The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-27
Thursday, March q, 1919
MORGAN CITY TO BE TAXED
AS PART OF ROAD DISTRICT

It appears that some misunder-
standing has arisen due to wrong in
depreciation of the caption of an ar
ticle in Saturdays issue of the Re
view to the effect that property
within the municipality of Morgan
City would not be taxed by the pc.
lice jury The article which follow
ed, in the form of letter from Dis
trict Attorney Percy Saint, went on
to explain that the proposed road tax
would be levied by the supervisors
Of Road District No. /, and not by
the police jury. Some have con-
strued the heading to mean that no
tax would be levied on the property
within this municipality, without
having read the body of the article.
Mr. Saints letter said:
an your issue of March 20th., your
correspondent stated that the protest
of the Mayor and Councilmen Of
Morgan City was dismissed on the
grounds that the District Attorney
advised the Police Jury that the pro-
test was not in compliance with the
law covering such protests This is
an error; the Police Jury dismissed
the protest after considering it, on
the grounds that the protest was not
sound. Your repertorial would make
IT appear that the Police Jury had
used a legal technicality to dispose
of the protest, when, as a matter of
fact, special meeting of the Jury
was called for the purpose of con-
sidering the protest and same was
considered regardless Of the fact that
it was not an opposition to forming
the road district but only a protest
against the Municipality being EN-.
braced within the road district. l.
make this correction for the reason
that the Police Jury does not want
the taxpayers of Morgan City to
think that it did not give full con-
sideration to them and to the con-.
stituted authorities of Morgan City
i take this occasion to say that the
Police Jury as parochial body hasl
nothing to do with the Board of Ad-
ministrators of Road District No. /:
this district is public corporation.
separate and distinct from the Police
Jury, and it has power and authority
to do all things in its corporate ca,
pacity and corporate name necessary
to carry out the objects for which it
is organized, just as any other public
corporation has; its functions are en-
tirely separate from, and beyond SUI
pervision of the Police Jury; and
when Morgan City or any other mu-
nicipality, falls within the territorial
limits of this road district, it does
not come under the supervision, or
control, or interference of the Police
jury; the Police Jury does not au-
thorize the calling Of the special
election, nor does it authorize the
bond issue; it does not impose any
tax whatever on any section Of the
parish, and if the special election to |
be held authorizes the bond issue
the debt certainly cannot be paid by
parish taxation. So, Morgan City is |
not being taxed by the Police Jury |
to build roads,"
MI. Saints letter, as the above
shows, was intended to set Alright the
belief that the police jury was hand1
ling the matter of bonding the parish
10 build good roads. It was also
meant to convey that this city would
De taxed as part of road district.
which is governed by a separate and
distinct body from the police iurv.