The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-01-23

the following vote: Yeas-E. S.
Dortch, President; J. T. Many, T.
n. Barnett, T. NJ. Love, G. D. San
didge. J. w. Jeter and j. A. Sewall.
Nays-none.
AN ORDINANCE
Ordering a special election in &C
cordance with Act No. 153 Of the
Acts of 1894, of the Legislature of
the State of Louisiana, approved
July 18th, 1894, whereat shall be
submitted to the property tax. payers
of parish ward No. l, of the Parish
of Bossier, in the State of Louisiana,
entitled to vote under the laws of the
said State, the question of levying a
special tax at the rate of five mills
on the dollar per annum for period
of ten years beginning with the lst
day of January, 1897, in the aid of
the construction of the Kansas City,
Watkins & Gulf railway, by the
Kansas City, Watkins & Gulf Railway
Company, corporation organized
under the laws of the State of Louis
lana, in conformity with the petition
of more than one third of the proper
ty taxpayers and tax-paying electors
of parish ward No. l, in the parish
of Bossier aforesaid, hereto annexed
and made part thereof, and subject
to the conditions and stipulations set
forth in the said petition and made a
part hereof, providing for the mode
of holding said eledtion, making re-
turns, etc.
Section l. Be it Ordained by the
Police Jury of the Parish of Bossier,
in the State of Louisiana, in legal
session convened, That special elec-
ton be held in parish ward No. 1, in
the parish aforesaid, on Thursday,
the Goth day of February 1896, at
which shall be submitted to the
| property taxpayers of the said par
ish ward, of the parish aforesaid, who
are entitled to vote under the laws
of the State of Louisiana, the ques-
ton of levying a special tax of five
| mills on the dollar of valuation on all
the taxable property of said parish
ward No. l, annually for the period
of ten years, beginning with the lst
day of January, 1897, in aid of the
construction as hereinbefore describ-
ed, by the Kansas City, Watkins &
| Gulf Railway Company, corpora
! tion organized under the laws of the
State of Louisiana, said tax to be
/ levied and paid out according to law,
upon the express terms and condi-
tions as set forth in the following
petition of the property x-payers
Of the parish ward as aforesaid, viz
PETITION.
To the Honorable Police Jury OF
the Parish of Bossier, State of Louis,
lana: We, the undersigned petition
ers constituting more than one-third
of the property ax.payers in the
parish ward No. l, of Bossier parish
said State, respectfully represent that
the construction of the Kansas City
Watkins Il Gulf railroad through the
said parish ward will be of great ben
eft to the people and property
thereof;
| Wherefore, we respectfully petition
| your Honorable Police Jury to levy
special tax of five mills annually fol
: the period of ten years as provided
by law, from the 1st day Of January
1897, payable on the order of sale
company according to law, in aid o
the construction of the Kansas City
Watkins & Gulf railway, by th'
!, Kansas City, Watkins & Gulf Rail
way Company, corporation organic
= ed under the laws of the State O
Louisiana, from a point of said parisl
V ward No. l on the south boundar,
Il and running thence in a northwestel
n ly direction through the entire lengt
of said parish ward, passing with
three-fourths of a mile of Knox Point
and passing out of the said paris
ward on the north boundary owe
the most practicable route throug
said parish ward No. l, and provide
! that none of said tax is to be pal
said corporation until after the CON
pletion of said road through sal
$, parish ward No. l; and will eret
depots at such points in said paris
e. ward No. l on said railway as th
y commerce thereof may in the juds
is IS ment of the said company requi,
is and will construct said line throug
u u said parish ward No. on the mo-
y practicable route from the said poil
le Of entrance to the northern or upp'
,g boundary of said parish ward No.
y completing the same ready for opera
st st ing the trains thereon on or befo
II. December 31st, 1897.
n, Petitioners further pray your Ho
se orable body to order an election
I'd take the sense of the taxpayers {
ie h, granting the aid asked for or again
Of said proposition, the ballots to
Ill written or printed in the followil
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