New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1907-12-14
Drainage Ordinance ADOPTED
by the Police jury.

An ordinance ordering a spcenl cleo
ton o fake the sense of the legally quail.
fi'd property tax payers in he Bayou
Choupique Drainage District to ascertain
rs to whether or not special acreage tax
OF twenty five cents per acre upon all the
lands situated in said district except
wool lands shall be Imposed for the pc
Rod OF ten yeats beginning with the year,
1908, and including the year, 1917 was
presented 10y Mr.. Dugas and read-when
il was moved by Mr. Dugas, seconded by
Mr.. Mignes aud adopted by the following
yea aud nay vote. to wit: Yea, Mpssrs
Bouite, Dugas, Gunla, Labau Lemaire,
Migntz. Romero. Nay, None
Said ordinance ~ above entitled was
then presented to the president Of he
Police Jury of IBERIA Parish fot . ,u,.5a-
thin, and afte examination was frtu ed
by him approved and signed.
Said ordinance reads as follows. TO wit:
b. It ordained that aspecal election is
hereJy called to be held IN thr Il YOU
Chou igue Drainage District, in Iberin
Paria,, ba. within the hours provided by
law, on Satur lay he Dist day of Deem
ber A. d, 1907 at which election shall
be submitted to the legally qualified tax
payot7 of SAID district. who are entitled
to vCih at $ til election under the t0usti
tuition aud laws of the State, the quts tion
of leEyitg on all tho property situated in
said Drainage District except the wood
lands A tax of twenty FIVE cents per acre
per y ar for The period of ten years be-
ginni with he year. 1908, and intending
the year. 1917, and which Disfrirt il de-
satth..tl al IA nit
start at Bayou Trche on the Sou bern
boundary Of The property of Aud" nagas
and lun ElsE along Public Road leading 0
Lake Danterjve to the Southwest corner
of the property of Jdsfiien Cr'tht, taeu
North to the North m bound II .a
property, then East to the = ut
Charles BLANCHARD, then Sc
Public Road leading to IT, /. a.. tuen
East along said road to tn " tr
lis OF he property Of W hl a'...a-. !
then South to u ior' West corner of |
the property o. id },tckliffe Barras,
and then directly East to Lake Fausse
Pointe.
East-Wil start at above described |
line on the Lake and follow the Lake in a
Southerly direction to the intersection of |
the Southern line OF the District.
South-The Southern limits of said is
trict shall be a line running east and west
from Bayou Teche to Lake Fausse Pointa
on the Lane between l.. p. Broussard and
Homer Gpnsouin on the one hand and
Numa Decuir and Pradas on The other
aud known as Occur Lane - and said
line shall extend in straight line to
strike the Bayou on the west and the Lake
Dn the east West by The Bayou Teehe
The said tax TO be levied aud collected
according to law, aud ut the same time
md under the same conditions aud terms
- I he taxes due the State of Louisiana.
That said election shall be held under
he election laws of the State of Louisiana
Ind>that the polling place shall he at the
building of Jean Betard, ut Loreauville.
"a, aud the form of the ballots shall be
he following, to-wit: +
''For special tax of Twenty Five
)ents per acre upon al lands situated in
he Bayou Choupique Drainage District az -,
heated, except wood lands, Annually for !
he term of ten years beginning with the i
ear 1908, to raise funds to cut and dig
raiuage canal in said District" !
against special tax of Twenty Five
'ents per acre upon all lands situated in |
he Bayou Choupique Drainage District as
reated, except wood lands, annually for
term of ten years beginning with the
ar 1908, TO raise funds to cut and dig a {
iainage canal in said District"
BE it further ordained etc. L., t the
pafd of Supervisors of the Parish Of Ibe- b
a are hereby requested to appo 1t com q
issiouers and clerk to serve at such e
bling place and election TO give due o
Dtice of said appointment, and of the !,
nee and place of holding said election. d
vi make their returns of said election as fc
CURED by law. u
Tint the Commissioners of Election y
all receive the ballots of All property N
X payers of said District entitled to voie
said special election under the Cousti- ~
ton and Laws of the State, aud upon sl
hich the voter shall have endorsed his h,
Ime before depositing the same in the
Hot box sb
BE it further ord lined, that Messrs it
iptiste Bourgeois, Fern ST Bptard and da
tert Boutte be and they are hereby tp- he
ittted Commissioners of this election 10 VII
holden or The 22l day of December.
". and that Mr.. Charles Broussard be tic
d he is hereby appointed Clerk of said eis
elton. an
That this ordinance be published in the do
cial jturnal of Iberia Parish dun ng the as
rod of thirty days 10 the date of said "a,
elton, and that this ordinance take eff tn,
t from and after ITS PRONUNCIATION. The
Thus done r,sd. ado ted, silued in los
u session, 81 New Iberia. la, on this the
7th day of November, a. d 1907. hol
GEO. J. LABAB, I'm n'
Pres. of The Police Jury of I6eria Par abe
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