The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-11-16
An Ordinance

Ordering an election held in Wards 8,
5 and 6 of the Parish of Bossier, State
OF Louisiana, for the purpose of OBJ
tanning the sense of the qualified
electors of said wards as to the advis-
ability of the Police Jury declaring a
fence constructed with wire and posts
to be a legal fence in said wards; fix
ing the date of elections, polling
places, manner of conducting same
and qualifications of voters.
Section 1. Be it Ordained by the
Police Jury of Bossier Parish, Louisiana,
in regular session convened on this, the
nth day of October, A. D. 1905, That
an election be and is hereby ordered to
be held in Wards 8, 5 and 6 of Bossier
Parish, Louisiana, for the purpose of OBJ
tanning the sense or the qualified electors
of said wards as to the ACCESSIBILITY of the
Police Jury declaring fence constructed
OF wire and post-four wires stretched on
post, which post shall be placed not more
than eight feet apart-to be legal fence
in the respective wards.
Sec. 2. Be it further Ordained, etc.,
That said elections shall be and are here
by ordered to be held in the said respec-
first Tuesday, the 9Th day of December,
1905, and that the places now fixed by
law shall be and are hereby declared to
be the polling places for the said re-
spective wards:
Ward 3-Plain Dealing and Alden
Bridge.
Ward 5-Rocky Mount and Linton.
Ward 6-Bellevue and Haughton.
And that the persons hereinafter
named shall be and are hereby appoint
ed as Commissioners and Clerks of said
respective polling places, to-wit:
WARD THREE.
Plain Dealing-N. w. Sentell, j. r
Honeycutt and J. A. Mitchell, commits
sioners; T. q. Barnett, clerk.
Alden Bridge-H. C. Spruill, T. M
Ford and S. P. Dubois, commissioners;
D. NJ. Clowney, clerk.
WARD FIVE.
Rocky Mount M. Henderson, r. L
Burks and w. A. Bounds, commission.
ers; Sam Mccall, clerk.
Linton-G. w. Dalrymple, w. w. Lay
and L. r. Bumgardner, commissioners
R. E. Pilkington, clerk.
! WARD SIX.
Bellevue. C. Biggs, Walter White
and J. w. Onley, commissioners; B. T
Snider, clerk.
Haughton-W. M. Duty, r. L. McAnl
and r. M. Sandidge, commissioners; H
Barnacastle, clerk.
And that said commissioners shall b.
governed in the management and con
duct OF said elections as relates to tn,
time of opening and closing polls and a
to manner of casting ballots by the gen
eral election laws of the State of Louis
lana.
Sec. 8. Be it further Ordained, etc.
That the ballots for said election sha]
"for wire fence" and against wir
fence"
Sec. 4. Be it further Ordained, etc
That the Sheriff and ext fficio Tax Col
Letter for the Parish of Bossier sha
. furnish to each of said polling place
herein established certified list of a
persons having paid their poll taxes o
or before the 31st day of December {
the respective years 1903 and 1904; an
that the Registrar for the said parish wi
furnish a certified list of all person
properly registered to each of the sal
polling places.
Sec. 5. Be it further Ordained, etc
That the Commissioners shall make du
return of said elections, together wit
the ballots to the Clerk of the Polio
Jury at Benton, La, at date not late
than ten days from the date of the hold
ing of said elections.
r. B. MARTIN,
President Police Jury.
r. B. HILL, Clerk.