The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1914-07-17
Tensas Basin Levee Board
Proceedings
Ravvi]le Ia Julv O

A regular meeting of the
"a Board of Commissioners of the
Tensas Basin Levee District was
, held at its domiclle in the town
K of Rayville, on Thursday the 9Th
- day of July 1914.
: Present: T. B. Gilbert, Presi-
dent; J. S, Rolfe, G. J. Glover,
l.. A. Lester and W. S. Peck,
members j. W. Summer]in.
Secretary.
Absent: c. H. McHenry, O. M.
Smith and B. E. Blake. -
Minutes of last meeting were
read and approved
Secretary reported receipts and dis
bursements and balance on hand for
quarter ending June 30t, 1914, as fol-
lows:
Total receipts and balance
(including sinking fund.- Sl2l 09O 9s
Total disbursements for
quarter 55,6l4.4O
Balance on hand July l. 1914 SIS 466 H
Cash balance so 966. Sc y '''''V
Balance sinking fund 10, 10000
Total balance $50, 4G6.56
The President presented writ.
ten application of Crossett LINN.
Der Co. for the purchase of tho
SW IA NE IA Sec. 29.T 22NR5
East; also application of Wis.
consln Lbr. Co. for the bur-
chase of all that part of the WI 2
Of Sec. 26, T. 10 N RS East aII|l
situated in the Parish of More.
house, each of said applications
beng accompanied with the re-
CURED deposit of $500, in AZ.
:ordance with Act No. 2l5 Of tho h
General Assembly of 1908, and /
IN motion of Mr.. Rolfe, div
seconded, the President was II
to proceed with the s 1
'ale of said lands, ACCORDING to II
aW, and to refer the matter as \
o character of land, estimate Of \
l + e etc., to B. Turpin, Par 4
sh Surveyor, and to have the \
register of the State Land Of
&c &C, 1lx the minimum price of
aid land. VI
Communications were read
rom the Auditor of Public A.
oun Mt together with the opinion
Hon. G. A. Gondron, Asst
tty: Gen., with reference to the
cent sale of lands belonging to
the Board in Morehouse Bar
n, Whereupon the following 4
was presented and
lamlously adopted,
Whereas, the Auditor of Pub.
Accounts of the State of
having refused to re-
i've and audit the proceeds of q
e s sale of certain lands, made n
+ this board by the Sheriff Of
orehonse Parish, La. on 4.
St day of January, 1914, del
'lbed as the Sc IA of NE ii
c. l, I: q Mr. 4 F, for the
ason that the said lands had
been appraised and the min -
um value or price thereof hor
ed by the Register of the @
ate Land Office, nor had the ame
Ve5i'tlsement for the sale been Cou
o 81 re- in the official Journal fror
the e State, as provided in Act LAND
} , OF 1908; and the said Audi. Co.,
beng sustained in his refus- meet
o receive and audit said pro- Co.
ds of said sale, by an opinion 1 orde
inc Atty. General of the Oh
t:e; and the Attorney General aI Pres
ing declared said sale on abl nlov
tie nullity: va "' Eo, 1
therefore,, Be it resolved bv III
. !, Board 4, of Commissions Of pres,
the Tensas Basin Levee Dis ed, v
t, IN regular session conven. vote;
that the President Of this Lest,
I'd proceed to advertise e. s sali5 a ass,
l. Tor SAFE i l3 In, both the Official Smit
t1al Of Of the n State and of the WI
d 3D. VI MofenouSe, and that state
Il register e OF the State Land Boar,
laid land in said ADVERTISE isee the r.
is, and that said sale be t fnr- the &
pr proceeded with, as the Law law hand
1opted July 9, 1914. nav nav
81. CIV, l. D. hilbert, Pres. plete(
h;n Ipo'iIl 1 Secretary. contr;
rnav ~ vs. i.Guge, Esq, District the OF
on H. ~ I ne, 'tn Judicial Dis best i
2oard Hnoillclo Attorney for that t
oJoara, appeared before the for t
q and advised said Roa s,, ed.,wj
If ~ 10 the manner of Board
q pu .o iallos. The
+ of b;a made a verbal the b
No of f'is recent inspection of Tensa
ontra a ives e ana the letting regula
iars iI h.s'o i ( clearlngI levee T. B.
mot mot; ~ o S weeds etc., and the sal
.acts as ouly seconded the by di