St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-03-07
MIR. Beall offered the following ordi-
nance and upon being duly read was
adopted unanimously, to-wit:

Drainage District and fixing the
limits thereof; constituting said
drainage district, a body corporate
in law, and investing it with pow
ers incident thereto; investing the
government and control of said
drainage district in a board of COM
missioners, and fixing its domicile;
providing for the qualifications of
said commissioners, the manner of
their appointment, and fixing their
term of office; providing for the
first and subsequent meetings OF
the board and the election of Of
ficers, and fixing their compensa-
ton; authorizing the board to adopt
rules and bylaws for its govern
curing the board to keep the prop
er accounts, and to make seminar
nual statements and to publish
same: and providing the manner
in which funds shall be raised for
the district.
Section /. Be it ordained by the
Police Jury of the Parish OF st. Lam
dry, in regular session convened; That
all of the territory within the following
described boundaries to-wit: Beginning
at the northern boundry line of st.
Landry Parish at the point where the
division line between the Parishes OF
st. Landry and Avoyelles intersects
Bayou Boeuf; thence following said
Bayou Boeuf south along its eastern
bank to the southwest corner of Sec
ton 43 Township Four (4) South of
Range -Four (4) East, being the south
west corner of the property of Geo.
Kelt at Begg Station: thence northeast
along said section line to the western
line of the right-of-Way of the Morgan,
thence south along the western line of
said right-of-Way Of said railroad ON
pany to the point where said right-of-
way intersects the northern lIne of Sec
ton Eighty-One 1911 Township Five 80
South of Range Four f) East; thence
south Fifty l50) Degrees East to Bayou
Courtableau; thence east following
along the northern bank of said Bayou
Courtablean tothe mouth ofBayou Wax
ia; thence eastfolloWing along the north
bank of Bayou Waxia to a point oppo-
site the source ofBayou Sackett; thence
north following along the west bank of
Bayou Waxia to a poiut where Dry
Bayou empties into said Bayou Waxia;
which said Dry Bayou lies in Town
ship Four "a South of Range Five 80
East; thence east along the north bank
of said Dry Bayou to Bayou Petit Prai-
RE; thence in a northwest direction
along the west bank of said Bayou
Petit Prairie to the north line of Section
Fifteen f15) Township Three ~ South
of Range -Four (4) East; thence west
along said section line between sections
Is and 10, of said township and range
to the northwest corner of said section
Is; thence south along the section line
between sections Is and is of Town
ship Three 81 South of Range Four
(4) East to the east line of the right-of-
way of the Texas and Pacific Railroad
Company; thence in a northwest direc-
ton along the said east line of said
ri~ght-of-Way to the northern boundary
of the Parish of st. Landry, being the
division line between the Parishes of
st. Landry and Avoyelles; thence west
along said division line separating said
parishes to Bayou Boeuf at the point of
beginning, be and is hereby incorpor-
ated into a drainage district to be
known as the aBayous Boeuf and Wax
ia Drainage District and all property
within said drainage district shall be
subject to taxation for the purpose of
more fully and readily draining the
lands of rain water in said district.
Section 2. Be itfurther ordained, etc,
That the said Rayous Boeuf and Waxia
Drainage District is hereby constituted
and declared to be a body corporate in
law, and is invested with all the pow
ers and privileges of a corporation, and
shall have perpetual existence. It
shall have the power to sue and be
sued. and all legal process against it
shall be served upon its president or
s. secretary. The domicile of said corpor-
alton shall be at OPELOUSAS in the
Parish of st. Landry, State of Louis
lana, at which place it shall keep its
office, books and records. Said cor
poration to have a seal and to do and
perform any and all acts in its corpor-
ate capacity and in its corporate name,
necessary and proper for the carrying
out of the purposes and objects for
which the drainage district was e
ted. 1t shall have the power to buy
or appropriate property when it is nee
eSsary to S such property in carry
ing out the plans OF the drainage dis
trict. 1t shall have the power to pur-
chase machinery or dredge boats that
may be found necessary for the pur-
pose OF draining any OF the lands in
the drainage district and have the
work performed under their super
vision and shall own the-right-of way
for canals and bitches, and all sites
which are acquired either by dona-
ton, purchase or appropriation in full
ownership. It shall have the power
and it shall be its duty to open all
natural drains which it may deem nee
and to perform all work con-
nected herewith which may be need
full to render natural drains more eff
1t shall have the power of
cutting and opening new drains or ca
The Drainage Commissioners
for the purpose Of securing a proper
for the waters of the district,
shall have the authority to extend "a
mails beyond the limits of the district
with the same power and authority of
expropriating the r~ight-of-way in the
same manner and to the same extent
as ii such canals were wholly within
the district. It shall have the power
TO make and execute contracts and to
do and perform any and all acts e
cessary to carry out the objects and
purposes for which it is created, name
", a complete and comprehensive
drainage system within its limits. They
shall have the power to divide the
district into S~ub-Drainage Districts as