New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1907-06-22
NOTICE OF ELECTION,

Comfortably with the ordinance hereir
below appearing notice is hereby giver
that an election will be held of all quail
fed voters of the 3rd Ward of Iberia Par
ish exclusive of the City of New Iberia
on July oath, 1907, at Judge Babin office
between hours fixed by law to take the
sense of the tax payers entitled to vote
in the premises on the proposition to give
to the New Iberia, st. Martin & Northern
r. r. Co., a tax for period of ten years
under the conditions and limitation and
for the purposes set forth in the ordinance
herein below recited.
AN ORDINANCE
| An ordinance ordering a special election
in the 3rd Ward of the Parish of Iberia.
upon the petition Of more than one thir
of the property tax payers of the said 3rJ
ward of Iberia Parish requesting the same
to take the sense of the property tax payers
OF the said ward on proposition grant
ing to the New Iberia, st. Martin & North
ern Railroad Company one mill tax or so
much OF said one mill as may be neces-
sary for period of ten years to raise
three hundred dollars per annum, to pay
bonus of not more than three thousand
dollars under the terms and subject to
limitations placed in the petition for said
election.
Whereas petition having been receiv-
ed from the property tax payers residing
in the Bird Ward of the Parish of Iberia
entitled to vote at special elections
called according to law to levy special
faxes in aid of railway enterprises as is
provided in Article 270 of the Constitution
and Act 202, 1898, and the said petition
having been signed by number of property
tax payers residing in said Ward and
qualified to participate in said election far
in excess of one third in number, as was
ascertained by an examination of said
petition and the Assessment Roll of the
said Bird ward Of the Parish of Iberia for
the year 1905, and the word and terms of
which petition, as well as the signatures
thereto annexed, are 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.
'ution and laws of the State of Louisiana; the
'oiect aud purpose Of such election being for the
III PacS Vi icNlHH ~ taA lD realize the sum OF /
Three Hundred Dollars $4,000 per year for the
'eriod OF ten years, beginning with the year 1909
md extending to and including the year 1918 in
avor OF the New Iberia, st. Martin & Northern
Cal road Company; the full amount TO be realiz.
d by taxation being the sum of Three Thousand
Dollars t$3 0O0l to be levied, collected and paid
q ten annual payments of Three Hundred Dol.
ars $500 each; to be paid to the New IBERIA
i. Martin 8 Northern Railroad Company; said
mount ef $500 pea year for the period of ten
ears TO be raised by the levy and imposition of a
AZ of mill per annum for said period of ten
ears beginning with the year 1909 and extend
~ to and including the year 1918, or so much
such mill as may be necessary to raise dur
Il each year OF said ten years the sam of
as been raised; said tax of mill to be thus
WED and collected for the benefit and in favor
said Railroad Company, as consideration and
for the Railroad Company to do and
srform the following to-wit:
FiRST:-The main line of said railroad shall
} built from some point in the City of New
'eria TO or beyond Port Barre. in the Parish OF
! Landry, and meeting and connecting with the