Montpelier, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana
File submitted by Mrs. Inez Bridges Tate and prepared by D.N. Pardue
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From publication "Old Montpelier, 1804, New Montpelier, 1904" 
compiled by Inez B. Tate and published by St. Helena Historical
Association, 1993.  Reprinted with permission.


MONTPELIER

From the "General Digest of the Acts of the Legislature of Louisiana: Passed from
the year 1804 to 1827, inclusive."

PARISH OF ST. HELENA	

     An Act to establish a permanent seat of justice in and for the parish of St. Helena.

Approved, March 25, 1813.

     Section 1.  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of

Louisiana, in general assembly convened, That Jacob Coll, Joseph Thomas, William James,

Daniel Raines and Joseph Slater, are hereby appointed commissioners, a majority of whom

shall have power to fix and determine on a permanent seat of justice in and for the parish

of St. Helena, not exceeding five miles from what they may conceive to be the centre of the

parish.

     Section 2. The said commissioners are hereby authorized to receive, in behalf and for

the benefit of the parish, any donation or gift that may be offered by any individual, and 

the said commissioners, in conjunction with the parish judge, and any two justices of the 

peace in the said parish are hereby authorized to levy a tax within the parish, not exceeding

one thousand dollars, for the purpose of erecting and completing the public buildings in the

said parish.

     Section 3.  The tax thus levied shall be collected one half in the year one thousand

eight hundred and thirteen, and one half in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen,

by the collector of taxes in the parish, who shall receive the same emoluments, and be

subject to the same penalties as is provided by law for the collection of other taxes, and

which when collected, shall be paid into the hands of the commissioners, who are authorized

to contract with fit and proper persons for the erection of such buildings as may appear to

them necessary, which, after at least thirty days public notice, shall be let to the lowest

bidder.

     
     An Act concerning elections in the parish of St. Helena.

     Section 1.  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of

Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That from and after the passage of this act, it 

shall be the duty of the Parish Judge and Police Jury, of the Parish of St. Helena, at the

said annual meeting of said Police Jury, to appoint two other places of elections, for 

Governor, Members of Congress, Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States,

and Members of the General Assembly of this State, in addition to those already allowed

by law.

     Section 4.  Be it further enacted, That the Commissioners, or a majority of them from 

each poll, shall meet at the Court House in the town of Montpelier, on the third day, at 

4 o'clock, P.M., and proceed to counting the votes according to law.


A GENERAL DIGEST OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
1804 - 1827
Approved April 24, 1811

     County of Feliciana divided into six parishes.

"....Section 3.  The third shall be called the parish of St. Helena, which comprehends that

tract of country lying below the line of the Mississippi territory and between the Amite and

the river Tanchipao."
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