POLICE JURY MEETING

Crowley Signal Feb. 14, 1922

On motion of Mr. Scanlan, duly seconded by Mr. Bellard and carried that the petition of Mrs. Jean Matte of Branch, LA., asking to be placed on the indigent list of the parish be referred to the Secretary of the Red Cross for investigation and report.

On motion of Mr. Scanlan, duly seconded by Mr. Stakes and carried, an appropriation or $135 or as much as needed thereof, is hereby granted out of the general fund of the parish, for the purpose of sending Mrs. Eliza Young to the Home of Incurables.

On motion of Mr. Stakes duly seconded and carried, an appropriate of $290 or as much as be needed thereof, is hereby granted out of the roads and bridges fund of 1922, for the purpose of constructing five small bridges in the second ward.

The petition of Felix Briscoe now serving a six month in the parish jail, asking for a parole from the Police Jury, said Briscoe having served in the said jail since November term of court, was granted on motion of Mr. Regan, seconded by Mr. Stakes and carried by the following yea and nay votes: Yeas – Messers. Richard, Stakes, Bellard, Regan and King.  Nays – Messers Chappuis, Scanlan and Hopson.

The petition of Mrs. Amerite Bellard and her crippled son, Pierre Bellard of Iota, LA., asking the Police Jury make an appropriation of $5.00 per month for the support of herself and her son, was granted on motion of Mr. regan, seconded by Mr. Hopson and carried.

A petition signed by 89 resident tax payers of the Third Police Jury Ward asking the Police Jury to create a public road running as follows to wit:

Beginning at the northeast corner of Section 35, running due south on section between section lines 35 and 36, township 7 south , range 1 east.

Running straight south between section lines 1 and 2.

Thence, between sections 11 and 12 to intersect public road on the Ward line between wards 2 & 3, commencing  at Mowata Public School House due east on township line between 7 and 8 running 2 miles east and west.

The property owners upon which the said road passes are willing to donate the right of way for said road free of any cost to the parish was read to the jury on motion of Mr. Scanlan, seconded by Mr. Stakes and carried, a committee composed following residents of the Third ward was appointed to investigate and report to the Police Jury. Messrs. Jos. McGee, T.N. Ross, Jos. Young, Durel Aguillard, J.M. Young and Theogene Richard.

A petition signed by Charles Bruner and others of the Second ward, all property owners adjoining a certain public road leading from the T.P.R.R. Co. at Branch to Bayou Wykoff bridge, stating that all property owners are willing to donate sufficient land in order make said road forty feet width and asking that the Police Jury open the said road was read to the jury and on motion of Mr. Stakes, seconded by Mr. Scanlan and carried, the Secretary of the Police Jury is hereby authorized to send the parish engineer to locate the said road.

AN ORDINANCE -  forbidding the roaming at large of any cattle, horses, mules, goats, sheep or donkeys in the Parish of Acadia, and fixing the time when said ordinance will take effect and become operative: providing for the impounding of such animals and the sale thereof.

Section 1.  The duty of all owners or keepers of said animals to keep same within enclosures of such nature as to prevent their escape.

Section 2. Enclosures or fences shall be kept in good condition and the want of proper enclosures shall not be pleaded as a defense for the escape of animals.

Section 3. Duty of constables of the various wards to take into custody and impound the animals and advertise in public journal for 10 days and then sold at public auction held on Saturdays at 11:00 am.  The constables will be allowed a fee of $1. per head for each day impounded.

Section 4. Owners of animals shall be allowed to obtain the release of animals up to 1 hour of sale by paying cost.

Section 5. Ordinance shall take effect on July 1, 1922.

Ordinance was adopted by the following yea and nay votes:

Yea – Messrs. Chappuis, Regan, Hopson, King and Medlenka.

Nays – Messrs. Richard, Stakes, Scanlan and Bellard