New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1904-02-06
CALL FOR ELECTION
BY THE
New Iberia Southern Drainage
District.

| NoW lpUllu oOubHtTu DFhIuWk'
District.
Notice is hereby given that an electio
of the properly qualified electors of tn
New Iberia Southern Driange Distric
will lie held on the 23d day of Fehruar,
1904. to vote for acceptance or rejectio
of the proposition embodied in q resolu
ton Ut The Board of Commissioners of tn
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 Souther
Drainage District, that,
Whereas this Board OF Commissioner
now exists by authority of regular organi
cation under the provisions Of Act No. l5
of the Acts of the General Assembly o
the State of Louisiana, for the session O
1909, and the amended charter Of the Cit
of New Iberia aud,
Whereas the law requires submission
of propositions such as are bereina fte
contained to the resident property taxpay
els entitled to vote at such elections thei
authorization or disapproval; now, there
| fore,
| Be it resolved, that an election be. ant
the same is hereby ordered TO be held o
the qualified electors under the constitu
ton and laws of the State of Louisiana o
the New iberia Southern Drainage Dis
trct on the 29d day of February, 1904
| after due notice aud publication Of notice
in the official Journal Of the City of New
Iberia fer period of thirty (3O) days a,
required by Law to take the sense of th.
property owners npon 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 1890, 100000 Dollars for ths
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 $50, 100000 Dollars twenty
five (25) year, Eve (5g interest bearing
negotiable bonds Of the face value Of One
Hundred ($l00.00) Dollars each. and
numbered from Cd to Nine Thousand
10000, respectively, to represent said in
debtedness ofNinety Thousand (s9O, 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 (10)
years from the date of their issuance Four
Thousand ga, 600. 90 Dollars Of said bonds
annually to be selected by lot or chance,
The District to have option after fifteen
(15) years Of paying and retiring q create
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
lst 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 1863 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 lsvee q
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 (lO) 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 n general sinking fund.
After the First Ten (l0) Years from the
date ofsissuance OF said bonds:
LIST. For the payment of interest on
said bonds herein authorized.
2nd. At least Fonr Thousand Ca, 0OO.-
00) Dollars per annum for a sinking fund
for the payment and retiring of said bonds.
Bird. For the maintenance and operation
of said system Of drainage.
4th. For the extension and betterment
of said system OF drainage.
9Th. 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 sum sufficient to meet
the interest payments to become due In
the year next succeeding such expendi-
ture, nor be paid oct of the sinking fund
required by Act las of the General As.
sembly Of 1909.
Be 1t 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.
Deoourt, and Albert Lemaire. and the
clerk OF said election al said poll shall be
j. A. Waggoner. all registered and quail.
ged voters residing within said district.
Resolved. that ell 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 ne 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 1t resolved, that said Board Of Com
missoners of the New iberia Southern
Drainage District shall In open session,
at two O. clock p. NJ, on the 27th day Of
February, 1904, at the Assessors Office In
the Courthouse at the City Of New Iberia,
Louisiana, proceed to open the ballet boxes,
examine and count the ballots in number
and amount, and examine and CANVASS
the returns, and declare the result of said
L. n. LEMA1RE,
President OF the Board of Commissioners
Of the New iberia Southern Drainage
District. J. l.. HAssE, Secretary.
Whereas, That IN election IL to be held
In the New Iberia Southern Drainage Dis
trict to vote three (3) mill tax for the
period Of Twenty-Five (a5) years for the
Of canal from Nsw 1beriA
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
he proper grading 70 the top, and shall
carry Six COZ feet Of tide water TO the end Of
he canal; that said drainage district shall !
suit said canal alone and without the CO.
operation Of any other district until Sec |
ion 5, T. ID b., II. 8 East, wherein the
southern part Of said section the said drain
age district shall connect with the canal
low being cut and to be cut by the Bayou