The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-01-17
School Board Proceedings.

Lafayette, La, Jan. J, Ioo5.-A regular
meeting of the Board Of School Directors of
Lafayette parish was held on the above date
| with the following members present:-A.
Olivier, PRESIDENT; Alex Delhomme, Jasper
Spell, DR.. n. p. Moss, DIR. X. o. Young, A..
c. Guill,ean, p. X. Landry, S. J. Montgom-
cry. Absent: H. TheaIl.
The minutes # The previous meetings were
read and adopted.
Rules were suspended in order to hear
Mr.. J. II. Davis who presented a petition
from the citizens of Duson. AS result of
the petition Dr.. Moss moved that school
be established at the village of Duson, on
condition that the c,i. en- builI the school
house, donate a suitable lot of land; that the
School Board of Acadia parish appropriate
$50 to the building fund and that the run
ming expenses of the school be paid 10y the
parish of AGA liza and the parish Of Lafa-
yetle in proportion to the number of chill
drcn attending from each parish. The
School Board of Lafayette agrees to appr"-
pirate a. much to the building fund is
raised ny the community.
The school conducted under the
name Of Duson and the B. utIreaux school
t. he closed permanently as soon as the
new Duson school is opened.
o., motion of DIR. Youn. the president
and secretary were auth Dried to repair thu
Old Broussar,l school hnus, if in their judy
ment is necessary.
Tnc secretary w,' instructed to notify
Surveyor Francez trit unless he surveye
the school lanI in the fourth warl by jan
ulry IS, the Board woul | aunul the contract
with him.
The secretary was ais ias,ru :te to Wis ;
the school land in 9 r IN u
lease the lanl if possible.
The following Ill ,tion Of DIR. Young, sec
o,,d.:d by Mr.. =. X. Landry, was adopted:
Any person now hplding lease of three
years on school land i'll the fourth ward will
be granted the privilege Of leasing at $3.50
per acre more additional tracts for
one year with the privilege of renewing the
lease at the end Of 1908 for two years.
On motion, duly seconded, the resigna
ton of Mr.. &. X. Olivier accepted.
The petitioners from Milton, on Bayou
Nccmion, are to be requested by the sec
rotary to get proposition from Vermilion
parish relative to the establishment of
school on the bayou.
The following petition was on motion of
DIR. Young, seconded by DR.. Moss, ordered
submitted without comments:
(PErirIoN FROM CoLoRED rEoPLE.)
Lafayette, La, Jan. ?, 1903.
To the Hon. president and memters of
the School 3 ,arl Of the parish of Lafayette,
La.
We the undersigned residents and tax
PAYERS and patrons OF the colored public
school in Lafayette parish, having at heart
the welfare of the State and community, re
sDec,fully petition your honor able body to
submit to the General Education Board, in
corporated in Washington, d. c., with your
endorsement, the subjoineh proposition for
aid in securing for and for our children
| the kind of education and instruction best
calculated to make useful and self respecting
citizens OF our race:
To tie, Gene, al Education Beard Hroshiug-
ten, d. c.
We the undersigned negro property tax
payers and patrons of the public school in
| Lafayett parish, La, being specially desi-
| rous of obtaining for ourselves and our chill
| dren education AMI instruction of practical!
and helpful kind, and that we may become
| a really useful class of ctizens and benefit
to the country in which we live, most earn
estly request your active interest in bring NC
about such a condition among people in
| Lafayette parish, by cooperating with the
regularly constituted school authorities on
the following basis.
! G) We, the colorcd people in question,
to provide the grounds and a school building
adapted to the purpose and having a cash
value Of s. ,Coo.o 90; the ownership and con
troll of said property to be vested in the Par
ish School Board in accordance with law.
IL You, the General + lucation Is 'ard,