The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-09
R. B. HILL. Clerk,
An Ordinance

Ordering an election within School District No. ii
OF Bossier Parish, La, as established by the
OF the taxpayers on the question of a mill tax
for ten years for the purpose OF supplementing
the salaries of teachers and building and repair
ing school houses in said district.
Whereas, the petition, signed by more than one
third OF the property taxpayers OF School District
School Board of Bossier Parish, La, of date April
2, 1907, in regular session convened, has been pre-
scented to this body asking that special election
be ordered in said District No. II to take the
nualy special school tax OF mills upon all prop
erty within said district for period of ten years
for the purpose OF supplementing the salaries of
teachers and building and repairing school houses
in said district, and whereas said School District
No. II 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
Board Of Booster Parish April 8, 1901 for the pur-
pose Of ascertaining 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.
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:
line crosses the Rodcau Bayou, thence south on the
west bank Of Rodcau Bayou to the intersection with
the section line between sections II and 20, town
ship % north, range ii west; thence west on the
section line to the southwest corner Of section 49,
township q, range IL west; thence north on west
boundary OF sections is, 8 and to the state line
between Louisiana and Arkansas; thence east on
said state line to point of beginning.
g. Be it further Ordained, That for the purpose
of holding this special election, Tyler shall be
made regular polling place.
g. That said election be held at Tyler, the reg
ular 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 OF
the State OF Louisiana, except as herein modified.
A. That the ballots to be used may be printed or
written and shall read: "For mill tax for ten
years" or against mill tax for ten years.
s. That all legal voters who are property tax
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. r. Arnold,
E. M. Ceyle and Houston Wallace, commissioners,
and |. s. Arnold, clerk, whose duty it shall be to
make due returns to this body or before it's next
regular session after said election.
4 That thirty clear days. advertisement in the
Bossier Banner be made of this ordinance before
said election.
J, G. LOGAN, President Police Jury.
r. B. HILL, Clerk.