New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1907-10-12
Election fec Bayou Choupique
DRAINAGE District.


An ordinance ordering special electioi
10 take the sense Of the legally qualified
property tax payers in the Bayou Chou
pique Drainage District to ascertain as t.
whether or not n special acreage tax o
twenty five cents per acre upon all tn,
lands situated in said district except woot
lands shall be imposed for the period o
ten years beginning with the year 1905
and including the year 1917 was presented
by Mr.. Edmond broussard and read. wher
it was moved by Nh. Edmond Broussard
seconded by Mr.. Fernand Mestayer and
adopted by the following yea and nay
vote, to wit: Yea, Messrs. Guy A. Sha"'
Edmond Broussard, Fernand Mestayer
ard John d. Valet Nays. none
Said ordinance was then presented 10
the President of the Bayou ohouplqne
Drainage District Board for examina' ION,
and after examination was returned ny
him approved and signed
Said ordinance reads as follows. TO- wit:
Ra II ordained that = special election is
hereby called to be held in the Bayou
Cboupioue Drainage District, in Iberia
Parish, La, within the hours provided by
law on Saturday the 10Th day of October.
4. D. 1907, at which election shall be
su boiitted to the legally qualified property
tax payers Gf said District, who are enti-
tied to vote at said election under the
Constitution and laws OF the State. the
question of levying on all the property
situated in said Drainage District except
the wood lands tax of twenty five cents
per acre per year for the period of ten
years beginning with the year 1908 and
including the year 1917.
The said tax to be levied anI collect
according to law, and at the same time
and under the same conditions and terms
as the taxes due the State of Lousana
That said election shall be held under
the election laws of the State of Loulsi-
ana. and that the polling place shall be ut
the building of Mrs. Alfred Gonsouin ut
Loreauville, La, aud the form of ballot
shall be the following, to wit.
"For special tax of twenty five cents
per acre upon all lands situated in the
Bayou Cboupique Drainage District as
created, except wood lands, annually for
the terms of ten years beginning with the
year 1908 to raise funds to cut and dig
drainage canal IN said district"
against a 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 term of ten years beginning with the |
year 1903 to raise funds to cut aud dig a
drainage canal in said district.
Be it further ordained that the Board of |
Supervisors of the Parish of iberia are
hereby requested to appoint oonuission-
ers and Clerk TO serve at snch polling /
place and election; TO give due notice of |
said appointments and of the time and |
place of holding said election, and 10 make
their returns of said election as required
by law.
That the commissioners of election
shall receive the ballots ri all property
tax payers OF said drainage district ent-
led to vote at said special election under
The Constitution and Laws of the State,
and upon which the voter shall have en-
lorsed his name before depositing the
same in the ballot box.
That this ordinance be published in the
official Journal of Iberia Parish during the
reriod of thirty days previous to the date
Of said election, and that this ordinance
AXE effect from and after its promulga-
ion.
Be it further ordained that Messrs Rap-
iste Bourgeois. Fernest Berari and AL
pert Bontte be and they are hereby APP
pointed Commissioners of this election to
,e holden on the 10Th day of October,
907, and that Mr.. Charles Broussard be
md he is hereby appointed Clerk of said .
Thus done read adopted signed and seal
fliked in open session at New Iberia, La,
~ this the 18th day of September, A. d.,
g07.
Description of property in the Chpupique Dis
rict: .
"Will start at the Bayou Teche on the South ,
IN boundary Of the property of A. Dugas and run !
ast along the Railroad leading to Lake Dauterive
the Southwest corner Of the property of Iustil-
an Crochet, then North to the Northern bound :
~ Of said property, then East to the property of
has. Blanchard, then South to the abroad lead +
'g to the Lake, then E st along said read to '
AXE Dauterive.
East viii start at the above described line and
,llow the Lake to the southtrn line whieh is as $
flows: h
Sopth-A line running East and West from @
ayou Tecbe to La Ike Fausse Poi tie on the hne n
tween l.. D. Broussard and Homer Gensoulin q
, the one hand and Numa Decnir and Praies on n
e other, and known as Deeuir Lane, and said II
lie shall extend in straight line on both ends Of b
ID lane to strike the Bayou on the West and the
Ike on the East, then following the Bayos 81
rche in a Northerly direction to the starting t,
int. +;
GUY A. SHAW, NJ. D., d
resident of the Bayou Choupique al
Drainage Board d.