The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1899-10-21
TOWN COUNCIL.
Regular meeting of the Town
Council held this 4th day of
October A. D., 1899.

Council held this 4th day of
October A. D., 1899.
To the Honorable Mayor and
Members of the Town Council of
the Corporation of st. Martinville,
La.
We, the undersigned property
tax payers of the Town of st. Mar
tinville, State of Louisiana, being
and constituting one-third of the
total number of property tax-pay-
ers of said Town entitled to vote
under the provisions of the State
constitution, desiring to secure the
location of the Southwestern
Louisiana Industrial Institute,
provided for by act No. 1872 of the
General Assembly, approved July
14th, 1898, in the Parish of st.
Martin, the title thereon to be in
the public, and not having in the
treasury of said Town any or suf-
fcient means to achieve said OBJ
ject, and realizing that the funds
necessary to secure the location of
said Industrial Institute under
said act, in the Parish of st. Mar
tin, can only be obtained by the
levying and collection of a special
tax for that purpose. We respect
fully petition your Honorable bo-
dy to forthwith order q special
election in said Town of st. Mar
tinville, La, under provisions of
act No 131 of 1898, and Article
No 232 of the Constitution of 1898,
for the purpose of ascertaining
and determining whether or not it
is the sense and desire of the pro-
perty taxpayers of said Town of
St. Martinville, that a special tax
of Five (5) mills on every dollar
of the assessed valuation of pro-
perty of said Town according to
the Official rolls for Twenty (2O)
years, beginning with the year
Nineteen hundred (19OO), be as
sessed and levied and collected
for the purpose hereinabove set
forth at the rate of Five (5) mills
aforesaid per year for and during
Twenty coy years, beginning with
the year Nineteen hundred (19OO)
and ending with the year Nine
teen hundred and nineteen (1919)
inclusive. To raise the sum of
$35, 10000, said special tax. when
collected shall be used for the be-
neft of said Industrial Institute If
located in the Parish of st. Mar
tin and shall be subject to the or
der and, paid to the proper autho-
rites of the State of Louisiana, as
may be provided by law. The
grant of said tax to be condition
ed upon the location and main
tanning of said Industrial Insti-
tute in the said Town of st. Mar
tinville, La, or in it's immediate
vicinity, and to be void if said In
stitute be located elsewhere:
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