St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-04-20
POLICE JURY
PROCEEDINGS
Sherif's Report Shows COL
lections of $4886. 81.
Citizens Petition for a Tenth
Ward to be Made.
Matter Held Over for Fur
ther Investigation.
Petition Also Presented for|
Road Near Goodbee.

Covington, La, April Is, 1912.
The police jury met in regular ses
sion on above date. Present-Geo
Koepp, Jr., president, and NJ. Fitz
gerald, Herman Schultz, Geo. F
Bierhorst, Crawford Williams, J. ]
Cusachs and j. w. Decker. Absent
IA. D. Crawford.
1t was moved and duly seconded
that the reading of the minutes o1
the previous meeting be dispensed
with. Carried.
| The following communication was
then read:
New Orleans, April 3, 1919.
President and Members of Police
Jury of St. Tammany Parish.
Gentlemen:-Sometimc since
wrote you at the request of our COM
mittee, asking your assistance to
ward erecting monument which the
Veterans have undertaken to build
in memory Of the women Of the
South who SO hcroically sustained
and supported those who answered
the call of Louisiana's Governor in
defense of our Constitutional right.
Quite a number of the parishes
have responded to this request and
it is hoped that VIC will be able to
engrave on the pedestal of this monu-
ment the name of every parish and
all important cities in this State,
showing the monument was erected
by the people of Louisiana in mem
ory of Southern Heroic Womanhood.
Won't you kindly aid us to the
best of your ability in this patriotic
matter, and oblige,
Respectfully yours,
T. w. CASTLEMAN.
Chairmna.
Moved and seconded that above
communication be tabled. Carried.
The following petition was then
read:
To the Honorable President and
Members of the Police Jury of St.
Tammany Parish, La.
We, the undersigned voters and
property holders, residents Of St.
Tammany parish, present to your
honorable body, this, our petition,
praying that you establish another
ward in this parish to be known as
the Tenth Ward, out of this terri
tory adjacent to and including Abita
Springs. We request that you in
clude in this ward the following de-
scribed and,to-wit:
Sections 3, 4. 5, s. Z, 8, 9. 10,
Is, 16, II, 1S, 10, 20, 81, %, ~,
rs, 80, 80, 81, 80, 33, "a, 38, town
ship 6, south, range IL east, st. Hell
ena Meridian.
The east half of sections 1, IL, 23,
"a, 25 and SO. township south,
range II east, st. Helena Meridian.
The east half of section 1, town.
ship Z south, range IL east, St.
Helena Meridian.
Sections 3, 4, ) and 6, township
Z south, range IL east, st. Helena
Meridian.
Your petitioners claim that the
third ward is entirely too large and
that the material interest of their
section of the ward will be greatly
enhanced, if the management of its
local affairs should be left to the res
would be in better position to OBJ
tain good roads and better schools
and that by thus building up the sec
ton would enhance the beauty and
importance of that section, and there
by add to the wealth and prestige
of St. Tammany parish.
Act 81 of 1877, extra session, au-
thorized the several police juries of
the parishes to establish new wards
and change the lines of existing
wards. Under this act, your hon
orable body has the power to create
or establish the ward prayed for by
two-thirds of your members con-
curing.
Respectfully submitted,
Chas. Biggio, Louis Daring VIM.
Dupriest, r. C. Abney, r. R. Abney
Claud Henry, C. w. Schmidt, A.
Multi, G. S. Millar, E. J. Terrebonne
H. Strubbe, Edward Strain, G. s.
Strain, O. H. Summers, A. E. Cologne
II. Oalman, Jr., Jas. l.. Clairain, c.
T. Schmalz, Jos. Mendoza, Emile Au.
bert, A. o. Pons, C. w. Clairain, T
Carey, JOS. Bordes, Max Knappe, A
J.. Bennett, Robert Mendow. ]. Des
truel, DR.. L. C. Heintz. Henry Gas
sayne, J. M. Labat, c. Manandez, A
Strain, Ernest Din, H. Oalman, Sr.
L. H. Oalman, C. Martin, Jr., Mar
Koerkel, Pierre Lamousin, Jessi.
Page, JOS. Vaccaro, A. A. Cooley
A. Souza. Louis Fussell, Jno. s. Stire
John p. Rausch. J. E. Glisson, J. A
Harduin. Joseph Lamousin ]. L
/. Chapon, Alex Mutt, Steve c. Abney
D. Dazet, Andrew Roth. T. H. Ter
rebonne, R. Lemons, Eug. B. Norm
jos. Rausch, A. Galneck, Willie Ell
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