St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1919-06-28
POLICE JURY
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Therefore, realizing and appreciat-
ing the Importance of this road to
the State of Louisiana, the Parish Of
st. Tammany and the city of New
Orleans, we recommend the advance
of this money on the conditions out
lined in the foregoing.
Respectfully submitted,
J. D. GRANT,
F. w. FATHEREE,
w. OSWALD,
Good Road Commission of St.
Tammany Parish, La.
1t was moved by E. j. Domergue,
seconded by Theodore Dendinger, Jr.,
that the Police Jury accept the rec
ommendation of the Good Roads
Commission if assurance is positive
and satisfactory that the amount ask
ed for be paid back within twelve
months after the attorney of the
Police Jury has attended to all legal
matters pertaining to same and eX-
amined into all matters as to getting
the money returned. The motion
was put to vote and resulted in the
following: Yeas, 6. Nays, 2.
Carried.
The following letter was read and
ordered published SO the public, who
were not at the meeting, may read it:
Slidell, La, June "a, 1919.
To the Honorable, the Police Jury
of st. Tammany Parish, Coving-
ton, La.
Gentlemen: On May %, 1919,
there was convened at Slidell mass
meeting of citizens of the Parishes Of
Orleans and St. Tammany, Louisiana,
and the Counties of Mississippi, eX-
tending along the Mississippi Gulf
Coast. At this meeting the compile
ton of that portion of the Chef Men
teur and Hammond New Orleans
State Highway, between New Orleans
and the Mississippi line, was discuss
ed. The result of that conference
was the adoption of a resolution au-
thorizing the chairman of the mass
meeting to appoint:
"A committee composed of five
citizens of Slidell, clothed with full
and complete authority to do any
thing that may be necessary to bring
about the immediate completion OF
the New Orleans-Chef Menteur end
of the road, and particularly, the
link between the Rigolets and Log
town.
The undersigned composed the
special committee appointed in con-
formity with that resolution.
At the suggestion of gentlemen in
New Orleans who are interested in
the building of this highway, we have
requested this special meeting of
your jury to afford an opportunity
for a discussion of the building of
this State Highway through st. Tam
many parish to a connection with the
line at, or near, Logtown,
and we submit, for your information,
the following statement which is
merely a statement of facts according
to our understanding of the situa
ton:
Act No. Is of the special session of
1918 Of the Louisiana Legislature
covers a constitutional amendment
providing for revenues and authoriz-
ng a bond issue of $4,000 for the
of State Highway, the
-evenues produced under this Act to
De designated as
Estate Highway Fund No 2, Chef
Menteur and Hammond-NeW Orleans
H ighways"
And to be dedicated to building
State Highways from New Orleans to |
Hammond and the Chef Menteur road |
rom New Orleans to
"A place in the Parish of st Tam |
many at the boundary line between /
he States of Louisiana and Missis- |
ippi, opposite, or nearly opposite, to |
4ogtown, in the State of Mississippi" |
The Act further provides,
That the proceeds of the sale of |
III bonds, notes, or certificates of in
lebtedness, issued hereunder, shall |
70 used, first, to pay for the con-
truction and completion of the Chef