Lower coast gazette., 1913-12-06
Proceeding Of the Police
Jury Of Plaquemines
Parish.
Pointe-a-la-H ache, Plaquemines Par
ish, La.

The Police Jury Of Plaquemines
Parish, Louisiana, met in the Police
Jury Room in the Courthouse at
Pointe-a-la-Hache, Plaquemines Par
ish, Louisiana, pursuant to adjourn
ment on October 10, 1913, at IL
o'clock M.
Present: j. B. Fastening, l. s.
Lathrop, A. Leopold, Emile Schayot,
Thos. Brophy, Jos. Bernard, F. Bay
hi, Dave Withan; Absent: G. A. B.
Hayes, Md. and C. Grabert.
The Police jury of Plaquemines
Parish, Louisiana, Immediately pro-
ceeded to examine and anva the
returns of the special election held
in the Plaquemines Parish Road Dis
trict No. 2, pursuant to an ordinance
of the Police Jury of Plaquemlnes
Parish, Louisiana, adopted at its
meeting on the 10th day OF Octo.
Der, 1913, and in pursuance OF said
ordinance, did proceed, in public SEES
sion, to open the ballot box, examine
and count the ballots in number and
amount, and did find tkat the same
were in proper legal form, and that
all of the votes cast at said election,
to-wit, four in number cast by per-
sons resident and owning property IN
said district and entitled to vote, or
their proxies, of an assessed valua-
ton of nineteen hundred and ten
dollars were cast in favor of all the
propositions submitted or referred to
said property holders.
First Proposition-Shall the Police
Jury Of Plaquemines Parish be author
lied to levy and assess an ad ga
loren tax Of five mills on the dollar
upon all property situated within the
limits of the Plaquemines Parish Road
District No. 2, for a period Of forty
years, beginning with the year 1914,
to construct and maintain a shell
road or highway along the Woods or
East Side of the Track OF the New
Orleans, Southern & Grand Isle Rail
road, to extend from the line dividing
Plaquemines and Jefferson Parishes
to the Belle Chase Switch of said
New Orleans, Southern & Grand Isle
Railroad in accordance with plans and
specifications to be furnished by the
State Board Of Engineers?
Second Proposition - Shall the Po-
lice Jury of Plaquemines Parish be
authorized to incur an Indebtedness
and to issue negotiable bonds to the
amount of eight thousand dollars
(S8, 000.OO), bearing interest at the
rate of five per cent. per annum,
payable semi-annually, said bonds to
be payable in forty years, from the
proceeds of said fve-mM ad valorem
tar, and the proceeds Of said bond
issue, or as much thereof as may be
necessary, to be used to build a shell
road or highway along the Woods or
East Side Of the Track of the New Or
leans, Southern & Grand Isle Railroad,
to extend from the line dividing Pla-
auemines and Jefferson Parishes to
the Belle Chase Switch Of said New
Orleans, Southern & Grand Isle Rail
road, in accordance with plans and
specifications to be furnished by the
State Board Of Engineers?
The following ordinance was intro
duced by Mr.. Jos. Bernard and Sec
onded by Mr.. A. Leopold:
AN ORDINANCE.
declaring the result of the election
held in the Plaquemines Parish ROAD
District No. 2, on November q, 1918
ordering the PRONUNCIATION of the same
by publication in one issue of the Of
tiical Journal of the Parish of Plaque
mines, State of Louisiana, and author
izing the filing Of the process verba
of the PRONUNCIATION Of said election
with the Secretary of the State Of
LOUISIANA and its %recordation by the
Recorder of Mortgages of the Parish
of Plaquemines, State Of Louisiana.
WHEREAS, under and in pursuance
of an ordinance adopted by the Police
Jury of the Parish of Plaquemines
State of Louisiana, on the 10th day
of October, 1913, was created the Pla'
quemines Parish Road District No. 2
of Plaquemines Parish, State Of Lou
isiana, composed Of all that portion
of the rarish of Plaquemines includ
ed within the boundaries as follows
to-wit:
Commencing at the intersection o.
the lower line Of Cedar Grove Plan
tatiOn, thence along the lower line 0.
Cedar Grove Plantation to the real
of said plantation, thence on a straigh
line to the intersection Of Bayous La
Barrier and Barataria, thence alon.
Bayou Barataria to the point wher'
the line dividing the parishes of Pla
quemines and Jefferson leaves sail
Bayou Barataria, thence along tn
line dividing the parishes of Jeffer
son and Plaquemines to the intersec
ton of said line with the line divid
ing the parishes of Orleans and Pla
quemines, thence along said line t
the Mississippi River, thence alon,
the Mississippi River to the line divid
ing upper Magnolia and Fort st. Leol
Plantations, thence along the line di
viding said plantations to the rea
line Oh Fort St. Leon Plantation
thence along the e line of For
st. Leon Plantation to the line 0
Belle Chase Plantation, as formerl,
constituted, thence along the line di
viding Fort st. Leon and Belle Chass
Plantations, as formerly constituted
to the Mississippi River, thence alon'
the Mississippi River to the point o
beginning.
and,
WHEREAS, on November q, 1918, a
election was legally held in the Pls
quemines Parish Road District No.
by authority of an ordinance adopte
by the Police Jury of Plaquemine
Parish, Louisiana, on October Il
1918; and,
WHEREAS, on this 26th day of M
vember, 1918, at II o'clock NJ, tn
said Police Jury of Plaquemines p
IRISH, in accordance with said ord
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