The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-04-07
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CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
ORDINANCE No. GAL.

ORDINANCE No. GAL.
An ordinance submitting to the property
tax payers the question whether or not
they will direct the city council of Mon
roe to levy and collect a five mill tax for
ten years, in aid of the Houston, Central
Arkansas & Northern Railroad, provid-
ing when said tax shall begin to be col
WHEREAs-More than lone-third of the
property tax payers Of the city Of Monroe
have presented a petition to the council,
asking that All election be ordered for the
purpose of submitting the proposition to
the qualified property tax paying electors
vote a five mill tax for ten years in aid of
the Houston, Central Arkansas Il Northern
Railroad.
Section BE it ordained by the Mayor
and city council of Monroe, That an cleo
ton for the purpose aforesaid is hereby or
dered to be held on Tuesday, the 10th day
of April, A. D., 1888.
Sec. 2-Be it further ordained, &c, That
the said election shall be held under the
laws Of the State, and it shall be the duty
of the returning officer for the parish of
Ouachita to provide boxes for use of said
election and to appoint commissioners of
election to conduct the same.
Sec. 3-Bo it further ordained. &C., That
persons who desire to vote in favor of the
provided tor in Section 2, on which shall be
printed or written, For the Proposed Rail-
road Tax, and those who desire to vote
against the tax shall deposit ballots on
the Proposed Railroad Tax.
Sec. DE it further ordained, &c, That
| all ballots shall be voted open and it shall
| be the duty of the commissioners ofelection
to keep list of all persons who vote and
| in the returns which they shall make of the
election to the city council they shall make
certified list ofall persons so voting, together
| with the assessment of each within the cor
porate limits of the city of Monroe, and
how each voted.
Sec. 5-Be it further ordained, &C., That
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| tax shall be vested by ordinance of the
council in the Houston, Central Arkansas
Il Northern Railroad, and its assignees /;
Provided tho revenues OF the said tax for
the fiji st year shall be duo and exigible to said
company only when said railway shall be
completed and in operation by regular run
ming of trains theron through Ouachita par
| ish and the city of Monroe.
| Sec. 6-Be it further ordained, &c, That
| the balance of said tax, exclusive of that
lowed and collected for the first year afte r
road, shall be paid over to the said railroad
company, or its assignees, provided for in
Section 5, as it is collected from year to
year; Provided. that if said railroad COM
pany shall not have completed its line of
railway, connecting with tho Northern
States, within eiShtee (lS) months after the
work is begun, said taxes shall cease to be
collected and the said company and assign
ees shall forfeit all unsolicited taxes.
Sec. BE it further ordained, &C.. That
in view of a certain contract between the
recorded in the office of the Recorder of
Ouachita parish on October l. 1856. Therein
the city of Monroe agreed to pay to said ".
:. Il p. X. Il. Co. certain taxes therein des-
ignated and it is understood that no part
OF this ordinance shall in any way be con-
strued to compel the said city of Monroe to
levy and collect and pay to the Houston,
Central Arkansas II Northern Railroad Co.
any tax derived from from said ", s. Il p.
| r.. X. Co. during the years from 1887 to 1894
inclusive, which may be desi grated in said
contract as to be paid under the terms
thereof to said ", 5. Il =. Railroad Co. 1t
is further understood that said city of Mon
roe shall in no wise, under this ordinance,
be bound for said taxes in favor of said ",
s. Il z. II. X. Co., or the value thereof to
said Houston, Central Arkansas & North
ern Railroad Company or its asSignees.
| Sec. 9-Be it further ordained, &c. That
all rights, mupiments and franchises in
and to said five mill tax as hereinbefore set
forth, and to be voted for under this ordi-
nance, shall be absolutely forfeited by said
Houston, Central Arkansas Il Northern
Railroad, and said taxes peither levied nor
collected in any part thereof-unless the
actual work of building said railroad shall
be begun and prosecuted in good faith in
the parish of Ouachita within ninety DAYS
after the vote shall be promulgated as au-
thorizing said taxes to be levied as foresaid
Approved: FIR, ENDoM, Mayor
u j. II, SIMON, Secretary.