The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-03-02
amendment should be adopted or not.

bl;tt llltlI QeLiaLQS De COlloiutIcu, tudt
q special election be ordered in confor-
nance with said act No. ITO, approved
April 10, 1880, and as prayed for by
your petitioners and that notice be pub
lished as required by said act.
Godchaux, SEVERN Leblanc, Ophelias
Bourque, n G Young. JosJ Ahaaie, P d
Dn2uy. Nnma Frederick: Albert d La
horde, Th Dutel. George w Caldwell, y
w Wall, + l. Melebeck, Jacob } IsaacS, l.
Leotaud; David Beer, II Mestayer, Geo w
Petty, AL Mehaulf, } Boyance, = Ira
han, NJ Lyons, $ Leblanc, j.. Geo +
Lyons, Severien PrimeauX, Geo w Sum-
lners, l. Lyons, Alcide Leblanc, Henry
Leguennec, Eraste Meuton, Dupre Blan-
die, + Leblanc. A Monlor. Eli Wise Gas
tai, RobtJ Young. AZ + Feray, Edonard
Noel, II H Mills, VIM P Miller. W D
White, G L Cullison, J O Lege, Solomon
Wise, w F Area. Garlic Caldwell. l. Du-
tel, Isam Conner. Thomas Plowden, WIG
klbbe, Il Lenaire, Lastle Broussard. Leo
pold %lsaacs, Adonis Leblanc, Al GODDARD.
To the Hon. Mayor and Aldermen of
the town of Abbeville.
The undersigned tax payers now re-
siding on and owning property on the
outside of the corporate limits Of the
town of Abbeville, and situated within
the limits Of the proposed annexation
to the town Of Abbeyille as represented
in the petition of the property tax
payers Of Abbeville to the Hon. Mayor
and Aldermen Of said town, hereby eX-
press our desire and consent to have
our property Incorporated as prayed for
in the petition above referred to.
Jos T Labit, ii Feray, G Labauye, H
Z p,JH;,,enp 7 4 Datty I n I oylpy II INra-
han r c Smedes, OHOBryan, J. Johnson,
Gilbert Right. Washingto Jones, James
Robertson, Belisaire Olong,, Wilson Mel
ton, Elise Gage. Josephine Dofeuy, Mes
Tidy Unbres, John Booette, Green Jones,
II b Lyons, II Spears, W II Chevis, j 4
N Dupux, Alexis Trahan, Theo Laporte,
Henry Hill.
On motion Of Mr.. Wall, duly seconded.
Whereas a petition has been present.
ed to the Town Council signed by more
than one-third of the property tax
payers of the town Of Abbeville pray
ing to extend and enlarge the limits of
the corporation oastoincludet the Nixon,
Area, and Blanchet tracts and other
territory as specified and described in
aforesaid petition by the metes and
bounds as therein setforth, and consid-
ering the petition of citizens residing in
the aforesaid territory adjoining the
limits of said corporation who consent
and ask TO be incorporated IN the town
of AbhovillA.
Therefore, be it tssstvsd, hy the
Town Couneai q the town Of Abbevilh
that al d1setioh be held IN Monday the
18th day Of April, A. D. 1889, at which
time the proposed amendment to the
charter Of said town as set forth in the
aforesaid petition of the property tax
payers shall be submitted to the voters
of said town for their approval or re-
lection. That said election shall be
held at the court house in said town Of
| Abbeville, and shall be presided over
by the Mayor of said town, assisted by
the Secretary of the Town Council,
that those voting for said proposed
amendment shall have printed or writ
ten on their ballot the words "Pro-
posed amendment to Sec l of the Char
ter-For Approval" Those voting
against said amendment shall have
written or printed on their ballot, the
words proposed amendment to Sec l
of the Charter-Against Approval"
That the polls shall be opened at 9
o'clock aim, and remain open until 4
o'clock D.. IL, Of said day, at which
hour the polls shall be closed and there
upon the ballot box shall be opened
and the ballots therein cast shall be
counted by the Mayor in the, presence
of two legal voters, resident OF said
town, and a statement Of the result OF
said vote be signed by said Mayor and
Secretary and witnessed by the afore-
said two voters; that the Mayor shall
publish the result Of saidelection byten
days advertisement in the Meridional,
newspaper, and if a majority Of the
qualified electors at such election shall
approve and ratify said proposed
amendment, the same shall become a
part of the Charter of the town of Alb
beville, and shall be proclaimed as such
by the Mayor by public proclamation
and publication in the official newspaper
of said town. /
Be it further resolved, that this reso-
luton and said proposed amendment
and the Mayors proclamation ordering
said election shall be published in. the
official journal of this town for 30 days
previous to the holding of said election.
Amendment n (l).
That section first of an act entitled
ian act to incorporate the town of Alb
beville, parish of Vermilion," approved
March Is, 1850, as amended and re-
enacted by act No. 179 of the acts of
the General Assembly Of this State, ap-
proved March Is, 1866, be altered ami
..amended so as to read, as follows:
That the territorial limits of the town
Of Abbeyille be and are hereby fixed as