New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1907-12-21
Drainage Ordinance Adopted
by the Police Zurv.

An ordinance ordering a special elec-
ton to take the sense ofthe legally quail
ned property tax payers in the BAYOU
Choupique Drainage District to ascertain
| as to whether or not 8 special acreage tax
of twenty FIVE cents per acre upon all the
lands situated il said district except
wood lands shall be imposed for the Pc
riod of ten years beginning with the year,
1908, err including the year, 1917, was
presented by Mr.. Dugas and read-when
it was moved by Mr.. Dugas, seconded by
Mr., Migues and adopted by the following
yea and nay vote, to wit: Yea, Messrs.
Boutte, Dugas Goula, Labau, Lemaire,
Miguez, Romero. Nay, None.
Said ordinance as above entitled was
then presented to the president Of the
Police Jury of Iberia Parish for GAMMA
! thin, and after examination was returned
by him approved and signed
Said ordinance reads as follows, to wit:
Be 1t ordained that a special election is
hereby called to be held in the Bayou
Choupique Drainage District, in Iberia
Parish, La, within the hours provided by
law, on Saturday the 2lst day of Deem
Der, A. D., 1907, at which election shall
be submitted to the legally qualified tax
payers of said district, who are entitled
to vote at said election under the Consti-
tuition and laws of the State, the question
of levying on all the property situated in
said Drainage District except the wood
lands a tax of twenty FIVE cents per acre
per year for the period of ten years be-
ginning with the year, 1908. and including
the year, 1917, and which District is de-
scribed as follows, to wit. North-Wili
start at Bayou Teche on the Southern
boundary of the property of Ande Dugas
and run East along Public Road leading to
Lake DaHterive to the Southwest corner
of the property of Justilien Crochet, then
North to the Northern 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 linz
It's of the property of Wickliffe Barras,
then South to The South West corner of
the property OF said Wtckliffe Barras,
and then directly East TO Lake Fausse
Pointe.
East-Will start at above described
line on the Lake and follow the Lake in
Southerly direction to the intersection of
the Southern line of the District.
South-The Southern limits Of said is
trict shall be 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 aud Prados on the other
and known as Occur Lane - and said
line shall extend in a straight line to
strike the Bayou on the west and the Lake
on the east West by the Bayou Teche |
The said tax TO be levied and collected |
according to law, aud 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 election laws of the State of Louisiana |
and that the polling place shall be at the
building of Jean Berard, at LoreaGville,
La, and the form of the ballots shall be |
the following, to-wit
"For a special tax of Twenty Five
Cents per acre upen ali lands situated in
the Bayou Choupique Drainage District as
created, excepb wood lands, Annually for
the term of ten years beginning with the
year 1908, to raise funds to cut and dig a
drainage canal in said District"
against a special tax of Twenty Five
Cents per acre upon ali lands situated in
he Bayou Choupique Drainage District as
created, except wood lands, annually for
l term of ten years beginning with the
? ar 1908, to raise funds to cut and dig a
irainage canal in said District"
Be it further ordained. etc., that the
Board of Supervisors of the Parish of Ibe-
ia are hereby requested to appoint CON-
nissioners and a clerk to serve at such
polling place and election to give due
notice of said appointment, and of the
ime and place OF holding said election,
md make their returns of said election as
equired by law.
That the Commissioners of Election I
hall receive the ballots of all property
ak payers of said District entitled to vote
t said special election under the Consti-
ution and Laws of the State, and upen .
which the voter shall have endorsed his Il
anne before depositing the same in the
allot box.
Be it further ordained, that Messrs.
saptiste Bourgeois, Fernest Berard and t
lbert Boutte be and they ere hereby APP q
einted Commissioners of this election to y
e holden or the 22d day of December,
BOZ, ard that Mr.. Charles Broqssard be !.
nd he is hereby appointed Clerk of said c
lection. a
That this ordinance be published in the \
fcial journal of Iberia Parish during the a
ario6 of thirty days to the date of said s.
ection, and that this ordinance take eff t
ct from and after its PRONUNCIATION. Il
Thus done read. ado ted, signed in lc
oen session, at New Iberia, La, on this 5,
e 7th day Of November, a. D., 1907 h
GEO J. LABAU, al
Pres. of the Police Jury of Iberia Par 3
A. b ROMERO Secretary a. a,