The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-07-25
PAROCH|AL LAWMAKERS IN SESSION.
Regular Meeting Police
ings Purchase First Bonds Accepted

nominations We're closed and roll-call
ordered ON Mr. Gautreau's motion
resulting as follows: For Mr. Web
er: Spahr, Ourso, Meter, Landry
Newman, Gautreau, 6; nays-0; vot
Ing blank-Armitage /: absent-Cau
sey Mr.. Weber having received a
majority of the votes of the police
jury, was declared by President Net,
ter to be elected clerk of the police
jury and parish treasurer of the par.
lsh of Ascension for a term of two
years.
Mr.. Weber thanked the jury for
their endorsement of his administra-
ton OF the office, and pledged him
self to render the parish during the
lncumbency of his office his very
best services.
Mr.. Gautreau offered the following
ordinance, which was read:
An ordinance amending paragraphs
SIX, seven, eight and nine of Sec
ton 3 OF the road ordinance of
the parish of Ascension, adopted
July 8, 1913, entitled, IAN ordi-
AiSG W UIoFlue lOI iIc AcIuIC-
nance, repair and drainage of
the public roads of the parish of
Ascension, creation of road dis
tricts, and to levy, collect and
. enforce payment of the per ca
pita and license taxes for said
purposes
Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the po-
lice jury of the parish of Ascension,
state of Louisiana, that paragraphs
six, seven, eight and nine of Sec
tlon of the road ordinance adopted
July 8, 1913, be amended and re-en-
acted to read as follows:
That the police jury shall, in or
der to get a correct and full list Of
all vehicles liable to such license
and ascertain all persons liable to
the per capita tax imposed by this
ordinance, employ a competent per
son in each police jury ward, which
appointment of said person shall be
made by the member of the police
jury for the ward In which the same
is made, whose duty it shall be to
make a complete list and enumera-
ton of all vehicles and persons in
their respective districts subject to
said annual license and per capita
tax. That the said lists and emu
meration shall be filed in the office
of the clerk Of the police jury on or
before the first day of September,
1918, and each and every year there
after at the same time, and the said
enumerator so appointed shall be ex-
officio collector Of th e said license.
and vehicle taxes, and shaII collect
as fast as possible from each owner
or owners of vehicles used on the
public roads Of this parish, and all
persons subject to a per capita tax,
the annual license and per capita
tax herein levied and imposed; that
t he saia eenunaeratesf.= and q col Hector
shall render to the police jury a
statement of all vehicle and per capi-
ia taxes collected not less than once
each month; that the said collector
shall settle said annual license and
per capita tax with tue parish treas
urer not less than once each month,
except the collectors Of the seventh
and eighth wards, who shall make
their statements and settlements d.
rect with the proper officers of the
third and fourth district road boards.
That said persons appointed by the
police jury shall receive, as compen-
sation for the performance of the
duties Of enumerator and collector,
such compensation as may he fixed
by the police jury, which said COM
pensation shall not exceed the sum
Of twenty per cent on the amount
enumerated and actually collected and
turned over to the proper officer Of
the police jury and third and fourth
road boards.
Sec. g. Be it further ordained,
ETC., that all laws or parts OF Jaws
in conflict herewith be and the
same are hereby repealed.
On motion of Mr. Gautreau, sec
onded by Mr.. Spahr, the ordinance
was adopted by the following vote:
Yeas-Spahr, Ourso, Meter, Landry,
Armitage, Newman. Gautreau; nays
o.; absent-Causey.
Mr.. Causey, member of the jury,
now entered the room and requested
that he be recorded as present.
Mr.. Ourso offered the following
resolution:
Be it resolved. that the ordinance
Of this police jury adopted at the
special meeting of June II, 1914,
a syndic in the filth Ward
Of the parish and designating the
stable quarter of the RiVerton plan
tation as the syndic quarters and A,
Himel as syndic therefor, be ana
the same is hereby repealed.
The. resolution was seconded oy
Mr.. Landry, and on roll-call adopt
ed by the following vote: feas-
Spahr, Ourso, Meter, Landry, New
man, Gautreau, Causey; nays-Arm1-
tage.
Sheriff E. G. Hanson having sub
mitted to the police jury the follow
ing statement of taxes for the Year
1913:
Deduction List on Parish Taxes of 1918
Errors, insolvencies and no property Sr !: ~
found ......-. ....' :. .''''-@ oo ~
Double assessments s..................: ~ 80
Taxes on property sold to state and
continued on roll: Year 1913, S55-
d; year 1912, s55.es.-. ......... W "
Total credits. ts........-....-..-...... l41 o.
Faxes in litigation on............. SO
Total deduction 148 A
Taxes collected and paid INTO parish |
treasury, less COM t--- 5i.zo1 ~
Total ss7,s5s 4e
DIR.
mount charged ON tay roll ..... S377 ,345 20
Amt. supplemented on tax FOL -...... Q q aa |
)verpald into parish treasury " |
Tota1.. ..---..--. .ss7 ,s5s 46 |
hereby certify that the above and foregoing