St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-04-11

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90, payable out of the Special Roae
Fund" issue to the Treasurer of thi.
Parish and that the said sum be depos
tied with the Fiscal Agent to the credi
OF the internal Improvement road ane
bridge fund of this parish;
Be it further resolved thata warrant
for the sum of two thousand dollars,
100000, be drawn against the budget
appropriation made and known as the
Permanent Road Building Fund, the
same to be placed to the credit of the
Special Road Fund. Motion carried.
Motion by DIR. PaVy-
Whereas, one Emar Preiean Of the
Parish Of St. Landry, was operating q
saloon during the year 1918, with his
brother, under the name of "Prejean
e Prejean;' and whereas, during the
year 1914, he proposes to operate the
same saloon under the name OF Emar
Preiean, and being under the impress
sion that as he was a member of the
firm OF Preiean & Prejean, he did not
deem it necessary to make q new APP
plication to this body to operate under
his own name during the year 1914, and
whereas, he has complied with the law
in all other respects, therefore,
Be it resolved, that the Sheriff and
ex-officio Tax Collector, be and he is
hereby ordered to issue q saloon license
to the said Emar Preiean, for the year
1914, without extra costin so far as the
parish is concerned. Motion carried.
Motion by Mr.. X. T. Catlett-
Whereas a1arge and rich expanse OF
country in the Fourth Ward of this par
ish, paying the taxes assessed against it
for the upkeep Of the roads, is report
ed never to have been worked by the
parish, and to have received insuffi-
Gent public funds with which to build
the bridges needed,
And whereas, it is the purpose OF the
parish that no partof its territory should
anguish for want of care and, this
neighborhood, like the others, should
have its roads worked and bridges
built, therefore:
Section LIST. Be it resolved that Mr..
Walter Robert, Parish Engineer, be,
and he is hereby instructed and direct
ed, al early as practicable, within the
next sixty days., to examine, and to
reports this body, the condition of the
road and bridges on the following roads
to-wit:
LIST. On the road beginning at Morrow,
leading through Big Cane, through Po-
tatoville, extending to Bayou Jack, and
up Bayou Jack to Parish line.
End. On the road leading from Big
Cane to the place known as the Bluff,
from the Bluff to Bayou Rouge and
Bayou Jack, then following the latter
stream till it strikes the road first men
toned herein, and
3rd. On the road leading north from
Palmetto traversing Bayou Rouge and
extending north till it intercepts the
road hereinabove first mentioned.
Be it further resolved that said En-
gineer is further instructed to report:
a. The number of bridges along said
three roads which are in good condi-
ton.
b. The number that need repair.
c. The number that are wholly
missing.
d. The probable cost of repairing
said bridges.
e. The cost OF building the bridges
which are wholly missing.
I. That he report the amount of work
done in grading said roads, if any, all
to be done to the end that this body
may be acquainted with the actual
physical condition of said three roads,
G. The extent of mileage embraced
by these roads. Motion carried.
Opeiousas, La, April 7th, 1914.
To the President and members of the
Police Jury,
Gentlemen: We, your committee ap-
pointed at the last meeting of this body
to examine into the condition OF the
records in the Clerks office, respect
fully beg to report as follows: We find
that one Marriage Index, three Entry
Books, Nos. /, z, and 3, the three in
dices to Conveyance Books G. D. and
F. No. 8, all need to be recopied, and
therefore recommend that same be or
dered done. We futther recommend
that a locker be built in the Registrars
room to store away the Sheriff's old
Tax Rolls which are now carelessIy
placed on the floor In said room.
Respectfully submitted,
Signed: F. @. PAVY,
Chairman of Committee.
Motion by Mr.. Daley
That the report ofcommittee in refer
enee to the records in the Clerks Of
ice, be accepted and spread upon the
minutes, and that said committee be
continued and hereby authorized to
have done all which they recommend
in their report: the same to be done at
the least expense possible to the parish.
Motion carried.
Motion by Mr.. Guillory-
Whereas the committee from this
body appointed some time back to Sc
lect and designate roads in the parish
to be built in a permanent way with the
proceeds OF the recent bond issue,
have selected roads, almost all Of which
are in the first ward; and whereas, said
roads being built with said fund is a
great saving to the Internal Improve
ment Road and Bridge Fund of said