The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-08
THE SCHOOL BOARD.
official Proceedings of the Meeting Held
in This Place Last Week.

THE SCHOOL BOARD.
Official Proceedings of the Meeting Held
in This Place Last Week.
The School Board Of Bossier Parish
met in regular session on this day,
July /, 1909. Roll call showed the fol-
lowing members present: w. E. Con- /
nell, ward one; J. H. Belcher, ward two;
N. w. Sentell (President ward three;
Al. Demoss, ward four; w. A. Bounds,
ward five, and L. c. Biggs, ward six.
The minutes of the last meeting were
then read and adopted.
There being no old business on hand,
new business was called for at this
juncture.
Mr.. /. F. Elder Of Alden Bridge pre-
sented the following petition to the
board for its consideration and approval:
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Board OF School Directors of Bosser Parish.
We, the undersigned legal voters and
taxpayers Of said parish desire to have
your honorable body create a special
school district in said parish with the
following boundaries, to-wit:
Beginning at point on Red River at
the southwest corner of fractional Sec
ton 2, township q north, range IA west,
thence east on section line to the north
east corner of section II, township q
north, range 13 west; thence south five
miles to the southeast corner OF section
36, township p north, range l3 west;
thence west on the township line be-
tween sections 20 and 81 to Red River;
thence up the east bank of Red River to
the point of beginning.
E. NJ. Laughlin. H. c. Spruill.
|. F. Elder. J. L. Strayhan.
J. w. Voss. A. l.. Doles.
M. E. Smith. J. B. Thompson.
Mrs. Swami. Louis C. Buckley.
w. G.. Hughes. TT. Love.
A. B. Winham. Louis Gould.
S. r. Strayhan. F. T. Whited.
J.A. Love. H. H. Wheless.
j. G. Childers.
Before the above petition was passed
on Messrs. Nat Stewart, H. L. Boggs
and E. D. Burgess presented petition
from the Red Land community asking
that special school district be granted
as follows:
We, the undersigned citizens of the
third and fourth wards of Bossier Par
] ish, do hereby petition the honorable
! School Board Of Bossier to create and
form special district bounded 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 is
the middle of the west side OF section 30;
thence in southerly direction one and
one half miles to the southwest corner OF
township % 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
g north, range IL west; thence two and
one quarter miles east, north one-half
mile, west three-quarters of a 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 the northwest
corner of the northeast quarter OF the
northwest quarter of section Sc, town.
ship % north, range II west; thence
east to Bodcau; thence in northerly
direction to the point where Bodcau
crosses the southern boundary OF section
II, township % north, range II west;
thence west to the northeast corner OF
section 20, township % north, range Il
west; thence north to the State line;
thence west along the State line to the
starting point.
1t is the purpose of this petition that
your honorable body have an election
for voting mill tax in this district fol
ten years, Pc mills for building purpo:
ses and 2ls for equipment OF schools ane
to supplement teachers salaries, ano
that the School Board be authorized tt
fund the building portion OF 2'a mills
into bonds.
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