northeast
IA, Section "a, West l-2 of Section and
Northeast IA of Section 80, Northwest
IA of Section;
Township IL, North, Range 8, East,
Section 3, West l-2 of Northeast IA Sec
ton A, Northeast IA of Section;
Situated in said Parish and State, and,
Whereas, John Murdoch, President OF
the Police Jury of said Parish, acting
under and by virtue of a resolution passed
by the Police Jury of said Parish June
list, 1908, which resolution reads as fol-
lows: "0n motion of DR.. Mcmillan it
was resolved that the President of this
Body is authorized to sell, transfer and
deliver unto the Mississippi Valley Real
ty Company, all the right, title and in
terest of the Parish of Tensas in and to
what is known as the Poindexter Wild
Lands situated in this Parish as the same
was acquired by the said Parish of Ten
sas at Sheriffs Sale in the suit styled
Parish of Tensas vs.. Reeve Lewis,
upon such terms and conditions as the
said President may determine and in the
event the said President may deem the
sale advisable" did by deed dated
July 9th, 1903, recorded in Conveyance
Record co." page l6O, attempt to quit
claim said property to Mississippi Valley
Realty Company, on behalf of said Police
Jury but said property was mis-described
and part of it left out, and part of
the property described in said deed did
not belong to the Police Jury, and,
Whereas IN certain suit filed in the
10th District Court for Tensas Parish, on
the End day of July. 1912, being suit of
Glenn NJ. Averill ct al VS.. Estate of L.
V. Reeves ct ais, the plaintiffs in said
suit, Glenn M. Averill and Miss Jessie
NJ. Avenill, residents of the State Of Iowa
alleged and proved that they were the
assigns and purchasers of the title of said
suit, said plaintiff prayed for the con-
firmation of the tax title to said proper
ty under which said Parish acquired its
title in the year 1880, and
Whereas Judgment was rendered in fa-
vor of said plaintiffs in said suit by said
Court on the 10Th day Of July, 1912, de-
creeing them to be the owners of the in
terest in said property acquired through
Valley Realty Company, and
through the Parish of Tensas, and, -
Whereas said Glenn NJ. Averill and
Jessie M. Averill have applied to this
Police Jury to have the errors in said
quit-claim heretofore made by John Muir
doch, President Of the Police Jury, to
said Mississippi Valley Realty Company
and for which payment was received at
the time of making said quit-claim,-
Therefore be it Resolved, That the
President of this Police Jury is hereby
and instructed to make and
sign on behalf on the Parish of Tensas,
a quit-claim deed of all of the property
acquired by the Parish of Tensas from
Reeve Lewis under the deed made by
w. G. Young to the Parish of Tensas,
dated June 9th, 1880, and recorded on
Book ST." page 493, of the records OF
said parish by proper description"
On motion, the following resolution
was adopted:
Be it Resolved, That the sum of Two
Hundred Dollars ($2OO.00) be and the
same is hereby appropriated for the ben
eft of the Domestic Science Department
of the ST. Joseph High School. The said
to be payable on January
LIST, 1914, and to be paid only in the
event that. the State Department OF Edu-
cation shall establish this department in
said school and make an appropriation
for its maintenance.
A petition from the residents of the
LIST and End Wards of this Parish, asking
for an alteration in course OF the public
road leading from the public road along
Lake st. Joseph at Johnson's Bend PLAN
tation to the iron bridge across Choctaw
Bayou, at Lake Bruen, and the laying
out and establishment of q new line of
road between said points, was presented
and on motion q commission composed
of Messrs. F. L. Guthrie, ]. G. Lilly, r.
Y. Newell, Sam Marks, H. A. Dunn,
@. L. Clark, L. Elgutter and Martin ia
CODY was appointed to examine and lay
out said road and assess the damages
therefor.
On motion, the beneficiary to the State
Normal School is hereby required to be
able to enter the sixth grade as now
maintained by said school.
On motion a committee composed OF
Messrs. L. 7. Hunter, j. F. Hudnall
and j. G.. Gorton was appointed to have
bridge built at New Foundland, over
Little Tensas River.
On motion Of Mr.. Lynch, duly sec
onded, the following ordinances were
unanimously adopted:
Be it ordained by the Police Jury of the
Parish Of Tensas, That an adval0rem tax OF
eight and three-quarter mills on the dollar be