New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1904-01-23
CALL FOR ELECTION
BY THE
New Iberia Southern Drainage
District.

NOIice is ueFeDy gwen tHdG an ol6cClOl
of the properly qualified electors of tn,
New Iberia Southern Orange Distric
will be held on the Odd day of February
1904, to vote for acceptance or rejection
Of the proposition embodied in resolu
ton of the Board of Commissioners of the
New Iberia Southern Drainage District,
adopted on the 4th day of January, 1904,
and being as fellows, to-wit:
Be it Resolved by the Board of Com
missioners of the New Iberia Southern
Drainage District, that,
Whereas this Board of Commissioners
now exists by authority of regular organi-
cation under the provisions of Act No. 159
of the Acts of the General Assembly of
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
| containedto the resident property taxpay-
eTs entitled to vote at such elections their
authorization or disapproval now, there
| fore,
| Be it resolved, that an election ba. 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 900 days as
required by law to take the sense of the
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 ($90,000.00) 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 $500, 100000 Dollars twenty
five (25) year, five (5% interest bearing
negotiable bonds of the face value of One
Hundred ($10000) Dollars each, and
numbered from O. to Nine Thousand
10000, respectively, to represent said in
debtedness of Ninety Thousand $500, 600. 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 (10)
years from the date of their issuance Four
Thousand ($4, 100000 Dollars of said bonds
annually to be selected by lot or chance,
The District to have option after fifteen
G5) 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 |
1st day of July, 1904, shall set aside each |
year sufficient funds for that purpose. |
Said debt to be incurred, said bonds to |
issue, and said tax to be levied under, |
subject to, and in accordance with the |
laws of the State of Louisiana, and espe-
cially the provisions of Act 159 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 (1O) 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 (10) Years from the |
date ofssissuanco of said bonds:
1st. For the payment of interest on |
said bonds herein authorized.
End. At least Fonr Thousand ($4, 000.-
00) 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 drainage.
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 145 Of the General As
sembly of 1902.
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. E.
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
- ~ ,lo oil n la -, ~
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 ehall 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,
at two o'clock P. NJ, on the 9th day of
February, 1904, at the Assessor Office in
the Courthouse at the City of New Iberia,
Louisiana, proceedto open the ballot boxes,
examine and count the ballots in number
and amount. and examine and canyass
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 ca mill tax for the
period of Twenty-Five (25) years for the
construction of a 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 coy feet wide at bottom, with
the proper grading to the top, and shall
carry Six co. feet Of tide water to the end OF
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., r. 6 East, wherein the
southern part Of said section the said drain
age district shall connect with the canal
now being cut and to be cut by the Bayou
Carlin Drainage District in Coulee Rodere
that at that place the agreement reached
between this Drainage District and the
Bayou Carlin Drainage District shall be
carried out to Bayou Carlin, a distance OF
about seven (7) miles, and that the ex-
psnses Of widening and deepening the