The Banner-Democrat., 1898-08-13
ID. w: GiLMoUR, by. Clerk.
Providence, La, Aug. IL. ls9s.-6t.

Mavor's Office Town of Providence, La,
August D. 1898.
WHEREAS. The Board of Aldermen OF
the town of Providence. La. did on the Attn
dav of August. A. ID. 1898, enact an ordi-
nance in accordance with petition signed
by more than one third of the property tax
uays in number and value. being the bona
Ide owners of the lots and lands lying ana
and adjacant to the territorial
corporate limits of the town OF providence,
La. desiring that said lots or land he an
nexed TO and included in the territorial /
corporate limits of said town OF ffoVl- I
dence, La and the said Board OF Alder !
men being vested with the authority under
Act No. lu5 Of the acts OF the General AS
sembly of the State of Louisiana Of 1892.
did in accordance with said petition order
an election tor the purpose OF submitting
the proposition to the quaiilled voters re,
siding in and upon the lots OF land proposed
TO be annexed; .
Now. therefore, |. G. VI. Franklin, Mayor
of the town of Providence, in the parish OF
East Carroll. Louisiana. in accordance WIN
and by virtue of the authority vested IN
me by ordinance of said Board of Alder
men of said town of Providence, do issue
this my Proclamation hereby ordering ana
directing that an election be held on lhe
26th day of August, 1898, by tne
qualified electors residing in ana upon the
lots or land proposed to be annexed to the
town of Providence, La and to be lnclud-
ed in territorial corporate limits OF salu
town. submitting to them to be voted at
| said election whether they desire that such
lots or lands shall be annexed to and IN
! cluded i'm the territorial corporate limits OF
| the present town of Providence. which lots
/ or lands seeking annexation iA described
! by boundaries flee with the position for
annexation. together with the plat OF sur
vey as follows
All that territory lying west and south
| of the present corporate limits oil the town
of Providence and adjacant thereto, con-
sisting of all OF the north half OF the origin
al Hood and Wilson plantation, lying west
! and south of the present corporate limits
of said town, and in addition thereto the
Providence Cemetery, as now enclosed
and the Swafford lot and McGuire's gin lot
lying south of the present corporate limits
and formerly n part OF the south hall OF tne
u ood and Wilson plantation, together with
the strip of land lying between the Swat.
. ford property and McGuire's gin lot and
the Mississippi river, said territory to be
comprised within the following described
limits. to-wit
All the territory west and south of the
corporate limits OF the town of Providence
and east and north of the following des
, cribed boundary lines, to-wit:
Z Beginning at point where the extension
: northward OF the western boundary line o.
Providence Cemetery strikes the maj IN U
Lake Providence; thence southwark along
the wettern boundary of said cemetery L
the southwest corner of same; thence east
ward along the southern bouncar,
: OF said cemetery to the line between
, Edgewood plantation aud the onglna
= Hood and Wilson plantations; thence south
ward along the western boundary OF th
= north half OF the Hood aud Wilson planta
tIon, to the south west corner OF The nortl
! half of said Hood and Wilson plantation
! thence eastward along the line diyidln!
!. the north half from the south half OF sal,
;; Hood and Wilson pia1iafion, to the mort
= west corner OF the Swafford property
!, thence southwark along the western bound
:, airy oftheSwatford property and The Mc6uir
I, gin property to the south west corne
y !, Of said gin properly; thence eastward aion
u tue southern boundary of said gin proper
,y. aud an extension of said souiiier
boundary line to margin of the MISSISSIPPI
5. river; said territory being bounded on th
Of north by the present corporate limits OF tb
IS town of Providence and by Lake PROV
i, dence; on tire west by the Edeewond plan
v tation aud the south hall Of The Hood an
10 Wilson plantation, on the south by thi
as part Of the south half OF the Hood and WI