New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1907-06-15
LOUIS OUBRE,
DESIRE VINCENT,
LOUIS BoUTTE,
Jos. ID. DAUTERIvE
ALBERT VINCENT,
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ALBERT VINCENT,
DELMAs HILBERT.
On motion of Mr.. Dugas duly carried
the following ordinance was adopted:
Be it ordained by the Police Jury of the
Parish of Iberia, in session regularly as
sembled:
That the lines of the Bayou Choupique
Drainage District organized under an or.
dinance of this body in 1906, be
changed as follows, to-wit: That she
southern limits of said district shall be q
line running East and West from Bayou
! Teche to the Lake Fausse Pointe on the
land between l.. D. Broussard and homer
Gonsoulin on the one hand and Numa De-
CUR and Brados on the other, and known
as Decuir land, and said line shall extend
in straight line on both areas of said lane
to strike the Bayou on the West and the
Lake on the East.
That the northern boundary of said
drainage district shall remain as present
ly fixed from Bayou Teche to the western
limits of the property of Wicklffe Barrss,
then said line shall be altered and remain
| fixed as follows, to-wit: The line shall
run South to the southwest corner of the
property of said Wickliffe Barras, and
then shall run directly East to Lake
| Fausse Pointe.
And be it further ordained, etc., that
/ the district as organized and as now
amended shall be and it is hereby fixed
And be it further ordained, etc., that
inasmuch as John o. BONN, who is a
member of the Board of Directors of said
Choupique Drainage District is in the ter
ritory excluded by effect of this amend
ment, that there is now vacancy on said
Board and the Police Jury hereby ap-
poiets John d. Valet, Jr., to fill said va
| cancy, vice John o. BONN.
And be it further ordained, etc., that
the Secretary send copy of this ordi-
nance to the Governor of the State and
that the Governor be requested to CON-
mission said John D. Wallet, Jr.
After examination of petition and hay
ing ascertained that more than the re-
quired number of tax payers had signed
same as follows:
To THE HONORABLE THE POLICE JURY OF THE
PARISH OF IBERIA, STATE OF LOUISIANA:
We, the undersigned property taxpayers of the
Third Ward of the Parish of Iberia, State of
Louisiana, and entitled to vote therein upon the
proposition hereinafter mentioned, respectfully
petition and memorabilia your Honorable Body to
order a special election according to law of the
property taxpayers of the said Third Ward of
Iberia Parish, entitled to vote under the Consti-
object and purpose of such election being for the
purpose of leving a tax to realize the sum of
Three Hundred Dollars $4,000 per year for the
period of ten years, beginning with tine year 1909
and extending to and including the year 1918 in
favor of the New Iberia, ST. Martin & Northern
Railroad Company; the full amount to be realiz
ed by taxation being the sum of Three Thousand
Dollars (S3, OOO); to be levied, collected and paid
in ten annual payments of Three Hundred Dol
lars $4,000 each; to be paid to the New Iberia
St. Martin & Northern Railroad Company; said
years TO be raised by the levy and imposition of a
tax of i mill per annum for said period of ten
years beginning with the year 1909 and extend
ing to and including the year 1918, or so much
Of such / mill as may be necessary to raise DUR
ing each year of said ten years the sum of
$500 per year until the full amount of $50, 900
levied and collected for the benefit and in favor
of said Railroad Company, a consideration and
inducement for the Railroad Company to do and
perform the following to-wit:
F1RST:-The main line of said railroad shall |
be built from some point in the City of New
Iberia to or beyond Port Barre. in the Parish of
81. Landry and meeting and connecting with the
Opelousas, Gulf q North Eastern Railroad and |
with the Colorado South Railroad.
SECOND:-The said railroad shall be built and |
completed as a line Independent of the Southern |
paci fe nil road or rail mad
ed by the Southern Pacific.
THIRD:-The said railroad line shall be in |
operation or before the first day of March, |
1909, between the points here in above recited; |
provided. that in the event guarantees, epidem- |
les, strikes, lockouts and litigation retardng the
completion and putting in operation of said road,
to retard the construction of said railroad and
beyond the control of the said New Iberia-St.
Martin q Northern Railroad Company, then
there shall be added to the period for the building
of said railroad as above set out further delay
equal to the time during which the construction
of said railroad was thus unavoidably delayed
FOURTH:-The domicile of the said New Ibe-
ria-St. Martin & Northern Railroad Company
shall be maintained in the City of New Iberia,
and should it extend its construction and require
the creation Of divisional points, then they shall
make New iberia divisional point and continue
to so make it during the life of this tax
FIFTH:-The said New Iberia-St Martin Rail
in six months from March first 1909 one daily
passenger train handling mail and express.
SIXTH:-The tax to be levied and to be collec
ted, and the annual amount here in provided for,
shall not be paid to the railroad campany until
the said railroad line shall have been built and in
operation and the other conditions herein above
set forth shall have been complied with.
Lastie Bertrand. Ameran Dupuis, L. J. Gonsou-
in, l.. l.. Gonsoulin. Euzebe Gonsoulin, Sidney
Plessula, Jean Berard,> Geo. l.. Fisk, Gustave
Broqssard, per J. A. Decair, Jos. CALLER, per
La Decuir, w. j. Valet, Eusebe Verret, per ia
Deeuir J. D. Rose Lionel Broussard Mrs. J. A
Decuir, per J. A. Decuir, Lucien Hebert ST., per
!. A. Dscnir, Clement Borei per J. A. Decuir,
)ecuir, Jules Grvat Jr., Henry Grivat,
T. A. Friouse, Euzebe Blanchard Gabriel Blaneh-
rd, per j. A. Decuir Homer Blanchard per ]. |
\. Deeuir, Lastie Bertrand.
When upon motion Of Mr.. Gonsoulin, I
Iuly seconded and carried the following
ordinance was adopted:
AN ORDINANCE
An ordinance ordering a special election :
n the Bird Ward of the Parish of Iberia, :
pom the petition of more than one third !
f the property tax payers of the said 3rd :
vard of Iberia Parish requesting the same
D take the sense of the property tax payers .
I the said ward on proposition grant 7
ng to the New Iberia, st. Martin & North
IN Railroad Company one mill tax or so
luch of said one mill as may be neces-
airy Tor period OF ten years TO raise
lree hundred dollars per annum, to pay
bonus of not more than three thousand &
ollars under the terms and subject to
mutations placed in the petition for said
lection.
Whereas petition having been receiv II
from the property tax payers residing i;
the Bird Ward of the Parish of Iberia
ltitled to vote at special elections y
illed according to law to levy special u
xes in and Of railway enterprises as is y
divided in Article 270 of the Constitution a,
I'd Act 202, 1898, and the said petition :"
wing been signed by number of property ~
X payers residing in said Ward and Q.
lalfied to participate in said election far b,
excess of one third in number. as was n,
certained by an examination of said r
tition and the Assessment Roll of the 70
i'd 3rd ward of the Parish of iberia for Ia
e year 1905, and the word and terms Of in
lich petition as well as fhe sipnatures -,