New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-08-21

Messrs. Leon Braquet, L. Z. Leblanc
and Thos. Gonsoulin as Drainage Com
missioners and they being propert,
owners and assessed with property ex
pointed and the two commissioners to bt
appointed by the Governor of the State
of Louisiana, shall constitute the BoarJ
iof Commissioners Of the Fourth Ware
Drainage District, shall on the 18th day
of September 1920 meet at New Iberia
in the Parish Of Iberia, State Of Louis
lana at ten o'clock A. NJ, for the purpose
of organizing, and shall then and there
elect from their number a President ans
Vice President and a Secretary Treas
urer all as provided for by Act 317 OF
the Acts of the General Assembly OF
Louisiana for the year 1910 as amended
Sec. 8. Be it further ordained that ali
ordinances or part of ordinances that may
be in conflict herewith be and the same
are hereby repealed.
The ordinance having been submitted
to vote, the vote thereou was as fol-
lows
Messrs. Gary, Greig, Decuir,
Boutte,, Dvaid, Girard, Landry, DeBlanc
Leleu, Schexnayder and Lyon.
Nays, None.
And the ordinance was declared car
tied
Moved by Mr.. Boutte, seconded by
| Mr.. Decuir and carried that Messrs. j.
| f. Broussard and Chas. Dugas of Lo-
reauville, La, be recommended for ap-
| pointment as Commissioners of the
! Fourth Ward Drainage District by the
Governor of the State of Louisiana
The resignation of Mr. F c. Quereau
as member of committee appointed by
The Police Jury April 18th, 1920 for the
| purpose of opening road from Sarah
bridge to f. c. Quereau property on the
West Side of Bayou Teche duly received
and on motion of Mr. Decuir, duly sec
onded and carried said resignation is
hereby accepted.
successor to Mr.. Quereau on said
committee being in line for appointment,
Mr. Decuir moved that Mr. A. A. Theriot
be appointed as member of this commit
tee. There being no objection and this
motion being duly seconded and carried
Mr.. A. A. Theriot is hereby declared to
be member of said committee.
Mr.. Landry moved that the secretary
be authorized to buy blankets for use in
Jail said blankets being available at the
Government store in New Orleans, La.
Motion seconded and carried.
The secretary was instructed to notify
the Linden Company, Inc of Jeanerette,
La, to stop the OVERLOOKING of the pub
lie road near Jeanerette on the West Side
of Bayou Teche.
The resignation of Mr.. ]. Z. Broussard
and Jules Pellet as members of the
Board of Supervisors of Road District
No. of the Parish of Iberia, duly re-
ceived and read when 1t was moved by
Mr.. Boutte, seconded by Mr. Lyon that
said designations be accepted. Carried.
The appointment of successors to
Messrs. J. E. Broussard and Jules Pellet
postponed 10 a later date, in order that
petition signed by more then fifty
per cent Of the taxpayers of Road District
No. be presented to the Police Jury,
recommending said successors.
Sheriff P. A. Landry requested the
Police Jury that he be allowed the sum
of Fifty Cents per meal for feeding the
prisoners.
Mr. Landry moved that the Sheriff be
allowed the sum of Fifty Cents per meal.
Motion duly seconded and carried.
The following ordinance presented by
Mr.. Schexnayder, seconded by Mr.. Lam
dry was adopted towit
AN ORDINANCE.
For the regulation of operation OF
motor driven vehicles on the Public
Roads of the Parish of Iberia, La.
Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Police
Jury of the Parish of Iberia, La, that
every motor vehicle operated upon the
public roads of the Parish of Iberia,
should throw sufficient light ahead to re-
veal any person, vehicle or substantial
object upon the roadway straight ahead
of such motor vehicle at distance of at
least one hundred fifty feet l5o,.I
These lights should be permanently ar
ranged that no portion of the reflected
beam of light, when measured at point
of fiftv feet or more ahead of the We
biels shall rise more then forty-two
inches above the level surface on which
the vehicle stands with the proper dimN
mers. Said lights should also give sut-
ficient side illumination to indicate any
person, vehicle or substantial OBJECT
With ten feet of the side of said motor
vehicle at a point ten fee or more ahead
of il. -. ~ - 49, -
Sec. Q. Be it further ordained that the
use of a spot light on any motor We
hicle upon the public roads of the Parish
of Iberia is hereby prohibited.
Sec. 3. Be It further ordained that the
term beam or light as(used in this ordi-
nance is to be construed as meaning APP
proximately the parallel rays of light and
projected by a reflector.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained that
any person or persons, firms or eorpo-
rations violating the provisions of Sec
ton /, 2 and 3 Of this ordinance, shall
| upon conviction therefor, before any
court of competent jurisdiction be fined
not less then Five Dollars, nor more then
Twenty Five Dollars or sentenced to inn
pr;sonment for not less then ten days