Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-07-17
PROCEEDINGS Fifth LOUISIANA
lEvEE BOARD.
Tallulah, La, July 9Th, 1914.

called TO Oruer Dy TreSlOenC hnO0eS al
10 o'clock a. M, and the following Com
missioners answeredto roll call
Ell. Hamley and r. l.. Hill, East
Carroll parish.
TP. Kell, Madison parish.
B.F. Young and F.. l.. Guthrie, Ten
sas parish.
]. H. Lambdin and E. C. Rhodes,
Pres, Concordia parish.
Absent: J. M. johnson Madison par
ish.
A quorem being present the regular
business of the meeting was taken up
o follows:
On motion of Commissioner Hamley,
reading of the minutes of the previous
meeting was dispensed with.
4 REPORT OF COMMITTEES.
We your Committee appointed to look
into the merits of the claims of Elliott
Marshall and Mrs. Woolsey for refund
of taxes beg to report as follows: q.
We visited the locality of these lands
and inquired into conditions as they ex-
ist and the past rate of caving, and sat
isfied ourselves that an excess has been
paid and respectfully recommend the re-
fund asked for.
Respectfully submitted,
E. E RHODES
T. P. KEEL
Committee.
On motion of Commissioner Young,
seconded by Commissioner Hill, the re-
!. mort of the above committee was adopted
and the claims of Elliott Marshall and
Mrs. Woolsey be allowed and that the
President be authorized to issue war;
rants for said claims.
On motion of Commissioner Young,
seconded by Commissioner Hill, the
President was authorized to have a
number of logs removed and the piling
covered on Kemp Levee by banquette.
Major F. N. Kerr and Major M. P.
Robertson, of the Board of State Engi-
neers, attended the meeting to advise
with the Board on certain important
engineering matters before the Board.
Mai. Robertson submitted at this
meeting Projects of the most important
levee work to be undertaken by the
Board of Engineers for this year, in
this District.
Onmotion of Commissioner Hamley,
seconded by Commissioner Young the
following resolution was adopted by the
Board:
Be it resolved by the Board of Com
missoners for the Fifth Louisiana Levee
District, That the President of this
Board be and he is hereby authorized to
confer with the Board of State Engin-
eers and let contracts for the construct
lon of such necessary levee work in
this District, as the said Board of En-
gineers thinks should be done at once
to cost not to exceed the sum of One
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100, OOO COZ
and that the President be authorized: to
& borrow such sum as may be necessary
for this work; predicated on the reve-
nues of the years 1914 and 1915, and
that the President be authorized and
& directed toadvertise said work at once.
On motion of Commissioner Young,
seconded by Commissioner Lambdin, the
President was authorized to include in
the above work as emergency work, a
search ditch and blanket in front Of
the towns of St. Joseph, Waterproof
and Ferriday.
On motion of Commissioner Hamley
seconded by Commissioner Hill. the
matter of the suits, in the Concordia
Parish District Court, against the
Concordia Land & Timber Co., for this
Board, instituted by the Concordia
Abstract & Realty Co., for the recovery
Of q certain tract of land in said parish;
be and is hereby referred to Hon. jeff.
B. Snyder for legal investigation, and
and that the said Concordia Abstract &
Realty Co. furnish Mr.. Snyderall papers
In this suit and brief for his exami-
nation and decision in the matter.
On motion of Commissioner Hamley,
seconded by Commissioner Kefl, the
matter of payment for certain ban
quette work claimed by Robert Nichol-
son, Contractor, on the O'Possum PIT
to Willow PIT, in East Carroll, be re-
ferred to Hon. ]. B. Snyder for his
legal Interpretation as to the legality of
the claim. ]
Bids for weed cutting for the District
advertised to let at this meeting were
opened at IL o'clock m.
On motion of Commissioner Hill, Sec
onded by Commissioner Young, the
following named parties, being the low
est bidders for the separate parishes,
were awarded the contracts as follows:
Rob't Nicholson. East Carroll par
ish. Bid $S5O.OO.
Thos. Bartlett. Madison. Bid SIPS. 90.
B. ID. Smith. Madison. Bid $685.. 90.
]. M. McGraw. Concordia. Bid
$4,000.
The total being S., O78.O 90.
Mr.. N. c.. Williamson, President of
the Police Jury of East Carroll parish,