The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23
R. B. HILL, Clerk
An Ordinance

An Ordinance
Ordering an election within School District No. ii
Of Bossier Parish, La, as established by the
School Board of Bossier Parish, to take the sense
of the taxpayers on the question of S mill tai
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
No. H. as established by resolution of the Parish
School Board of Bossier Parish, La, Of date April
2, 1907, in regular session convened has been pre-
sented to this body, asking that special election
be ordered in said District No. II to take the sense
of the taxpayers upon the question OF levying an
nually special school tax OF mills upon all prop.
erty within said district for period of ten years
for the purpose of experimenting the salaries oil
teachers and building and repairing school houses
in said district, and, whereas said School District
defined by the School Board of Bossier Parish al
a regular meeting held on April 3, 1907,
Be it Ordained, That there be, and it is hereby
ordered, special election to be held in and fol
Board Of Rossier Parish April 8, 1907, for the pur
pose Of ascertaining the sense of the taxpayers o.
said district on the question Of levying specia
school tax of mills on the dollar of the assessed
property Of said district for period Of ten years
beginning at the earliest date possible after the
said election, and according to law, for the purpose
OF experimenting the salaries OF teachers ani
building and repairing school houses in and fo
said district, which is defined as follows:
| Beginning at point where the Louisiana state
line crosses the Bodcau Bayou thence south on the
west bank of Bodcau Bayou to the intersection will
the section line between sections II and 20, town
ship q north, range ii west; thence west on tn.
section line to the southwest corner of section is
township %, range IL west; thence north on ives
boundary Of sections 49, 8 and to the state lint
between Louisiana and Arkansas; thence east OF
said state line to point of beginning.
| 2. Be it further Ordained, That for the purpose
of holding this special election, Tyler shall bi
made regular polling place.
| 3. That said election be held at Tyler, the reg
ular polling place as fixed herein in and for sale
district, on Friday, May "a, 1907, and held in ac
cordance with and under the general election laws O.
the State OF Louisiana, except as herein modified
4. That the ballots to be used may be printed OF
written and shall read: "For mill tax for ter
years." or "Against mill tax for ten years.
| 5. That all legal voters who are property tax
payers shall be entitled to vote, provided womer
who are taxpayers in their own rights shall bt
entitled to vote, either in person or by writer
proxy.
6. That the following commissioners and clerk.
shall hold said election, to-wit ]. r. Arnold
E. M. Coyle and Houston Wallace, commissioners
and I. S. Arnold, clerk, whose duty it shall be K
make due returns to this body or before its mex
regular session after said election.
| Z. That thirty clear days. advertisement in thu
Bossier Banner be made of this ordinance before
said election.
&c. LOGAN, President Police Jury
r. B. HILL, Clerk