The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1900-09-01

to retire at least that amount, and
to set aside each year sufficient
funds for that purpose.
End. To incur an Indebtedness of
one hundred thousand dollars for
the purpose of constructing Sys.
TEN of drainage for the New Iberia
and Bayou Carlin Drainage Dis
| trlct.
3rd. TO authorize the New
Iberia and Bayou Carlin Drainage
District to levy a > mill tax on all
property subject to State taxation
within said drainage district: said
tax to run for a period of twenty
years.
Said tax shall be applied i'll the
order following, namely
For the 1st. Five (5) years;
1st, For the payment of interest
on the bonds.
End. 10 defray running expenses
and for the maintenance of sys-
TEN of drainage and Improvements.
:3rd. The balance of said tax to
be placed i'll the general sinking
| fund.
After the first five ~ years:
1st. For the payment of interest
OH the bonds.
Two thousand five hundred dol
lars per annum for a sinking fund
to retire the bonds.
The remainder of the funds real
ized by the Board of Commission
crs of the New Iberia and Bayou
Carlin Drainage District shall be
applied to necessary running eX-
penses, maintenance and operation,
for the reduction of rate of tax
alton. or for the extension or bet
terment of said works, provided
the expenditure for the running
expenses, purchase, construction,
maintenance, operation, extension
or betterment of sad works shall
never exceed the amount of the
fund on hand for such public
works, nor reduce said fund below
a sum to meet the interest pay
ment to become due in the year
next succeeding such expenditure,
nor be paid out of the sinking fund
required by this act.
Resolved, that the polling places
at which said election shall be
held. shall be as follows:
For all voters of that portion of
the 9th. Ward included in said
drainage district, the polling place
shall be at the Court House at
New Iberia, La and the commits
sioners of election shall be Silvio
BrOussard, Leon Lemaire and Car
los Mestayer, and the clerk of sad
poll shall be CASTOR DeLassus, all
registered and qualified voters re-
siding within said portion of said
district.
For all voters of that portion OF
the 2nd. Ward included within
said drainage district the polling
place shall be at the store of Lydia
Plantation of II. Patout, and the
commissioners of said election at
said poll shall be Jules Olivier, j.
E. Duplants, and Desire Broussard
and the clerk of said election shall
be John b. Winters, all duly quail
flied and registered voters residing
within said portion of said district
For all voters of that portion of
the 7th. Ward included in said DIS
trict the polling place shall be at
j. Rodrigues's. and the commits
sioners of election shall be J. Rod
rigues, Similien Rodrigues and JOS.
Bourque, and the clerk of election
for said poll shall be John Curtis,
Jr., allduly qualified and registered
voters residing within said portion
Of SAID district.
Resolved, that all property tax
payers, residing within the limits
of said district, qualified as elect
ors and duly registered under the
Constitution and laws Of the State
of Louisiana, shall be entitled to
vote at said election, the qualifica-
ton of which said tax payers, as
voters, tobe those ofsge, residence
and registered as voters, and that
resident women tax payers shall
also have the right to vote at said
election, without such registration,
in person, or by their agents au-
thorized in writing, in which case
the written authorization of such
woman tax payers to said agent
lahafll be attached to the ballot cast.
Resolved, that said board OF
drainage commissioners of the New
Iberia and Bayou Carlin Drainage
District shall, in open session at
twelve az O'Clock M. on the 4th.
day of October, A. d. 1900, at the
City Hall Of this city of New Ibe
ria, proceed to open the ballot
boxes, examine and count the bal
lots in number and amount, and
examine and canvass the returns
and declare the result of said elec-
ton.
On motion the meeting adjourned