New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1904-02-20

2nd. For the maintenance OF the said
system Of drainage and improvement.
3rd. The balance Of said taxes to be
placed in general sinking fund.
After the First Ten (10) Years from the
date of::issuance OF said bonds:
LIST. For the payment Of interest on
said bonds herein authorized.
End. At least Fonr Thousand Ca, 000.-
| OO) Dollars per annum for sinking fund
| for the payment and retiring Of said bonds.
3rd. For the maintenance and operation
of said system Of drainage.
4th. For the extension and betterment
of said system of drain age.
5th For the reduction Of the rate OF
| taxation.
Provided the expenditure, purchase,
construction, maintenance, operation, ex-
tension. or betterment Of said works shall
never exceed the amount of the funds on
hand for said public works, nor reduce
the said funds a sum sufficient to meet
the interest payments to become due In
the year next succeeding such expendi-
ture, nor be paid ont of the sinking fund
required by Act las Of the General As
sembly Of 1909.
Be it resolved, that the polling places
at which said election shall be held shall
be as follows:
At the Courthouse in the City Of New
Iberia, Louisiana, and the Commissioners
of Election shall be Eugene Guillot, A. T..
Decourt, and Albert Lemaire. and the
clerk OF said election at said poll shall be
J. A. Waggoner, all registered and quail
ged voters residing within said district.
Resolved. that all property taxpayers
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 of
which said tax payers as voters to be
those of age, residents, 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 authorized in
writing. in which case the written author
ization of said women taxpayers to said
agents shall be attached to the ballot cast.
Be it resolved, that said Board of Com
missioners of the New Iberia Southern
Drainage District shall In open session,
mt two o. clock P. NJ, on the 9th day Of
February, 1904, at the Assessor Office in
the Court house at the City of New iberia,
Louisiana, proceed to open the ballot boxes,
examine and count the ballots in number
and amount, and examine and canvass
1.-The returns, and declare the result of said
election. l.. M. LEMAIRE,
President OF the Board of Commissioners
OF the New Iberia Southern Drainage
District. J. l.. HAssE, Secretary.
Whereas, That an election is to be held
in the New Iberia Southern Drainage Dis
trict to vote three az mill tax for the
period Of Twenty-Five (25) years for the
construction of canal from New Iberia
to the sea, and the issuance OF bonds to
carry out said project therefore.
, Be it Resolved, that said canal shall be
Twenty (20) feet wide at bottom, with
the proper grading to the top, and shall
carry Six COZ feet of tide water to the end oil
the canal; that said drainage district shall
, cut said canal alone and without the CO
operation Of any other district until Sec
ton 5, T. Is s., II. 6 East, wherein tbs
southern part of said section the said drain
aye district shall connect with the cana
, now being cut and to be cut by the Bayou
Carlin Drainage District in Conlee ROdere
that at that place the agreement reached
between this Drainage District and tbt
!. Bayou Carlin Drainage District shall 81
,, carried out to Bayou Carlin, a distance o
,. about seven CD miles, and that tho OK
penses of widening and deepening thu
tho drain being now cut and to be cut b.
the Bayou Carlin District shall be widenct
and deepened SO as to meet the purposes
Of tho canal to be cut by the presen
drainage district, and the expenses there
OF he borne by the two drainage districts
in the proportion recently fixed by tn
said drainage distsists at the meeting hell
on the Goth day of December, 1908.
I L. M. LEMAIRE, President
J. L. HAAsE, Secretary.