The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-29

Ordering an election in School Districts
Nos. Is and Is, as established and
created by the School Board of Bos-
sier Parish, to take the sense Of the
taxpayers on the question Of a mill
tax for a period OF ten years, begin
ming with the year 1910, % mills for
building purposes and 21s mills for
equipment OF schools and supplement-
ing teachers salaries, and that the
School Board be authorized to fund
the building portion (21a mills) into
bonds, in said District No. Is; and
also to take the sense of the property
taxpayers on the question of 21I mill
tax for period of ten years, begin
ming with the year 1910, for the pur-
pose of furnishing supplies for the
comfort of the children, in District
No. Is.
Whereas, the petitions, signed by
more than one-third of the property tax
payers of School Districts Nos. Is and
10, as created and established by the
School Board Of Bossier Parish July 2,
1909, in regular session convened, have
been presented to this body, asking that
special election be ordered in School
District No. Is to take the sense of the
taxpayers on the question of levying
annually a special tax of 5 mills for a
period OF ten years, beginning with the
year 1910, upon all property within said
district, for the purpose of building 2ls
mills and for equipment of schools and
supplementing teachers salaries 21s
mills, and that the School Board be
authorized to fund the building portion
(21s mills) into-bonds; and also asking
that a special election be ordered in
School District No. Is to take the sense
OF the taxpayers on the question of
levying annually special tax of %
mills for period of ten years, Begin
ming with the year 1910, upon all prop
erty within said district, for the purpose
OF furnishing supplies for the comfort of
the children.
Said School Districts Nos. Is and Is
having been duly created and their
boundaries defined by the School Board
OF Bossier Parish, in regular session
convened, on July 2, 1909,
Be it ordained, That there be held,
and it is hereby ordered, in School Dis
tricts Nos. 10 and Is, as created by the
School Board of Bossier Parish July 2.
1869, a special election for the purpose
OF ascertaining the sense of the tax
payers OF District No. Is on the question
OF levying a special tax of 5 mills for a
period OF ten years, beginning with the
year 1910, on the dollar of the assessed
valuation OF said property of said dis
trict, for the purpose of building 2ls
mills and for equipment of schools and
experimenting teachers salaries 2M
mills, and that the School Board be
authorized to fund the building portion
(211a mills) into bonds; also, special
election for the purpose of ascertainine
the sense OF the taxpayers of District
No. Is upon the question of levyinp an
nually special school tax of 81 mills
on the dollar of the assessed valuation of
all property in said district for the pc
rod OF ten years, beginning with the
year 1910, for the purpose of furnishing
supplies for the comfort of the children.
District No. Is being bounded and de-
scribed as follows: Beginning on the
Arkansas line at the center of the Cotton
Belt railway, thence southerly along the
center of said railway to the northern
boundary of Plain Dealing District,
which is half mile south of the north
ern boundary of section 26; thence to
the northeast corner of the Plain Deal
ing District, which is the middle of the
west side of section 80; thence in a
southerly direction one and one-half
miles to the southwest corner of town
ship % north, range IL west; thence one
mile east, south one-half mile, east one
mile, south one-quarter mile, east one
mile, south one-quarter mile to the
southwest corner OF section 3, township
~ north, range II west; thence two and
one-quarter miles east, north one-half
mile, west three-quarters Of mile to the
center OF section 2, same township and