The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-04-11
SCHOOL BOARD PROCEEDINGS.
BENTON, La, Wednesday, April 3, 1907.

BENTON, La, Wednesday, April 3, 1907.
The School Board in and for Bossier Parish met
this day in regular session, roll call showing the
following named members present: j. N. Platt,
President; j. A. Bumgardner, A. J. Demoss, J. F.
Mckinney, J. E. Rogers, L. C. Biggs, N. w. Sen
tell and J. B. Thompson.
The minutes of last meeting were read and
approved.
1t was moved and carried that $40 be appropriated
out of the Eighth School District funds to supple
ment salaries of teachers in the Benton Colored
School for the term of 1861
A petition signed by number of citizens in the
vicinity of the Dooley and Shiloh Schools was pre-
sented to the Board. 1t follows
To the Honorable President and Members of the Board of
School Directors of Bossier Parish La
We, the undersigned legal voters and taxpayers
of said parish desire to have your honorable body
create special school district in said parish, with
the following boundaries to-wit:
Beginning at point where the Louisiana State
line crosses the Bodcau Bayou, thence south the
west bank OF Bodcau Bayou to the intersection with
ship % north, range II west; thence west the
section line to the southwest of section is,
township %, range IL west; thence north on west
boundary Of sections 49, 9, and l. to the state line
between Louisiana and Arkansas; thence east
said state line to the point Of beginning.
The object OF the signers hereto is, by proceed
ing according according to law, to levy of
5 mill tax to be laid on the dollar of all taxable
property situated in the said school district for
period of ten years, beginning with the year 1907,
for the purpose of experimenting salaries of teach
ers in the public schools of said district and for the
purpose of creating fund for the building repair
ing and eequipping with proper furniture and ap-
paratus of school houses in said district.
To this end the signers hereto, who are resident
property taxpayers of the proposed district, nvok
ing the law set forth in Section Is of Act PA Of
1902, petition your honorable body to adopt reso-
luton creating and establishing the said district.
J. r. Arnold. Houston Wallace.
E. M Coyle. D. M. Arnold.
]. S. Arnold. j. Griggs.
John Ward. George Tyler.
Bud West. J. H. Arnold.
Ed Wallace. Ed Chandler.
After duly considering the above petition, the
following ordinance was passed by unanimous vote:
Resolved by the Board of School Directors of
Possier Parish in regular session assembled, That
a special school district to be known as District
No. H. be and is hereby created, with the follow
ing boundaries to-Wit:
Beginning at point where the Louisiana state
line crosses the Bodcau Bayou, thence south the
west bank of Bodcau Bayou to the intersection with
the section line between sections II and 20, town.
ship 22 north, range II west; thence west on the
section line to the southwest corner of section Is,
township %, range IL west; thence north on west
boundary of sections Is, and to the state line
said state line to point OF beginning.
A second petition, similar to the above, from cit
liens in the vicinity of Bossier City presented
and read. 1t follows:
To Honorable President and Members of the Board
School Directors of Bossier Parish La:
We, the undersigned legal voters and taxpayers
of said parish, desire to have your honorable body
create special school district in said parish, with
the following boundaries, to-wit:
Beginning at the east bank of Red River near
Mrs. Arnold's, just north of her residence, thence
east the foot of the hills thence south along the
to Red River; thence up the east bank of Red
River to the point of beginning.
The object of the signers hereto is, by proceeding
according to law to cause levy Of = mills tax to
be laid on the dollar of all taxable property situated
in the said school district for period of years.
beginning with the year 1907, for the purpose of
supplementing salaries of teachers in the public
schools of said district and for the purpose of
creating a fund for the building, repairing and
equipping with proper furniture and apparatus of
school houses in said district.
/ To this end the signers hereto, who residents
of the proposed district invoking the law set forth
in Section Is of Act PA of 1902, petition your
honorable body to adopt resolution creating and
establishing the said district.
J. B. Ards. Williamine Mccormick.
| Hunter Brothers. E. Lee McClintock.
S. S. Hunter. M. H. Roach
w. B. Mccormick. Bryan Coffee.
w. T. Colquitt. C. G. Howse.
w. E. Coleman. F. M. Grow.
Jas. H. Fullilove. j. r. Brandon.
T. M. Yarbrough. E. NJ Hoyer.
4 S. N. Yarbrough. Walter Morris.
/ J. w. Prince. r. C. Bumecke.
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