St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-03-09
Notice to Road Builders,
AN ORDINANCE

NS O46O1Na4NSA
To provide fund for working and re-
pairing the Public Roads of the Parish =;
authorizing the issuance of certificates
of Indebtedness for road work to be
done under contracts, and providing for
the payment thereof.
Section /. Be it enacted and ordained by the
Police Jury of the Parish of St. Tammany, that
in order to create and provide a special fund to
roads of the parish.
That special tax of two mills on the dollar,
to be based on the assessed valuation of prop
erty, be and is hereby levied for the years
1907, 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911, on the tax
able property situated in the Parish of St. Tam
many, to be collected with other Parish taxes;
and that the revenues to be derived from said
tax, be and are hereby set apart and appro-
priated for the repair and maintainence of the
public roads of the parish of St. Tammany, the
same to be expended for that purpose under
contracts to be hereinafter entered into,
Section 2, That the President of the Police
Jury be and is hereby authorized to advertise
for bids and to enter into written contracts
with responsible parties, to work and repair
the public roads of the parish, and to issue
certificates of indebtedness to contractors for
work to be done under such contracts, the
certificates of Indebtedness to be payable out
of the special road funds above provided for,
and to bear interest at the rate of five Isl per
cent per annum, from date.
That the certificates of Indebtedness payable
out OF the taxes of 1907, as we'll as the interest
thereon, shall mature and be made payable on
the lSt day of July, 1908.
That the certificates of Indebtedness payable
out of the taxes of 1908, as we'll as the interest
thereon, Shall mature and be made PAYABLE on
the lst day of July 1909.
That the certificates of Indebtedness PAYABLE
out of the taxes of 1909, as we'll as the interest
thereon, shall mature and be made payable ON
the 1St day of July 1910.
That the certificates of Indebtedness PAYABLE
out of the taxes of 1910, as we'll as the interest
thereon shall mature and be made PAYABLE ON
the lst day of July 1911.
That the certificates of Indebtedness payable
out of the taxes of 1911, as well as the interest
thereon, shall mature and be made PAYABLE on
the ! st day of July 1912.
But the aggregate amount of the certificates
of indebtedness to be so issued, payable out of
the taxes of each OF said years, shall not exceed
the sum OF 100000 for any one year.
Section 3. That road work shall be let in Sec
tons of not more than fifty miles each, and
contractors shall be required to furnish bond.
with good and solvent security, to the full
amount Of the contract price; for the faithful
performance of their obligations under said
contracts.
Section 4. That the public roads of the Parish
to be worked and repaired under the pro-
visions OF this ordinance are as follows:
jacksonville and Ponchatoula roads.
Indian Village road.
Vaudeville and Abita road.
Slidell and Bayou Lacombe road.
OOVlnSLOn ana ManQeYIlle road.
Covington and Madisonville road,
Pearl River and Salt Bayou road.
Covington and Bayou Lacon1be road.
HolmeSville and Wire road.
Slidell and Indian Village road.
Columbia road.
Turnpike road.
Military road.
Lee road.
Middle road.
For further information see plans
and specifications, in the Office of the
Secretary of the Police Jury.
All bids to be presented at the next
meeting Of the Police Jury, on Monday,
April s, 1907, at Ii a. m.
The Police Jury reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
Adopted February %, 1907.
GEO. KOEPP, JR., President.
W. G. KEN1zEL, Secretary.
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