New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1904-01-16

ann for 1902 and other laws bearing upor
the same subject matter.
| ard TO authorize the New lberii
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 $3.50 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.
2nd. For the maintenance of the said
system of drainage and Improvement.
3rd. The balance of said taxes 10 be
ptored in general sinking fund
After the frat Ten (l0) Years from the
date of issuance OF said bonds
1st For the payment Of interest on
said bonds herein authorized.
ond At least Fonr Thousand ga 600.
oo) Dollars per annum for n sinking fund
for the payment and retiring of said bonds.
3rd. For the maintenance and operation
of snid system of drainage.
4th. For the extension aud betterment
OF said system of drainage.
9Th. For the reduction of the rate Of
taxation.
Provided, the expenditure, purchase,
constructions maintenance. operation ex-
teuaicn. or betterment of said works shall
never exceed the amount of the funds on
hand for said public works, nor reduce
the said funds sum sufficient to inset
the interest payments to become due In
the wear next succeeding such expeudi-
ture. nor be paid out of the sinking fund
required by Act l45 of the General As
sembly of 1902.
Be it resolved, that the polling places
Mt 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. +.
Decourt. and Albert Lemaire, and the
clerk of said election at said poll shall be
j. A. Waggoner, all registered aud quail
ged voters residing within said district.
Resolved, that all property taxpayers
resldng 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
Mt said election. Tho 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 snch registration in
person or by their agents authorized in
writing, in which ease the written author
ization of said women taxpayers to said
agents shall be attached to the ballet east
BE 1t resolved that said Board of Com
of the New Iberia Southern
Drainage District shall in open session,
ut two clock p. NJ, on the 9th day of
February, 1904, at the Assessor office in
The Courthouse 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
The returns, and declare tho result of said
election. l.. M. LEMAIRE,
President OF the Board of Commissioners
of the New Iberia Southern Drainage
District. j. i. HAssE, Secretary.
Whereas, That an election is to be held
n the New iberia Southern Drainage Dis
riot to vote three (3) mill tax for the
period of Twenty-Five (25) years for the
construction of canal from New Iberia
o the sea, and the issuance of bonds to
larry out said project therefore,
Be il Resolved, that said canal shall be
twenty (20) feet wide at bottom, with
he proper grading to the top, and shall 8
AIRY Six (6) feet of tide water to the end of
he canal +; that said drainage district shall
mt said canal alone and without the CO.
peration of any other district until Sec
ion 5, T. Ii S., II. O East, wherein the
outhern part Of said section the said drain
ge district shall connect with the canal
ow being cut and to be cut by the Bayou
'arin Drainage District in Coulee Rodere
bat at that place the agreement reached
etween this Drainage District and the
'ayou Carlin Drainage District shall be
arried out to Bayou Carin, distance of
bout seven (7) miles, and that the ex-
snses of widening and deepening the
40 drain being now cut and to DO cut BY
he Bayou Carln District shall be widencd
nd deepened go ms to meet the purposes
the canal TO be cut by the present
rainage district, and the expenses there
be borne by the two drainage districts
! the proportion recently liked by the
aid drainage districts at the meeting held
n the Goth day of December, 1909
l.. NJ. LEMAIRE, President.
J. l.. HAAsE, Secretary.