New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1904-01-30
CALL FOR ELECTION
BY THE
New Iberia Southern Drainage
District.

| MULCH Is Herepy given InaG an election
of the properly qualified electors of tn
New Iberia Southern Orange Distric
will be held on the 23d day OF February
1904, to vote for acceptance or rejection
OF the proposition embodied in resolu
ton Of the Board OF Commissioner OF Thu
New Iberia Southern Drainage District
adopted on the 4th day of January, 1904
and being as fellows, to-wit:
BE 1t Resolved, by the Board of Com
mssioners Of the New Iberia Southern
Drainage District, that.
Whereas this Board of Commissioner.
now exists by authority of regular organi
cation under the provisions OF Act No. Is!
Of the Acts of the General Assembly o.
the State of Louisiana. for the session Of
1902, and the amended charter of the City
of New Iberia aud,
Whereas the law requires submission
of propositions such as are hereinafter
contained to the resident property taxpay.
els entitled to vote at such elections Their
authorization or disapproval now, there
| fore,
Be it resolved, that an election be. and
the same is hereby, ordered to be held OF
| the qualified electors under the constitu-
| ton and laws of the State of Louisiana OF
the New Iberia Southern Drainage Dis
trict on the 23d day of February, 1904.
after due notice aud publication of notice
in the official journal of the City of New
Iberia for period of thirty (3O) days as
required by law to take the sense of tho
property owners upon the following propo-
sitions which are hereby submitted to the
said property taxpayers at said election.
namely:
LIST. To incur an indebtedness of Ninety
Thousand $500, 000.00) Dollars for the
purpose Of constructing system of drain
age for the New Iberia Drainage District
End. To authorize the New Iberia South
ern Drainage District to issue Ninety
Thousand ($90, 000.00) Dollars twenty
five (25) year, five (5%) interest bearing
negotiable bonds Of the face value of One
Hundred ($l00.00) Dollars each, and
numbered from () to Nine Thousand
(9O0O), respectively, to represent said in
debtedness of Ninety Thousand ($9O, 900. 90
Dollars. Interest on all said bonds shall
be paid annually. Said bonds to be
dated and to commence to run from the
LIST day OF July, 1904. The Drainage Dis
trict shall pay and retire after ten (lO)
years from the date of their issuance Four
Thousand GA ZOO. 90 Dollars of said bonds
annually to be selected by lot or chance,
The District to have option after fifteen
(l5) years of paying and retiring a greater
amount than four thousand dollars of said
bonds annually, but to be compelled to
pay and retire at least that amount. And,
commencing with the year beginning the
LIST day of July, 1904, shall set aside each
year sufficient funds for that purpose.
Said debt to be incurred, said bonds to
issue, and saidstax to be levied under,
subject to, and in accordance with tho
laws of the State of Louisiana, and espe-
cislly the provisions Of Act 1859 of the
General Assembly Of the State of Louisi-
ana for 1902 and other laws bearing upon
the same subject matter.
3rd. To authorize the New Iberia
Southern Drainage District to levee
three g. mill tax on all property within
said drainage district subject to State
taxation, said taxes to run for period
of twenty-five (25) years. Said taxes
shall he applied in the order following,
namely: For the First Ten (10) Years,
First, for the payment of interest on said
bonds herein authorized.
End. 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 {lO) Years from the
date of:sissuance Of said bonds:
LIST. For the payment of interest on |
said bonds herein authorized
End. At least Fonr Thousand ga, OOO.-
O0) Dollars per annum for sinking fund
for the payment and retiring of said bonds
Bird. For the maintenance and operation
Of said system Of drainage.
4tb. For the extension and betterment
Of said system Of drainsge.
9Th. For the reduction of the rate of
taxation.
Provided, the expenditure, purchase,
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
he said funds a sum sufficient to meet
The interest payments to become due in
he year next succeeding such expendi.
,ure, nor be paid cut of the sinking fund
required by Act 145 Of the General As
,embly OF 1909.
Be it resolved, that the polling places
1t which said election shall be held shall
be as follows:
At the Courthouse in the City OF New
IBERIA, Louisiana, and the Commissioners
II Election shall be Eugene Guillot, A. E.
Decourt, and Albert Lemaire, and the
clerk OF said election at said poll shall be
!. A. Waggoner, all registered and quail
,ed voters residing within said district.
Resolved, that all property taxpayers
'eslding within the limits of said district
qualified as electors and duly registered
lnder the constitution and laws of the
State of Louisiana shall be entitled to vote
It said election. The qualifications Of
which said tax payers as voters to be
hose Of age. residents, and registered as
voters and, that resident women tax
layers shall also have the right to vote at
aid election without such registration in
,erson or by their agents authorized in
writing, in which case the written author
cation of said women taxpayers to said
gents shall be attached to the ballot cast.
Be it resolved, that said Board of Com
nissioners of the New Iberia Southern
Drainage District shall In open session,
t two o'clock P. NJ, on the 9th day Of
February, 1904, at the Assessor office in
he Courthouse at the City of New Iberia,
xsmine and count the ballots in number
III dkuOuut, ouu CAduluC auu Cdu1d5UI
be returns, and declare the result of said
lection. l.. M. LEMAIRE,
resident Of the Board Of Commissioners
Of the New Iberia Southern Drainage
District. J. l.. HAssE, Secretary.
Whereas, That IN election is to be held
q the New Iberia Southern Drainage Dis
riot to vote three (3) mill tax for the
eriod Of Twenty-Five (95) years for the
obstruction Of a canal from New Iberia
, the sea, and the issuance of bonds to
AIRY out said project therefore,
Be it Resolved, that said canal shall be
wenty coy feet wide at bottom, with
le proper grading to the top, and shall
AIRY Six (6) feet of tide water to the end of
le canal; that said drainage district shall
ut said canal alone and without the CO.
peration of any other district until Sec
on s, T. Is s., r. 6 East, wherein the
,uthern part Of said section the said drain {
ye district shall connect with the canal
ow being cut and to be cut by the Bayou
arlin Drainage District in Coulee Rodsrs J; {