New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1907-12-21
Notice of Election for Bayou
Choupique Drainage District.

An ordinance ordering election to take tht
sense of the legally qualified property tax payers
| in the Bayou Choupique Drainage District to as
certain as to whether or not special acreage ta1
(, of Twenty Five Cents per upon all the lands
situated in said Drainage District except wood
lands shall be imposed for the period of ten years
beginning with the year 1905 and including the
year 1917, was presented by Mr.. Fernando. Mes
| tayer and read; when it was moved by Mr.. Ed
mond Broussard, seconded by Mr.. Fernand j.
Mestayer and adopted by the following yea and
nay vote, to-wit: Yea-Messrs. Fernand J. Mes
layer, Edmond Broussard, John D. Valet and
DR.. Guy A. Shaw Nay-none.
Said ordinance then presented to the Pres
| ident of the Bayou Choupique Drainage District
Board for examination and after examination
I the same was returned by him approved and
signed with the seal of the corporation thereto
| affixed
| Said ordinance reads as follows, towit:
! Be it ordained that special election is hereby
| called to be held in the Bayou Choupique Drain
| age District, in Iberia Parish, La, within the
hours provided by law, on SATURDAY, THE
| 2lsT DAY OF DECEMBER 1907, at which
election shall be submitted to the legally quail
fed property tax payers of said District, who
qualified to vote at said election under the Con-
titutiOn and laws of the State, the question of
levying on all the property situated in said Drain
age District, except the wood lands, a tax of
twenty-five cents per per year for the period
of ten years beginning with the year 1908 and
including the year 1917, and which Drainage
District embraces the following territory, towit:
! North.-Will start at Bayou Tecbe on the South
ern boundary OF the property of Ande Dugas and
run East along the Public Road leading to Lake
Dauterive to the Southwest corner of the prop
erty of Justilien Crochet then North to the North
ern boundary of said property, then East to the
property of Charles Blanchard, then South to the
Public Road leading to the Lake, then East along
said road to the Western limits of the property
of Wicklitfe BarraS, then South to the Southwest
corner of the property of said Wckl'fe Barras,
and then directly East to Lake Fausse Pointe
East-Wlll start at above described line on the
Lake and follow the Lake il Southerly direction
to the intersection of the Southern line of the
District
South-The Southern limits of said District
shall be a line running East and West from
Bayou Teche to Lake Fausse Pointe on the Lane
between L. d. Broussard and Homer Gonsoulin
on the one hand and Numa Decuir and Prados on
the other and known as the Occur Lane; and
said line shall extend in straight line on both
ends of said lane to strike the Bayou at the West
and the Lake on the East
West-Bound by the Bayou Teche.
The said tax to be levied and collected accord
ing to Law, and at the same time and under the
same conditions and terms as the taxes due the
State of Louisiana.
That said election shall be held under the cleo
ton laws of the State of Louisiana, and that the
polling place shall be at the building of Jean
Berard at Loreauville, La, and the form of bal
lot shall be as follows, towit.-
For Special tax of twenty five cents per acre |
upon all lands situated in the Bayou Choupique
Drainage District as created, except wood lands, |
annually for the term of ten year beginning with
the year 1908 to raise funds to cut and dig a |
Drainage Canal in said District"
Against special tax of twenty-five cents per |
acre upon all lands situa led in the Bayou Chou |
pique Drainage District as created, except wood |
lands, annually for the term of ten years begin
ming with the year, 1905, to raise funds to cut |
and dig drainage canal in said District"
Be it further ordained etc, That the Board |
of Supervisors of the Parish of Iberia are hereby
requested to appoint commissioners and a clerk |
to serve at such polling place and elections to
give due notice of said appointments and Of the
time and place of holding said election, and to
make their returns of said election as required |
by law.
That the commissioners of election shall re-
eeive the ballots of all property tax payers of said
Drainage District entitled to vote said special
election under the Constitution and laws of the
State and upon which the voter shall have en-
dorsed his name before depositing the same in
the ballot box.
Be it further ordained that Messrs Baptiste
Bourgeois, Fernest Berard and Albert Boutte be
and they are hereby appointed Commissioners of
said election to be holden the 21st day of De-
cember 1907, and that Mr.. Charles Breussard be
and he is hereby appointed Clerk of said election.
That this ordinance be published in the Official
Journal of Iberia Parish during the period of
thirty days previous TO the date of said election
and that this ordinance take effect from and after
its PRONUNCIATION. /
Thus done read, adopted and signed in epen
session at New Iberia, La, on this 18th day of
November A, D. 1907.
GUY A. SHAW, NJ. D.,
President of the Bayou Choupque Drainage Dist.
A true and correct copy,
JNo. b. VALET, Secretary.