The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-04-18

The following ordinance was duly adopted in
open session:
An Ordinance ordering an election within School
District No. IL of Bossier Parish, La, as estab-
hshed by the School Board of said parish to take
the sense of the taxpayers on the question of a 5
mill tax for ten years for the purpose Of supple
menting the salaries of teachers and building and
repairing school houses in said district.
Whereas, the petition, signed by more than one
third OF the property taxpayers of School District
No. IL, as established by resolution Of the Parish
School Board OF Bossier Parish, La, of date April
sented to this body, asking that special election
be ordered in said District No IL to take the
OF the taxpayers upon the question Of levying an
nually special school tax of mills upon all prop
for the purpose Of supplementing the salaries Of
teachers and building and repaining school houses
in said district, and, whereas said School District
No. u has been duly created and its boundaries
defined by the School Board of Bossier Parish at
a regular meeting held on April 8, 1907,
Be it Ordained, That there be, and it is hereby
ordered, special election to be held in and for
School District No. u, as created by the School
pose OF asceraining the sense OF the taxpayers Of
said district on the question OF levying special
school tax of mills on the dollar of the assessed
property OF said district for period OF ten years.
beginning at the earliest date possible after the
said election and according to law for the purpose
OF supplementing the salaries of teachers and
building and repairing school houses in and for
said district, which is defined as follows
Beginning at a point on township line in section
on bank Of Bodcau, township 81, range II, thence
west to northwest corner of township 81 range IL
thence west on north boundary of 81 and 12 to
northwest corner OF section 2, township 81, range
u; thence south on section line to the township
line between 20 and 81; thence east on township
line between townships 20 and 81 to the Bodcau
Bayou; thence up the west bank of said BAYOU to
the point of beginning.
2. Be it further Ordained, That for the purpose
OF holding this special election Ivan shall be made
a regular polling place.
3. That said election be held at Ivan, the regu-
lar polling place as fixed herein, in and for said
district, on Friday, May "a, 1907 and held in ac-
cordance with and under the general election laws
modified.
4. That the ballots to be used may be printed or
written, and shall read: "For mill tax for ten
years, " OF against a mill tax for ten years.
payers shall be entitled to vote, provided women
who are taxpayers in their own rights shall be
entitled to vote, either in person or by written
proxy.
g. That the following commissioners and clerks
shall hold said election, to-wit: J. E. Rabb, j. B.
Wilmington and G. B. Coker, commissioners, and
John Bundy, clerk, whose duty it shall be to make
due returns to this body on or before its next reg
ular session after said election,
Z. That thirty clear days. advertisement in the
Bossier Banner be made of this ordinance before
said election.
The following petition was presented, received
and filed, to-wt:
To the Honorable President Members of the Police Jury
OF B0ssier Parish, La:
We, the undersigned legal voters and taxpayers
OF School District No. II, in said parish desire to
levy special tax of mills the dollar of all tax
able property situated in said School District No.
Il for period of ten years, beginning with the
year A. D: 1907, for the purpose Of supplementing
salaries OF teachers in the public schools of said
school district and for the purpose of creating a
fund for the building and repairing OF school
houses in said district
TO this end we respectfully petition your honor
able body to adopt an ordinance ordering special
election in said district to take the sense Of the
voting taxpayers within said district and to do all
things legally necessary to be done in the premises
pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 2t4 OF 1902.
The boundary Of said School District No. II is as
follows: Beginning at point where the Louisiana
state line crosses the Bodcau Bayou, thence south
on the west bank Of Bodcau Bayou to the intersec-