The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07
PROCLAMATION.
By the Board of Supervisors of Election
for Grant Parish, Louisiana.

for Grant Parish, Louisiana.
Whereas, in obedience to the ordinance
of the police jury in and for the parish
of Grant, State of Louisiana, passed at
its session on Tuesday, October 9Th, A. d.
1895, providing that a special election
should be held in said parish of Grant, on
Monday the I'd day of December 1895, at
the respective precincts where the last
preceding general election was held:
The Board of SUPERVISOR duly issued
their proclamation on the 9th day of Oc-
tober 1895 proclaiming and giving public
notice to those entitled to vote under the
law that special election would be held
in the said parish of Grant, at the sever
al precints in said parish. where the last
preceding general election was held, to
take the sense aud wishes of the property
on the question of levying special tax
of five mills per annum for the period OF
ten years from and beginning with the
LIST day of January 1896, as specified and
set forth in the ordinance of the said
Police jury, upon all the taxable proper
ty In said parish of Grant in aid of the
Shreveport extension of the Kansas City,
Watkins aud Gulf Railway Company as
described in the said ordinance and pur-
suant to the general election law and the
said ordinance of the Police Jury. The
election was duly held on said date, and
a canvass of the vote thereat shows the
following result:
Number of property tax payers entitled
to vote at said election who voted for said
tax. four hundred and ninety five. (495)
Assessed valuation of those SO voting
for said tax, one hundred and seventy
one Thousand, one hundred and eighty
one dollars. (s171,1SD
Number of those voting against said
tax, duly qualified under the law, three
hundred and ninety seven. (39O
Assessed valuation of those entitled to
vote who voted against said tax, one hun
dred and thirty four thousand two hun
dred and ten dollars. (S134,21Q)
Majority in number of those entitled to
vote who voted for the said tag, ninety
eight. 1887
Majority in value of those entitled to
vote who voted for the tax, thirty six
thousand, nine hundred and seventy one
dollars. (s36971.)
Therefore, in accordance with the said
result, we hereby announce and prOmul-
gate that inasmuch as majority in num-
Der and in value OF the property taxpay-
ers of the said parish have voted in favor
thereof, the result Of said election Is ia
vorable to the levy of said tax, and that
the parish of Grant aforesaid thereby in
Cured the obligation to extend aid to
the said Kansas City, Watkins and Gulf
Railway Company for the said term of
ten years, to the extent of five (5) mills
annually, beginning with the first day of
January, 1896, to be paid in annual in
stallments as realized and collected from
said tax of five mills. until the whole
thereof shall have been paid to said COM
pany, or its order, in accordance with
the statute made and provided.
We rejected the returns from Lince-
cum and Union precincts, for the reason
of irregularity in the returns, in this,
that there were no compiled statements
showing the amounts voted respectively
for and against the tax in aid of the rail
road extension.
Given under our official signatures and
sanction. on this the 4th day of Decem-
Der, 1895. j. A. WILLIAMS,
w. w. SMITH,
M. E. SwAFFoRD.
Board of Supervisors of Election for
Grant parish, Louisiana.
Witness: o. N, o. WATTS,