The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-07-12
coLFAx, GRANT PARISH, La. SATURDAY, JULY r. 1902.
Official Proceedings Of the Grant
Parish School Board.

Officinl Proceedings Of the Gran
Parish SchoOl Board.
COlsax. La. July 8, 1902.
The Grant parish school board me
this day with all the members pres
ent except j. ". HeIt and A. j. Dunn
! The minutes of the last meeting
were read and regularly approved.
happening to the hoard that +. B
Dean had been appointed and hat
qualified as a member of the board te
I'LL the unexpired term of G. w. Hick
and his name ordered enrolled.
All the petitions asking for extern
sion OF schools already In operation
were referred to the president and
superintendent.
ThesuIn of one hundred and twenty.
i've dOllOrs was allowed and ordered
out of the funds belonging to district
one, to pay to the school directors ol
the BOyce school to pay for the Grant
parish children attending the Boyce
school.
The following persons were elected
and appointed as trustees Of the Eu-
reka school: w. HI. Dyson, l.. G..
GUN, G. KOshto, H. II. Roshto, and
j, A. Hayes.
The sum OF SIS % was ordered paid
to J. A. Harvey for assessing the five
mills tax ins Pollock district, to he
paid ont Of the funds belonging to
the Pollock district.
The old board of trustees were re-
LEVIED from duty In the Liberty Chap
el school district, and the following
new board appointed, viz: AlonxO
Nelkins. j. w. White. +. NJ. Dean, Il. K.
Neal and William Hodnett.
The sum Of 81 80 was ordered re
funded to NJ. K. Swafford for amount
of poll tax refunded to n. L. Futrell
and Isaiah Nugent.
The petition asking for a change in
the location If the New Hope school
was laid on the table. there not an
pearlnE majority Of the patrons
asking for same.
1t was ordered that the sum of two
Thousand dollars lie loaned to the DO
lice jury Of the parish Of Grant, upon
the president Of that body executing
his obligation to the parish school
board Tor the sum Of two thousand
dollars, payable on the frat day of
January, 1903. without interest.
~ 81 was allowed +. b. Dean for
money expended on the Walnut Grove
school.
The sum Of forty-five cents was or
dered paid to VIM. LaCrofx for ex-
press paid ON treasurer's books.
The following resolution was offer
ed and unanimously passed:
Be IT ordained by the school board
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lock High School and College, for
males and females, situated in the
town OF Pollock. La, IL hereby recog-
nized and established by this board
us high school. with the right to
Institute a course Of collegiate train
ing IN conformity with it's charter
and existing school laws, and said
school is hereby submitted to the
State board OF education for it's sane
tlon and approval.
TWAS ordered that the sum OF fifty
dollars be appropriated out OF the
funds Of the Hargis school district.
70 pay for improvements ON the
school building, upon a proper EVIL
dence that the local board of trustees
have had IN mnch ~ one hundred
dollars worth Or work done.
The treasurer's report was preaent-
I'd, a committee examined the same
together with the trcasurer's hank
book showing deposits in the Bank
u Colfax. and It appearing that the
books were correct and that the mon
" az claimed was on deposit In the |
bank. sud report was received. an |
proved Gnd ordered published.
The following resolution was offer |
ii and adopted:
Be 1t resolved, That the boundaries
II the Liberty Chapel school district |
R changed no as to include the fol- |
owing territory. to-wit: Sections /,
!, 3: 4, D, o. Z, y. .. 10, III, Is. Is. II. Is,
md north hall Ut sections 10. 20. q. |
IND ~, township north, range {: /
vest, aud sections /, II. Ii, and north
laf oi section ~, township 8 north,
unge west.
Tie following resolution was offer
d and adopted:
BE 1t resolved by the school board
u the parish Of Grant, That the
boundary Of the Black Creek school
" changed SO aa to include the fol-
owing school territory: South half
I sections -, 70. II, and y, all of q,
$, ~. 30. IL, ~. S3, and -, tip north,
ange west. and south half of sec-
ion ~. all Of %, IS. tip s north, range
west, sections 3, 4, 5. 6, Z. .. 8, 10, tip
north. range 2 west, section !, 2. IL,
:, tip Z north, range 3 west.
The following resolution was offer
d and adopted:
Be It resolved by the school board
I Grant parish. That the College Hill
istrtct and the Iatt district he united
nd that It he known as the College
I'LL, district rs. and that the bonn
aries be changed 80 IA to include
ecttOns 5, 8, Z, 3, IL. IL, 10. 20, q, 50,
!, 81, tip 8 north, range 8 west. and
ecti0ns l. 2, 8. 4, s. 6. Z. 8, 8, 10. II, IL,
;, IA, Is, y. q, "a. q, e, q, "a, 80, Sc, I
p 8 north, range 4 west. II
There being no other business he
IRE the board 1t adjourned to tits next
OCULAR meeting In October. 1902.
H. s. CAMERON, Prest.
j. A. WILLIAMS, Secty.