St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-02-10

VI W uSulp SOulu oA6S ~ S~Se
Greensburg District of Louisiana.
And your petitioners further rep
resent that the Board of State En-
gineers have reported that the lands
described in their report and en-
braced in the description herein Civ
en- and included within the limits OF
proposed Sub-Drainage District No
] can be- reclaimed at cost OF forty
three and 2l-1OO dollars ($43.2l)
per acre or an aggregate amount OF
one hundred and sixteen thousand
six hundred dollars ($116, 6OO.OO)
to reclaim twenty-seven hundred
(270O) acres.
Your petitioners further represen,
that they are thu owners OF all ana
the total acreage OF lands included
within the limits hereabovc descrlb-
ed and which it is proposed TO create
as Sub-Drainage Dist. No. l of the St
Tammany Drainage District No. l,
and your petitioners are deslrous
that the Board of Commissioners OF
the St. Tammany Drainage DISTRICT
No. l should undertake the work OF
retaining said land as described IN
said report and delineated upon the
map attached thereto.
Your petitioners further represent
th2t for the purpdss of accomplish
ing such reclamation it will be nee
essary to incur a debt OF forty-three
and 21-1OO ($43.2D dollars per acre
against said land or an aggregate
amount of one hundred and sixteen
thousand ($116,OO0) dollars against
the whole of tWenty-seven hundred
acres of land situated in SAID pro-
posed Sub-Drainage District No. l,
and it will be necessary to issue ne
gotiable interest bearing coupon
bonds to represent said Indebtedness
Your petitioners fsyther represent
that under the constitution and laws
of the State of Louisiana, your hon
orable board may when properly au-
thorized by the property owners rep
resenting two-thirds in sgres within
said Sub-Drainage District, levy
forced contribution or acreage tax
on the land situated in said Sub
Drainage District specially benefited
nv this work, and that all the lands
in said Sub-Drainage Dist, as shown
by the report of the Board of State
Engineers will be specially benefited
nv the said drainage and the SAID
tax.
Therefore, we, the undersigned
property owners, owning all OF the
ssperty situated within the limits
OF laid proposed Sub-Drainage Dis
trict No. l of the st. Tammans
Drainage District No. l, as here
lbove described, respectfully petl'
ion your Miserable body to create
Sub-Drainage DissIct No. ! with nc
following boundal les:
Sub-Drainage District No. ! OF tht
St. Tammany Drainage District NO
/ is situated about four miles WeSi
and one mile south of the tom OF
jacksonville and about tWenty
miles north Of, New Orleans on re
north shore of Lake Pontchartrain
in the parish of St. Tammany, State
Of Louisiana.
The boundary lines of said district
are as follows:
Beginning at point on the sec
ton line between sections ~ and 5l
300 feet east of the section corner
on the range line, at the common
corner Of sections 30 and 81.
Thence east on the section line to
the section corner common to sec
tions 20, 80, 81 and 80;
Thence north on the section line
Thence east $3.50 feet to the east
line OF section 20 and the land OF
Koepp's;
Thence north on the section line
1920 feet to the section corner COM
mon to sections 20, 21,S % and 29;F
Thence east on the section line
$3.50 feet to NY section corner com
mon to sections FL, %, q and %;
Thence south on the section line
$500 feet to the northwest corner o
the south half of the NV or of sec
ton "a (thence east .264O feet etc.
Thence south 264O feet to the
southeast corner of the north half OF
the sw or of said section "a;
Thence west 2640 feet to the sec
ton line between sections 33 and "a;
Thence north on the section line
1920 feet to the quarter section cor
ner between sections 33 and "a;
Thence west about 5000 feet to
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between sections 80 and 80;
Thence south As degrees west
500 feet;
Thence south 525 feet;
Thence south 16 degrees 80 min
utes west 513 feet;
Thence south 81 degrees west 156
feet;
Thence west 245 feet;
Thence south 80 degrees west
1000 feet.
Thence south As degrees west
2Ss9O feet;
thence south 80 degrees west
Thence north so degrees west
1900 feet,
Thence, north II degrees 80 minu-
ties wesSy2OOO feet;
Thence west 1000 feet;
Thence north 46 degrees west
1000 feet;
Thence north II degrees 1850
feet;
Thence north 35 degrees west
1850 feet;
TheI@3l north 9 degrees west $500
feet to the point of departure. Con
tanning in all approximately 200
acres.
Said lands being in sections 20.
part of sections 20, 81. 80, 33 and
"a of township south range 10
east, and part of sections and 6 OF
township south range 10 east.
Greensburg District of Louisiana.
And your honorable board is fur
Their respectfully petitioned to un-
dertake the drainage an dreclama-