New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1902-10-18
Call For Election by the Bayou
Carlin Drainage District.

Notice is hereby given that an election
by the properly qualified electors, of tho
Bayou Carlin Drainage District, will be
held on the
1sT, DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1902,
to vote for acceptance or rejection Of the
proposition embodied in the resolution OF
the Board of Commissioners of the Bayou
Carln Drainage District, adopted on Sep
TENDER 25th, 1902, and being rs follows
to- wit
Be il resolved by the Board Of Commits.
sionefs Of the Bayou Carlin District that
Whereas this Board of Commissioners
now exists by authority of regular organ
ization under the provisions of Act NJ
1853 of the Acts Of the General Assembly
of the State of Louisiana for the session OF
1902: and whereas the law requires the
submission of propositions such rs are
| hereinafter contained, to the resident pro
perry tax payers entitled to vote nj suct
elections for their authorizations or disap
prevail thereof; now, therefore
Be it resolved that an election he and
the same is hereby ordered to he held of
the qualified electors. under the COustitB-
ton and laws of the State of Louisiana. al
the Bayou Cariin Drainage District ou the
| First day of November. 1902, after dut
notice, and publication of notice. ~ the
official journal of the Parish of Iberia, fof
period of thirty days, rs required by law,
to take the sense of the property owners
upon the following propositions which are
hereby submitted to the said property tax
payers at said election, namely.
First Toincur an indebtedness Of Thirty
Six Thousand Dollars 1886 000.O0 for The
purpose of constructing system ot drain
age for the Bayou Carlin Drainage District
Second To authorize the Bayou Garliu
| Drainage District TO issue Thirty Six
| Thousand Dollars 1886, 000. 00j forty year
| five per cent interest bearing negotiable
bonds of the face valne of One Hundred
| Dollars each and numbered from one 10
| three hundred and sixty, respectively, to
represent said indebtedness of Thirty SrX
Thousand Dollars (836. 600. 00). lnteTe~t
on all said bonds shall be paid annually
Said bonds to be dated and to commence
to run from the first day of April, 1908.
The Drainage District shall pay and ret ire
after ten years from the date Of their is
suance Twelve Hundred Dollars Of said
bonds annually, to be selected by the lot
Or chance. The Drainage District to have
and retiring a greater amount than Twelve
Hundred Dollars of said bonds annually
but to be compelled to pay and retire ut
least that amount; and commencing with
the year beginning April LIST, 1918, shall
set aside each year sufficient funds for
that purpose. Said debt to be incurred
said bonds to be issued, and said tax to be
levied under, subject to, and in accord
ance with, the laws of the State and spec
tally the provisions of Act 145 and l59 Of
the General Assembly of Louisiana for
1902.
Third, To authorize the Bayou Carlin
Drainage District to levy a tiyemill tax
on all property within said drainage dis
tlict subject to State taxation, said taxes
to run for period of forty years. Said
taxes shall be applied in the order follow
ing, namely:
FOR THE FIRST TEN YEARS.
First. For the payment of interest on
the said bonds herein authorized.
Second For the maintenance of the
said system of drainage and improvements.
Third. The balance of said taxes to
be placed in general sinking fund.
After the first ten years from date of
issuance of said bonds.
First For the payment of interest on
the said bonds herein authorized.
Second At least Twelve hundred Dol
lars per annum for the sinking fund for
the payment and retiring of the said bonds.
Third. For the maintenance and opera
ton of said system of drainage.
Fourth. For the extension and better
ment of said system of drainage.
Fifth For the reduction of the rate
of taxation.
Provided, the expenditure, purchase,
construction, maintenance, operation ex-
tension or betterment of said work s shall
never exceed the amount of the funds on
hand for said public works, nor reduce
the said funds below sum sufficient TO
meet the interest payment to become due
in the year next succeeding such expen-
diture, nor be paid out of the sinking fund
required by said Act 145 Of the General
Assembly of Louisiana for 1902.
Resolved, that the polling places at
which said election shall be held, shall
be as follows:
For all voters of, and residing in, that
portion of the 9th ward and of that portion
of the Seventh ward of Iberia Parish,
included in said drainage district, the
polling place shall be at residence build
ing on the land of John Rodrigues sucees-
sion, now used by Justilien Rodrigues
and the commissioners of election shall
be W. II. Laughlin, II. S. Snider, and
Simien Rodrigues, and the clerk of said
election at said poll shall~be J. S. Turner,
all registered aud qualified voters resid-
ing within said portion of said district.
For all voters of, and residing in that
portion of the I'd ward of Iberia Parish,
included within said drainage district.
the polling place shall be at Jules Olivier's
store and the commissioners of said cleo
ton at said poll shall be Toussainte Du
plants, Hardy Boutte, and Oscar Brous-
sard and the clerk of said election shall
be E. E. Duplantis, all duly qualified and
registered voters residing within said por
tion of said district.
Resolved, That all property tax payers,
residing within the limits of said district,
qualified as electors and duly registered
under the constitution and laws of the
State of Louisiana, shall be entitled to
vote at said election, the qualifications Ct
which said tax payers, as voters, to be
those of age, residence and registered as
voters; and that resident women tax pay |
ers shall also have the right to vote at said
election, without such registration, in per-
son, or by their agents authorized in wri
ing, in which case the written authorize
ion of such women tax payers to said |
agents shall be attached to the ballot cast. |
Resolved, That said board of Drainage
Of the Bayou Carlin Drain
,ge District shall, In open session, at two
J clock P. NJ, on the Third day ofNovem-
Der A. D., 1902, at the Assessors Office in
he Court House at the City of New Iberia,
proceed to open the ballot boxes, exam
ne and count the ballots in number and
and examine and canvass the re-
urns and declare the result of said cleo
ion. JOHN G. CURTIS,
President of the Board of Commissioners
# the Bayou Carlin Drainage Dstaict. .