The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-22

thence up the east bank of Red River to
the point of beginning.
That said election be held at Alden
Bridge, the regular polling place in the
said district, as now established by law,
on Saturday, August q, 1909.
2. That said election be held under
the general election laws of the State of
Louisiana, except as hereinafter mod
flied.
8. That the ballots to be used may be
printed or written. and shall read: "For
a 81 mill tax for the period Of I'VE
years." or against a 211s mill tax for
the period of five years."
4. That all legal voters who are prop
erty taxpayers in said district shall be
entitled to vote, provided women who
are taxpayers in their own right shall be
entitled to vote, either in person or by
proxy.
8. That the returns of said election
shall be made to the Police Jury of Bos-
sier Parish, within the time prescribed
by law.
6. The following named Commission
ers and Clerks are hereby appointed to
hold said election: S. r. Strayhan,
J. Snyder Strayhay and H. C. Spruill,
Commissioners; l. F. Elder, Clerk.
Thus done and signed officially on
this, the 10 day of July, A. D. 1909.
j.. w. ELsToN, President P.J.
The following petition, asking that an
election be ordered in School District
No. Is, as created by the Board OF
School Directors of Bossier Parish, was
presented and its request granted,
to-wit:
To the Police Jury Of Bossier Parish:
We, the undersigned citizens and tax
payers of the third and fourth wards OF
Bossier Parish, do hereby petition the
honorable Police Jury OF Bossier Parish
to order an election in District No. Is,
as created by the School Board in regu-
lar session convened on July 2, 1863, as
follows:
Beginning on the Arkansas line at the
center of the Cotton Belt railway, thence
southerly along the center of said rail-
way to the northern boundary of Plain
Dealing District, which is a half mile
south of the northern boundary of Sec
ton 26; thence to the northeast corner
OF the Plain Dealing District, which il
the middle of the west side of section 30;
thence in a southerly direction one anc
one-half miles to the southwest corner
of township q north, range II west
thence one mile east, south one-hal
mile, east one mile, south one-quartel
mile, east one mile, south one-quartel
mile to the southwest corner of section
3, township % north, range IL west
/ thence two and one-quarter miles east
north one-half mile, west three-quarter!
of mile to the center of section 2, SAME
township and range; thence north one
quarter, east three-quarters; thence
north one and one-quarter miles to tn.
northwest corner of the northeast quar-.
ter of the northwest quarter of section
SO, township % north, range IL west
thence east to Bodcau; thence in !:
northerly direction to the point wher,
Bodcau crosses the southern boundary
of section II, township q north, rang'
II west; thence west to the northwes
corner of section 20, township q north
range IL west; thence north to the Stat,
line; thence west along the State lin,
to the starting point.
1t is the purpose of this petition tina
your honorable body have an election
| for voting mill tax in this district TO
ten years, 21s mills for building pur
poses and q. mills for equipment o
schools and to supplement teachers sal
aries, and that the School Board b.
authorized to fund the building portion
of 21s mills into bonds.