Union Parish Louisiana Police Jury Aid to Families of Confederate Soldiers

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Transcription from the 
Union Parish Louisiana Police Jury Minutes
Book 1851 - 1869
pages 130 - 131

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page 130
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Extra Session May 6th, 1862

Received Farmerville May 6th 1862 of Union Parish La through the Police Jury the sum of 
One thousand four hundred and Eight four & 05/100 Dollars which I am to account for when 
called for. $1484.05						W. A. Darby, 
								  Phs. Treasurer

Be it ordained by the Police Jury in and for the Parish of Union and State of Louisiana 
in Extra Session with the Town of Farmerville on this the 6th day of May AD 1862 that 
the Sum of Ten Thousand Dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of 
aiding the families of soldiers now in service and who may heretafter Enter the service 
of the Confederate States. 

Be it further ordained that the President of the Polie Jury be authorized to issue Parish 
bills to the amount of Ten Thousand dollars in sums from one to twenty dollars to be signed 
by the President countersigned by the clerk and Endorsed accepted by the Parish Treasurer, 
that said bills be made negotiable by delivery, and good as a debt against the Parish to be 
paid by future taxation.

Be it further ordained that said bills be and they are hereby made recoverable in payment of 
all Parish claims, as well the Military as the parish Tax proper. 

Be it further ordained that the President be required to have Printed at the Expense of the 
Parish a sufficient number of blanks in the proper form with such other appropriate design as 
he may think proper to con___(?) with the amount above appropriated, which bills when assigned 
together with what Ever amount of money may now be on hand raised for the purposes aforesaid 
shall give his bond for the same conditioned for the faithful disbursment of the Same as herein 
after provided that the said Treasurer shall keep a separate Book in which he shall record all 
his disbursments which Book shall be open for the inspection of the Police Jury at all times, 
and that the Treasurer be required to report and make settlement with the POlice Jury when 
Ever called on to do so and that he have the same compensation for his services as for 
Keeping and disbursing the Parish funds proper.

Be it further ordained that three discreet citizens be appointed ine ach magistrates district 
or old Ward in the Parish...
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Extra Session May 6th, 1862

...whose duty it shall be to asertain [sic] the wants of all families within their 
respective bounds of absent soldiers in the War and from time to time draw their drafts on 
the Parish Treasurer for the amounts necessary to relieve Each family in necessitous 
circumstances which drafts shall be made payable to the party or heads of families Entitled 
to relief.

For Ward No. 2 
     Committee for Old Ward No. 6. G. W. Sims, M. B. Pullin & Robert Toler
     Old Ward No. 7. L. K. Thomas, Dr. John Traylor, & Samuel Smith
     Old Ward No. 9. D. D. Dawkins, John B. Robinson, & JOhn P. Everett

For Ward No. 3
     Old Ward No. 2. Wm. H. Lowe, Presley Roberts & G. R. Carroll
     Old Ward No. 4. Levi Ramsey, Riley Agerton & G. A. Killgore

For Ward No. 4
     Old Ward No. 10.  E. P. Bolton, J. R. Clark, & J. F. Fuller
     Old Ward No. 11.  C. J. Henry, S. G. Heard, & W. Cook

For Ward No. 5
     Old Ward No. 1.   Robert Henry, Wm. Willhite, & Sam Roberts
     Old Ward No. 3.   G. H. Colvin, Mitchel Gill, & M. McFarland
     Old Ward No. 12.  James Manning, J. C. Mays, & D. L. Hicks

For War No. 1
     Old Ward No. 8.   H. P. Anderson, S. W. Ramsey & Wm. Ham
     Old Ward No. 5.   W. P. Smith, J. M. Terry, & E. M. Auld

Approved May 6th, 1862
				Elias Faries, President

	Attest: W. C. Smith, Clerk


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