The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-01-11
LEVEE BOARD MEETING.

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Quarterly Session Of Lafourche Com
rnissioners = Lumber Companie
TO be Paid for Work on Hymeli;
crevasse-secretary Mccune Re
elected.
/ The quarterly meeting of the boart
4 of commissioners Of the Lafourche
/ Basin Levee District was held Thurs
day in the boards new office OF
the second floor of the Rogge build
ing. President E. G. sWartz, OF st
James parish, was in the chair, and
there was full attendance of mem.
/ bers, as follows: ]. F. Wigginton
lLafourche; Robert Martin, Jr., AS.
sumption; F. B. Lemann, Ascension;
George Lorio, ST. Charles: A. Cham.
paigne, ST. John; Charles viering,
jefferson; R. Perez, Plaquemines; T.
| Y. Thaggard, Gretna, representing
the railroads. Secretary w. J. Nc
Cune, Assistant Engineer John Klorer
and Levee Inspector Hector Himel.
of st. James, were also present.
The seeretary's quarterly report
showed: Balance On hand Oct.
/, 1912, s22,520.05; one-mill tax,
SS896.32; acreage tax, s14484; pro-
duce tax, s88s2.32; lumber sold,
S127.45. The total receipts during
the quarter were s18,084.91. Among
the disbursements We're the follow
ing items: Levee construction, ST.
$3.50; material, $2792.77; labor. s13.-
258.53; secretary's salary, $3.50; com
missioners, expenses, mileage and
per diem, s968.10; assessors com
missions, s244S.57; interest on bonds
and notes, $4,000. The expenditures
=totalled $55, 1892, leaving an over
draft of s15,164.96 Dec. 3d.. 1912.
Since then taxes amounting to more
than 100000 have been received.
Bills from the Bowie, Burton
SWartz, J. G. Rives and Vacherie
lumber companies, for labor furnish
ed by those concerns in the attempt
to close the Hymelia crevasse, were
presented, and as President Swartz
and Commissioner Wigginton were
Interested in the matter through their
connection with the Burton-SWartz
and Bowie companies, they with
drew from the meeting and Vice
President Lemann assumed the chair.
Attorney Monte Lemann, of New Or
leans, appeared in behalf Of the
Bowie Company, whose bill was for
$2959.56, and argued that the claims
should be paid. A long discussion
ensued, and finally it was decided
to summon V. Maurin, president of
the old Lafourche levee board, who
was in charge of the work done on
the Hymelia crevasse and was there
fore conversant with the agreement
made with the lumber companies at
that time. Mr.. Maurin, upon arriving
at the meeting, said it was distinctly
understood none of the lumber COM
panies We're to be paid for the labor
and supplies furnished by them. 1t
developed, however, that some of the
planters who had worked on the Gre
vase had been paid for their SER
vices, and the board finally, on mo-
ton of Mr.. Perez, adopted a reso-
luton lts providing for the payment Of
the bills upon their presentation In
proper shape. Messrs Martin and
Thaggard voted against the resolu-
ton, maintaining that if these claims
were paid, all the other bills for work
done in connection with the Hymeha
ereyasse would have to be liuuidated.
President Hero Of the Jefferson
drainage district appear
ed before the board in the interest |
Of an appropriation Of $4,000 to aid |
ins the construction Of the leyee it |
IS proposed to build IN that district. |
The embankment will be one to two
seet higher than the highest mark es-
sabIished by the back water from the |
Hymelia break, and will be ten miles
long, connecting with the main river
at Cedar Grove below. The New Or
cans 1eyee board has agreed to !
contribute $4,000 toward the cost
Of this levee. After another very /
lengthy discussion, q motion was
adopted appropriating $4,000 out of
The revenues of 1914, subject to the
adorable opinion of the boards legal I
adviser, and to be paid only after
5he completion Of the levee and its
acceptance by the State Board of En-
gineers.
Proposals to publish the proceedings
If the board were received as fol t
eWs: Donaldsonvil1e Chief, $500 per
year; st. Charles Herald, $500 neE
year; Jefferson Voice, 35 cents per
square first insertion, Is cents per
square each subsequent insertion. |
Several proposals. from papers out.
side the district, at Napoleonvilla and |
2ointe a Ia Hache, were not censid-
cred. 1t was decided to refer to the
inince committee the bids Of the
jefferson Voice and Donaldsonville
Chief, to ascertain which is the
over.
A communication from G. j. La
Barre, stating that he intended to
at Donaldsonvillee a sawmill
or the manufacture of tupelo guna
lumber, and asking the board Fer the
privilege of towing rats of timber
trough the Caheienne Canal, was
cad and referred to the joint COM
nittee of the Lafourche and Atcha2as
ava boards. Mr.. Martin stated that
It the next meeting Of she Joint or
sanization he understood the board
# commissioners Of the drainage dis
FtenoIEl