The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-02-13
Tuesday, Feb. 9. 1909.

utioi duoCue, OthOi inOu1oCio
present.
Minutes of yesterday were read
aud approved.
On motion of Mr.. Purvis, sec
onded by Mr.. Nugent, the action of
the police jury at the January ses-
sion this year, postponlng the mat
ter of an election In school district
81 until the April meeting was re-
scinded, and petition of citizens of
said district being presented, on
the same motion, the police jury
adopted the following ordinance
ordering an election In said dis
trict:
AN ORDINANCE
To order an election in School Dis
trict 81, to take the census of the
qualified voters in said district
on the question of levying Eve
mill tax for five years in support
of the public schools of the said
district.
Whereas, The following petition,
signed by one fifth of the property
tax payers and qualified voters in
School District No. 81 of Grant
parish, has been submitted to this
body, to-wit:
To the Honorable President and
Members Of the Police Jury Of
the Parish of Grant:
Gentlemen:-We. the undersign-
ed, constituting one fifth of the
property tax payers of school dis
trict 81 of Grant parish, State of
Louisiana, hereby petition your
honorable body to order an cleo
ton to be held on Tuesday, the 10th
day of February, A. d. 1909, to
take the sense of the qualified cleo
tors entitled to vote at such cleo
ton ON the question of voting five
mill tax for a period of five years,
being 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, and
1918, for the support of public
schools and the erection and con-
struction of public school build
lngs In said school district. And
we petition you to order and hold
said election under the general
election laws of the State of Lou.
isiana.
Respectfully submitted,
in Bryant, ] w Bryant, j
Brister, X S Garrett, 9 c Pinder
w d Hatcher, S l. Garrett, L J
Spar, j w Collins, t B Durham
E A Smith, U E Dewitt, G "
Williams, j H Gibson, ID M Smith
w j Swor, H l. Brian, W A Fetch
err, l b LaCroix, s Culpepper, d /
Harper, j r Heard, A G Brister
NJ Courtney, A J Buckner, w ]
Buckner, M P Everett, ID H Wal
lace, A G Durham, j E Wallace
! G l. Garrett, j I McManus, j
: McIlwain, G j Hutchinson, W n
: Bowen. j Nj Lang, A H Haynes
:, J H RatcIiff, Nj M O'Neal, j A
. Purvis, l. f johnson, w H Henry
NJ M Melton. J A Tull, w 4
!, Stroud, w S Drewett, r l. Oakes
!. j L Hurry, ID o Morris, G L Pun
Wis. w q Collins, G E Woods, S |
Chandler, W H Bradford, J E Fort
d1 Now, therefore, be it ordained b
" the police jury of Grant parish
h Louisiana, in legal session col
Y vened:
q Section l. That there be and
h hereby ordered in school distrit
Ie thirty-one CD an election to /
held at Verda precinct on Tuesda.
= March 80, 1909, to take the sens
= of the legally qualified voters an
; taxpayers entitled to vote at sal
,e election on the question of votir
% a special tax of five mills on Il
r dollar on all the taxable proper
as in said school district, in additie
70 to all other taxes levied on Il
,r property in said district, SAID Il
y when levied and collected, to
ct used for the support OF publ
- schools and the erection and co
Mt struction of public school bull
!. ings in said district, said tax to b
,e gin with the year 1909 and to Ell
r. with the year 1918; that is, to RI
r. for period of five years.
w Section 2. Be it further ordai
in ed, etc, That said election sh'
be held under the general electi'
GO laws of Louisiana and should sa
ce tax be voted, the proceeds there
ali shall be expended only for the pr
til poses enumerated in section one
of Section 3. Be it further ordai