The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-08-21

requesting the same to take The sense of the
property taxpayers OF said ward on a pro-
position granting to the New Iberia, St.
Martin and Northern Railroad Company
a five mill tax, or SO much of SAID five
mills as may be necessary, for a period of
ten years 10 raise two thousand dollars per
aunuul, to pay a bonus of not more than
twenty thousand dollars under the terms and
subject to limitations place in the petition
for said election.
Whereas a petition having been received
from he property taxpayers residing TN the
Fourth Ward of the Parish Of Lafayette
entitled to vote at special elections called
According Co law 10 levy special iIx-s in aid
of railway enter rises as IS provided in
article 27o of the constitution and act 2o2
of 1898, and the said petition having been
signed by & number of property taxpayers
residing in said ward and qualified to PAT
| tIcipate in SAID election tar in excess of one
third in number, as was aSCertained by an
examination Of SAID petition and the as
sessinent roll of The said Fourth Ward of the
Parish of Lafayette for the year 1000, and
The words and terms OF SAID petition as well
as the signatures thereto annexed are as
follows, to wit:
IL IN YIN ~ nv u " lin
Parish of Lafayette, State of louisiana:
We, the undersigned property tax
PAYERS of the Fourth Ward of the Parish of
lafayette, state of louisiana, and entitled
To vote therein upor the proposition
hereinafter mentioned, respectfully petition
and memorable your fIonorabl1 BODY to
order a special election according to law of
the property taxpayers of the said Fourth
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vote under the constitution and laws of the
stale of Louisiana, the object and purpose
of said election being tor the purpose of
levying a tax to realize the SUM OF two
thousand dollars per year for the period of
ten years, beginning with the year 1909 and
extending TO and including the year 1908, ia
favor of the New Iberia. St. Martin and
Northern Railroad Company; the full
amount to be realized by taxation being the
sum of twenty thousand dollars to be levied,
collected and paid in ten annual payment
of two thousand dollars each; To he paid to
the New Iberia, St. Martin, and Northern
Railroad Company said amount OF two
thousand dollars per y~earfor the periol of
ten years to be raised 10y the levy and
imposition If a tax of FIVE mills per amman
for said period OF ten years, beginning
with the year 1909 and extending to and
including the year 1913. or SO much of such
five mills as may be necessary to raise
during each year of said ten years the sum
of two thousand dollars per year until the
full amount of twenty thousand dollars has
been raised; said tax OF five mills TO BIZ thus
levIng and collected for the benefit and in
favor Of s,id railroad Company as a con
sideration and inducement for the said
railroad company to do and perform, the
10 wit:
First-The said railroad COMPANY shall
build a line of railway from some point On
the east side of the Bayou Nermilion within
the corporation limits of the Town of Alb
beville, in the parish of Vermilion, to or
near the Towns of i~oungsville and Brous
sard, thence in a northersterly direction TO
some POINT on Bayou reche, crossing Bayou
Teche at or near kouth Plantation or the
Town Of Park, or the Town of Breaux
Bridge, on Bayou Teche, in the parish of
ST. Martin, and to a connection with the
New Iberia and Port Barre division of the
New Iberia, ST. Martin and Northern Rail.
.oad. To give a line to connect with the
Colorado Southern, and the Opelousss.
Gulf, and North Eastern Railroad at or near
AOIt uotty " OICAcuouo, ou'A u No'sh
an Railroad belonging 70 the Gulf system
of railways.
Second-The said Railroad shall be built
and operated as a line Independent of the
Southern Pacific Railroad or any railroad
owner or operate by the Southern Pacific.
Third-The said Railroad line shall be in
operation OF Or before the first day of June.
1900, between the points hereinabovc re-
cited, provided that in the event of quar-
antine, epidemices' strikes, lockouts, and
litigation ietarding the completion and put
ting in operation Of said road, and other
unforeseen circumstances If a nature TO
retard the construction Of said railroad and
beyond the control of the said New iberia.
St. Martin and Northern railroad Company,
then there shall be added to the penod for
the building of SAID railroad as above set
out, a further delay equal TO the time dur
ing which the construction Of said railroad
was thus unavoidably delayed.
Fourth--The domicile IF the said New
Iberia, St. Martin and Nothern Railroad
Company shall be in the city of New Iberia.
Fifth--The said New Iberia, St. Martin
and Nothern Railroad Company shalt oper-
ate and maintain within three months from
June first, 1909. one daily passenger train
each way handling mail and express.
Sixth--The tax to be levied and collected
and the annual amount herein provided fot,
shall not be paid to the railroad company
until the said railroad line shall have been
built and in operation and the other condi-
lions he%reinabove set forth shall have been |
with.
A. L. Denias, Hilaire David, Alcide
Mouton, Adrien Mouton, c. ID. Bourque,
Brous.ard, Jules Mailhes, !
Pierre Simon, Leo Decou. ]. H. David,
A. Leblanc. Jean Boure, Phisemond
Simon, Norbert Larriviere, Zidre Melancon,
Ursin A. Mouton, Albert Hebret, Ellie
David, Ferdinand Tratan, A. L. Dyer,