Red River County Louisiana Archives News..... 1901 Police Jury Meeting  March 7, 1901

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Coushatta Citizen  March 7, 1901 March 7, 1901
-- The Parish Police Jury met on March 7, 1901 and elected S. T. TEER, 
president, replacing JOHN CRICHTON, who resigned for reasons of health. Other 
members were J. C. BROWN, J. H. ALLUMS, O. T. WEBB, E. T. ROBINSON.
   MESSRS. ROBINSON, CRICHTON, ALLUMS, and T. G. PICKETT were appointed a 
committee to contract for and receive [bids] for a bridge across Grand Bayou.
   J. D. HARPER was granted permission to put in gates.
   Following an ordinance making it unlawful for wine or hogs of any 
description to ruan at large, the Jury set the official fence 
   The area: Bounded on the north of Loggy Bayou, east by Coushatta Bayou, 
South by Coushatta Bayou and Red River, west by Red River, said territorybeing 
located in the fourth ward.
   The fence: 4 wires and one six-inch plank, and then three wires above plank 
to make fence five feet high; posts to be eight feet apart.
   J. C. BROWN, BARNEY DIXON, HARRISON LONGINO, S. C. ORR, ANN HAMOS and FRANK 
ADAMS were appointed a Board of Reviewers to review and lay out a road from T. 
K. GIDDENS to intersect road No. 10 near Hickory Grove.
   The office of Road Commissioner was abolished.
   Accounts amounting to $411.02 were approved.
   The following were appointed as overseers of public roads in the parish for 
the year ending March 1, 1902:
   Road No.  1 -- T. J. WILKINSON, CHAS WOODARD, W. R. SMITH
   Road No.  2 -- ROBERT McCURDY, JIM RILEY
   Road No.  3 -- CLEO GRIFFIN, ROBERT MOORE, A. F. MANGHAM, KARL CRAWFORD,   
J.F. CONLY.
   Road No.  4 -- N. SHIVERS, JIM PICKETT, DOC LONG
   Road No.  5 -- BOSE PILANT, R. S. McCOY, JIM HUCKABY, PORTER HOLLY, WATT 
THOMAS.
   Road No.  6 -- CLINT McDOWELL, J. GAY, B. V. DAVIS
   Road No.  7 -- J. H. COLE
   Road No.  8 -- JACK COLLINS, GUS JONES
   Road No.  9 -- LEE HOWE
   Road No. 10 -- WM. COE, DICK BUSELL
   Road No. 11 -- A. J. HOLDER, W. C. POSEY
   Road No. 12 -- J. W. MARSTON, ROBERT ARMISTEAD, J. G. MARSTON, J. P. IVEY
   Road No. 13 -- H. S. BOSLEY, JR.
   Road No. 14 -- B. W. MARSTON JR, TAYLOR ---, W. M. GRAY, L. J. JONES
   Road No. 15 -- M. P. PICKETT, J. D. HARPER
   Road No. 17 -- T. L. CAGLE, J. A. FRIERSON,, M. J. ABINGTON, S. P. BATTLE,
GUS STALL
   Road No. 18 -- S. P. CASTON, C. WARDLAW
   Road No. 19 -- R. H. BROWN, H. A. HUNTLEY
   Road No. 20 -- WILL ATKINS
   Road No. 21 -- JOHN MARSTON, JR.
   Road No. 22 -- JACK BOYD
   Road No. 23 -- H. W. TIMON
   Road No. 25 -- SIMON SMITH
   Road No. 27 -- FATE HARVEY, J. M. COTTON
   Road No. 29 -- J. T. S. THOMAS
   Road No. 30 -- B. W. MARSTON, SR.
   Road No. 31 -- JARRID THOMAS
   Road No. 33 -- H. MARSTON, H. GARDNER
   Road No. 34 -- ALTO ELDER
   Grand Bayou Bridge -- J. M. WARREN

  

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